INDEX 



Accidents on railways : 442-3 

 Acworth, W. M. : 425, 426 

 Aeroplanes : 504-6 

 Agricultural Organisation Society : 



Agriculture: 16, 74, 85, 89, 164, 

 179, 192, 353, 355, 497, 507 



Aikin, Dr. : 49, 91, 142, 169, 185 



Ale, Burton : 178 



Alldridge, T. J. : 403 



Amalgamated Society of Railway 

 Servants : 446, 447, 512 



Amber : 6-7, 26 



Ambulance corps on railways : 444 



Anderson, Dr James : 229 



Andred- Weald, The : 4, 8 



Aqueducts on Canals : 304 



Arkwright, Sir Richard : 187, 188 



Armstrong (Newcastle) University : 

 427 



Ashley, W. J. : 18, 19 



Ask with, Sir George : 452 



Assizes of ale, bread and cloth : 19 



Associated Society of Locomotive 

 Engineers and Firemen : 447 



Association of Railway Companies' 

 Signal Superintendents : 429 



Association of Railway Locomotive 

 Engineers : 429 



Australia, Railways in : 402 



Automobile Association and Motor 

 Union : 479, 503 



Automobilism : See "Motor -ve- 

 hicles." 



Badeslade, Thomas : 119-20 



Bagmen : 16 



Bailey, John : 207, 208 



Baines, Thomas: 136, 138, 141, 



157, 165, 178, 180, 184, 236 

 Balfour of Burleigh, Lord : 338 

 Barber, H. C : 505-6 

 Bartholomew Fair : 27 



Bawtry : Classed as a seaport, 1 1 1 ; 

 port of consignment for Shef- 

 field goods, 123-4, 148-9 



Beal, C. G. : 448 



Beasley, A. : 261 ., 290 n. 



Bedford, The Duke of: 254 



Benevolent contributions, Rail- 

 way companies' : 440-1 



Bequests for road repairs : 12 



Birkenshaw, John : 206 



Birmingham : Coach communica- 

 tion, 54-5 ; trade conditions, 

 90-1 ; cost of road transport 

 to London, 160; Birmingham 

 Canal, 184, 236-7, 298-9, 301, 

 302, 307, 495 ; London and 

 Birmingham Rly. , 249-52 



Bishopsgate Goods Station : 392-4 



Board of Trade and Railways : 259, 

 268, 269, 271, 275, 277, 279, 

 282, 338, 353, 356, 440, 443, 

 446, 448, 450, 492, 509 



Boonen, Guylliam : 37 



Bourn, Daniel : 45-7, 66 



Boyle, Courtenay, Sir : 338 



Bradfield, J. E. : 316, 333-4 



Brereton, R. M. : 317 



Bridge friars : 12, 13 



Bridges: II, 13 



Bridgewater, Francis, Duke of: 

 139, 167-72, 173, 221, 231, 



295 



Bridgnorth : Transit port on the 

 Severn, 115; route for pottery 

 goods, 159; Manchester goods, 

 161 



Brindley, James : 130, 167-8, 171, 

 173, 174, 295 



Bristol: Early prosperity of, 112; 

 trade done by Bristol mer- 

 chants, 116; Lancashire goods 

 exported via the Severn and 

 Bristol, 161 



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