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Author : Charles Hadfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (867 download)
Download or read book The Canals of the West Midlands written by Charles Hadfield and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Davies
Publisher : History Press
ISBN 13 : 9780750960045
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Waterways of the West Midlands written by Robert Davies and published by History Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enjoyable new book delves into unexplored areas of history surrounding the great network of the West Midland Canals. It provides a new insight into its most fascinating figures and places, including interviews with some of the last true boatmen, whose world disappeared forever during the turbulent 1960s. It reveals fascinating figures like John Corbett, who became one of the richest men in Britain during the 19th century, through salt and canals. He built a fabulous chateau for his unfaithful wife on the outskirts of Droitwich that can still be visited today. We also have an account of how the Droitwich Canals have been wonderfully restored to the navigation system, with old and new photographs depicting the changes. And not forgetting such pivotal characters such as Boulton and Watt, who were an essential part of the canal story. We at The History Press are sure that this book will appeal to canal enthusiasts and all who love the West Midlands with its amazing Waterways.
Author : Ray Shill
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445632101
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book West Midland Canals Through Time written by Ray Shill and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which West Midland Canals have changed and developed over the last century.
Author : Michael R. Kettle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781903607183
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Walking the Canals of the Midlands written by Michael R. Kettle and published by . This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780752455006
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)
Download or read book Tales from the West Midlands Canals written by Robert Davies and published by . This book was released on 2010-06-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales from the West Midlands Canals
Author : Phil Clayton
Publisher : The Crowood Press
ISBN 13 : 0719840201
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (198 download)
Download or read book Birmingham Canal Navigations written by Phil Clayton and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Birmingham Canal Navigations comprise the greatest concentration of waterways in Britain. Over the course of a century, from the original Birmingham Canal of 1769, they grew to their greatest extent of almost 160 miles, all within about a 12-mile radius of their geographical centre of Walsall. The network was a major driver of the great industrial development of Birmingham and the Black Country, carrying vast quantities of raw materials and finished goods into the twentieth century. Following decades of decline, the BCN is once more an important player in the regeneration of the region's centres and the growth of leisure. With 140 illustrations, including maps and archive photographs, this book includes: the beginnings and expansion of the network; subsequent improvements to the system; supplying the water; the people who worked the BCN; trials and tribulations, including inclement weather, subsidence, breaches, wartime and accidents; the impact and influence of the railways, and finally its decline and subsequent transition into a New Canal Age.
Author : Anthony Burton
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473870356
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book The Canal Builders written by Anthony Burton and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canal Builders is a classic history book for anyone interested in the development of Britain's canal system. The book, which was first published in the 1970s, is now republished here in a new fifth edition. It takes the reader from the middle of the eighteenth century, to the start of the railway age in the early nineteenth century. Anthony Burton has revised and improved the original text, using new material that he has found in archives since it was first published, and has added many extra illustrations. This is the remarkable story of the many groups of people who were responsible for building Britain's canal system. There were industrialists such as Josiah Wedgwood, who promoted canals to help his own industry, and speculators, financed the projects in the hope of a good return. The work was planned by engineers, some of whom, such as James Brindley and Thomas Telford, have become famous, while others have remained virtually unknown but still did magnificent work. This is also the story of the great, anonymous army of men who actually did the work the navvies. This was the first book ever to study the lives of these labourers in detail. Altogether it is an epic story of how the transport route that made the industrial revolution possible was built.'Well planned and well written There is no better introduction to the early canal age.' The EconomistLinks End Links Author End Author
Author : Ray Shill
Publisher : Silent Highways
ISBN 13 : 9780752458427
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (584 download)
Download or read book Silent Highways written by Ray Shill and published by Silent Highways. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling look at the principal features of the Midlands and border canals and the people who built them.
Author : Dr Philip Bagwell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134985010
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)
Download or read book The Transport Revolution 1770-1985 written by Dr Philip Bagwell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1988-09-15 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated version of this classic book which includes an examination of transport developments since 1974, and particularly those of the Thatcher era.
Author : Stuart Fisher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472918533
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book The Canal Guide written by Stuart Fisher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This attractive guidebook shows off just how rich our waterways heritage is. Picking out Britain's 50 most beautiful and interesting canals, Stuart Fisher gives a lively background to the history, wildlife, pubs and nearby attractions of each waterway. Each of the 50 chapters also features a map, colour photographs and a handy info box. Through the beautiful cities of London, Bath and Oxford, traversing stunning countryside and national parks, and exploring some of the best Victorian engineering and industry, this book is an inspiring and thoroughly enjoyable read, as well as a perfect resource for anyone thinking about a day out or holiday along Britain's wonderful canals.
