Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide, 1913

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Bradshaw's was a series of railway timetables and travel guide books published by W. J. Adams of London. George Bradshaw initiated the series in 1839. The Bradshaw's range of titles continued after his death in 1853 until 1961. [11] [12] Television series [ edit ] Guilcher, G. (2001), "Les guides Bradshaw (Londres et Manchester 1844-1939), notes bibliographiques", Lettre du Marché du livre (in French), Paris, no.79, pp.6–9 Austria-Hungary, Budapest, Bratislava, Vienna, Salzburg, Salzkammergut and Lehár Villa at Bad Ischl. Gadsby, John (1885). "Bradshaw". Notes and Queries. London: John C. Francis. 11 (6th Series) (262): 15–16. ISSN 0029-3970– via Internet Archive.

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Bradshaw's continental [afterw.] monthly continental railway, steam navigation & conveyance guide. June 1847 - July/Oct. 1939 , Volume 1 1847 [LeatherBound] He married Martha Derbyshire on 15 May 1839 and they had six children. While touring Norway in 1853, he contracted cholera and died in Kristiana (now Oslo) on 6 September, a mere 8 hours after first showing symptoms of the disease. [5] As a local law prohibited the return of his body to England, he was interred in the Gamlebyen cemetery, about a mile from Oslo Cathedral. His gravestone is on the left by the gate near Oslo hospital. [6] [7] [8] [9] Wagner, Leipzig, Braunschweig, beer, Hamburg, the model railway at Miniatur Wunderland, the rivalry between Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany and his uncle King Edward VII at the Kiel Week yacht races, and how British yachtsmen spied on the German navy. And, just like the second Mrs de Winter says in Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, “Some people have the vice of reading Bradshaws. They plan innumerable journeys across country for the fun of linking up impossible connections.” Guilty as charged.

One of the world's oldest roller-coasters in Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens, the Øresund Bridge linking Denmark to Sweden, Vladimir Lenin, Lund, a smörgåsbord, a Highland Fling in Gothenburg, the Volvo, and Norway's heritage of plays, paintings and polar exploration. The Mediterranean coast, Meres Lyonnaises, the omelette, the Palais de la Bourse, the assassination of Marie François Sadi Carnot, tandem cycling, the Tour de France, light aircraft, Avignon, the lavender fields of Provence, Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Arles, the mistral and supertankers. Bradshaw's Continental [afterw.] Monthly Continental Railway, Steam Navigation & Conveyance Guide. June 1847 - July/Oct. 1939. Special Ed [Soft Cover ] Great Continental Railway Journeys is a British television documentary series presented by Michael Portillo. [1] In the early series, Portillo explores the railway networks of continental Europe, but in later series he also ventured further afield. He refers to a 1913 copy of Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide, as he describes how the places he visits have changed since Edwardian times. The first series was originally broadcast on BBC Two in 2012, and the seventh series was first aired in 2020. The Spanish Civil War, the Balearic island of Mallorca, a 1912 vintage railway and a 1913 tram, a Catalan people tower, how to make paella, Antoni Gaudí, the Sagrada Família, and the art nouveau Palace of Catalan Music.

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Bradshaw was born at Windsor Bridge, Pendleton, in Salford, Lancashire. On leaving school he was apprenticed to an engraver named Beale in Manchester, and in 1820 he set up his own engraving business in Belfast, returning to Manchester in 1822 to set up as an engraver and printer, principally of maps. [2]

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