LAST YEARS OF WEST MIDLANDS STEAM.
Author : PETER. TUFFREY
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 40,56 MB
Release : 2021
Category :
ISBN : 9781914227011
Author : PETER. TUFFREY
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 40,56 MB
Release : 2021
Category :
ISBN : 9781914227011
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 49,77 MB
Release : 2015
Category :
ISBN : 9781854143921
Author : J. B. Bucknall
Publisher : Specialist Marketing International
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 12,18 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Locomotives
ISBN : 9780711022508
Author : Rex Christiansen
Publisher : Trafalgar Square Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 26,98 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
First published in 1973.
Author : J. B. Bucknall
Publisher : Specialist Marketing International
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 13,43 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9780711024502
Author : Ben Ashworth
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,71 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Locomotives
ISBN : 9780711006539
Author : Terence Dorrity
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 15,59 MB
Release : 2014-11-20
Category :
ISBN : 9781906919702
Author : Gordon Edgar
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,89 MB
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445649357
Gordon Edgar explores the industrial and minor railways of the Midlands.
Author : George Demidowicz
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 12,33 MB
Release : 2022-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1802070931
This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the ground-breaking historic industrial complex created to the west of Birmingham in the eighteenth century and associated with Matthew Boulton, James Watt, and William Murdoch. The Soho Manufactory (1761-1863) and Soho Mint (1788-1850s) were both situated in the historic parish of Handsworth, now in the city of Birmingham, and the Soho Foundry (1795-1895) lay in the historic township of Smethwick, now within Sandwell Metropolitan Borough. Together they played a key role in the Industrial Revolution , achieving many world 'firsts': the first working Watt steam engine, the first steam-engine powered mint and the first purpose-built steam engine manufactory (the Soho Foundry), to name but a few. Existing literature focuses largely on the biography of the people, primarily Boulton and Watt, or the products they manufactured. The place - the Soho complex - has attracted very little attention. This volume is the first to concentrate on the buildings themselves analysing not only their physical origins, development and eventual decline but also the water and steam power systems adopted. An interdisciplinary approach has been employed combining archival research in the magnificent Soho collection at the Library of Birmingham with the results of archaeological excavations. The volume is profusely illustrated with archival material, most published for the first time, and contains a large number of reconstruction plans and drawings by the author.
Author : Michael Clemens
Publisher : Strange Chemistry
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 15,10 MB
Release : 2013-02
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781781551295
ALAN MAUND lived in Worcestershire all his life and had an enthusiasm for steam. He traveled extensively in Britain and built up a large railway photographic archive from the late 1950s onwards. This book is made up entirely of Alan's collection of photographs from across the Midlands. It will appeal to railway enthusiasts, modelers, and those with an interest in local history. Alan started using color film in 1959, and color slides make up the majority of these photographs. Many enthusiasts in this era had a policy of filming steam only and ignoring the new diesel interlopers, but not Alan; diesels do make appearances, and so do some early electric classes. A particular passion of Alan's was small industrial steam locomotives, and he restored a Kerr Stuart 'Wren' class 0-4-0 to working order between 1959 and 1961. So in addition to larger British Railways locomotives, their smaller relations are also seen across the Midlands. Alan passed on in 1983 and his widow, Wendy, gave Alan's collection of railway photographs to filmmaker and author Michael Clemens, whose late father was a friend of Alan's. Alan's collection lives on today at film shows around the country and now in this book.