Download or read book Abandoned Vanished Canals of England written by Andy Wood and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-06-15 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A resurgence in canal restoration has seen many English canals reopen in the past three decades, but many are still abandoned, some even vanished under roads, railways and buildings.

Download or read book The Canal Pioneers written by Anthony Burton and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 ninteenth century. This is a very long history: stones for the pyramids of Egypt were brought to the site by canal and one of the most imposing canal systems ever built, the Grand Canal of China, was begun in the sixth century BC.Development after the end of the Roman Empire was slow, but saw the steady improvement of river navigations through locks the mitre gates were actually first designed by Leonardo da Vinci. The modern age of canals that cross summits began in France, and the most famous of these early waterways was the magnificent Canal du Midi, the brainchild of Pierre-Paul Riquet, completed in 1681. It was a visit to this canal, when he was a teenager on the Grand Tour, that inspired the Duke of Bridgewater to build his famous canal that inspired a rush of canal construction in Britain. Britains canals became the essential transport route that made the countrys industrial revolution possible, thanks to engineers such as James Brindley, William Jessop and Thomas Telford. It was a period of intensive construction that lasted for fifty years from 1760. It saw many innovations from the use of cast iron for bridges and aqueducts, to inclined planes and vertical lifts to move boats from one canal level to another. The nineteenth century also saw extensive canal systems developing in North America, such as the famous Erie Canal, and culminated in two great ship canals at Suez and Panama. The book tells an exciting story of canal development and the many men who made it possible.

Download or read book Canals written by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Bude Canal written by Helen Harris and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Stroudwater Canal A History written by Michael Handford and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the oldest canals in Britain, the Stroudwater is part way through a multimillion pound restoration.

Download or read book A Treatise on Rivers and Canals Text written by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rivers and Canals written by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Treatise on Rivers and Canals written by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Rivers and Canals Canals written by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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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 451 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.

Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers in Cornwall written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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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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