A bridge on the Oxford Canal in Banbury bears his name, as does a centre at the boat museum at Ellesmere Port in Cheshire. He was a co-founder and the first honorary secretary of the Inland Waterways Association. Journey around the canal system of the English Midlands aboard a 70ft long wooden narrowboat named 'Cressy'. Sleep No More: Twelve Stories of the Supernatural by Rolt, L.T.C. His first book, Narrow Boat, was an account of his and his first wife Angela's honeymoon Previously been considered the stuff of literature: civil engineering, canals, railways, etc. Rolt produced many works about subjects which had not Born in Chester, he studied at Cheltenham College and then trained as a mechanical engineer,īefore taking up an engineering post at a company in Stoke-on-Trent. He is also regarded as one of the pioneers of the leisure cruising industry on Britain's inland waterways, and as an enthusiastįor both vintage cars and railways. Was a prolific English writer and the biographer of major civil engineering figures including Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Lionel Thomas Caswell Rolt (usually abbreviated to Tom Rolt or L.T.C.
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