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Author : Absalom Watkin,A. E. Watkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Businessmen
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036947906
Author : Absalom Watkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:58040052
Author : Absalom Watkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015032740121
"Absalom Watkin came to Manchester in 1801, a poor boy of fourteen, to work in his uncle's business. Through his eyes we see the growth of Manchester from small manufacturing town to major industrial city and witness the changes that growth imposed on its inhabitants. As a young man, Watkin helped to write the famous Peterloo Protest and also to draw up Manchester's petition in favour of the Great Reform Bill. A sharp and critical observer, he was involved in many of the movements for social reform of his day. His diaries record conversations with famous contemporaries and relate fascinating details of daily living including the prices of food, houses and travel. Although successful in business and public affairs he remained dissatisfied with his own life, unhappy in his marriage and his work, longing, most of all, to write, tend his garden and read alone in his library." "Magdalen Goffin, a descendant of the diarist, has written a commentary which links the diary entries and places them in their historical context. Absalom Watkin's diaries are a valuable social document of an important period in English industrial history."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : A E Watkin
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 135520271X
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Absalom Watkin,A. E. Watkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Businessmen
ISBN : UOM:39015035802936
Author : Geoff Scargill
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781526792785
The accomplishments and initiatives, both social and economic, of Edward Watkin are almost too many to relate. Though generally known for his large-scale railway projects, becoming chairman of nine different British railway companies as well as developing railways in Canada, the USA, Greece, India and the Belgian Congo, he was also responsible for a stream of remarkable projects in the nineteenth century which helped shape people’s lives inside and outside Britain. As well as holding senior positions with the London and North Western Railway, the Worcester and Hereford Railway and the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway, Watkin became president of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada. He was also director of the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railways, as well as the Athens–Piraeus Railway. Watkin was also the driving force in the creation of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway’s ‘London Extension’ – the Great Central Main Line down to Marylebone in London. This, though, was only one part of his great ambition to have a high-speed rail link from Manchester to Paris and ultimately to India. This, of course, involved the construction of a Channel tunnel. Work on this began on both sides of the Channel in 1880 but had to be abandoned due to the fear of invasion from the Continent. He also purchased an area of Wembley Park, serviced by an extension of his Metropolitan Railway. He developed the park into a pleasure and events destination for urban Londoners, which later became the site of Wembley Stadium. It was also the site of another of Watkin’s enterprises, the ‘Great Tower in London’ which was designed to be higher than the Eiffel Tower but was never completed. Little, though, is known about Watkin’s personal life, which is explored here through the surviving diaries he kept. The author, who is the chair of The Watkin Society, which aims to promote Watkin’s life and achievements, has delved into the mind of one of the nineteenth century’s outstanding individuals.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : David Trutt
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Derbyshire (England)
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : sir Edward William Watkin (1st bart.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:601770435
Author : Richard Cobden
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199211975
The third volume of Cobden's Letters covers the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, and the preliminary negotiations over the Anglo-French Commercial Treaty of 1860. It reveals the tension between public and private life experienced by Cobden from 1854 until 1859.
Author : S. Maccoby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136449963
Reissuing the epic undertaking of Dr S. Maccoby, these volumes cover the story of English Radicalism from its origins right through to its questionable end. By combining new sources with the old and often long forgotten, the volumes provide an impressive history of radicalism and shed light on the course of English political development. The six volumes are arranged chronologically from 1762 through to the perceived end of British Radicalism in the mid-twentieth century.
Author : John Palmer
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-30
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781526777904
“Sets out to address what really happened . . . through its LNER days and into British Railways custodianship . . . A well-researched and presented tome.” —Key Model World For generations of railway enthusiasts and more lately for social historians, the life and times of the former Great Central Railway and in particular its extension towards London in the 1890s and closure seventy years later, have generated considerable interest and controversy. Although many books have been written about the Railway, the majority in recent times have concentrated upon providing a photographic record and a nostalgic look in retrospect to what was generally perceived as happier times for the route. None of the books have presented the outcome from thorough research into the business aspects of the Railway and its successive private (LNER) and public (BR) ownerships through war and peace, and times of industrial, social and political change, that influenced and shaped the demand for a railway service. While retaining a strong railway theme throughout, the book identifies the role played by successive governments, the electricity and coal industries and the effect of social change that, together resulted in a case for closure. The content of the book replaces much supposition with fact and places on record what really happened. The final part of the book acknowledges the fine work over half a century of volunteers dedicated to saving a section of the line in Leicestershire. “A valuable addition to the social and political history of railways.” —The Railway Correspondence and Travel Society
Author : Lynne Dyer
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781398101401
Explore the Leicestershire town of Loughborough in this fully illustrated A-Z guide to its history, people and places.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Research
ISBN : UIUC:30112113989385
Author : John Bright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:39015005647071
Author : Bright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBE:UBBE-00104659
