The London Gazette
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The history of the Society is traced from its formation in 1771 to bring together engineers "in a friendly way". The lives of the founding members are described as well as the growing status of civil engineering. The book includes original documents and letters.
A resurgence in canal restoration has seen many English canals reopen in the past three decades, but many are still abandoned, some even vanished under roads, railways and buildings.
The story of the Thames & Severn Canal is one of exceptional interest. Talked of as early as the first decade of the seventeenth century, it was the first trunk waterway ever to be proposed in this country.