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Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide, 1891. Bradshaw's Handbook for Tourists in Great Britain and Ireland, 1882. Bradshaw's was a series of railway timetables and travel guide books published by W.J. Adams and later Henry Blacklock, both of London. They are named after founder George Bradshaw, who produced his first timetable in October 1839.
George Bradshaw (29 July 1800 – 6 September 1853) was an English cartographer, printer and publisher. He developed Bradshaw's Guide, a widely sold series of combined railway guides and timetables.
John Jacob Holtzapffel (1768–1835) English school, c. 1805. Moving to London from Alsace in 1792, Jean-Jacques worked initially in the workshop of the scientific-instrument maker Jesse Ramsden, anglicizing his name to John Jacob Holtzapffel. In 1794 he set up a tool-making partnership in Long Acre with Francis Rousset, trading under the name ...
William Bradshaw. William, Bill or Billy Bradshaw may refer to: William Bradshaw (Puritan) (1571–1618), English Puritan. William Bradshaw (MP), Welsh politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1604 to 1611. William Bradshaw (writer) (fl. 1700), British hack writer. William Bradshaw (bishop) (1671–1732), bishop of Bristol.
Bradshaw's Guide to Victoria The British Bradshaw's Guide was an early compiled timetable, including all known public railways in Great Britain. The Wikipedia Bradshaw's Guide page also lists a number of other countries that issued compiled timetables, borrowing the Bradshaw name from the British model: France, Germany and Austria, India, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Syria and Turkey. In ...
The Australasian shoveler (Spatula rhynchotis) is a species of dabbling duck in the family Anatidae. It is native to southwestern and southeastern Australia, including Tasmania, and New Zealand. It ranges in length from 46 to 53 centimetres (18 to 21 inches) and lives in heavily vegetated swamps. This male Australasian shoveler was photographed ...
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is a 2018 historical romantic drama film directed by Mike Newell and written by Kevin Hood, Don Roos and Tom Bezucha, based on the 2008 novel of the same name by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows.
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