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Yorkshire Stone To London

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Author : Christine Richardson
language : en
Publisher: Richlow Books
Release Date : 2007

Yorkshire Stone To London written by Christine Richardson and has been published by Richlow Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Architecture categories.

After a disasterous fire in 1834, the whole country was searched for the best stone to build what would become one of the world's most famous buildings - the Houses of Parliament. This book charts the story of how the stone was transported by waterways from a Yorkshire quarry to build the Palace of Westminster.

Mr Barry S War

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Author : Caroline Shenton
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-07-14

Mr Barry S War written by Caroline Shenton and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-14 with History categories.

When the brilliant classical architect Charles Barry won the competition to build a new, Gothic, Houses of Parliament in London he thought it was the chance of a lifetime. It swiftly turned into the most nightmarish building programme of the century. From the beginning, its design, construction and decoration were a battlefield. The practical and political forces ranged against him were immense. The new Palace of Westminster had to be built on acres of unstable quicksand, while the Lords and Commons carried on their work as usual. Its river frontage, a quarter of a mile long, needed to be constructed in the treacherous currents of the Thames. Its towers were so gigantic they required feats of civil engineering and building technology never used before. And the interior demanded spectacular new Gothic features not seen since the middle ages. Rallying the genius of his collaborator Pugin; flanking the mad schemes of a host of crackpot inventors, ignorant busybodies, and hostile politicians; attacking strikes, sewag,e and cholera; charging forward three times over budget and massively behind schedule, it took twenty-five years for Barry to achieve victory with his 'Great Work' in the face of overwhelming odds, and at great personal cost. Mr Barry's War takes up where its prize-winning prequel The Day Parliament Burned Down left off, telling the story of how the greatest building programme in Britain for centuries produced the world's most famous secular cathedral to democracy.