Welcome to Mike Clarke’s Home Page
Canals and canal
boats, stationary and railway steam engines, vintage cars, textile machinery,
water and wind mills: all of these have featured in my life as a professional
industrial and canal historian and restoration engineer. I am best known for my
work on the history and heritage of the
Leeds & Liverpool Canal, and Canal & River Trust have named a lock at
Bank Newton after me in recognition of almost fifty years promoting the canal's
history and heritage. I was given a Pride in Barnoldswick
award by Barnoldswick Town Council in 2014, and the
Mersey Basin Campaign's Dragonfly Award in 2000. I am
President of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal Society, and will be President of
the Railway & Canal Historical Society in 2016-2018. I am also on the
committee of Inland Waterways International.
Copies of some
reports and articles I have written, as well as contemporary canal pamphlets,
and other industrial, maritime and canal history material are available on
these pages. I give illustrated lectures, and more details of all these
services, as well as other information, can be found by following the links
below.
A new book for the 200th
Anniversary of the
Opening of the Canal from
Leeds to Liverpool in 2016
The
Leeds & Liverpool Canal, a history
Mike Clarke
This book has been
published for the 200th Anniversary of the L&LC in 2016. It is 434 pages
long, 250mm by 175mm portrait format, with over 200 illustrations, many in
colour, and over 40 maps. It is a soft-back using digital printing.
ISBN 978-0-9519236-8-9
Direct from me, the cost is £28.00, including postage. It is £40.00
through booksellers. For more details, click on the link above, or contact me
directly.
Mike Clarke
8 Green Bank
Barnoldswick
BB18 6HX
Email: mike.clarke@zen.co.uk
Mike Clarke and Sam Yates
This is a book on
the traditional boat painting of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, 88 pages,
250mm by 170mm landscape format, ISBN 0-9519236-2-5, with numerous colour and b&w illustrations. The price is £8-00 soft-back, inc.
P&P. A few hardback copies are available direct from me at £12-00. If you
would like to order a copy, or just to receive more information, please send
your details to the address above. Please make cheques payable to Mike Clarke.
I also sing in a
couple of local
choirs, helping preserve a strong northern tradition.
Links to further pages by Mike Clarke
Video of motor
and sailing barges on the Aire & Calder
Navigation and near Berlin.
Movable
Bridges: an historical overview.
Mike
was Engineer at Helmshore Textile Museums for five
years, bringing the machinery there back to life.
The condenser mules here are being operated by Harold, the resident spinner at the time.
Mike Clarke
8 Green Bank
BARNOLDSWICK
BB18 6HX
tel: +44 (0)1282 850430
last revised: 17 November 2016