Author : Andy Wood
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445639270
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Abandoned & Vanished Canals of England written by Andy Wood and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A resurgence in canal restoration has seen many English canals reopen in the past three decades, but many are still abandoned, some even vanished under roads, railways and buildings.
Author : Joseph Boughey
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752487116
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book British Canals written by Joseph Boughey and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of British Canals was published in 1950 and was much admired as a pioneering work in transport history. Joseph Boughey, with the advice of Charles Hadfield, has previously revised and updated the perennially popular material to reflect more recent changes. For this ninth edition, Joseph Boughey discusses the many new discoveries and advances in the world of canals around Britain, inevitably focussing on the twentieth century to a far greater extent than in any previous edition of this book, while still within the context of Hadfield's original work.
Author : Peter Borsay
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131789975X
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book The Eighteenth-Century Town written by Peter Borsay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteenth century represents a critical period in the transition of the English urban history, as the town of the early modern era involved into that of the industrial revolution; and since Britain was the 'first industrial nation', this transformation is of more-than-national significance for all those interested in the histroy of towns. This book gathers together in one volume some of the most interesting and important articles that have appeared in research journals to provide a rich variety of perspectives on urban evelopment in the period.
Author : PETER. BROWN
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780901461667
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book SHROPSHIRE UNION CANAL written by PETER. BROWN and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ray Shill
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752492187
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Birmingham Canals written by Ray Shill and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birmingham is famously reputed to have more miles of canals than Venice. These canals contributed much to the city's growth, bringing coal and merchandise from the surrounding areas. As the city prospered economically, it continued to grow and absorb neighbouring communities, a process in many ways bound together by the waterways. Although part of the national network, Birmingham's canals, including the Worcester & Birmingham, the Stratford-upon-Avon and the Birmingham Canal Navigation, retain their original identity – and most are still in water and used regularly, albeit in different ways to their original industrial purpose. Fully updated and illustrated with stunning new photographs, this book captures the heritage, development and modern role of Birmingham's canals in a way that will appeal to canal users as well as those with a wider interest in Britain's second most populous city.
Author : Peter Maw
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526130475
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Transport and the industrial city written by Peter Maw and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first scholarly study of the contribution of canals to Britain’s industrial revolution. Although the achievements of canal engineers remain central to popular understandings of industrialisation, historians have been surprisingly reticent to analyse the full scope of the connections between canals, transport and the first industrial revolution. Focusing on Manchester, Britain’s major centre of both industrial and transport innovation, it shows that canals were at the heart of the self-styled Cottonopolis. Not only did canals move the key commodities of Manchester’s industrial revolution –coal, corn, and cotton – but canal banks also provided the key sites for the factories that made Manchester the ‘shock city’ of the early Victorian age. This book will become essential reading for historians and students interested in the industrial revolution, transport, and the unique history of Manchester, the world’s first industrial city.
Author : Stuart Fisher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472940024
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book The Canals of Britain written by Stuart Fisher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canals of Britain is a comprehensive and absorbing survey of the entire canal network of the British Isles - the first of its kind. It provides a fascinating insight into the linked up waterways as well as the isolated cuts and quiet waters which may not be fully navigable by larger craft. Infinitely varied, it passes picturesque open countryside, wild moorland, coastal harbours, historic industrial buildings, modern city centres, canalside public houses and abundant wildlife. Stuart Fisher looks at every aspect of the canals - their construction, rich history, stunning scenery, heritage, incredible engineering, impressive architecture and even their associated folklore, wildlife and art. Enticing photographs give a flavour of each place and places of interest close to the canals are included. For those who are keen to explore that little bit further, taking smaller boats to points beyond which others usually turn back, there is information on little-known parts of the system, offering a new insight into this country's unique, surprising and beautiful canal network. Attractive, inspiring and foremost a practical guide, this has proved very popular with canal enthusiasts and boaters wanting to get the most out of Britain's canals. This third edition has been revised to reflect the ever-changing landscape of Britain's canals, and includes many new colour photographs to help bring it to life.
