She struggled to have a relationship with her children due to the power men had over divorces. This carried on until her children came of age. She would perform successful one woman show tours and writing to keep herself. She died in 1893.
She went on to marry a plantation owner and moved to the West Indies, only to be appalled by the trials of the slaves and ended up leaving her husband on the strength of her opinions. She would become a renowned diarist and abolitionists, she moved to America and eventually back to London.
Since it is #InternationalWomensDay we like to raise a glass to renowned actress Franny Kemble. Who, on the 25th August 1830, climbed on board a locomotive with George Stephenson and took a trip out to the Sankey Viaduct and was totally enthralled. Read her famed account here
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I would say Booth was one of the founders if you make it plural. Plus, when it came to the actual "company", Sanders was just a background director. I think Sanders planted the seed, but was not as involved in the real work.
Installation, celebrating the early Railway and it’s engineers.
Installation, celebrating the early Railway and it’s engineers.
Installation, celebrating the early Railway and it’s engineers.
Beyond Liverpool Lime Street's platforms, up at street level, is an installation celebrating the early Railway & it’s engineers
Designed to represent the Railway line below your feet. Consisting of four half wheels, each in recognition of important people, linked to L&MR & early LNWR
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It is a very large image that is too big to post to social media and cannot even be saved in a web format. I have it as a TIF, or it can be saved as a Photoshop PSB file. It is 500Mb in size. contact me at hello[at]lmrt.org.uk and I will forward you a link to it
This version from the R.S. Fitzgerald book
The original is the entire length of the line
Looking at your little plan, here is the original by Thomas Telford. Original from the ICE archive
Looks identical to Fiddler's Ferry in Widnes, only now half the towers have been demolished.
The shafts were being dug at this point, but tunnel construction did not begin until January 1827. The drifts would need to be extended north to compensate. So, the entire tunnel was shifted from the start at Edge Hill. The tunnel is straight apart from the hook at the end to arrive at Park Lane.
Whiston 2 is a mighty fine bridge. I'm not sure why Rainhill's skew bridge was more expensive
Bourne's Tunnel is very acute...
November 1826, it was discovered that the Wapping Tunnel would pass under houses by Great George Square, and it was decided to redirect the tunnel to avoid them. The tunnel goes under many houses along its length, so what was so special about these large and expensive houses of Great George Square?
Yes, it is in the company minutes.
We need to go back and get some better photos of some of these bridges, These are some details of Case's Bridge No. 2, which shows details, rather than an overview of the whole structure. Interesting to point out that both original portals survive, but one of them must have been moved when widened.
I'm trying to remember what I "concluded" when I looked at this a couple of years back. I settled on the theory that the tracks crossing the road were an error and that, in fact, Bridge number 1 was there. There is not much of a view to see if there is any original detail, but there is quite a drop.
One little tale of the Wapping Tunnel I never fully investigated was how the tunnel was redirected to avoid the house on the corner of Great George Square. I never found out who lived there and how they had the influence to bring about such a change.
What always grabbed me was how the Yellow Delf quarry went way further north than Upper Duke Street, and almost to Mount Street, under most of what is now LIPA. I worked at LIPA during the build and early years and remember there being issues with the foundations of the new build.
Yeah, Erin's work is excellent. She is a very good egg 👍🙂
You have the bridge very white, it is sandstone in reality, I've never heard of it being whitewashed or anything???
Extra bonus image. This is my modified version that shows the tunnel as described in contemporary accounts. One thing we don't know for sure is if the tunnel was whitewashed in its entirety as shown, or just whitewashed on the vertical walls and not the arch.
Bonus image. This is Bury's original art. What is noteworthy in this image is the singular gas lamp. We know from accounts that the gas lamps were 100 yards apart, apart from here at the tunnel entrances, where they were 50 yards apart. The three lamps in all other versions are erroneous.
In 1833, Bury created a fourth version that brought more balance to the image. The train of wagons is bigger and more details with more goods loaded. The tourists have gone, but a tiny jockey has been added in the foreground.
The third impression, still first edition, finally corrected the issue and introduced the missing detail of the endless rope system, with ropes, or rather, a very thin impression of a rope, along with the capstans that keeps the rope in place. This version was also used in the second edition in 1832
So within weeks, there was a modified version that removed the chimney of the locomotive and deployed steam clouds to obfuscate the error. Apparently, this is the rarer version, due to the small size of the run.
The more complex issue was with Plate one "The Tunnel" Unlike Plate six, plate one has an issue with the art. For both political and physics issues, locomotives did not travel in the tunnel. Liverpool had banned locos from the town and they didn't have the power for the incline. What had Bury drawn?
But why was a 2nd impression rushed out within weeks? That was because of two issues with the first run. The smaller issue was that the sixth plate of Manchester claimed that the Railway was crossing Bridge Street, not Water Street.
With the 1st Edition, a seventh plate was added for the rushed second impression later in February.
