Fisher Row

I have just been to talk to the lovely lady in the general office and discovered she is reading a really interesting book: Fisher Row: Fishermen, Bargemen & Canal Boatmen in Oxford. 1500- 1900 by Mary Prior. 

I looked it up on Amazon and it can be purchased, at a snitch, for £221. It mentions the floating Chapel I wrote about some time ago – and there is a picture of it c.1860.  The pictures of fishers row are amazing, as is the one of Hythe Bridge, Wharf and Canal.  It looks like a fascinating book  about occupational communities, but sadly I must do my number crunching and return the book before I sit and read it all!