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... building as the sparsely populated remote country- side required . It is said that he was employed on the Langholm ... buildings that characterised grey eighteenth - century Edinburgh . After a year or more in Edinburgh he returned home ...
... building as the sparsely populated remote country- side required . It is said that he was employed on the Langholm ... buildings that characterised grey eighteenth - century Edinburgh . After a year or more in Edinburgh he returned home ...
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... building going on in the Metropolis , and Telford had not only acquired a sound knowledge of the mason's craft , but had learned more of architecture than the ordinary mason . Actually , his first work after his arrival in London was ...
... building going on in the Metropolis , and Telford had not only acquired a sound knowledge of the mason's craft , but had learned more of architecture than the ordinary mason . Actually , his first work after his arrival in London was ...
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... building in 1796 . 1798-1802 . London Docks . His proposals included demolition and rebuilding the old London Bridge and extending the Port of London upstream as far as Blackfriars . 1801. PORT OF ANNAN . He visited and advised on this ...
... building in 1796 . 1798-1802 . London Docks . His proposals included demolition and rebuilding the old London Bridge and extending the Port of London upstream as far as Blackfriars . 1801. PORT OF ANNAN . He visited and advised on this ...
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The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
First Highland Survey 1801Second Highland | 60 |
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