Relive the past with amazing reprint of the first edition of the one-inch Victorian Ordnance survey of 19th century Tregaron & Cardigan. This accurate ordnance survey is highly detailed & wonderfully illustrated in classic Victorian style accurate to a 1 inch to 1 mile scale. You can discover what your town was like over a hundred years ago & how it has changed since. Each map is part of a larger collection of 97 maps of Victorian Engl&. ...

Relive the past with amazing reprint of the first edition of the one-inch Victorian Ordnance survey of 19th century Truro & Lizard Head. This accurate ordnance survey is highly detailed & wonderfully illustrated in classic Victorian style accurate to a 1 inch to 1 mile scale. You can discover what your town was like over a hundred years ago & how it has changed since. Each map is part of a larger collection of 97 maps of Victorian Engl&. ...

Relive the past with amazing reprint of the first edition of the one-inch Victorian Ordnance survey of 19th century Woburn & Aylesbury. This accurate ordnance survey is highly detailed & wonderfully illustrated in classic Victorian style accurate to a 1 inch to 1 mile scale. You can discover what your town was like over a hundred years ago & how it has changed since. Each map is part of a larger collection of 97 maps of Victorian Engl&. ...

Relive the past with amazing reprint of the first edition of the one-inch Victorian Ordnance survey of 19th century Wooler. This accurate ordnance survey is highly detailed & wonderfully illustrated in classic Victorian style accurate to a 1 inch to 1 mile scale. You can discover what your town was like over a hundred years ago & how it has changed since. Each map is part of a larger collection of 97 maps of Victorian Engl&. ...

Relive the past with amazing reprint of the first edition of the one-inch Victorian Ordnance survey of 19th century Worcester & Stratford. This accurate ordnance survey is highly detailed & wonderfully illustrated in classic Victorian style accurate to a 1 inch to 1 mile scale. You can discover what your town was like over a hundred years ago & how it has changed since. Each map is part of a larger collection of 97 maps of Victorian Engl&. ...

The Victorians were the harbingers of the modern age, their society driven by curiosity, a zeal for invention, & an enormous appetite for economic & imperial consumption. The boiler room of the era was stoked furiously, & its frequent combustions produced advances in everything from science & philosophy to industry & architecture. By the end of the nineteenth century, Scotland was a nation transformed. Glasgow had exploded into the second city of the Empire, the majestic Forth Bridge was celebrated as a wonder of the modern world, & railways had opened the remote Highlands to new industries of leisure & tourism. But for every grand museum or gothic-revival country house, tenements & slums rose in their thousands overcrowded living for the vast army of workers that sustained the great Victorian machine. Ambition & wealth saw social divisions become ever more acute, producing a society obsessed with class hierarchy. Now, for the first time, the Royal Commission on the Ancient & Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) is showcasing images from its National Collection in a remarkable illustration of this landmark era. From the pioneering work of photographers like John Forbes White & Henry Bedford Lemere, to never before seen excerpts from private family albums, Victorian Scotland is a window into the lives of the generation who changed the world. ...

A crowded train takes a wrong turn & hurtles at full speed into a section of track that should have been closed for repair.



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Henri Giffard has devoted all his free time & money to inventing the first steam-driven hot air balloon.

Hes determined

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The Great Western is the biggest, fasted steamship in the world.

But the crew of the little Irish steamship Sirius are

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In a tunnel under the Thames, an urchin named Jenny & the young Queen Victoria dream of a wonderful new idea
- underground trains!
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