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Great Western Swindon - Images of England (Paperback)
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Great Western Swindon - Images of England (Paperback)
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List price R389
Loot Price R312
Discovery Miles 3 120
You Save R77 (20%)
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For almost 150 years, the influence of the Great Western Railway's
workshops in Swindon extended well beyond the great walls which
surrounded most of the complex, which at its height, covered over
320 acres. Although the works has now closed, its influence on the
town it helped to create is as strong as ever. In this collection
of old photographs drawn from the archives of the GWR Museum in
Swindon, the reader is taken on a photographic tour of the great
workshops, and the huge variety of activities which went on in the
factory are well illustrated with many evocative pictures, mainly
covering the period between 1900 and 1960. Swindon was justly
famous for the quality of the locomotives and rolling stock it
produced, but this book also tells the story of the men behind the
machines. Rare and unpublished photographs show something of life
for the railway worker both inside and outside the works, and it is
hoped that this selection will give the reader some idea of what it
was like to live in what many see as the archetypal 'Railway Town'.
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