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Burton, S. H.

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-13848-7

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The Industrial Past and Experience Of The Canal As A 'Linear Village'2

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“…With the advent of railways, which run close by the canal network using the established routes, and a train network that was expanding, offering a transport system that was efficient, safe and quick -the boater families were impoverished. Struggling to cope, they became isolated from the wider community (Bowles 2015;Burton 1995). Life on the canals was lacking in chances for advancement and comfort, and was filled instead with ample opportunities for petite criminality.…”

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“…The special dress -bonnets and wide skirts for women, and brightly woven belts for men -and narrowboats painted in the distinctly Roses and Castles style decoration evoke a much-romanticised picture of the past, the boaters' everyday struggles for survival remote from today's material reality. And included in the national narrative as workers and dwellers of the canal system faint in the historical distance, existing literature suggests that the Victorian working boater lived a physically hard life (Burton 1995).…”

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