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Apprenticed at the age of fourteen , at first at Lochmaben , later in Langholm and then further afield , he learnt his craft from such building as the sparsely populated remote countryside required . It is said that he was employed on ...
Apprenticed at the age of fourteen , at first at Lochmaben , later in Langholm and then further afield , he learnt his craft from such building as the sparsely populated remote countryside required . It is said that he was employed on ...
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There was continuous 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 ...
There was continuous 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 ...
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Telford advised the use of Parker's cement on the pier they were 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 ...
Telford advised the use of Parker's cement on the pier they were 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 ...
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The Eighteenth Century Transport problem | 26 |
First Highland Survey 1801Second Highland | 60 |
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