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Fred Dibnah's Industrial Age: A Guide to Britain's Industrial Heritage - Where to Go, What to See (Hardcover)

by Fred Dibnah (Author), David Hall (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 192 pages
  • Publisher: BBC Books (11 Feb 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0563384824
  • ISBN-13: 978-0563384823
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 237,871 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Accompanying the television series, Fred Dibnah tells Britain's industrial history and picks out the machinery that made history. Travelling throughout Britain, Dibnah describes what life was really like for people in the industrial age and provides a list of industrial heritage sites to visit.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating, if a little idiosyncratic, 18 Sep 2003
By T. De Mulder (UK) - See all my reviews
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If you (like me) want an overview of where to see the remains of Britain's enormous industrial past, this is a fantastic book. It helps if you've seen Fred Dibnah on television before, because he writes the way he speaks and that can take a bit of getting used to.

In places this book is more a collection of disconnected personal memories than facts, but we can be charitable and agree that that just adds to the charm. In some places, however, it would have been nice to have a bit more explanation behind the technical terms used.

At the end of the book there's the Gazetteer, an overview of Britain with maps and places to see. Places mentioned in the book that are also in the Gazetteer are printed in bold - sadly though there's no indication of where so you end up hunting through the Gazetteer to find the correct page. The index isn't much help here, since it's fairly incomplete and almost randomly organised.

Yet, despite all this, this is a fascinating book. I hope there will be a second edition that expands on the first, and corrects these minor niggles, and that'll be worth 5 stars.

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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A brief history of the industrial world, 15 April 2001
An excellent book that describes the evolution of transport and industrial progress in England. Fred goes off on tangents occasionally but that just hilites the genuine passion he has for his subject.
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