Fisher Row
Author | : Mary Prior |
Publisher | : Phillimore |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2011-05 |
ISBN-10 | : 1860776523 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781860776526 |
Rating | : 4/5 (526 Downloads) |
Download or read book Fisher Row written by Mary Prior and published by Phillimore. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Occupational communities were a feature of towns in the past, but they have been neglected by urban historians. This book is the study of such a community over a period of four hundred years. Fisher Row in Oxford lies between two streams of the Thames, and its inhabitants have long been connected with boats. There was a huddle of fishermen's houses here in the 16th century, bargemen joined them in the 17th century, and canal boatmen after the opening of the Oxford Canal.This study will appeal to a wide spectrum of social and economic historians and historians of the family as well as to local historians and British historians in general.