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This firm appears only in Glover’s Directory of 1829, as the successors
to James Holt & Co., with a long list of places served from Cockpit Hill
in Derby three times a week, and two others (Birmingham and Nuneaton)
once a week. In two cases (Bristol and Wolverhampton) the service
appears to have been operated in conjunction with a firm named Swaine &
Co., who appear alone in the same list providing a service on Tuesdays
to Birmingham. Swaines themselves are not listed elsewhere in the
directory as carriers.
Many of the places on the list of those served three times a week, such
as Chapel en le Frith, Tideswell, Wirksworth and Chesterfield, must have
been reached by waggon, not boat, and in other cases, for example
Mansfield, it is difficult to decide whether the journey would have been
partly by water and partly by land, or entirely by wagon (or railway).
The company seems to have given up trading, certainly as carriers, by
the early 1840s.
James Holt
Holt appears in Pigot’s Directory of 1818 as a carrier by water from
Cockpit Wharf to London, through Burton and all the line of the Trent &
Mersey and Staffs. & Worcs. canals, departing on Tuesdays and Fridays.
By 1822 he was offering daily services to Burton and the Potteries in
one direction and Nottingham in the other; a service to Sheffield was
presumably by wagon (or possibly by boat to Buckland Hollow and by road
from there). By 1829 his business had been taken over by C.M. Douglas.
James Holt has no apparent connection with the national firm of
carriers, Kenworthy & Holt, who also served Derby.
Swaine & Co.
This firm is listed in Glover’s directory of 1829 as carriers to
Nottingham from Siddals Lane in Derby.
They appear to have been road carriers working in association with the
canal-carrying firm of Douglas & Co., and were not themselves carriers
by canal.
See also:
• Cradock, Ella & Douglas
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