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  • THE WOOL INDUSTRY A GLOBAL HISTORY
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    THE WOOL INDUSTRY A GLOBAL HISTORY
    ANTHONY BURTON
    Chronicles the 4,000-year history of wool, from animal rearing to cloth production, highlighting its global and technological impact. The story of wool covers 4,000 years of human history – the first written record of dying wool for cloth was found on a Mesopotamian papyrus c. 2000 BCE. In this book, the whole story is told, from the rearing of the different animals that provid...

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  • TAKING THE TRAIN
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    TAKING THE TRAIN
    ANTHONY BURTON
    A history of railway travel from improved railway advancements to firsthand passenger encounters. The book looks at rail travel from the passenger’s point of view, beginning when a coach drawn by horses, rumbled down the newly laid tracks linking Swansea to Mumbles in 1807 and takes the reader right up to the present day. It was not long after that first service opened in Wales...

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  • CRAFT OF THE INLAND WATERWAYS
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    CRAFT OF THE INLAND WATERWAYS
    ANTHONY BURTON
    The book traces the history of the various craft that have been used for transport on Britain's rivers and canals from the earliest times to the present day. The first section deals with the long history of the development of river craft, from prehistoric log boats to the whole range of sailing barges, such as the Humber keel and the Thames barge. By the middle of the 18th cent...

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  • MARITIME LONDON
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    MARITIME LONDON
    ANTHONY BURTON
    The book looks at London's maritime history from the establishment of Roman Londinium to the present day. It discusses many different aspects of life on the Thames and its connecting waterways and canals. There was a time when the River Thames was the main highway for the city, when watermen plied their trade carrying passengers and goods in a wide variety of craft, ranging fro...

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  • LONDON'S TRANSPORT FROM ROMAN TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY
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    LONDON'S TRANSPORT FROM ROMAN TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY
    ANTHONY BURTON
    Transport systems are the lifeblood of all great cities and this is certainly true of London. As far back as Roman times, their city Londinium was the hub of a network of roads leading out to all the major centres of the time. It was the Romans who gave the city its first bridge across the Thames and its first paved roadways. This book tells the story of London’s roads and brid...

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  • MARITIME LONDON
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    MARITIME LONDON
    ANTHONY BURTON
    The book looks at London’s maritime history from the establishment of Roman Londinium to the present day. It discusses many different aspects of life on the Thames and its connecting waterways and canals. There was a time when the River Thames was the main highway for the city, when watermen plied their trade carrying passengers and goods in a wide variety of craft, ranging fro...

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  • THE BRUNELS
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    THE BRUNELS
    ANTHONY BURTON
    Isambard Kingdom Brunel has always been regarded as one of Britain's great heroes and an engineering genius. His father Marc Brunel has not received the same degree of adulation, but this book will show just how important a part Marc played in his son's works and will also look at his own great achievements. Marc Brunel arrived in Britain as a refugee from revolutionary France,...

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  • THE CANAL BUILDERS
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    THE CANAL BUILDERS
    ANTHONY BURTON
    Canal Builders is a classic history book for anyone interested in the development of Britain's canal system. The book, which was first published in the 1970s, is now republished here in a new fifth edition. It takes the reader from the middle of the eighteenth century, to the start of the railway age in the early nineteenth century. Anthony Burton has revised and improved the o...

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  • THE LIGHT RAILWAYS OF BRITAIN & IRELAND
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    THE LIGHT RAILWAYS OF BRITAIN & IRELAND
    ANTHONY BURTON / JOHN SCOTT-MORGAN
    First published in 1985 by Moorland Press, The Light Railways of Britain & Ireland has remained unavailable for more than twenty-five years, until now. Re-released by Pen & Sword, this is a thorough and engaging book that covers, in depth, the fascinating story of Britain's last railway development, the Rural light railways, constructed as a result of the Light Railways Act 189...

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  • THOMAS TELFORD
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    THOMAS TELFORD
    ANTHONY BURTON
    Thomas Telford's life was extraordinary: born in the Lowlands of Scotland, where his father worked as a shepherd, he ended his days as the most revered engineer in the world, known punningly as The Colossus of Roads. He was responsible for some of the great works of the age, such as the suspension bridge across the Menai Straits and the mighty Pontcysyllte aqueduct. He built so...

