Bristol Channel District Guide. Official Handbook to the Marine Excursions of P. & A. Campbell, Ltd - 1925 edition

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43rd edition, 342pp, photographs in the text, adverts at front and back, folding map of the Bristol Channel, folding plan of Ilfracombe, plans of Bristol, Weston super Mare, and the Wye Valley in the pagination, boards. The contents are in very good order, the front board is faded along the spine & is a little marked and the spine is cracked. The whole book is a little loose. The start of the handbook is given over to general information and description of the steamers in the fleet, the remainder is a comprehensive topograhical guide to the Bristol Channel ports and resorts - Bristol, Weston super Mare, Ilfracombe, Minehead, Cardiff, Newport etc. For over 50 years Campbell's 'White Funnel Fleet' paddle steamers were to be seen proudly plying the Bristol Channel but by the end of the 1950s the excursion trade was in terminal decline and the company went into receivership in 1959. It was sold as a going concern and limped on with two steamers until the mid-1960s when they were replaced by motor vessels. The final end came in the early 1980s. From a recently acquired large collection of these guides - see our other listings for more. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 403

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