CHAPTER THREE: Blisworth
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Bling in Northampton: | The Guardian, 15 May 2008 |
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The defence of Northampton: | Joan Wake, Northampton Vindicated OR Why the Main Line Missed the Town (1935) |
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Squire Thornton: | Wake op. cit. p 17 |
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Pulling Power: | Terry Coleman, The Railway Navvies (1965) p 34 |
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Robert Stephenson’s comment: | Quoted originally in The Iron Roads of Northamptonshire by C. A. Markham (1904). Markham says that’s what Robert Stephenson told his father. |
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The Rise of Leicester: | Jack Simmons, The Railway in Town and Country 1830-1914 (1986) |
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Maidstone, Windsor & Oxford: | Development of Transportation in Modern England by WT Jackman (1916) p 501 |
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The randies and the fighting: | Coleman op. cit. p 27 |
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Follow my leader: | ibid, p 28 |
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Great alarm in Acton & c.: | The Times, 30 November 1836 |
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The most expensive and arduous work: | The Official Illustrated Guide to the North-Western Railway by George Measom (1859) p 90 |
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A new road or an ancient fort: |
Coleman op. cit. p 34 |
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The Times on the arrival of the papers: | 18 September 1838 |
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Monopolistic overchargers: | The Victorian Economy by François Crouzet (1982) p 278 |
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The finest public transport system : | The Coaching Age by David Mountfield (1976), p 11 |
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A great snorting vehicle: | ibid, p16 |
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No coachmen became engine-drivers: | ibid, p173 |
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Harry Littler: | Stage-Coach and Mail in Days of Yore by C. G. Harper (1903) |
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The coaching inns fell silent: | Mountfield, op. cit., p 172 |
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Tempus fugit: | Stagecoach to John o’Groats by Leslie Gardiner (1961), p 187 |
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A brief revival: | Road Scrapings: Coaches and Coaching by Captain M.E Haworth (1882) p 5 |
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