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by Charlie Bunce


  Some 170 years after it was published, Bradshaw had again proved invaluable in guiding us on our journey through Britain. With it we’d marvelled at the extraordinary Victorian achievements, but also celebrated what’s still so exciting about modern Britain. With the last of our journeys at an end and the team finally heading back to their homes, it was with surprising relish that our thoughts turned to where we could go next …

  INDEX

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  A

  acid rain 97

  Acts of Union (1800) 146

  Adventure 202

  Agassiz, Louis 188

  Albert, Prince 179, 211, 226

  American Civil War 36

  Arboretum, Derby 102–4

  Arkwright, Richard 99

  Armstrong, Neil 135

  Arndale Centre bombing (1996) 36

  Around the World in Eighty Days (Verne) 34

  Augustin, St 259

  Aylesbury 109–10

  Aylesbury ducks 110

  Aylesford 250

  Ayr 172, 175, 178

  B

  Baedecker Blitz 253–5

  Bage, Charles 153

  Balmoral 179

  Barber, Colin 160

  Barclay’s Bank 241

  Bath 62, 253

  spas 62–7, 64–5, 66

  bathing machines 258–9

  Batley 214–17

  Battle 265

  Beadles, Burlington Arcade 232

  Beale, Benjamin 258

  Beeching, Sir Richard (Dr) 73

  Beeching cuts 37, 70, 73

  ‘Belmont Rattler’ 10

  Bempton 49

  Ben Nevis 188–9, 189

  Ben Nevis Observatory 188–9

  Betjeman, John 113

  Betws-y-Coed artists’ colony 164

  Birch, Eugenius 225

  Birch, James 33

  bird population decline, North Sea 49

  Blackpool 120–3, 121

  Blackpool Belle 120–3

  Blackpool Tower 122–3, 123

  Blaenau Ffestiniog 163, 164, 165

  Blake, William 252

  Blue Diamonds rapper sword dancers 205, 205

  Bolton Abbey 38, 40–1

  bone dust (bone meal) 159

  Bonnie Prince Charlie 135, 179, 191, 192

  Boots the chemist 42–3

  Border reivers 135

  Boucher, Sir Thomas 96

  Bourne, Jon 159–60

  Bournville 105–8

  Box Tunnel 56, 62, 63

  Boyne, Battle of 191

  Bradshaw, George 10–12, 13, 16, 17, 22, 34, 67, 85

  Bradshaw’s Descriptive Railway Hand-Book 10–13, 16–19, 18, 19, 22, 34,

  Journey 1 28, 32, 38, 45, 46, 49, 52,

  Journey 2 56, 59, 62, 67, 73, 74, 79, 80, 83,

  Journey 3 92, 97, 98–9, 102, 104, 109, 110, 113, 116, 117

  Journey 4 120, 123, 132, 135, 136–7, 139

  Journey 5 146, 150, 153, 154, 159, 160, 161, 163, 165, 168–9

  Journey 6 172, 175, 178, 179, 184, 188, 192

  Journey 7 196–7, 202, 205, 208, 210, 211, 217, 219

  Journey 8 222, 224–5, 228, 230, 233, 234, 237, 238

  Journey 9 244, 248, 252–3, 255, 260, 264, 265

  Bradshaw’s Maps of Inland Navigation 34

  breweries, Burton 102–3, 104, 104–5

  Bridlington 46

  Brighton 222–6, 241

  Bristol 67–70

  Bristol Temple Meads station 56, 68–9, 70, 70

  Britannia, Royal Yacht 180

  Britannia Bridge 146, 146–7, 168–9

  British and Commonwealth Museum 70

  British Temperance Movement 120

  Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey 230

  Brunel, Isambard Kingdom 56, 57, 59, 62, 67, 70, 74, 75, 80, 247

  Brunel, Marc Isambard 247

  Bulmer’s factory 148

  Burlington Arcade, London 230–2, 230–1

  Burns, Robert 174, 175, 180

  Burns Night 175

  Burton-on-Trent 104–5

  Buxton 92–6, 98, 105

  C

  Cadbury, George 106, 108

  Cadbury, Richard 107, 108

  Cadbury’s chocolate 105–8

  locomotive 108

  Cadman, Robert 153–4

  Caledonian forest 182–3

  Callander and Oban Railway 183

  Calton, Glasgow 137

