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The Industrial Archaeology of Northern Ireland
Published in Hardcover by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr (1983)
Author: William Alan McCutcheon
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A classic of form and content
The culmination of over seven years research, this volume is the seminal work of the former director of the Ulster Museum. Extending to nearly 400 pages, the book contains seven chapters covering Roads and Bridges, Canals, Railways, pre-industrial and early industrial power sources, flax and linen, the Tyrone coalfields and a concludung chapter on Conservation and Preservation. The volume is replete with photographs from the collection of some 26,000 prints which now form the McCutcheon Archive in Belfast, as well as detailed drawings and a broad selection of facsimile items, some of which verge on the humourous. A sad background theme throughout the book is the destruction taking place in Northern Ireland which does make the headlines - the removal (through design or neglect) of antique industrial sites; some of these photographs afford the only chance anyone will ever have of viewing some of this lovely country's industrial past.


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