Maidens’ Trip: A Wartime Adventure on the Grand Union Canal — Emma Smith

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Bloomsbury, 2009, Hardback with removable protective plastic wrap – Memoir/History – 225pp. ISBN 9780747598961.

The first book in the series “Working waterways”, this text by Emma Smith examines the time during World War II when, under a Ministry of War Transport scheme, women “off the land” were recruited to crew canal boats. Predictably, those who volunteered were by no means run-of-the-mill; faint hearts were unlikely to apply and certainly could not stick the privation, difficulty and physical demands of narrow-boat carrying.
This book is a record of social history.

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