Green Rod - How Britain Worked

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A

A W Gibbs boatyard, Galmpton

Albert, Prince

Arkwright, Richard

B

Backhouse, Deborah

Backhouse, James

Bank Holiday Act

see also holidays

Barking ice house

beam engine

see also Newcomen steam engine

bicycle

Coventry manufacture of

first pedal-powered

MacMillan velocipede

making saddle for 8

making wheels for 6

mass manufacture drives down price of

Ordinary, see bicycle: penny-farthing

penny-farthing

Rover Safety

and Victorian women

wooden

Birkenhead Park

Birmingham Botanical Gardens 4

Alpine rock garden at

orchids at

Blackburn

Blackett, Christopher

Blackpool

blacksmith

Blake, William

Bognor Regis

Bolton

Boulton and Watt

Bournemouth

brick clamp

brick making

Brighton

Brixham, Devon

trawlers at, impressions of

trawlers at, in 1890s

Brooks of Birmingham

Brooks Flyer Special saddle

Brooks, John Boultbee

Brunel, Isambard Kingdom

Budding, Edwin Beard

Budding mower

drawings for

Bury

C

Cadbury company

canals

cat-o-nine-tails

Chatham Dockyard

Ropery at

Chief, The (traction engine)

circular saw

Cliftonville

coal, creation of

coal mining

beam engine for

canaries used in

childrens part in

and firedamp 7

gas explosions in 6

lighting for 7

and lung disease

ponies used in

today

working conditions for

Coal Question, The (Jevons)

Codman, Professor

common land, appropriation of

copper mining

Cordier, Fred

cotton

crane, hand-cranked 1

Cullen, William

Cyclists Touring Club

D

Davis, Mark Mave

on traction engine

on velocipede

Davy, Sir Humphrey

Davy Lamp

Donnington Brewery mill wheel

Douglas, David

Douglas Pine

Drake, Sir Francis

Drumlanrig Castle

Dunlop, John Boyd

E

Eastbourne

Enclosure Acts, see Inclosure Acts

engine cleaner

engine driver

engine fireman 7

Eric (at Brooks of Birmingham)

F

factories and mills 4

air quality in

children in

Gayle Mill, see Gayle Mill

long shifts worked in

prior to

in remote locations

steam power for

Victorian illustration of

and water power 4

weavers in, film of

Factory Acts

factory villages 7

farming:

and ploughs 8

redundant jobs in

steam engines enter

and threshing machine 6

Farrow, Elizabeth

firedamp 7

fish and chips

fishing (sea)

boys work in

long shifts worked in

and preserving in ice 8

protective clothing for

and rail transport

and superstition 2

womens part in

Ford, Henry 9,

Fortune, Robert

Fowler, John

G

gansey (fishermans jumper)

gardens

botanical 7

under glass 7

lawnmower for ; see also Budding mower

scythe for

Gayle Beck

Gayle Mill 8, 4

becomes sawmill

Europes oldest working turbine at

leet at 4

teapot from

twin vortex turbine at 5

water power continues at

woodworking tools at 7

Geordie Lamp

George III

George IV

Glasgow Fair

glassmaking

Great Orme Tramway

Great Western Railway (GWR)

and railway time

Swindon works of

Greg (at Gayle Mill) 5

Grimsby, fisherman killed in

H

Harris, John 6

Hedley, William

helter-skelter

HMS Victory

holidays

Bank (public)

and bathing machines

in Blackburn

in Blackpool

in Bognor Regis

in Bolton

in Bournemouth

in Brighton

in Bury

in Cliftonville

in Eastbourne

and fairgrounds 8; see also helter skelter

in Glasgow

Grand Tour

in Llandudno

in Margate

and paddle steamers

and piers 4

and postcards

and Punch and Judy

in Scarborough

and sea swimming

in seventeenth century

in spa towns

Wakes Week

in Weymouth

and What the Butler Saw

I

ice

Inclosure Acts

Industrial Revolution

and bicycles

demand for plants during

Irish potato famine

J

Jevons, William Stanley

K

Kennedy, John

Kew Gardens

knocker-uppers

L

Leader (trawler) 2

leather, curing and tanning 8

Liverpool and Manchester Railway (L&MR) 2

Liverpool docks

Llandudno

band at

bathing machines in

helter skelter at

Pier Pavilion Theatre in

Punch and Judy show at

tramway in

Llandudno Pier 4

restoration work on

Locomotion No. 1

locomotives 2

No. 5164

Loudon, John Claudius

Lucas (at Brooks of Birmingham)

Lucas, Rosa

M

Macfarlane, Walter

MacMillan, Kirkpatrick

MacMillan velocipede

making saddle for 8

making wheels for 6

Mann, Tom

Margate

Matheson, Mhairi 8

Maudsley Forming Machine

Mave, see Davis, Mark

Merthyr Tydfil Tramroad

mills, see factories and mills

Monkey 6

Moore, James

Mostyn family

Mutoscope

N

Nash, John

National Coal Mining Museum

navvies

work rate of and deaths among

Nettlefold Alpine Rock Garden

Newcomen steam engine

Newcomen, Thomas

Nielson and Co.

P

parks

Peckett and Sons

Pier Pavilion Theatre, Llandudno

plough 8

steam-powered

Pomfret, Henry

pre-rail wooden pathways, see wagonways

Prince of Wales (traction engine)

Puffing Billy

Puffing Devil

Pulham, James

Punch and Judy

Q

Queensberry, Duke of

R

Radam, Brian

rail

first inter-city line

Great Western

growing number of tunnels and bridges on

High Speed Two link

and holidays

and navvies

new lines sanctioned for

prior to

and transport of fish

wagonways prior to, see wagonways see also trains

railway stations 7

railway time 2

Railways Act 1844

Robbens, William

Robbie (pit pony)

Rocket

rope

cat-o-nine-tails made from

hawser-laid

on HMS Victory

Leader towed by

Manila fibres for

manufacturing process of

Ropery, Chatham Dockyard

length of

Routh, Oswald and Thomas

Rover Company

Royal Museum, Edinburgh

Royal Pavilion, Brighton

Russell, Dr Richard

S

Scarborough

Science Museum, London

Scottish Cycle Museum

scythe

Severn Valley Railway

volunteers for

signalman

slavery

spa towns

Starley, James

Starley, John

stationmaster 7

steam power

for boats and ships 8

and coal mining, see Newcomen steam engine

for factories and mills

for traction engines, see traction engine

Stephenson, George

prize won by

Stephenson, Robert 6

prize won by

Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR)

Swing Riots, see Inclosure Acts

T

tea plants, smuggling of