Foundries and Rolling Mills
Foundries and Rolling Mills

Author: David Hall

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2010-12-15

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 1446415023

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Join engineer, steeplejack and beloved storyteller Fred Dibnah, as he takes you on a personal tour through industrial Britain. Bringing to life landmark events from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century in his typically engaging and anecdotal style, Fred introduces the great inventors from the age of steam, describes the day-to-day operation of railways, mills, forges and factories, and paints a vivid picture of what life was like for the mill-hands, colliers and engineers who laboured in industrial Britain - the workshop of the world. With a comprehensive gazetteer, which lists details of over 230 places of industrial interest - from steam railways and ships, to windmills and watermills - Foundries and Rolling Mills is a glorious portrait of Britain at the height of its industrial power, from one of our most revered figures.

Civil Engineering Heritage
Civil Engineering Heritage

Author: E. A. Labrum

Publisher: Thomas Telford

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9780727719706

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Britain has a heritage of civil engineering works unrivalled anywhere. The skills of past engineers are in evidence throughout the land in the infrastructure. This work is suitable for the technical and non-technical reader, and the area covered in it reaches from the Humber to the Thames and from East Anglia to central England.

Windmills
Windmills

Author: Lucile Saunders McDonald

Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9780525667087

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Describes windmills through the ages and in various countries.

The Hidden Places of England
The Hidden Places of England

Author: Peter Long

Publisher: Travel Publishing Ltd

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 684

ISBN-13: 9781904434122

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England's landscape is as diverse as its culture. It is a country with magnificent landscapes. This guide looks at the more established places of interest throughout the country, but it also focuses on the more secluded and little known visitor attractions and places to stay, eat and drink.

Nottinghamshire
Nottinghamshire

Author: Nikolaus Pevsner

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1979-03-01

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 9780300096361

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Full of memorable and surprising buildings, Nottingham is a county that rewards close investigation. Great medieval churches are represented by Worksop, Newark and by Southwell, with its exquisite carved 'leaves'. Of its country houses, Wollaton Hall shows Elizabethan architecture at its most fantastic, Bunny Hall the English Baroque at its most bizarre, while Lord Byron's Newstead Abbey incorporates one of the strangest of all monastic ruins. The city of Nottingham, marvellously set between hills, is crowded with sturdy Victorian and Edwardian commercial buildings, and enlivened by a strong local tradition of first-rate Modernist architecture.