Thomas Telford was one of the most important Civil Engineers in British history, being a builder of Canals and Roads, all across the country.Thomas Telford is famous for the construction of the famous
Most historians recognize the work of three engineers as being the men who developed the railways from slow, lumbering colliery lines into fast, intercity routes. Two are very well known: Robert Steph
This is the story of how for more than a hundred years steam power played a vital role in the development of road transport. It all began with tentative attempts to build steam carriages by pioneers s
Mining is Britain’s oldest industry, and this book tells the story of the men and, in the past, women who spent their lives working underground. Geographically the book covers the regions of Devon and
This is the story of the men who built Britain’s canals and railways—not the engineers and the administrators, but the ones who provided the brawn and muscle. There had never been a workforce like the
Britain's landscape is rich with buildings and relics of the working lives of earlier generations. Organized by region, with inset maps and rich color photographs, Guide to Britain's Working Past prov
This is the story of how a change in how iron was made in the 18th century changed the world forever, and of the men and women who made it happen. The production of iron around 700BC was so important
When a young English nobleman was thwarted in love, he abandoned the court, retired to his estate near Manchester, and built a canal to serve his coalmines. The Bridgewater Canal was the sensation of
This is the story of a thousand mile-long trip around England by canal. At times the journey took the author out into the beautiful countryside, and elsewhere the canal crept round the edge of old ind
This is the story of canals used for transport and the men who built them from the earliest times, up to the end of the nineteenth century. This is a very long history: stones for the pyramids of Egyp
