Fred Dibnah's Victorian Heroes

David Hall

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Corgi Books
17 July 2017

Biography: general; British & Irish history

The extraordinary stories of the great Victorian engineers who inspired Fred Dibnah

Fred Dibnah was a man born out of his time. His era should have been the

'magnificent age of British engineering' - the nineteenth century - and

his heroes were the great industrial engineers of the period whose

prolific innovations and dedicated work ethic inspired a national mood

of optimism and captured the hearts of the British public.

Fred Dibnah's Victorian Heroes

tells the stories of some of these men - including George and Robert

Stephenson, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Joseph Whitworth - and what it

was that made them such inspirational figures to Fred. What were their

backgrounds? Where did their drive and vision come from? What sort of

people were they at work and at home? And what was their contribution to

the history of industry and engineering?

Most of them - like

Fred - were colourful, larger-than-life characters for whom no challenge

was too great. Taking these fascinating characters as inspiration, Fred Dibnah's Victorian Heroes gets to the very heart of what allowed nineteenth-century Britannia to rule the waves . . .

By: David Hall
Imprint: Corgi Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 31mm
Weight: 346g
ISBN: 9780552174572
ISBN 10: 0552174572
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 17 July 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Hall was Fred Dibnah's TV producer for many years, as well as a close personal friend. He made all of the most recent television series and is also the producer of Fred Dibnah's World. He is the author of Fred- The Definitive Biography of Fred Dibnah, Fred Dibnah's Buildings of Britain, Fred Dibnah's Made in Britain and Manchester's Finest, an account of life in Manchester in the aftermath of the Munich air disaster.

Reviews for Fred Dibnah's Victorian Heroes

Straight talking, frank speaking - with Fred Dibnah you got what it says on the tin * Daily Telegraph * Dibnah, a true man of the people... you can almost hear the echoes and smell the oil and smoke * Manchester Evening News *