Industrial Britain
Subtitle: An Architectural History
Publisher: Ellipsis Arts
Published: January 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781841660202
Subjects: Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc; International Architecture - British; History - General; History; Architecture; History: World; British Isles; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings; Europe - Great Britain - General; Industries - General
Description: "A history of Britain's industrial past as evidenced by its buildings, richly illustrated with line drawings. Industrial Britain takes a catholic view of its subject, going back far beyond the mills and machine houses of the Industrial Revolution to cover the water mills and oast houses of agricultural production, and including too the buildings and engineering projects associated with the distribution of manufactured goods - docks, canals, railways and warehouses. Dividing its huge subject by purpose, Industrial Britain tells a story of development and ultimate decline, as manufacturing has been increasingly supplanted by services, and new uses have to be found for at least some of Britain's great industrial buildings - not least as containers for art."--BOOK JACKET.