Great Western Pictorial
Author : Philip Hopkins
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 46,23 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9781874103226
Author : Philip Hopkins
Publisher :
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 46,23 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9781874103226
Author : Laurence Waters
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,10 MB
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1526707055
It could be argued that the great Western or 'Gods' Wonderful Railway' was for many years the most famous railway in England. Much of the railway that we see today was the work of one of the greatest engineers of his time, Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The company was also served by locomotive engineers such as Gooch, Armstrong, Churchward, Collett and Hawksworth, who produced a series of locomotives that were well designed, elegant and powerful.Serving many holiday resorts of the south west, with trains such as 'The Cornish Riviera Express,' the publicity department exploited to great effect that the 'Great Western' was the 'Holiday Line.' It is probably true to say that in the years before the Second World War the company was producing some of the most effective publicity material in England.Using previously unpublished material from the extensive 'Great Western Trust' collection at Didcot Railway Centre, the book illustrates in both black and white and color many facets that made the Great Western 'Great"
Author : Charles Reginald Dodwell
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 41,48 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300064933
Between the ninth and thirteenth centuries the Western world witnessed a glorious flowering of the pictorial arts. In this lavishly illustrated book, C.R. Dodwell provides a comprehensive guide to all forms of this art--from wall and panel paintings to stained glass windows, mosaics, and embroidery--and sets them against the historical and theological influences of the age. Dodwell describes the rise and development of some of the great styles of the Middle Ages: Carolingian art, which ranged from the splendid illuminations appropriate to an emperor's court to drawings of great delicacy; Anglo-Saxon art, which had a rare vitality and finesse; Ottonian art with its political and spiritual messages; the colorful Mozarabic art of Spain, which had added vigor through its interaction with the barbaric Visigoths; and the art of Italy, influenced by the styles of Byzantium and the West. Dodwell concludes with an examination of the universal Romanesque style of the twelfth century that extended from the Scandinavian countries in the north to Jerusalem in the south. His book--which includes the first exhaustive discussion of the painters and craftsmen of the time, incorporates the latest research, and is filled with new ideas about the relations among the arts, history, and theology of the period--will be an invaluable resource for both art historians and students of the Middle Ages.
Author : John Copsey
Publisher :
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 14,79 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Locomotives
ISBN : 9781905184118
Author : Michael Parkinson
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 38,44 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Western films
ISBN : 9780600130673
Author : Tony Atkins
Publisher :
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 43,21 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Freight cars
ISBN : 9781874103592
Author : G. J. Jefferson
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 32,38 MB
Release : 1977
Category :
ISBN : 9780906025147
Author : Elaine Arthurs
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 26,63 MB
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 9780711038059
This title presents a collection of photographs illustrating the human and operational cost of two world wars on the Great Western Railway taken from the archive of the Museum of the GWR at Swindon.
Author : James Harry Russell
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 24,22 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Locomotives
ISBN : 9780860930242
Author : James Harry Russell
Publisher :
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 12,93 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Locomotives
ISBN : 9780860933991