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This book examines the industrial monuments of twentieth- century Britain. Each chapter takes a specific theme and examines it in the context of the buildings and structure of the twentieth century. The authors are both leading experts in the field, having written widely on various aspects of the subject. In this new and comprehensive survey they respond to the growing interest in twentieth-century architecture and industrial archaeology. The book is well illustrated with superb and unique illustrations drawn from the archives of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. It will mark and celebrate the end of the century with a tribute to its remarkable built industrial heritage.
This book examines the industrial monuments of twentieth- century
Britain. Each chapter takes a specific theme and examines it in the
context of the buildings and structure of the twentieth century.
The authors are both leading experts in the field, having written
widely on various aspects of the subject. In this new and
comprehensive survey they respond to the growing interest in
twentieth-century architecture and industrial archaeology. The book
is well illustrated with superb and unique illustrations drawn from
the archives of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of
England. It will mark and celebrate the end of the century with a
tribute to its remarkable built industrial heritage.
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.
The carriage of goods in river barges was for centuries one of the
principal forms of commercial transport in Britain. This book is
the result of 40 years' research into river navigations that have
left few paper records. The author focuses on the River Severn
between the Worcestershire ports of Bewdley and Stourport, and the
medieval weir near Welshpool that marks the uppermost limit of
boating, a stretch where the river remained 'in a state of nature'.
Dr Trinder traces the fascinating history of river trade from 1660,
through its heyday during the Industrial Revolution, when such key
commodities as Manchester textiles, Coalbrookdale iron castings,
Birmingham hardware, and Hanley and Burslem pottery were all
transported via the Severn, to its gentle decline in the late 19th
century as other modes of transport took over. A wide range of
documentary, archaeological and pictorial sources combine to create
an absorbing picture of the colourful lives of barge owners and
watermen, in addition to illustrating how the navigation was
devised and operated. Complemented by superb illustrations, this
book makes essential reading for both transport historians and
those interested in the social and economic history of the West
Midlands and the Borderland. Family historians, too, will be
delighted by the author's ground- breaking analysis of the linear
riverside community that extended from Gloucestershire, through
Worcestershire and Shropshire, into mid-Wales.
The first edition (1973) was acclaimed and it firmly established
the Shropshire Coalfield as the cradle of the Industrial
Revolution. After several reprints a new edition appeared in 1981,
but since then there has been much further research, and
re-examination of interpretations, prompting a completely
re-written book with an entirely new structure, and with many more
illustrations, all integrated with the relevant text. This is the
book that made Ironbridge a place of international pilgrimage, and,
in its new edition, provides a 21st-century explanation why!
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