Twentieth Century Industrial ArchaeologyThis 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. |
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Contents
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Chapter seven 93 The century of total | 93 |
Chapter eight 121 The great rebuildings | 121 |
Chapter ten 177 Expanding services | 177 |
Chapter eleven 199 Reaching conclusions | 199 |
Appendix | 211 |
Further reading | 217 |
Index of names | 221 |
Index of places | 226 |
Subject indexes | 234 |
the archaeology of transport | 145 |
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Page 25 - Derbyshire; six mines like black studs on the countryside, linked by a loop of fine chain, the railway.
Page 143 - When you walk through the smoke-dim slums of Manchester you think that nothing is needed except to tear down these abominations and build decent houses in their place. But the trouble is that in destroying the slum you destroy other things as well.
Page 185 - That - keeping warm - is almost the sole preoccupation of a single unemployed man in winter. In Wigan a favourite refuge was the pictures, which are fantastically cheap there. You can always get a seat for fourpence, and at the matinee at some houses you can even get a seat for twopence. Even people on the verge of starvation will readily pay twopence to get out of the ghastly cold of a winter afternoon.
Page 25 - Co. found they had struck on a good thing, so, down the valleys of the brooks from Selby and Nuttall, new mines were sunk, until soon there were six pits working. From Nuttall, high up on the sandstone among the woods, the railway ran, past the ruined priory of the Carthusians and past Robin Hood's Well, down to Spinney Park, then on to Minton, a large mine among corn-fields; from Minton across the farm-lands of the valleyside to Bunker's Hill, branching off...
Page 154 - ... very uncomfortable. The weather was still fine but colder than it had been, with a sharp nip in the wind. We trundled along at no great pace down pleasant roads, decorated here and there by the presence of huge new gaudy pubs. These pubs are a marked feature of this Midlands landscape. Some of them are admirably designed and built; others have been inspired by the idea of Merrie England, popular in the neighbourhood of Los Angeles. But whether comely or hideous, they must all have cost a pot...
Page 2 - ... without being able to analyse it in detail or to see the logical development of its structure. The enjoyment may be real, but it is limited in scope and in the last resort vaguely diffused in emotion. But if instead of hearing merely a symphonic mass of sound, we are able to isolate the themes as they enter, to see how one by one they are intricately woven together and by what magic new harmonies are produced, perceive the manifold subtle variations on a single theme, however disguised it may...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Twentieth Century Industrial Archaeology |
| Authors | Michael Stratton, Barrie Stuart Trinder |
| Editor | Michael Stratton |
| Contributor | English Heritage |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis, 2000 |
| ISBN | 0419246800, 9780419246800 |
| Length | 236 pages |
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