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Shropshire Union Railway & Canal Co

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The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection.

Date: 1834-1986
Places:
  • Shropshire
  • Shropshire
Functions, occupations and activities: Transport and communications > Railways | Transport and communications > Port and inland water transport
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C106462 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B12485 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1834-1948: board, committee and proprietors minutes, contracts and plans, records of rents and tolls, staff book and register
The National Archives
2
c1840-1972: prospectus, papers, minutes, corresp, leases, agreements, rent register and rolls, plans, etc
West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield
NRA 24888 British Waterways
3
1845-63: account book, corresp
Shropshire Archives
NRA 11563 Shropshire

See Accessions Oct-Dec 1960
4
1848-1852: register of creditors
National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services
NRA 36427 LMS
5
1855-1857: abstract of journal of mechanics time (list of employees, days worked and wages received)
Shropshire Archives
NRA 11563 Shropshire
6
1880-1945: staff ledgers for Norbury district
National Waterways Archive
7
1885-87: corresp on pig iron traffic
Cheshire Archives and Local Studies
See Accessions to Repositories 1972
8
1886-1986: maps, plans and misc papers
Shropshire Archives
NRA 33110
9
1889-1925: import and export books, Edstaston Wharf
Shropshire Archives
NRA 19299
10
c1900-1925: photographs of boatyards and shipwrights at Ellesmere Port and Chester
National Waterways Archive
See Annual Return 2015
11
1914-1918: staff recruitment lists
National Waterways Archive
See Annual Return 2016
12
1842-1863: corresp and drawings rel to disputed responsibility for the clearing of drain, Marbury Brook at Willymore, Cheshire
National Waterways Archive
See Annual Return 2018