Lionel Thomas Caswell Rolt black plaque

Chester, Cheshire West and Chester, England, United Kingdom

L. T. C. Rolt. Lionel Thomas Caswell Rolt, Engineer and Writer was born at Chester on 11 February 1910 and died at Stanley Pontlarge, Gloucestershire on 9 May 1947. Tom Rolt's love and understanding of the canals and of life on the inland waterways drew him from an engineering career to live and tra

vel the waterways in his narrow boat 'Cressy'. The account in his celebrated book 'Narrow Boat' of his pre-war four hundred mile journey led directly to the formation of the inland waterways associati

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