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  • JOSIAH WEDGWOOD
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    JOSIAH WEDGWOOD
    ANTHONY BURTON
    The story of the innovative genius who became pottery maker to royalty—and to the world: "You don't have to know a glaze from a slip to enjoy this." — Kirkus Reviews   Born in Staffordshire, England, to a family of traditional potters in 1730, Josiah Wedgwood would grow up to revolutionize the industry, founding the company still world-renowned in the twenty-first century. When...

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  • THE GREAT WESTERN SOCIETY
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    THE GREAT WESTERN SOCIETY
    ANTHONY BURTON
    This chronicle of one of England's most popular railway museums tells the remarkable story of four friends who turned their boyhood dream into reality.   Located in the Didcot Railway Centre in Oxfordshire, England, the Great Western Society is dedicated to preserving the steam locomotives and other artifacts of Great Western Railway. Starting in the 1830s and operating well in...

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  • STEAM TRACTION ON THE ROAD
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    STEAM TRACTION ON THE ROAD
    ANTHONY BURTON
    This is the story of how for more than a hundred years steam power played a vital role in the development of road transport. It all began with tentative attempts to build steam carriages by pioneers such as Cugnot in France and Trevithick in Britain, and in the early part of the nineteenth century there were significant attempts to develop steam carriages and omnibuses. That th...

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  • TRACING YOUR SHIPBUILDING ANCESTORS
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    TRACING YOUR SHIPBUILDING ANCESTORS
    ANTHONY BURTON
    Anthony Burton's concise and informative guide to British shipbuilding will be absorbing reading for anyone who wants to learn about its history or find out about the life of a shipbuilder and his family. In a clear and accessible way he traces its development from the medieval period to its peak in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and on into the present day. He de...

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  • RAILWAY EMPIRE
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    RAILWAY EMPIRE
    ANTHONY BURTON
    The British were at the forefront of railway development for the first fifty years of the nineteenth century. Railway Empire tells the story of how the British gave railways to the world, not only in the empire, but also in other countries outside areas of direct influence. It is often forgotten today that the British were responsible for the construction and management of a la...

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  • THE CANAL PIONEERS
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    THE CANAL PIONEERS
    ANTHONY BURTON
    This is the story of canals used for transport and the men who built them from the earliest times, up to the end of the ninteenth century. This is a very long history: stones for the pyramids of Egypt were brought to the site by canal and one of the most imposing canal systems ever built, the Grand Canal of China, was begun in the sixth century BC.Development after the end of t...

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  • A STEAM ENGINE PILGRIMAGE
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    A STEAM ENGINE PILGRIMAGE
    ANTHONY BURTON
    Anthony Burton has traveled from the Highlands of Scotland, to the south west of England in pursuit of his passion for the steam engine in all its different forms. He has traveled on narrow gauge railways in Wales and enjoyed the splendor of main line journeys behind some of the grandest locomotives ever built. He has shoveled coal into the boiler of an old Clyde Puffer, while ...

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  • THE LOCOMOTIVE PIONEERS
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    THE LOCOMOTIVE PIONEERS
    ANTHONY BURTON
    This fascinating book explores the development of locomotives over the course of fifty years. From Richard Trevithick's first experimental road engine of 1801 up to the Great Exhibition some fifty years later, locomotives have come far in reimagining and reinventing themselves to serve the people and British industry.The early years showed slow development amongst locomotives: ...

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  • JOSIAH WEDGWOOD
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    JOSIAH WEDGWOOD
    ANTHONY BURTON
    The story of the innovative genius who became pottery maker to royalty—and to the world: “You don't have to know a glaze from a slip to enjoy this.” —Kirkus Reviews   Born in Staffordshire, England, to a family of traditional potters in 1730, Josiah Wedgwood would grow up to revolutionize the industry, founding the company still world-renowned in the twenty-first century. When ...

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  • GEORGE & ROBERT STEPHENSON
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    GEORGE & ROBERT STEPHENSON
    ANTHONY BURTON
    A dual biography of the father and son railroad engineers who revolutionized Victorian transportation and reshaped modern British life. Engineer and inventor George Stephenson is known as the Father of Railways. Together with his son Robert, he built the first steam locomotive to carry passengers on a public line. They also developed much of Britain’s early railway map. In Geor...

