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The Most Extraordinary District in the World (Paperback)
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The Ironbridge Gorge, a cradle of the Industrial Revolution, in the
late 18th century was a magnet for writers, artists and industrial
spies. The latest wonders of engineering and metallurgical
technology were to be seen in a spectacular natural setting, where
the fast-flowing Severn passed between towering cliffs of
limestone, and hillsides honeycombed with mine workings amid the
smoke of furnaces and the clanking of engines. Barrie Trinder, the
acknowledged authority on the subject, has selected the most
interesting descriptions and pictures to provide an invaluable
anthology, through contemporary evidence, of the place and the
people in that pioneering period, when this corner of Shropshire
was changing the world and was indeed, as Charles Hulbert described
it in 1837, 'the most extraordinary district in the world'. This
book has become essential reading for anyone with an interest in
the history of this fascinating area, or in the Industrial
Revolution in general. It brings new understanding of the gorge
itself and the industrial monuments preserved there and new
insights for the specialist historian, whether concerned with
social conditions, popular religion or industrial technology. This
edition will continue to serve the same main groups of readers -
local historians, educational groups and specialist historians -
and, most of all, those general readers who know the area and
recognise that something strange and seminal happened there that
transformed not only Ironbridge and Coalbrookdale but the whole of
our civilisation. The activity that once made the gorge so
extraordinary has spread and grown to become a commonplace in
modern industrial societies, leaving the place where it began a
monument and a museum.
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