Author: E. ParryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Parry's railway companion from Chester to Holyhead
Author: E. ParryParry's Railway Companion from Chester to Holyhead ... with a Descriptive and Historical Account of the Adjacent Towns ...
Author: Edward Parry (Of Chester)Publisher:
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Category : Wales, North
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Parry's Railway Companion from Chester to Holyhead: together with some account of the stupendous railway works
Author: Edward Parry (Of Chester)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Railway Companion from Chester to Holyhead ... to which is Added the Tourist's Guide to Dublin and Its Environs
Author: Edward ParryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dublin (Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The Early History of Railway Tunnels
Author: Hubert PragnellPublisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 1399049445
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
To the early railway traveller, the prospect of travelling to places in hours rather than days hitherto was an inviting prospect, however a journey was not without its fears as well as excitement. To some, the prospect of travelling through a tunnel without carriage lighting, with smoke permeating the compartment and the confined noise was a horror of the new age. What might happen if we broke down or crashed into another train in the darkness? To others it was exciting, with the light from the footplate flickering against the tunnel walls or spotting the occasional glimpses of light from a ventilation shaft. To the directors of early railway companies, planning a route was governed by expense and the most direct way. Avoiding hills could add miles but tunnelling through them could involve vast expense as the Great Western Railway found at Box and the London and Birmingham at Kilsby. Creating a cutting as an alternative was also costly not only in labour and time, but also in compensation for landowners, who opposed railways on visual and social grounds having seen their land divided by canals. Construction involved millions of bricks or blocks of stone for sufficiently thick walls to withstand collapse. However, the entrance barely seen from the carriage window might be an impressive Italianate arch as at Primrose Hill, or a castellated portal worthy of the Middle Ages as at Bramhope. This book sets out to tell the story of tunnelling in Britain up to about 1870, when it was a question of burrowing through earth and rock with spade and explosive powder, with the constant danger of collapse or flooding leading to injury and death. It uses contemporary accounts, from the dangers of railway travel by Dickens to the excitement of being drawn through the Liverpool Wapping Tunnel by the young composer Mendelssoln. It includes descriptions from early railway company guide books, newspapers and diaries. It also includes numerous photographs and colored architectural elevations from railway archives.
Catalogue of the Library of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Author: Bibliotheca Lindesiana ...
Author: James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of CrawfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
Book Description
The Heart of Northern Wales
Author: Walter Bezant LowePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aberconwy (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Alphabetical Finding List
Author: Princeton University. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Imagining Roman Britain
Author: Virginia HoselitzPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 0861933354
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
An examination of how the Roman past was perceived, and used, by Victorian Britain. The authority of classical texts was challenged in the mid-Victorian era through the unearthing of a very different "Rome" in the material remains under British soil. Developments in archaeology created a new picture of Roman Britain as wealthy and civilized - an image which sat more comfortably with the Victorians' own changing view of empire as they themselves became an imperial power. Changing intellectual ideas ensured that the Roman heritage could nolonger be seen solely as the preserve of the classically educated upper class: excavating with a spade allowed a larger audience to participate and own the Roman past. This book explores the whole phenomena, using archaeological activity in four British provincial towns (Caerleon, Cirencester, Colchester and Chester) to offer an explanation of how and why it happened, and providing authoritative and fresh insights into the way in which Victorian archaeology emerged, developed and altered how the modern world understood the ancient. In the process, it brings to the fore the frequently contradictory and confused ideas about Roman Britain in the Victorian imagination. VIRGINIA HOSELITZ gained her PhD at the Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol.