Download or read book Somerset in the Age of Steam written by Peter Stanier and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Somerset in the Age of Steam written by Peter Stanier and published by Somerset Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Somerset in the Age of Steam written by Peter Stanier and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Last Days of Steam in Bristol and Somerset written by Colin Gordon Maggs and published by Sutton Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 200 nostalgic steam photographs recapture the end of the age of steam in Bristol and Somerset.

Download or read book The Golden Age of Steam written by Roy S. McNaught and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tales of Somerset Steam written by Roger Evans and published by Countryside Books (GB). This book was released on 2010 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of steam-power changed people's lives for ever in Somerset. It fuelled the industrial revolution and was used to drive local mills, mines and trains. Later it brought great changes to the farming and craft industries. Bridgwater author Roger Evans begins with his own local childhood memories of seaside excursions taken and then takes the reader through the era that saw steam as the key to all progress especially to the development of the local railway network.

Download or read book Somerset Steam written by Michael Welch and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Steam in Somerset written by Derek Huntriss and published by Specialist Marketing International. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fred Dibnah s Age Of Steam written by David Hall and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-03-31 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britains favourite steeplejack and industrial enthusiastic, the late Fred Dibnah, takes us back to the 18th century when the invention of the steam engine gave an enormous impetus to the development of machinery of all types. He reveals how the steam engine provided the first practical means of generating power from heat to augment the old sources of power (from muscle, wind and water) and provided the main source of power for the Industrial Revolution. In Fred Dibnahs Age of Steam Fred shares his passion for steam and meets some of the characters who devote their lives to finding, preserving and restoring steam locomotives, traction engines and stationary engines, mill workings and pumps. Combined with this will be the stories of central figures of the time, including James Watts - inventor of the steam engine - and Richard Trevithick who played a key role in the expansion of industrial Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Download or read book Somerset Archaeology and Natural History written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book First Things in Old Somerset written by Abraham Messler and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Last Years Of Steam Across Somerset Dors written by Michael Clemens and published by . This book was released on 2018-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Somerset s Lost Railways written by Peter Dale and published by . This book was released on 2001-09-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanied by intriguing facts and informative captions are fifty-three period photographs of Somerset's long-lost railway network in the golden age of steam. Featured, amongst many others, are photographs of Radstock, Bath, Wellow, Chard, Minehead, Clifton Bridge, Portishead, Shepton Mallet and the long gone West Somerset Mineral Railway.

Download or read book Somerset written by Mick Davis and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An informative springboard from which to dive deep into the rich and illustrious heritage of the county steeped in the legend of King Arthur. Every inch of legendary Somerset is imbued with history, from the towns of Dunster and Taunton in the west, to those of Shepton Mallet and Frome in the east; while also contained within its county boundaries are the cities of Bath and Wells and the mystical and magical Isle of Avalon: Glastonbury. The county, located in southwest England and part of the Ancient Kingdom of Wessex, has played a significant role in many of the nation’s most formative events. These include the Roman occupation, Alfred the Great’s rise to power, the English Civil War and the Monmouth Rebellion. And all this epoch-making activity has been played out against a landscape of dramatic and breathtaking beauty, from vast tracts of land such as Exmoor, hill ranges such as Mendip and Blackdown and an abundance of incredible rivers, lakes and streams; many situated within the famous Somerset Levels. Wordsworth, Coleridge and Austen, among many others, have immortalized the county in literature, while everyone from the Celts, Cavaliers and Saxons, to the Roundheads, Romans and rebels have fought over its sought-after resources. The authors, both living in Somerset, guide you on a fascinating and illuminating trip into the past of this most historical and legendary of counties, which boasts among its attractions the last battle fought upon English soil, the scene of the Bloody Assizes and the final resting place of King Arthur.

Download or read book Somerset Railways written by Ted Gosling and published by History Publishing Group. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No-one could have imagined what a revolutionary change the dawning of the railway age would have on the British countryside and its inhabitants. Somerset was no exception: the Great Western Railway, the London and South Western Railway, and the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway operated many services throughout this beautiful county. In the age of steam and in later days these companies gave communities employment and security; their stations, crossing and engine sheds transformed the landscape and their locomotives were objects of admiration. This book aims to give the reader a chance to look back at scenes and locations that were once so common over a wonderful railway network. Stations such as Chard Junction, Milborne Port, Wellow, Chilcompton and Binegar are depicted. Somerset Railways also examines the countless trains that passed by in the age of steam: the Devon Belle and the Pines Express. Enriched by a wealth of photographs of staff from all walks of railway life, this book is a tribute to those railway workers and to the vibrant Somerset railway system that they served.

Download or read book Steam on the Somerset Dorset written by Gerald Anthony Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Historic Landscape of the Quantock Hills written by Hazel Riley and published by Historic England Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quantock Hills, famous for their associations with Coleridge and Wordsworth in the 19th century, have been the canvas on which are sketched the shadowy images of people who lived on the land from prehistoric times to the present. There are Bronze Age cairns and burial mounds, Iron Age hillforts, Roman settlements, medieval manors and post-medieval estates, right through to stark monuments of the Second World War and the Cold War. This book presents and interprets the Quantocks landscape after a dedicated programme of archaeological fieldwork, air photograph transcription and architectural investigation by English Heritage. It describes the results in a readable book including full colour illustrations and line drawings throughout, plus a series of lively reconstruction paintings by the artist Jane Brayne.