Durham (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

W. J. Weston

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331610362 ISBN 13 : 9781331610366

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore how a river-and-mine landscape shaped a county’s people, ports, and industry.

This concise history reveals how Durham’s fields, forts, and rivers gave rise to a thriving industrial region. It shows how coal, iron, and coastal ports along the Tyne, Wear, and Tees fueled a busy economy and helped towns grow from small communities to major centers of shipbuilding, mining, and transport.

• Learn how Durham's geography—its hills, moors, and great rivers—defined its industry and settlement patterns.
• See the role of ports like Hartlepool, Sunderland, and South Shields in trade and fishing.
• Understand the evolution of shipping, railways, and the coal-and-steel economy that shaped the county.
• Discover notable towns, landmarks, and the historical character of county life.

Ideal for readers of regional history, industrial development, and the story of northern England’s transformation.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from Durham

Durham, however, has from the earliest times been looked upon as a district apart, not simply as a piece shorn off from a larger division. It has never, that is, been called a sbire as its big neighbour on the south has. The old kingdom of Northumbria, the land north of the Humber, included Durham and Yorkshire as well as Northumberland. But the space between Tyne and Tees was regarded as a close dependency of the Church and its governor was not a king but a bishop. The whole county formed the land of the cathedral on the Wear. It was the patrimony of St Cuthbert, the dominion ruled over by the successors of this great missionary. Not till late in the Middle Ages did men Speak of it as County Durham. In the survey that William the Conqueror ordered to be taken and recorded in Domesday Book it is called Saint Cuthbert's Land.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Cooling Coke at Marley Hill Colliery .E lectric Cranes discharging pit-props at West Hartlepool Salt works .... Fish Quay, Hartlepool Sunderland from the Bridge .S tern frame of the Britannic being loaded at West Hartlepool The Sanctuary Knocker, Durham Cathedral Durham Cathedral from the West Neville s Cross Oak Canoe found in the Tyne Roman I mpluvium, South Shields Monkwearmouth Church Tower Bede s Tomb .... The Nave, Durham Cathedral The Galilee Chapel St Cuthbert s Church, Darlington Merrington Church Finchale Abbey Durham Castle Raby Castle .... Ravensworth Castle Brancepeth Castle .O ld House on Klvet Bridge .L ocomotion No. i King Edward Bridge, Newcastle Old Knitsley Viaduct The Town Hall, Stockton-on-T ees Municipal Buildings, South Shield! Sir Henry Havelock Elizabeth Barrett Browning .J ohn George Lambton, first Karl of Durham Durham School ..... PAGE 8.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331610362
• ISBN 13: 9781331610366
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 202
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