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Birmingham: A History in Maps

Af: Paul Leslie Line Engelsk Paperback

Birmingham: A History in Maps

Af: Paul Leslie Line Engelsk Paperback
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From the exceptional town plans and maps contained within this unique volume emerges a social picture of Birmingham; a town quickly developing in size and population in the eighteenth century; along with the changes brought about by urbanisation. Land was bought up for development; hundreds of ‘courts’ were built to home the industrial workers pouring in from the many outlying villages. The many gardens, orchards and wide expanses of open space detailed on Wesley’s 1731 plan of Birmingham were soon to be transformed into a sprawling mass of habitation. By 1765 Matthew Boulton, a leading entrepreneur and pioneer of the Industrial Revolution, had built his famous Soho Manufactory on Handsworth Heath. Shortly afterwards, the town plans of Birmingham in the first quarter of the 1800s chart the arrival of the railway; a plan from 1832 is the last glimpse of the city before the arrival of the Grand Junction Railway and other main line stations. Accompanied with informative text and pictures of the cityscape, the many detailed plans contained in this historic atlas of Birmingham are a gateway to its past, allowing the reader and researcher to visually observe the journey of this historic town to city status in 1889 and beyond.

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From the exceptional town plans and maps contained within this unique volume emerges a social picture of Birmingham; a town quickly developing in size and population in the eighteenth century; along with the changes brought about by urbanisation. Land was bought up for development; hundreds of ‘courts’ were built to home the industrial workers pouring in from the many outlying villages. The many gardens, orchards and wide expanses of open space detailed on Wesley’s 1731 plan of Birmingham were soon to be transformed into a sprawling mass of habitation. By 1765 Matthew Boulton, a leading entrepreneur and pioneer of the Industrial Revolution, had built his famous Soho Manufactory on Handsworth Heath. Shortly afterwards, the town plans of Birmingham in the first quarter of the 1800s chart the arrival of the railway; a plan from 1832 is the last glimpse of the city before the arrival of the Grand Junction Railway and other main line stations. Accompanied with informative text and pictures of the cityscape, the many detailed plans contained in this historic atlas of Birmingham are a gateway to its past, allowing the reader and researcher to visually observe the journey of this historic town to city status in 1889 and beyond.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 120
ISBN-13: 9780752460895
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0752460897
Kategori: Historisk geografi
Udg. Dato: 1 nov 2011
Længde: 8mm
Bredde: 249mm
Højde: 226mm
Forlag: The History Press Ltd
Oplagsdato: 1 nov 2011
Forfatter(e): Paul Leslie Line
Forfatter(e) Paul Leslie Line

Kategori Historisk geografi

ISBN-13 9780752460895

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 120

Udgave

Længde 8mm

Bredde 249mm

Højde 226mm

Udg. Dato 1 nov 2011

Oplagsdato 1 nov 2011

Forlag The History Press Ltd

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