Birmingham Canal Navigation Co

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Date:	1763-2000
Places:	Birmingham, Warwickshire
Functions, occupations and activities:	Transport and communications > Port and inland water transport
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/C124251 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B10871 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	1767-1947: records incl committee and engineering board minutes, agenda, reports, stock and share registers, agreements, contracts, plans, ledgers, accounts, journals, day books, rentals, registers, pay books	The National Archives	RAIL 810	See Annual Report 1987
2	c1770-1960: minutes, corresp, share records, accounting records, plans, registers of boats and inspections	Birmingham: Archives, Heritage and Photography Service	MS86	NRA 29839 Birmingham Canal
3	1763-1827: minutes, legal papers, correspondence, estate papers	Birmingham: Archives, Heritage and Photography Service	MS 3375
4	1775-1942: misc records	Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office	D479, 3186, 3900	NRA 26678 Staffs & Worcs Canal
5	1790-1940: parish rates book, ledgers, cash book	Gloucestershire Archives	D2460	NRA 23983 BWB Gloucester
6	1841-1943: Sneyd Reservoir, Bloxwich, records	Walsall Archives		See Accessions to Repositories 1985
7	1868-1944: corresp, delivery slips, time books etc; Tipton station: registers of boats	Walsall Archives		NRA 21862 Birmingham Canal
8	1871: Committee report and statement of accounts	National Waterways Archive	2014/7	See Annual Return 2014
9	1888-1903: gangers time books re maintenance work	Walsall Archives	365
10	19th cent - 20th cent: corresp and papers	Warwickshire County Record Office	CR1590	NRA 26339 BWB: Warwicks
11	1924: map of Birmingham canal system	Birmingham: Archives, Heritage and Photography Service	MS 401
12	19th cent: corresp and business records	National Waterways Archive	CRT/BCNC	See Annual Return 2018