Скачать или смотреть Liam Dale - BRUNEL and STEPHENSON 2-hour special!

Many of the documentaries I made in my life, covered my personal heroes.
And here are tribute titles to two of them.
Isambard Kingdom Brunel and George Stephenson. A finer pair of engineers you would struggle to find, especially for the railways.

As a child, I lived in Cornwall near Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge, over the river Tamar. It is historically alleged that when he was overseeing the building of the bridge, he actually stayed in our house, near Torpoint, at a spot just a half mile walk to an easy sea level view of his work. My home featured an old gothic tower where apparently, he could sit undisturbed, gaze out the turret windows and work on the plans.

Although I cannot categorically prove this tale, it's fair to say that Maryfield House was completed in 1847 - seven years before construction started in May of eighteen fifty-four. So, it was a grand new house in the Gothic style and most unusual for the area, on the estate of the local Carew Pole family.

As of 1969, I would regularly travel from Bristol Temple meads to Plymouth by train, always in awe of the Dawlish stretch running so close to the sea where I would always throw a penny into the water for good luck.

Then we have George Stephenson - the uneducated son of a colliery fireman, who is listed in the Dictionary of National Biography as being the inventor and founder of railways.
His most famous invention in fact, being the Rocket.

Stephenson's Rocket was involved in the first railway fatality. While George Stephenson designed the locomotive, his son Robert is credited with its refinement and the actual construction. On the opening day of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830, William Huskisson, a Member of Parliament, was struck and killed by the Rocket. He was attempting to cross the tracks when he was hit by the train.

But more of these stories later. I hope you enjoy these aging films. Slanche.. Liam Dale