Updates and corrections to books published by RCHS

The Shropshire Union Canal – Peter Brown (updated February 2026)

For updates and corrections as provided by Peter Brown, February 2026 click here

A paper by Peter Brown on ‘William Dargan and the Shropshire Union Canal’ will be found here.

Built in Britain: The Independent Locomotive Manufacturing Industry in the Nineteenth Century – by Dr Michael R Bailey, MBE

Built in Britain:  Appendix :  ‘Main Archive’ Entry for Thornewill and Warham Iron Foundry of Burton-on-Trent (pp.196/7):   Add uncatalogued Watson Collection, Solicitor of Barnard Castle, Durham County Record Office.  (Information kindly supplied by Dr. J. Hargrave).

Rails in the Dales – David Joy

Rails in the Dales (original impression): Page 80 – The first sod of the Nidd Valley Light Railway was cut in 1904 (not 2004 as stated).

The Peak Forest Canal and Railway – Grahame Boyes and Brian Lamb

Corrections (most were corrected in the reprinted edition) provided by Grahame Boyes, 20th November 2018.

David Kitching was very generous with the information he provided from his own researches. It was the intention that this would be duly recognised in the Acknowledgments on page 9. Regrettably his name is printed (twice) as David Hitchins.

p. 175 col.a line 31: For 20 25-boat loads read 20-25 boat loads.

Table 22 (p. 175): Final row should read: Operating surplus -£976 -£2,000 £987.

Fig. 124 (p. 177): The location is the Lower Basin at Bugsworth.

p. 179 col.a line 41: For five- to six-boat loads read five or six boat loads.

p. 184, final paragraph: The total number of listed structures is 47. Stodhart tunnel is grade II*.

Table 23 (p. 185): The column headings Revenue and Revenue per mile are transposed in the 1st printing. Insert additional row: Kennet & Avon 86.5 52,910 £610.

New information provided by Grahame Boyes, 20th November 2018

p. 40: Bethel Furnice [Furness], mason, died of inflammation in December 1795 aged 33. [Baptised 27.11.1763 Leeds, St Peter; buried 22.12.1795 Manchester, St John.]

Fig. 103 (p. 148): The photograph is of Joseph Longson and family, the legend on the cabin side being ‘Joseph Longson [not Carrington], Bugsworth. The same family is also seen in Fig. 107 (p. 152).

Fig. 110 (p. 155): The photograph of Black Wharf was taken by Joseph Sidebotham and was originally published in the January/February 1855 edition of the Strines Journal.