Courtesy of Shirley White

The Severn, aspects of its trade and history 1800-1900.pdf

On this river from Gloucester and Newnham, several brigs are employed in the trade to London and Ireland, and a great number of barges or trows run to or from Bristol, Gloucester, Tewkesbury, Worcester and Bewdley, at which place, a communication is opened, by a canal, with the rivers Mersey and Trent, promising great advantages to this trading county....

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