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Thomas Brassey in his mid-forties

Thomas Brassey (7 November 1805 – 8 December 1870) was an English civil engineering contractor and manufacturer of building materials who was responsible for building a large portion of the world's railways in the 19th century. For some of these constructions he was the sole contractor but he usually worked in partnership with other contractors, particularly Peto and Betts.

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List of structures built by Thomas Brassey

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Thomas Brassey (7 November 1805 – 8 December 1870) was an English civil engineering contractor and manufacturer of building materials who was responsible...

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Thomas Brassey

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Thomas Brassey (7 November 1805 – 8 December 1870) was an English civil engineering contractor and manufacturer of building materials who was responsible...

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Penkridge Viaduct

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crossed by engine No. 8 Wild Fire pulling eight first class carriages. Listed buildings in Penkridge List of structures built by Thomas Brassey Historic...

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Bulkeley Grange

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southeast of the village of Bulkeley, Cheshire, England. It replaced an earlier timber-framed house on the site, Bulkeley Old Hall, built by Thomas Brassey in...

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Old Westmoreland Homestead

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heritage-listed homestead at Westmoreland Station, Nicholson, Shire of Burke, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Thomas Brassey McIntosh and built in...

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Richmond Railway Bridge

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first railway crossings of the Thames. The first Richmond Railway Bridge was built by the contractor Thomas Brassey and designed by the civil engineers Joseph...

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Dutton Viaduct

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project to which Thomas Brassey submitted a tender. Brassey lost out to Mackenzie because his estimated cost was roughly £5,000 higher. Brassey was appointed...

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Steam yacht

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built yacht, the 532 ton Sunbeam. Brassey preferred sail as the primary source of motive power, but knew from years of experience the advantages of steam...

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Victoria Embankment

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Battersea Bridge. It was a project of the Metropolitan Board of Works. The contractor for the work was Thomas Brassey. The original impetus was the need...

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Kendal and Windermere Railway

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1847. The engineer was Joseph Locke and the partnership of contractors consisted of Thomas Brassey, William Mackenzie, Robert Stephenson and George Heald...

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Chester railway station

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station. A plaque commemorating Thomas Brassey is installed on the wall opposite the booking office. The station marks one end of the Baker Way; this is a footpath...

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Israel

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of life strike about every 80 years. While stringent construction regulations are in place and recently built structures are earthquake-safe, as of 2007[update]...

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Runcorn Railway Bridge

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bridge was the longest of its type. An engraved stone plaque on the northerly portal records that the main contractor was Brassey & Ogilvie and the ironworks...

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Chester Cathedral

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Polychronicon, a monument to Thomas Brassey (a civil engineering contractor who died in 1870), designed by Blomfield and made by Wagmuller, a monument to...

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Romanian Naval Forces

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147 Earl Thomas Allnutt Brassey, Brassey's Annual: The Armed Forces Year-book, Volume 58, Praeger Publishers, 1947, p. 259 Frederick Thomas Jane, Jane's...

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Largest and heaviest animals

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September 2008. Bates, Karl T.; Falkingham, Peter L.; Macaulay, Sophie; Brassey, Charlotte; Maidment, Susannah C.R. (2015). "Downsizing a giant: re-evaluating...

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Kew Railway Bridge

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bridge, which was given Grade II listed structure protection in 1983, was designed by W. R. Galbraith and built by Brassey & Ogilvie for the London and South...

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River Weaver

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built in brown bricks with a cast-iron central arch, was built for the Birkenhead, Lancs & Cheshire Junction Railway by the contractor Thomas Brassey...

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History of submarines

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Moore. Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U. S. and Soviet Submarines. Brassey's, Washington DC, 2004. ISBN 1574885944 Preston, Antony...

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Shrewsbury railway station

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contractor was Thomas Brassey. The building is unusual, in that the station was extended between 1899 and 1903 by the construction of a new floor underneath...

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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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Wenger, J Michael (1995). Rain of Ruin: a Photographic History of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's. ISBN 978-1-57488-033-5. OCLC 31969557...

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World War II

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The Brassey's Book of Military Blunders. Brassey's. ISBN 978-1-57488-252-0. Reinhardt, Klaus (1992). Moscow – The Turning Point: The Failure of Hitler's...

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Hastings

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features a Durbar Hall, donated by Lord Brassey; the hall contains displays focusing on the Indian subcontinent and the Brassey Family. The Fishermen's Museum...

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Invention of the integrated circuit

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our world. Brassey's. p. 8. ISBN 978-0-028-81029-4. Weik, M. H., ed. (1955). "Computers with names starting with E through H". A Survey of Domestic Electronic...

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Oceania

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The coral reefs of the South Pacific are low-lying structures that have built up on basaltic lava flows under the ocean's surface. One of the most dramatic...

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Aylesford

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variety of specialist businesses that include engineering, manufacturing, wholesale and others. Henry Arthur Brassey (1840–1891) was a great benefactor of Aylesford...

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Djibouti

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Retrieved 24 September 2016. Anthony Clayton, 'France, Soldiers, and Africa,' Brassey's, 1988, 388. "Djibouti Is Hot". Bloomberg.com. Archived from the original...

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Robert the Bruce

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William Brassey Hole in the entrance foyer, including a large example of Bruce marshalling his men at Bannockburn. A bust of Bruce is in the Hall of Heroes...

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