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ISBN: 9781854143921
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Languages : en
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West Midlands Steam
Author: The Last Years of Steam Around the Midlands
Author: Michael ClemensPublisher: Strange Chemistry
ISBN: 9781781551295
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
ALAN MAUND lived in Worcestershire all his life and had an enthusiasm for steam. He traveled extensively in Britain and built up a large railway photographic archive from the late 1950s onwards. This book is made up entirely of Alan's collection of photographs from across the Midlands. It will appeal to railway enthusiasts, modelers, and those with an interest in local history. Alan started using color film in 1959, and color slides make up the majority of these photographs. Many enthusiasts in this era had a policy of filming steam only and ignoring the new diesel interlopers, but not Alan; diesels do make appearances, and so do some early electric classes. A particular passion of Alan's was small industrial steam locomotives, and he restored a Kerr Stuart 'Wren' class 0-4-0 to working order between 1959 and 1961. So in addition to larger British Railways locomotives, their smaller relations are also seen across the Midlands. Alan passed on in 1983 and his widow, Wendy, gave Alan's collection of railway photographs to filmmaker and author Michael Clemens, whose late father was a friend of Alan's. Alan's collection lives on today at film shows around the country and now in this book.
The West Midlands
Author: Rex ChristiansenPublisher: Trafalgar Square Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
First published in 1973.
British Industrial Steam Locomotives
Author: David MatherPublisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 1526770202
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The first steam locomotives used on any British railway, worked in industry. The use of new and second hand former main line locomotives, was once a widespread aspect of the railways of Britain. This volume covers many of the once numerous manufacturers who constructed steam locomotives for industry and contractors from the 19th to the mid 20th centuries. David Mather has spent many years researching and collecting photographs across Britain, of most of the different locomotive types that once worked in industry. This book is designed to be both a record of these various manufacturers and a useful guide to those researching and modelling industrial steam.
The Lunar Men
Author: Jennifer S. UglowPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374528888
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 625
Book Description
In the 1760s a group of amateur experimenters met in the English Midlands. Blending science, art, and commerce, the Lunar Men changed the face of England. Uglow's vivid, exhilarating account uncovers the friendships, political passions, love affairs, and love of knowledge that drove these extraordinary men.
The Soho Manufactory, Mint and Foundry, West Midlands
Author: George DemidowiczPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1802070931
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the ground-breaking historic industrial complex created to the west of Birmingham in the eighteenth century and associated with Matthew Boulton, James Watt, and William Murdoch. The Soho Manufactory (1761-1863) and Soho Mint (1788-1850s) were both situated in the historic parish of Handsworth, now in the city of Birmingham, and the Soho Foundry (1795-1895) lay in the historic township of Smethwick, now within Sandwell Metropolitan Borough. Together they played a key role in the Industrial Revolution , achieving many world 'firsts': the first working Watt steam engine, the first steam-engine powered mint and the first purpose-built steam engine manufactory (the Soho Foundry), to name but a few. Existing literature focuses largely on the biography of the people, primarily Boulton and Watt, or the products they manufactured. The place - the Soho complex - has attracted very little attention. This volume is the first to concentrate on the buildings themselves analysing not only their physical origins, development and eventual decline but also the water and steam power systems adopted. An interdisciplinary approach has been employed combining archival research in the magnificent Soho collection at the Library of Birmingham with the results of archaeological excavations. The volume is profusely illustrated with archival material, most published for the first time, and contains a large number of reconstruction plans and drawings by the author.
Boats, Smoke, Steam and Folk
Author: Robert DaviesPublisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
ISBN: 9780752417653
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Narrow boats, coal, steam engines, tunnels, locks, bridges, aqueducts and the lives of thousands of men, women and children came to be wrapped up in the late eighteenth century with what was a whole new transport system. This affectionate book explores the stories behind the canals of the Midlands.
West Midlands Traction
Author: Andrew ColePublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445664607
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Andrew Cole explores traction around the West Midlands.
Peppercorn's Pacifics
Author: Peter TuffreyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781912101702
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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