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Newcastle upon Tyne : mapping the city / Michael Barke, Brian Robson and Anthony Champion.
Van Pelt Library GA795.N49 B37 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barke, Michael, author.
- Robson, Brian, author.
- Champion, A. G. (Anthony Gerard), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historical geography.
- Newcastle upon Tyne (England)--Historical geography--Maps.
- Newcastle upon Tyne (England).
- Newcastle upon Tyne (England)--History.
- England--Newcastle upon Tyne.
- Genre:
- History.
- Maps.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 256 pages : illustrations (color), maps (color) ; 26 x 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Birlinn Ltd, 2021.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: C.1255 Building a Northern defence
- C.1260 Monkchester
- 1545a Early Tynemouth: `a place moste apte and needful to be defended'
- 1545b Town defences
- 1585 The perils of the unimproved Tyne
- C.1595 The `Coaly Tyne': coal mining and the export trade
- 1610 Speed's enduring town plan
- 1639 Fortiter defendit: the impact of the Civil War
- 1655 The erosion of Newcastle's monopoly
- 1718 Crowley's early iron works
- 1723 Newcastle's first surveyed plan
- 1745 Town panoramas
- 1749 Waggonways and early railways
- 1769 Hutton and Fryer's map
- 1770 The growth of the Shields
- 1788 Brand, Beilby and the start of the Georgian makeover
- 1796 A sea-to-sea canal: misplaced ambitions
- 1802 Lost industries of Tyneside
- 1827 Early Georgian makeover
- 1830 Completing the classical townscape
- 1832 Municipal reform
- 1833 The Newcastle-North Shields railway
- 1841 The evolution of a rail network
- 1844 The continuous exploitation of the Town Moor
- 1845 Supplying water and developing a sewerage system
- C.1854 W.G. Armstrong
- 1854 The Great Fire
- 1857 Improving the River Tyne
- 1871 Parks for the people
- 1883 The impact of a Medical Officer of Health
- 1887 Exhibitions: agriculture, industry and fun
- 1890 Newcastle's Town Hall saga
- 1895 The growth of the Hoppings
- 1896 Music for the masses
- 1899 Shipbuilding on the Tyne
- 1904 Elswick-Benwell: the making of a working-class suburb
- 1908 Public transport: the growth of a tramway system
- 1924 The Newcastle upon Tyne Society: towards a planned future?
- 1936a Jarrow: `The town that was murdered'
- 1936b Team Valley: an innovative industrial estate
- 1942 Tyneside at War
- 1947 The sentinel towns in the twentieth century
- 1949 Jesmond and Gosforth: suburban development
- 19663 `Brasilia of the North': Smith, Burns and the halcyon days of post-war town planning
- 1986 Shopping competition: Eldon Square versus MetroCentre
- 1990 Regenerating the Newcastle-Gateshead Quayside
- 1996 Rescuing Grainger's legacy
- 1999 The Great North Run
- 2003 A new role for the Ouseburn Valley
- 2008 The Tyne and Wear Metro
- 2020 The ups and downs of Newcastle United
- 2021a University city and the civic university
- 2021b Iconic Tyne bridges.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1780277261
- 9781780277264
- OCLC:
- 1247834062
- Publisher Number:
- 99990666809
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