docks on the opposite side of the River Mersey from Liverpool. Brassey met George Stephenson who was seeking stone for the Sankey Viaduct on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, and Stephenson encouraged him

innovatory suspension bridge over the Menai Straits opened in 1826. He designed the Birmingham & Liverpool Junction Canal (now called the Shropshire Union) followed a straight course over embankments and

son of a Jewish merchant trading in Liverpool and Hull, and educated privately in a Yorkshire vicarage, he served a six-year apprenticeship in the office of a Liverpool merchant. In 1841 he took charge of

g districts in the Midlands and the North, during which he sketched the locomotive Rocket near Liverpool, explored textile mills in Manchester, and recorded his impression of the ironworks at Coalbrookdale [...] Bridgewater Foundry at Patricroft, west of Manchester, alongside the Bridgewater Canal and near the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. In 1839 Nasmyth designed the A-framed steam hammer, with the intention that

first large screw-propelled iron ship, that was built in Bristol and made her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York in 1845. The company that owned her became bankrupt after she ran ashore in Northern

had been operating on the Blackpool Promenade tramway for five years. The company electrified the Liverpool Overhead railway and by 1894 Thomas was presented with the George Stephenson medal by the Institute

similar trips were organised on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway soon after its opening in 1830. In 1845 Cook organised his first commercial trip from Leicester to Liverpool, for which he produced a 60-page

returned to England, working at first with Jesse Hartley (1780-1860) on the building of docks in Liverpool. In 1845 he became chief engineer to the Manchester & Leeds Railway, and the worked for the Lancashire

Elswick on the western side of Newcastle in 1847.Early products included hoists for the docks at Liverpool, underground engines for coal mines, and machinery for lead mines and dressing plants in Co Durham

his business was with his bother Julius who took over the De Jersey company and opened offices in Liverpool and New York. He founded over a hundred separate textile operations, for weaving, dyeing and printing

evolved during the industrial revolution from precursors in the Middle Ages. However, Stephenson’s Liverpool and Manchester Railway opened in 1830 is considered the first modern main-line railway because it [...] to design railways all over Britain. The most important were the Grand Junction connecting his Liverpool and Manchester Railway to Birmingham, and the North Midland Railway connecting the midlands to Yorkshire

process was copied by industrialists in the north of England, first near Newcastle and later near Liverpool: regions where sea salt and coal were readily available. By 1880, 120 works in Britain used it.

Canal of Ireland. His maritime projects included commercial docks and harbours in London, Dublin, Liverpool, Hull and Glasgow and the Royal Navy dockyard at Woolwich. He also designed the stone breakwater

other projects were never completed but he built the first floating landing stage at the port of Liverpool and he was employed to dig a tunnel beneath the tidal estuary of the Thames. The project had already

the care of the National Trust. Hannah was born in 1766 into the Lightbody family of merchants at Liverpool who were religious nonconformists with strong interests in social conditions. Her father died when [...] campaigner for the rights of women, Mary Wollstonecraft. She met Samuel Greg after she returned to Liverpool. They married in 1789. Samuel was a successful cotton merchant and had built the Quarry Bank factory

1827 he met the locomotive pioneer Richard Trevithick . The proposers of the new railway between Liverpool and Manchester were debating whether to use stationary haulage engines or locomotives. Trials were [...] works and grew to employ 1,500 people. After helping his father with the civil engineering of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, Robert became the engineer for many important routes during the ‘railway mania’