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Echoes Of A Lost Industry

by Peter Daniels

168 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #06-2374; ISBN 1-4251-0616-1; US$15.57, C$17.90, EUR12.79, £8.95

The story of the author's life associated with the River Thames and its Industry.

About the Book

Born in Greenwich, London in 1940 near the banks of the River Thames, Peter Daniels, coming from a family of watermen and lightermen on his Mothers side of the family, couldn't help drifting into the Thames Lighterage Industry himself.

He was bound apprentice in 1957 and remained in the industry until he retired, by then a tug skipper. He sincerely hopes that Echoes of a Lost Industry will have captured the atmosphere of the trade and recreated some of the characters employed therein. Also he hopes that this book will be of some value to students when studying recent history.

To see the Thames in its present state many people could be forgiven for not realizing that it ever contained a thriving industry.

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