INDUSTRIAL BRITAIN: An Architectural History

A fascinating insight into Britain's industrial past and historical architecture as evidenced by its buildings, richly illustrated with intricate line drawings. Going far beyond the mills and machine houses of the Industrial Revolution the book looks at the power stations and monumental bridges of Britain, including the buildings and engineering projects associated with the distribution of manufactured goods - docks, canals, railways and warehouses. The gasworks, temples of mass production, the mill, warehouse and manufactory, dock and harbour buildings, water power and water storage, waterways: canals and rivers, the railway age, breweries and oast houses, markets and exchanges, the 20th century: industry on greenfield sites. It's a story of industrial development, but also a story of its ultimate decline. As manufacturing has been increasingly replaced by services, new uses have been found for at least some of the country's great industrial buildings, not least as containers for art and heritage, such as the Bankside Power Station (Tate Modern) and Salts Mill. Other buildings featured are still used as originally intended today, such as Smithfield Market in London and the Shepherd Neame brewery in Faversham. Over 200 original line drawings, 18.7 x 18.7cm. 256 pages.