Traffic and Politics
The Construction and Management of Rochester Bridge, AD 43-1993
Will be published approx. on 11. May 1994
Book
Hardback
432 pages
978-0-85115-356-8 (ISBN)
Description
Identifiable remains of Rochester bridge date from the Roman occupation and the records of the bridge administration span close on 200 years of economic and social change. The fortunes of the successive crossings, culminating in the Medway Tunnel project of the 1990s, reflect developments in regional and national affairs. The remarkable surviving archive of the bridge administration provides detail on practical issues such as maintainance and financial management, as well as offering a window on the personalities involved in the history of the bridge. Each of the six studies that make up this book focuses on a distinct period setting the history of this ancient river crossing in the wider national context of economic and social -and inevitably political - history.NIGEL YATES was County Archivist of Kent 1980-90, and is currently Consultant Historian to Kent County Council and General Editor of the Kent History Project.JAMES M. GIBSONis archivist for the Rochester Bridge Trust. He previously lectured in English at Houghton College, New York.NICHOLAS P. BROOKS, R.H. BRITNELL, JAMES M. GIBSON, DAVID ORMROD,JAMES PRESTON, P.F. COOPER, GLYN C. JONES. NIGEL YATES was County Archivist of Kent 1980-90, and is currently Consultant Historian to Kent County Council and General Editor of the Kent History Project.JAMES M. GIBSONis archivist for the Rochester Bridge Trust.He previously lectured in English at Houghton College, New York.NICHOLAS P. BROOKS, R.H. BRITNELL, JAMES M. GIBSON, DAVID ORMROD,JAMES PRESTON, P.F. COOPER, GLYN C. JONES.
Reviews / Votes
A story of great local interest [and] a series of illustrations both of changes in civil engineering and of the working of English local politics...also a wonderful illustration of the slow development of ideas of legal incorporation. May the Kent History Project produce more work of this standard. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW Detailed insights into the importance, for all those concerned with transport interests - and to regional historians generally - how the history of bridges elsewhere may, and should, be attempted... well illustrated by diagrams and photographs...strongly recommended. * JOURNAL OF TRANSPORT HISTORY *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Woodbridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
32 b/w. 3 line.
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
666 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85115-356-8 (9780851153568)
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Content
Rochester bridge AD 43-1381, Nicholas P. Brooks - origins, sub-Roman and early Anglo-Saxon times, later Anglo-Saxon times, reconstruction of the late Anglo-Saxon bridge, the territory of the late Anglo-Saxon bridge, the bridge from 1066 to the 1380s; Rochester bridge 1381-1530, R.H. Britnell - the new bridge, maintenance and rebuilding, income, administration; Rochester bridge 1530-1660, James M. Gibson - decline of the medieval system, the Elizabethan commissions, the Elizabethan statutes, the civil war and commonwealth; Rochester bridge 1660-1825, David Ormrod - the trade and navigation of the Medway valley, the management and control of bridge affairs, maintenance, repairs, and projects; Rochester bridge 1825-1950, James Preston - planning the new bridge, building the new bridge, maintaining and modifying the new bridge, supporting the bridge - finance and the estate; Rochester bridge 1950-1993 - an epilogue, P.F. Cooper and Glyn C. Jones. Appendices: wardens and assistants of Rochester bridge; Rochester bridge accounts; the Rochester bridgework list.