Britains Canals A Handbook Revised Edition

Author : Nick Corble
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445623277
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain's Canals written by Nick Corble and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible introduction to Britain's Canals and why they are so important today as a leisure pursuit.

Author : Joseph Boughey
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752487116
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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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 441 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 : Joseph Boughey
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780750918404
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hadfield's British Canals written by Joseph Boughey and published by Alan Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighth revised edition, of the history of the canal in Britain and Ireland, discussing its emergence from the industrial revolution through to its use today for pleasure boating.

Author : Anthony Burton
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473870356
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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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

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2544 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Statesman's Year-book written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 2544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : E. W. Paget-Tomlinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781843061731
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britain's Canal & River Craft written by E. W. Paget-Tomlinson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes and illustrates all the major types of inland waterways craft as well as many of the lesser known type. An important feature of this title is the authors superb line drawings which illustrate the hull, deck and rigging. Previously published in 1997, this revised edition includes many new photographs with accompanying captions. The authors recently published 'Colours of the Cut' looked at the liveries on many of these types of boat. His book describes how they were built and used. Includes a chapter on Northern Ireland and Eire.

Author : Anthony Burton
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752494627
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canal 250 written by Anthony Burton and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the age and led others to follow the example of the enterprising Duke of Bridgewater. From his starting point in 1760, over the next half-century Britain was covered by a network of waterways that became the lifeblood of the Industrial Revolution. This is the story of 250 years of history on those canals, and of the people who made and used them. The book tells of the great engineers, such as Telford, Brindley and Jessop and of the industrialists, such as Wedgwood and Arkwright who promoted the canals they built. It also tells the story of the anonymous navvies who dug the canals, the men and women who ran the boats and the workers who kept the canals running. Covering the entire history of the canal network (from the glorious early days, through the years of decline caused by rail and then road competition, up to the subsequent revival of the canals as leisure routes), this wonderfully illustrated book is a must-have for all canal enthusiasts.

Author : John Parker Anderson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of British Topography written by John Parker Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : J. Scott-Keltie
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230270530
Total Pages : 1550 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Statesman's Year-Book written by J. Scott-Keltie and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 1550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

Author : Joseph Boughey
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780750900171
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hadfield's British Canals written by Joseph Boughey and published by Alan Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of the canals of Britain and Ireland is the definitive study of how canals emerged from the surge of energy, enterprise and technology of the eighteenth-century.