  Cambridge football rules 235–7

  Cambridge University 234–7

  Cambridge University’s Football Club 235, 235–7

  Canterbury 252–5, 254

  carbon capture 202

  Carlisle 124, 135

  Caroline of Brunswick 222

  cast iron 153, 154–8, 160

  Cavendish, Lord George 230, 232

  Central London Railway (Central Line) 232–3

  Chalk Tower lighthouse 49

  channel tunnel 262

  Chatham dockyard 248–50, 249

  Cheddar Gorge 72–3, 73–4

  Cheddar Man 73–4

  Cheshire cheese 159–60

  Cheshire pastures 158, 159

  Chester and Holyhead Railway 146, 160, 168

  Chester station 146

  Chirk 155–9

  Chirk aqueduct 155–8, 156–7

  Chirk Castle 159

  Churchill, Winston 160, 191–2, 260

  cider apples 148

  Cinque Ports 260, 264, 265

  Lord Wardens 260

  City of Dublin Steam Packet Company 146

  clay mines, Cornwall 80

  Cleese, John 74

  Clifton Suspension Bridge 67, 71

  Clyde Valley orchards 139

  Clydeside shipbuilding 179–80, 180–1

  CO2 emissions 97–8

  coal industry 196–202, 198, 199, 200–1, 204

  Coalbrookdale 153, 154–5

  Cod War, Third (1975) 45–6

  Coleridge, Samuel 132

  Colman’s Mustard 239, 241

  Cologne 253–5

  commandos 191–2

  Coniston Water 130–1

  Conwy railway bridge 163, 168

  Conwy Valley line 163–4

  Cook, Captain James 210

  Cornwall 80–9

  Cornwell, Hugh 73

  Corrour station 185–8

  cotton industry 12, 28, 33, 34–6, 34–5, 36, 99

  Preston riots and strike 120

  Coventry 109

  Cox, David 164

  ‘Crab and Winkle’ line 255

  Crianlarich 182, 183

  cricket-ball manufacturing, Tunbridge Wells 252, 253

  Crimean War 233

  Cromer 240–1, 241

  Cromford 99

  Cromford Canal 102

  Cromwell, Oliver 33

  Croydon, Merstham and Godstone Iron Railway 226

  Crystal Palace 226–9, 226–7, 228

  Culloden, battle of (1746) 134, 135, 179, 191, 192

  Cuthbert, St 208

  Cutty Sark 179–80

  D

  Darby, Abraham I 154

  Darby, Abraham III 155

  Darlington 209

  Dart, River 75–9

  Darwin, Charles 188, 229

  Davy, Sir Humphrey 196

  Dawlish to Teignmouth 74

  De Maison, George 110

  Deal 260–2, 261, 262–3

  Dean, Chris 97–8

  Dee railway bridge disaster (1846) 160

  Denny’s of Dumbarton 180

  Dent station 129, 129–32

  Denton 37

  Derby 102–4, 217

  Devonshire, Dukes of 38, 92

  Dickens, Charles 241

  dinosaur reconstructions, Crystal Palace 228, 229

  Dissolution of the Monasteries 42

  Ditherington flax mill 152, 153


  Dixon, Tom 42–3

  Dracula (Stoker) 34, 210

  Dracula’s Seat, Whitby 210

  ‘drifting’ 96

  Duguid, Stuart 178

  Dunhill, George 42

  Durant, Judith 109

  Durham 205–9

  Durham Cathedral 205, 206–7, 208, 208

  Dymchurch 262

  E

  East London Railway Company 248

  Eccles 30, 32–3

  Eccles cakes 32, 32–3

  Eden Project 80–1

  Edinburgh 136, 138–43, 191

  Edmonds, Ian 33

  Edward I 159, 161

  electricity 202, 225

  Ellesmere Canal 158

  Ely Cathedral 236, 237

  Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway 37–8, 39

  emigration 28–9, 29

  Endeavour 210

  Enfield 233–4

  Environment Agency 132

  Euston station, London 116

  evacuations 110–13, 111

  F

  Failsworth Hats 37

  Fairbairn, William 163

  Fens drainage 237

  Feschini, Tony 128

  Festival of Empire (1911) 229

  Ffestiniog Railway 164–5, 165

  Filey 49–52

  firestone quarrying, Godstone 226

  First World War 59, 120, 136, 164, 182, 218, 224, 229, 260

  fishing industry

  Filey 49–52

  Hastings 265

  Hull 45–6

  St Ives 88

  Fitzherbert, Maria 222

