Friends of Newport Transporter Bridge
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Page : 34 pages
File Size : 37,52 MB
Release : 2000*
Category : Bridges
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Author :
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Page : 34 pages
File Size : 37,52 MB
Release : 2000*
Category : Bridges
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Author : John Hannavy
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 22,69 MB
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1526760398
This volume of original and historic photographs captures the story of the ingenious bridges that carried us from the Victorian era into modern times. With their moveable platforms designed to traverse busy waterways, Transporter Bridges served a brief but vital need from the late 19th century into the early 20th. Though many were planned, the huge increase in road transport quickly rendered them obsolete. In the end, fewer than thirty were ever completed across the world, with only nine still standing in their original form. But the transporter bridge appears to be entering a renaissance. In France and Argentina, restoration efforts are bringing life back to some of the original bridges. Meanwhile, proposals exist for three new bridges across France—at Nantes, Marseille and Brest—to replace some of those lost during and after the Second World War. This illustrated history captures the beauty of transporter bridges through hundreds of color photographs. The author combines his own modern images with many historic photographs and postcards chronicling the construction and operation of these unusual structures.
Author : Jan Preece
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 50,45 MB
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445677865
A lavishly illustrated and fascinating look at the iconic Newport Transporter Bridge.
Author : Andrew Hemmings
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 12,85 MB
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1445663279
Explore the secret history of Newport through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.
Author : Bob Trett
Publisher :
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 28,20 MB
Release : 2004*
Category : Bridges
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Author : David Jones
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 20,81 MB
Release : 1994-12-01
Category : Bridges
ISBN : 9789028859524
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Page : 15 pages
File Size : 31,38 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Signs and symbols
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Author : Mike Buckingham
Publisher :
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 17,9 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Bridges
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Author : Jon Langford
Publisher : Verse Chorus Press
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 36,77 MB
Release : 2011-05-10
Category : Music
ISBN : 1891241303
BOOK + CD PACKAGE. Jon Langford is best known for the music he creates with the Mekons and the Waco Brothers, but he has gained increasing acclaim for his visual art, too, over the past decade. Nashville Radio, his first book+CD of paintings, writing, and music (Verse Chorus Press, 2005) was a sprawling, jam-packed collection full of punk energy. For this book, Langford has created a highly personal portrait of Wales, where he was born and raised. It incorporates a CD featuring the author's rare solo album Skull Orchard; originally released in 1998 on a label that promptly went bankrupt, and revamped and extended with live material (and a Welsh male voice choir) for this edition. The song lyrics, at once autobiographical and fanciful, are illustrated in a series of "word paintings" scattered throughout the book, which also includes an A to Z of Welsh culture and history (personal and general), thematically related etchings and paintings, family photographs, and Langford's first published fiction, a dystopian fable about a whale and a dolphin.
Author : John 'Ducksy' Reardon
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 24,77 MB
Release : 2013-11-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1291640096
The Pieces of Mind were a popular group, from Newport, South Wales in the 1960s. This book looks at my early life; how I started playing guitars in groups, in the early 60s and went on to form the Pieces of Mind, in 1963, with a childhood friend. 50 years later, in 2013, I organised a reunion of most of the group members who played in the different versions of the group. The trials and tribulations I faced, in the months leading up to the gig, were outweighed by the extreme pleasure I got in seeing all my old friends playing on stage to numerous other old friends in the packed audience.