Title & Author:

'The most extraordinary district in the world' : Ironbridge and Coalbrookdale : an anthology of visitors' impressions of Ironbridge, Coalbrookdale and the Shropshire coalfield / edited with an introduction by Barrie Trinder.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication:

Chichester : Published in association with Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust [by] Phillimore, 1988.

Description:

xii, 138 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 26 cm

Notes:
Spine title: Ironbridge and Coalbrookdale.
Previous edition: 1977.
Previous ed.: 1977.
Includes bibliographical references (page 133) and index.
The agreeable historian / by Samuel Simpson -- The travels through England of the Revd. Richard Pococke -- The travel account of Charles Wood -- A description of Coalbrookdale / by George Perry -- The Severn navigation / by George Perry -- Visits to John Fletcher of Madeley / by John Wesley -- The journal of Joseph Banks -- Observations in a journey / by Dr. William Lewis -- Tours in England and Wales / by Arthur Young -- The diary of Samuel Butler -- The Torrington diaries / by John Byng, fifth Viscount Torrington -- A journey to England / by Carlo Castone della Torredi Renzionico Comasco -- The botanic garden / by Erasmus Darwin -- The parishes of Barrow, Benthall, Broseley and Madeley / by Joseph Plymley -- The diary of Katherine Plymley -- A description of a blast furnace / by Samuel Ireland -- The journal of Dr. Thomas Young -- The diary of Charles Hatchett -- The Prince and Princess of Orange visit Coalbrookdale, from the Salopian Journal -- The journal of Joshua Gilpin -- A sketch of the mineralogy of Shropshire / by Robert Townson -- The romantic scene / by Henry Skrine -- A letter to General Sir Samuel Bentham / by Simon Goodrich -- The great works at the Dale / by the Revd. Richard Warner -- Observations on a tour through almost the whole of England / by Charles Dibdin -- The Severn Gorge in 1803 / by Joseph Plymley and others -- A Swedish view of the West Midlands / by Erik T. Svedenstierna -- Sunday at Madeley c.1800 / by the Revd. William Tranter -- The iron industry in 1815 / by Thomas Butler -- Travels through England, Wales & Scotland / by Dr. S. H. Spiker -- Journal of a journey undertaken by John Thornton -- Joshua Field's diary of a tour in 1821 -- Coalport in 1824 / by T. Gregory -- Railways and canals in 1826 and 1827 / by C. von Oeynhausen and H. von Dechen -- A tour in the manufacturing districts / by James Nasmyth -- The Ironbridge Gorge in 1836 / by Charles Hulbert -- A revival in 1839 / by the Revd. John Moore -- The Severn Gorge in the 1850s / by John Randall -- England's workshops / by G. L. M. Strauss and others -- The Iron and Steel Institute visit to Shropshire, from the Salopian Journal -- Visits to Hodge Bower Pleasure Gardens, from the Wenlock and Ludlow Express -- A school trip in 1885, from The Old Hallian -- Old English power plants / by John S. Leese -- Wartime in Ironbridge / by L. T. C. Rolt -- Industrial archaeology / by Michael Rix.
Dust jacket.

ISBN:

0850336856
9780850336856

Subject:

Manners and customs.
Travel.
Shropshire (England) Social life and customs Miscellanea.
Ironbridge (England) Social life and customs Miscellanea.
Coalbrookdale (England) Social life and customs Miscellanea.
Shropshire (England) Description and travel Miscellanea.
Ironbridge (England) Description and travel Miscellanea.
Coalbrookdale (England) Description and travel Miscellanea.
Ironbridge Gorge region, Salop Description and travel Sources.
Shropshire (Angleterre) Mœurs et coutumes Miscellanées.
Shropshire (Angleterre) Descriptions et voyages Miscellanées.
England Coalbrookdale.
England Ironbridge.
England Shropshire.
Shropshire Ironbridge Gorge region Description & travel

Form/genre:

Trivia and miscellanea.

Added entries:

Trinder, Barrie Stuart.
Ironbridge and Coalbrookdale.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 263625
Call No.: BIB 194842
Status: Available