Author : William Albert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0521033918
This book studies the development and administration of turnpike trusts in England from 1663 to 1840. It is concerned specifically with assessing the economic importance of the trusts before and during the Industrial Revolution. Dr Albert provides a detailed and comprehensive history of English turnpike trusts, superseding in many respects the standard accounts of the subject written in the early 1900s.
Author : Eric Pawson
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 24,15 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Transportation
ISBN :
Author : Hugh Davies
Publisher : Shire Publications
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,74 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN :
Archeology.
Author : Geoffrey N. Wright
Publisher : Shire Publications
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,7 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Transport.
Author : Rick Szostak
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 13,10 MB
Release : 1991-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0773562931
Szostak develops a model that establishes causal links between transportation and industrialization and shows how improvements in transportation could have a beneficial effect on an economy such as that of eighteenth-century England. This model shows the Industrial Revolution to involve four primary phenomena: increased regional specialization, the emergence of new industries, an expanding scale of production, and an accelerated rate of technological innovation. Through detailed analysis, Szostak explicates the effects of the different systems of transportation in France and England on the four components of the Industrial Revolution. He outlines the development in late eighteenth-century England of a reliable system of all-weather transportation, made up of turnpike roads and canals, that was far superior to the system in France at the same period. He goes on to examine in detail the iron, textile, and pottery industries in each country, focusing on the effect of the quality of available transportation on the decisions of individual entrepreneurs and innovators. Szostak shows that in every case these industries were more highly developed in England than in France.
Author : Tom Fort
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 41,95 MB
Release : 2012-05-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0857203274
'A nostalgic experience, informative, humorous, charming, but pervaded by the bitter-sweet scent of regret' Daily Mail The A303 is more than a road. It is a story. One of the essential routes of English motoring and the road of choice to the West Country for thousands of holidaymakers, the A303 recalls a time when the journey was an adventure and not simply about getting there. Tom Fort gives voice to the stories this road has to tell, from the bluestones of Stonehenge to Roman roads and drovers paths, to turnpike tollhouses, mad vicars, wicked Earls and solstice seekers, the history, geography and culture of this road tells a story of an English way of life. 'Fort has an eye for the quirky, the absurd, the pompous and a style that, like the road, is always on the move' Sunday Telegraph 'A lovely book...At last someone has celebrated the romance of the British road' Guardian
Author : Alan Rosevear
Publisher :
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 11,33 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Banbury (Oxfordshire, England)
ISBN : 9780900129292
Author : Walter Thornbury
Publisher :
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 39,86 MB
Release : 1873
Category : London (England)
ISBN :
Author : Carlton Reid
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 30,72 MB
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1610916891
In Roads Were Not Built for Cars, Carlton Reid reveals the pivotal—and largely unrecognized—role that bicyclists played in the development of modern roadways. Reid introduces readers to cycling personalities, such as Henry Ford, and the cycling advocacy groups that influenced early road improvements, literally paving the way for the motor car. When the bicycle morphed from the vehicle of rich transport progressives in the 1890s to the “poor man’s transport” in the 1920s, some cyclists became ardent motorists and were all too happy to forget their cycling roots. But, Reid explains, many motor pioneers continued cycling, celebrating the shared links between transport modes that are now seen as worlds apart. In this engaging and meticulously researched book, Carlton Reid encourages us all to celebrate those links once again.
Author : Joe Moran
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,54 MB
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1847654932
In this history of roads and what they have meant to the people who have driven them, one of Britain's favourite cultural historians reveals how a relatively simple road system turned into a maze-like pattern of roundabouts, flyovers, and spaghetti junctions. Using a unique blend of travel writing, anthropology, history and social observation, he explores how Britain's roads have their roots in unexpected places, from Napoleon's role in the numbering system to the surprising origin of sat-nav. Full of quirky nuggets of history, such as the day trips organised to see the construction of the M1 and the 2.5m Mills and Boons used to build the M6 Toll Road, On Roads also celebrates innovators whose work we take for granted, such as the designers of the road sign system. On subjects ranging from speed limits to driving on the left, and the 'non-places where we stop to the unwritten laws of traffic jams, these hidden stories have never been told together, until now.
