Gloucestershire Society for Industrial Archaeology

The surviving records of the Thames and Severn Canal Company held at Gloucestershire Archives give a fascinating insight to the canal, especially during its early days. Several volumes, have been photographed and, in due course, they will be available here for anyone to view or study them according to their level of interest. The first five of these, dating from the period 1783-1822 are available here now.

Minute Books
TS/162 Minute book of Commissioners 1788-1827
TS/166 Minutes of General meetings of Proprietors, 1783-1822, with index book, labelled “Index A”  

Letter Books
TS/110a Letter book, November 1793-January 1795 
TS/111 Letter book, April 1796-November 1796 

Account Books
TS/109 (part)  Accounts, April 1794-November 1798

We are grateful to Gloucestershire Archives for permission to put these documents online