Tay Bridge Disaster : the people's story
Lumley, Robin2013
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135 years after the event, the Tay Bridge Disaster remains the single most catastrophic collapse of a British engineering structure. The fateful day in 1879 shook Britain and the world of engineering to their core and sent a nation into mourning for the seventy-five souls lost to the dark, freezing waters of the Tay. Here Lumley gives the collapse a much wider perspective than the event of one night by delving into the lives of those lost to the disaster, both passengers and railway workers, against a background of a wider Scottish history.
Main title:
Tay Bridge Disaster : the people's story / by Robin Lumley.
Author:
Lumley, Robin, author
Imprint:
Stroud : The History Press, 2013.
Collation:
224 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780752499468 (pbk)0752499467
Dewey class:
941.2'7'081941.27081941.31624.2941.27941
Local class:
941.27941.2708941.270D 35.81 LUMD 38.81 LUMD35.81 LUM
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
671147