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9781860771330
The acclaimed first edition (1973) firmly established the Shropshire Coalfield as the cradle of the Industrial Revolution. After several reprints a new edition appeared in 1981, but since then there has been much further research and re-examination of interpretations, prompting a completely re-written book with an entirely new structure, and with many more illustrations, all integrated with the relevant text. This is the book that made Ironbridge a place of international pilgrimage, and, in its third edition, provides a 21st-century explanation why!Trinder, Barrie is the author of 'Industrial Revolution in Shropshire' with ISBN 9781860771330 and ISBN 1860771335.
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