  Flamborough Head 46, 47, 49

  Flamborough lighthouse 48, 49

  Flint castle 160, 161

  Folkestone 262

  foot and mouth disease 150

  Football Association 237

  Forestry Commission 183

  Forster, Fred 205

  Fort William 172, 183, 185, 188, 189–91

  Forth Bridge 96, 140–1, 142, 143

  Forth Street Works, Newcastle 196

  fox hunting, Melton Mowbray 219

  Fraser, Simon, 17th Lord Lovat 192

  Fry, Elizabeth 238

  G

  Gainsborough, Thomas 252

  Gatwick airport 226

  Geneva Convention 160

  George IV 179, 222–4

  Gladstone, William 208

  Glasgow 136–9, 172, 179

  Glass, Ron 59

  Gledhill, Ian 20–1

  Glenfinnan Viaduct 190–1, 191

  Godlee, Francis 34

  Godstone 226

  gold mining, Grampians 183

  Gott, Peter 134–5

  Gotthard base tunnel 62

  Gough, Richard 73

  Grant, Peter 29, 30

  Great Britain 67

  Great Eastern Hotel Masonic temple 233

  Great Eastern Railway 234

  Great Exhibition (1851) 226, 233

  Great Fire of London 116

  Great Northern Railway 113

  Great Orme Tramway 162–3, 163

  Great Western Railway (GWR) 56–9, 74, 88

  Swindon works 56–8, 60–1

  Greathead, Henry 202, 203–4

  Greenwich 244–7, 262

  Gretna Green 135–6

  Gretna munitions factory 136, 137

  Gristhorpe Man 52–3, 53

  Gurney’s Bank 238, 241

  H

  Haakon, King of Norway 180

  Hadfield, George 209

  Hadrian’s Wall 204

  haggis 175–8

  Hansard 209

  Harbour, Dominic 150

  Harold, King 264

  Harrogate 214

  Harry Potter films 191

  Hartwell House 109–10

  Harwich-Zeebrugge ferries 260

  Hastings 264, 265

  hat industry, Denton 37

  Heigh, Ian 143

  Henry VIII 248, 260

  Herdwick sheep 133, 134–5

  Hereford Cathedral 150–3

  Hereford cattle 149–50

  Hogwarts Express 191

  Holiday Line 54–88

  Holyhead 146, 169

  Hood, HMS 180

  Hopkins, Rob 79

  hop-picking, Kent 250, 250–1

  horse racing, Newmarket 234

  Houses of Parliament 13, 117, 234

  ‘hue and cry’ 83

  Hull 43–6

  Huskisson, William 30, 32

  Hyde Park 226

  Hythe and New Romney miniature railway 262

  I

  ICI 160

  Industrial Revolution 92, 97, 99, 153, 154, 155, 196, 205, 218, 222, 226

  Inverailort House training centre 192

  Irish Mail 146, 146–7, 169

  iron bridge, Coalbrookdale 155, 155

  iron industry 154

  Irving, Henry 210

  Irwell River, Manchester 34–5

  J

  Jacobites 189–91, 192

  James, St 84

  James II 191

  Jessop, William 158

  jet, Whitby 211, 211

  Jockey Club 234

  Jones, Barbara 168

  Julius Caesar 262

  K

  Keelan, Liam 16

  kelp 172

  Kendall, Ian 49

  Kent 67, 244–65

  King’s College Chapel, Cambridge 234

  King’s Cross station, London 113, 116, 210

  King’s Head, Ivinghoe 110

  King’s Lynn 237

  Kingswear branch line 75, 76–7

  Kirkcaldy 10

  L

  lace-making, Nottingham 218

  ‘Lady of the Lake’ 130–1

  Lake District 120, 130–1, 132–5, 133

  Lardner, Dr Dionysius 62

  Law, Benjamin 214–17

  lead poisoning 67

  Ledbury 146–9

  Lee, Rev. William 218

  Lee-Enfield rifle 233–4

  Lewis, Camilla 16

  lifeboats 202–4

  Lime Street station, Liverpool 28

  liquorice 42–3, 44

  Liverpool 12, 160, 28–30

  Liverpool & Manchester Railway 26–37, 255

  Liverpool Street station, London 233

  Livesey, Joseph 120

  Lizard Point 202

  Llandudno 161–3, 162–3

  Llanfair…PG station 168, 169

  Loch Lomond 180, 185

  Locomotion No 1 196

  London 12, 67, 110, 113–17, 150, 179, 196, 217, 219, 222, 225, 226–33, 237, 244, 247, 248, 250, 252

