Life in a Railway Factory: Alfred Williams, the Hammerman Poet
Born close to Brunel’s broad gauge at South Marston, While Richard Jefferies measured the red brick growth Of New Swindon’s terraced street advance Towards ‘The Gamekeeper at Home’, You studied express trains from farm and field, Hammering on their way to Paddington,...
The Carving at Wallbridge
It was The Times’ obituary of Benjamin Disraeli Where the phrase ‘angels in marble’ appeared: Disraeli was credited with discerning the outline Of the working class Tory voter, As yet unformed and inchoate, But one that could be fashioned Through ‘One Nation’...
Severn and Slavery
Oyve troyed ter live a Christian loyfe but me path ay bin rowsy. Oyve ad foyve mowths ter fade at ome an an usband on the riva who wantid is dinna on the taybul when he cum ome, or corld. E wuz a steersmun on them botes gewin to Bristol down that Riva Sevurn. ...
Locks and Crime
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Reflections Derived From a Reading on A Train
Reflections derived from a reading on the train of The Thames and Severn Canal History and Guide by David Viner Richard Musto earned four guineas on payday in March 1795, for his previous year’s assiduous mole catching along the canal length; welcome money in that...
Novels and The Thames and Severn Canals
Novelists, Poets and the Thames and Severn Canal and the River Thames (Referenced by David Viner) Crotchet Castle by Thomas Peacock 1831 ‘Leaving Lechlade, they entered the canal that connects the Thames with the Severn; ascended by many locks; passed by a tunnel,...