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... Commissioner's House was finished in the autumn of 1786 , and soon after Telford moved to Shropshire . Pulteney was then representing Shrews- bury in Parliament , and he was taken with the idea of rebuilding part of the old derelict ...
... Commissioner's House was finished in the autumn of 1786 , and soon after Telford moved to Shropshire . Pulteney was then representing Shrews- bury in Parliament , and he was taken with the idea of rebuilding part of the old derelict ...
Page 84
... Commissioners . The Select Committee had reported on 3rd June ; by 4th July the Act appointing the Commissioners had been passed , and on 7th July they held their first meet- ing , at which they resolved that it was important to employ ...
... Commissioners . The Select Committee had reported on 3rd June ; by 4th July the Act appointing the Commissioners had been passed , and on 7th July they held their first meet- ing , at which they resolved that it was important to employ ...
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... Commissioners will admit it as a mistaken zeal and to the difficulty of getting an entirely new business of this nature brought into the form which it is both proper and necessary it should be carried on in . ' 1 ' As it is wholly out ...
... Commissioners will admit it as a mistaken zeal and to the difficulty of getting an entirely new business of this nature brought into the form which it is both proper and necessary it should be carried on in . ' 1 ' As it is wholly out ...
Contents
Edinburgh at the beginning of the Twentieth Century I | 8 |
The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
William Jessop Civil Engineer 17451814 | 32 |
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