  London & North Western Railway Company 146

  London & South Western Railway 229

  London Bridge station 229, 244, 244

  London, Brighton & South Coast Railway 228–9

  London Necropolis Company 230

  London Underground 116, 229, 232–2, 248

  Loos, Battle of (1915) 136

  Louis XVIII 109–10

  Ludd, Ned 218

  Luddites 218–19

  Ludlow 153

  Lukin, Lionel 204

  Lusitania 180

  M

  MacDonald, Flora 192

  ‘mad cow’ disease 150

  Maidstone 250–2

  Mallaig 172, 183, 191, 192, 193

  Maltby, Edward, Bishop of Durham 208–9

  Manchester & Liverpool line 33

  Manchester 12, 28, 32, 33–7, 34–5, 45

  Manchester Museum of Science and Industry 37

  Mappa Mundi 150, 151

  Margate 255–9, 256–7

  Marples, Ernest 73

  Marsden 198–202

  Martello towers 260, 262

  Mathieu, Albert 262

  Matlock Bath 98–9

  Matson, John 49

  McAlpine, Sir Robert (‘Concrete Bob’) 191

  McGonagal, William 96–7

  Melton Mowbray 196, 219

  Menai Strait 163, 168

  Men
ai Strait suspension bridge 146

  mercury poisoning 37

  Metropolitan line 116, 117

  Mevagissey 81–3

  Middle Biddolf Esq, R. 159

  Middleton, Guy 159

  Middleton, Stephen 38

  Midland Grand Hotel, London 116

  Midland Hotel, Derby 102

  Midland Railway Company 113–16, 124

  Milton, Robert 153–4

  Monster Excursions 45

  Moonlight Sonata operation (Coventry bombing) 109

  Morecambe Bay 123–4, 125

  Morris, Tom 178

  Mostyn family 163

  Mottray, Henri 262

  Mumford, Geoff 105

  ‘mungo’ 217

  munitions workers 136, 137

  N

  Napoleon Bonaparte 252, 260, 262

  Napoleonic Wars 214, 218

  Nash, John 222

  National Forest 105

  National Trust 202

  Nelson, Admiral Horatio 248, 260

  Nesbit, Edith 262

  Network Rail helicopter 38–42

  New Bath Hotel, Matlock 98, 98

  Newcastle 196

  Newhaven 225

  Newlove, James 259

  Newmarket 234

  Nightingale, Florence 99

  Nightingale, Peter 99

  Nixon, Richard 135

  Normans 208, 237

  North Midland Line 217

  North of England Musical Tournament 205

  Norwich 238–41, 253

  Nottingham 218–19

  O

  Oakes, Jonathan 102

  Oban 183–5

  Olympics 2012 248

  Open Championship, golf 178–9

  ‘Original’, lifeboat 203, 203

  Orwell, George 250

  Ottoman Empire 214

  Overend, Gurney & Company 238–41

  Owen, Professor Richard 229

  P

  Paddington station, London 56, 58, 116

  Paignton 75

  Paisley 179

  Palace Pier, Brighton 225

  Par 80

  ‘parallel roads’, Glen Roy 188

  Park, Willie 178

  Paxton, Sir Joseph 226

  Peachey, William 42

  Peak District 92, 97–9

  Pease, Edward 209

  Penzance 56, 88, 89

  Perran Sands 83–4

  perry 146–9

  Peterloo massacre 34

  Pied Piper Operation 110–13, 111

  pilchard industry, Cornwall 81–3

  Pillars of Hercules, The (Urquart) 214

  Pinder, John 132

  Piran, St 83, 84

  Pitt, William 260

  Pontefract 42–3

  pork pies, Melton Mowbray 219

  Portillo, Charles 10

  Portillo, Michael 10–12, 11, 19–22, 20–1, 22–3, 49, 82–3, 99, 114–15, 124, 128, 142, 143, 248

 

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