• Bradshaw Railway Guide

Contents. Biography Bradshaw was born at Windsor Bridge, in, Lancashire. On leaving school he was apprenticed to an named Beale in, and in 1820 he set up his own engraving business in, returning to Manchester in 1822 to set up as an engraver and printer, principally of. He was a religious man. Although his parents were not exceptionally wealthy, when he was young they enabled him to take from a minister devoted to the teachings of. He joined the (the Quakers) and gave a considerable part of his time to. He worked a great deal with radical reformers such as in organising peace conferences and in setting up schools and for the poor of Manchester.

Download scientific diagram Railway Timetable from the August 1887 Bradshaw's Railway Guide. Detail of Page 8 from publication: Imagery of Numerical. Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide (full edition) and millions of other books are available for Amazon Kindle. Bradshaw’s Continental Railway Guide (full edition) (Old House) Hardcover – September 20, 2012. 1853 Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide: As Featured in the TV. Bradshaw's Handbook was first published in 1863 but has now been catapulted into the top ten UK Amazon sales after being featured on Great British Railway Journeys, currently being screened on.

It is his belief as a Quaker that is quoted as causing the early editions of Bradshaw's guides to have avoided using the names of months based upon which was seen as 'pagan' usage. Quaker usage was, and sometimes still is, 'First month' for January, 'Second month' for February and so on. Days of the week were 'First day' for Sunday and so on. In 1841, he founded a high-quality weekly magazine, edited by George Falkner, called Bradshaw's Manchester Journal, described as 'a 16-page miscellany of art, science and literature, to sell at the cheap price of a penny-halfpenny a week. After the first six months, it was renamed Bradshaw’s Journal: A Miscellany of Literature, Science and Art, and the place of publication moved to London, where the title was taken on by William Strange', but the journal survived only until 1843. He married on 15 May 1839. While touring in 1853 he contracted and died in September of that year without being able to return to England.

He is interred in the cemetery about a mile from the in. His gravestone is on the left by the gate near Oslo hospital. Bradshaw's railway guides. Main article: Bradshaw's was a series of railway and travel published by W.J. Adams of London.

Bradshaw Railway Guide

George Bradshaw initiated the series in 1839. The Bradshaw's range of titles continued after his death in 1853 until 1961. Great British Railway Journeys/Great Continental Railway Journeys Former British politician used a copy of what was described as a Bradshaw's guide (the 1863 edition of Bradshaw's Descriptive Railway Hand-Book of Great Britain and Ireland) for, a television series in which he travelled across Britain, visiting recommended points of interest noted in Bradshaw's guide book, and where possible staying in recommended hotels. The first series was broadcast in early 2010, a second in early 2011, a third in early 2012, and a fourth in early 2013; series 5 was broadcast in January and February 2014. The success of the series sparked a new interest in the guides and facsimile copies of the 1863 edition became an unexpected best seller in the UK in 2011. At the end of 2012, a new series, was broadcast with Portillo using the 1913 edition of Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide to make journeys through various European countries and territories, prompting two publishers to produce facsimiles of the handbook. A second series was broadcast in 2013.

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Sources. Edward H. British Quakers in Commerce & Industry 1775-1920. William Sessions of York. References.