Book Description
Rolt's work reveals his important contribution to the history and preservation of our canals and railways.
Author : L. T. C. Rolt
Publisher :
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 18,16 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Biographers
ISBN : 9780750941396
Rolt's work reveals his important contribution to the history and preservation of our canals and railways.
Author : Victoria Owens
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 39,88 MB
Release : 2024-07-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1399056654
In 1926, Tom Rolt who was then sixteen years old, abandoned his public school education. Having taken a job with a small firm of agricultural engineers, he realized that he had found his life’s calling. But the way ahead was neither smooth nor easy. Having secured a premium apprenticeship, the firm which took him on foundered and although he eventually qualified as a mechanical engineer, the 1930s depression made it almost impossible to find regular employment. Nothing daunted, with the encouragement of his mysterious companion ‘Cara’, he turned to writing. His literary career flourished alongside his association with the Vintage Sports Car Club, the Inland Waterways Association and the Talyllyn Railway. Between his Inland Waterways Association and Talyllyn phases, Angela, his first wife, left him to join Billy Smart’s Circus, and Sonia –an actress-turned-boatwoman – would become his second wife. Over the course of his life, he produced over thirty books, their subject matters ranging from canals and railways to engineering biography; company histories; a collection of accomplished ghost stories and a topographical survey of Worcestershire. He also wrote polemics about the plight of the craftsman in a world which relied increasingly upon mass production. In this book, the first full-length biography of Tom Rolt and a complement to his auto-biographical Landscape trilogy, Victoria Owens draws upon his surviving letters and unpublished manuscripts to tell the story of the engineer-turned-writer who made Britain’s industrial past the stuff of enduring literature.
Author : L. T. C. Rolt
Publisher : History Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,58 MB
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Boat living
ISBN : 9780750960618
Take a trip down the waterways of England during their hey-day
Author : L. T. C. Rolt
Publisher :
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 39,73 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biographers
ISBN : 9780750924788
Author : L. T. C. Rolt
Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 1990-01
Category : Civil engineers
ISBN : 9780140117523
Engineering genius, technical innovator and one of the greatest figures of the Industrial Revolution, Isambard Kingdom Brunel changed the face of the English landscape with his groundbreaking designs and ingenious constructions. L. T. C. Rolt's masterly biography is the definitive work on Brunel, tracing the life, times and monumental achivements of the man who helped to build modern Britain.
Author : L. T. C. Rolt
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 22,19 MB
Release : 2010-01-14
Category : Horror tales, English
ISBN : 9780752455778
This powerful collection of short stories of the supernatural combines L.T.C. Rolt's writing talent with his unparalleled knowledge of Britain's industrial heritage to produce tales of real mystery and imagination. This haunting anthology takes the reader on a journey from Cornwall to Wales and from the hill country of Shropshire to the west coast of Ireland. "The House of Vengeance," set in the Black Mountains of South Wales, tells what happens when a walker becomes lost and disorientated as the mist falls, while in "The Gartside Fell Disaster" an old railwayman recounts the terrible night when the Mountaineer came to grief. Alongside these are twelve other tales of elemental fears and strange and inexplicable happenings. First published in 1948, this enduring collection will appeal to all those who, like Tom Rolt, are passionate about the backdrop of our industrial landscape, but will also delight and terrify anyone who loves a good, old-fashioned ghost story.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 18,48 MB
Release : 1968
Category :
ISBN : 9780901178008
Author : L. T. C. Rolt
Publisher : London : Allen and Unwin
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,65 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Canals
ISBN :
Author : Brian Maidment
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 48,38 MB
Release : 1977
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Robert Longden
Publisher : Alan Sutton Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,20 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Photography
ISBN :
During a few brief years in the 1940s and '50s Robert Longden took a remarkable set of photographs of the narrow boat community at Hawkesbury Stop. Previously unpublished, Sonia Rolt identifies each one with full and informative captions