Author: Gordon EdgarPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445667770
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
A fascinating look at Yorkshire and Humberside's industrial locomotives and railways.
Author: Tony Vernon
Author: Archibald Sturrock
Author: Tony VernonPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752472100
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Born in 1816, by 1840 Sturrock was involved with Brunel and Gooch in establishing the Great Western Railway's works at Paddington and new town at Swindon. He designed locomotives and carriages which established a reputation for comfort and punctuality. This biography offers an insight into Sturrock's family life as well as his professional life.
Author: Sheffield in the Great War
Author: Peter WarrPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473860970
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This fascinating new book is devoted to an almost unknown period in the history of Sheffield. It sets the city's people and events against a background of key national developments by looking also at the way government regulations were tightened, how the country's morale was maintained, and how industry was encouraged to deliver more output.Sheffield in the Great War is written for the general reader, and a large number of the city's residents, companies and streets are mentioned by name. Many aspects of life and work are described and illustrated with more than one hundred original photographs. Numerous advertisements and excerpts are presented from the city's wartime newspapers, and highlighted Display Boxes in every chapter summarize particularly interesting or quirky themes. For more specialist readers, Notes at the end of the book provide additional detail and links to other publications and websites; general readers can of course ignore those. Two substantial Indexes make it easy to find personally-relevant people, topics and places.The book thus offers to the general reader an easy-to-read narrative with many pictures, and it provides a valuable source of information and reference to those who would like to learn more. Sheffield in the Great War starts with a brief account of the conflict itself, looking at its enormous cost not only in terms of money but also in thousands and thousands of men and horses killed or disabled. Next it presents short reviews of Britain and the city in 1914 to introduce national features which became important in wartime Sheffield. The following chapters describe Sheffield life in the four and a half years of war, with special attention to recruiting and the creation of more than twenty new military hospitals. Huge numbers of people devoted themselves to voluntary work, and the book includes much information that has been lost for the past hundred years.
Author: T.R. Nicholson
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