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  • MINES AND MINERS OF CORNWALL AND DEVON
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    MINES AND MINERS OF CORNWALL AND DEVON
    ANTHONY BURTON
    The eminent historian and author of The Rise of King Cotton uncovers the centuries-old story of tin mining in Southern England. Tin mining has existed in Cornwall and parts of Devon since before the Romans arrived in Britain. In this book, historian Anthony Burton explores the region’s tin mining industry from its earliest period through to the present day. A specialist in the ...

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  • BALLOONS AND AIRSHIPS
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    BALLOONS AND AIRSHIPS
    ANTHONY BURTON
    “Looks at the brave (and sometimes foolish) men and women who were responsible for . . . the development of manned flight” (History of War).   This book tells the often dramatic and always fascinating story of flight in lighter than air machines. For centuries man had dreamed of flying, but all attempts failed, until in 1782 the Montgolfier brothers constructed the world’s firs...

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  • AROUND BRITAIN BY CANAL
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    AROUND BRITAIN BY CANAL
    ANTHONY BURTON
    This is the story of a thousand mile-long trip around England by canal. At times the journey took the author out into the beautiful countryside, and elsewhere the canal crept round the edge of old industrial towns.It is a journey that proved full of surprises, delights and rich variety, as the book clearly demonstrates. The book illustrates the great contrasts between travellin...

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  • JOSEPH LOCKE
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    JOSEPH LOCKE
    ANTHONY BURTON
    Most historians recognize the work of three engineers as being the men who developed the railways from slow, lumbering colliery lines into fast, inter-city routes. Two are very well known: Robert Stephenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The third was Joseph Locke, who should be recognized for having made a contribution just as great as that of the other two.The Locke family had ...

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  • AROUND BRITAIN BY CANAL
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    AROUND BRITAIN BY CANAL
    ANTHONY BURTON
    This is the story of a thousand mile-long trip around England by canal. At times the journey took the author out into the beautiful countryside, and elsewhere the canal crept round the edge of old industrial towns.It is a journey that proved full of surprises, delights and rich variety, as the book clearly demonstrates. The book illustrates the great contrasts between travellin...

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  • JOSEPH LOCKE
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    JOSEPH LOCKE
    ANTHONY BURTON
    Most historians recognize the work of three engineers as being the men who developed the railways from slow, lumbering colliery lines into fast, inter-city routes. Two are very well known: Robert Stephenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The third was Joseph Locke, who should be recognized for having made a contribution just as great as that of the other two.The Locke family had ...

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  • STEAM TRACTION ON THE ROAD
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    STEAM TRACTION ON THE ROAD
    ANTHONY BURTON
    This is the story of how for more than a hundred years steam power played a vital role in the development of road transport. It all began with tentative attempts to build steam carriages by pioneers such as Cugnot in France and Trevithick in Britain, and in the early part of the nineteenth century there were significant attempts to develop steam carriages and omnibuses. That th...

    $329.00

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  • RAILWAY EMPIRE
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    RAILWAY EMPIRE
    ANTHONY BURTON
    The British were at the forefront of railway development for the first fifty years of the nineteenth century. Railway Empire tells the story of how the British gave railways to the world, not only in the empire, but also in other countries outside areas of direct influence. It is often forgotten today that the British were responsible for the construction and management of a la...

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  • THE BRUNELS: FATHER AND SON
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    THE BRUNELS: FATHER AND SON
    ANTHONY BURTON
    Isambard Kingdom Brunel has always been regarded as one of Britain’s great heroes and an engineering genius. His father Marc Brunel has not received the same degree of adulation, but this book will show just how important a part Marc played in his son’s works and will also look at his own great achievements. Marc Brunel arrived in Britain as a refugee from revolutionary France,...

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  • 200 YEARS OF BRITISH TRAIN DEVELOPMENT
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    200 YEARS OF BRITISH TRAIN DEVELOPMENT
    ANTHONY BURTON
    This book celebrates the bicentenary of the opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway by looking, not at locomotives, but at the rolling stock behind them, both passenger vehicles and goods wagons. 1825 saw the first train load of passengers hauled by a steam locomotive, but it was an experience not to be immediately repeated, as the Stockton & Darlington passenger service a...

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