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From: rayb <>
Subject: Re: Barge Registers
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 08:39:10 +0100
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Within the past couple of months I KNOW ! came across a reference
'somewhere' concerning "Barge Registration Numbers" - that they were some
sort of 'Public Health Registers' set up around the 1880s that permitted
Local Authorities to inspect - and trace if necessary - any inland-waterway
Trading Vessels to ensure compliance with the then-equivalent of Health &
Safety Regulations. [This came as news to me, as I'd always believed them to
be more the equivalent of Annual Licences.]


"They are held in the Birmingham archives up the spiral staircase."

This thread:

• Barge registers by Iain Shaw <>
  • Re: [WOR] Barge registers by "John Tysoe" <>

  • Re: Barge Registers by rayb <>