Thames & Severn Archives

The following documents held at Gloucestershire Archives are now available online:

Minute Books

TS/164a Minutes of Committee of Proprietors 1783-1793
TS/164b Minutes of Committee of Proprietors 1784-1810
TS/164c Minutes of Committee of Proprietors 1810-1833
TS/166 Minutes of General Meetings of Proprietors 1783-1822

Other Documents

TS/263 Miscellaneous Printed Documents

Brimscombe Port Warehouse Records

The books of the Brimscombe Port Warehouse provide a detailed description of the goods passing to and from the port.  They also record cargoes transferred to and from other vessels trading on the canal. Images of two of these books, which cover the end of the period when the Thames and Severn Canal Company traded using its own boats, are currently available online:
TS/23 - Thames and Severn Warehouse Imports 1802-1803
TS/38 - Thames & Severn Warehouse Exports 1802-1804
After the canal company stopped trading the import and export books record the cargoes which other boats took up and down the canal.

Bye Laws

TS/194/37a Appointments, orders and directions to agents, watchmen and servants of the Company, 1789
TS/247 Thames and Severn Canal Navigation Byelaws, c 1855

Company Vessels

List of boats owned by the Thames and Severn Canal Company, prepared by Humphrey Household as part of his PhD thesis

Maps

At present we have insufficient volunteers to put all the Thames and Severn documents on-line. To get an idea of the sort of information thses documents contain, we have summarised the records of how often boats passing were through Brimscombe Port in September 1812 and March 1813 (from TS/43), September 1835 and March 1836 (from TS/48), together a summary of the cargo manifests for boats passing through Brimscombe Port in September 1835 (from TS/48). If you would like to help improve this side of our archives please take a look at our Becoming a Volunteer page.