Subterranean Britain

Subterranean Britain
Author: Harriet E. W. Crawford
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 201
Release: 1979
Genre: Industrial archaeology
ISBN: 9780312774776

Days Out Underground

Days Out Underground
Author: Peter Naldrett
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2019-03-07
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1844865681

Beneath our feet is a secret world – and you can visit it. The 50 underground adventures featured in this book are not just for intrepid potholers and other daredevils. Hidden beneath Britain are plenty of attractions open to everyone. This is the definitive guide to the best days out underground. From caves to nuclear bunkers, sewers to secret railways, as well as abandoned mines, ancient crypts and labyrinthine tunnels, these unique tourist attractions are a journey through Britain's hidden history going back thousands of years. Travel writer Peter Naldrett explores each location with evocative, light-hearted text that reveals the fascinating history of why it came to be constructed, or how it was first discovered. As well as information about facilities and accessibility, Peter also includes essential advice about how to get there and when to go. There are atmospheric full colour photographs throughout, and boxes that highlight precisely why you should visit, as well as things to look out for when you do. Days Out Underground has something to excite everyone, especially families – here's how you entertain the kids on those wet-weather weekends!

The Subterranean Railway

The Subterranean Railway
Author: Christian Wolmar
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2012-11-01
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 1848872534

Since the Victorian era, London's Underground has had played a vital role in the daily life of generations of Londoners. Christian Wolmar celebrates the vision and determination of the 19th-century pioneers who made the world's first, and still the largest, underground passenger railway: one of the most impressive engineering achievements in history. From the early days of steam to electrification, via the Underground's contribution to 20th-century industrial design and its role during two world wars, the story comes right up to the present with its sleek, driverless trains, and the wrangles over the future of the system. This book reveals London's hidden wonder in all its glory, and shows how the railway beneath the streets helped create the city we know today.

Secret Underground Cities

Secret Underground Cities
Author: Nicholas J. McCamley
Publisher: Leo Cooper Books
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN:

History of the vast underground arsenals, factories and bunkers built by the British government during WWII and the new uses found for them.

The Subterranean Forest

The Subterranean Forest
Author: Rolf Peter Sieferle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2001
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

This work studies the historical transition from the agrarian solar energy regime to the use of fossil energy, which has fuelled the industrial transformation of the last 200 years. The author argues that the analysis of historical energy systems provides an explanation for the basic patterns of different social formations. It is the availability of free energy that defines the framework within which socio-metabolic processes can take place. This thesis explains why the industrial revolution started in Britain, where coal was readily available and firewood already depleted or difficult to transport, whereas Germany, with its huge forests next to rivers, was much longer dependent on a traditional solar energy regime."

British Ruling Cases from Courts of Great Britain, Canada, Ireland, Australia and Other Divisions of the British Empire, Extensively Annotated

British Ruling Cases from Courts of Great Britain, Canada, Ireland, Australia and Other Divisions of the British Empire, Extensively Annotated
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1080
Release: 1912
Genre: Law reports, digests, etc
ISBN:

"This series of reports is in a sense a continuation, but with a decided expansion, of the plan of the English ruling cases, as it takes the cases from the British empire, instead of from England only, but it continues the English ruling cases in the sense that it will include the most important cases from the English courts decided since that series terminated."--Pref.

Hidden London

Hidden London
Author: David Bownes
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2019-09-03
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0300245793

Travel under the streets of London with this lavishly illustrated exploration of abandoned, modified, and reused Underground tunnels, stations, and architecture.