RODNEY CLAPSON

MARINE CONSULTANT

AND

LECTURER ON HISTORIC HUMBER VESSELS

16 WHITECROSS STREET, BARTON ON HUMBER DN18 5EU

As author and publishers of local history books we specialise in shipbuilding and the story of shipping on the Humber and Trent in association with the Barton Branch of the Workers Educational Association ( WEA ).  With 50 years experience of repairing commercial craft on the Humber we can offer help and advice to anyone tracing their ancestors ships, or considering conversion or re-rigging of historic commercial craft on the Humber for domestic, museum or other purposes.

We offer lectures and Powerpoint presentations in aid of preservation funds for the Newark Heritage Barge Group ( Leicester Trader ) or the Humber Keel and Sloop Preservation Society ( Amy Howson and Comrade ) from their extensive photographic archives.  Links to these groups can be found on this website.

BARTON AND THE RIVER HUMBER 1096 - 1900

ISBN 0-900-959-20-7  Author Rodney Clapson

With information on Barton-owned seagoing trading vessels, canal vessels and paddle steamers from the Shipping Registers of Hull, Goole, and Grimsby.  Researched and written by Rodney Clapson, this book is produced and published by the Barton Branch of the Workers Educational Association as part 4 in a series of booklets covering the history of Barton on Humber up to 1900.

Format : A4, 104 pages including a glossary of nautical terms.

Price £7.00 ( £9.00 including postage) from Rodney Clapson, 16 Whitecross Street, Barton or Geoff Bryant, 8 Queen Street, Barton . 

For your convenience it can also be purchased from :

CHAMP at Baysgarth Museum, Barton             Newton Printers, Market Lane, Barton

The Ropewalk Gallery, Barton             Waters Edge Visitor Centre, Barton

Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust, Far Ings Nature Reserve, Barton

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A LINCOLNSHIRE SHIPYARD - BURTON UPON STATHER

ISBN 978-0-9557444-0-2   Author Rodney Clapson

The first book in series about Lincolnshire shipyards, this tells the story of the growth of the yard at Burton Stather on the banks of the River Trent, from a small provincial yard to one known nationally for the quality of the ships built there. researched, written and published by Rodney Clapson. The book records the foresight and energy of the Wray family in planning the yard, and their determination to develop the yard to win orders from the new shipping companies that had been formed to trade with the rapidly-expanding British Empire in the mid 19th century.

With details of every ship built at Burton Stather and at their earlier yard at nearby Alkborough, census records of the shipwrights and other craftsmen employed there.

Format : A4, 76 pages including a glossary of maritime terms.

Price £7.50 ( £9.50 including postage ) from Rodney Clapson. 16 Whitecross Street, Barton on Humber.

For your convenience it can also be purchased from these stockists

The Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, Steep Hill, Lincoln

Scunthorpe Museum        The Ferry House Pub, Burton Stather

The Ropewalk Gallery, Barton on Humber       Normanby Hall Country Park

Waters Edge Visitor Centre, Barton on Humber

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The latest in the WEA series of booklets on Barton on Humber up to the year 1900, this book records the ancient roads, tracks and footpaths in and around Barton, with town maps and information on carriers - by land and water- who maintained trade and communications with the surrounding towns and villages before the days of the railway.

Format : A4   126 pages including a Trades Index for the town before 1900.

Available for £8.00 direct from the publishers, Fathom Writers Press at the Ropewalk Gallery, Barton on Humber.