Traffic and politics : the construction and management of Rochester Bridge, AD 43-1993
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Traffic and politics : the construction and management of Rochester Bridge, AD 43-1993
(Kent history project, 1)
Boydell Press , Rochester Bridge Trust, 1994
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Identifiable remains of Rochester bridge date from the Roman occupation and the records of the bridge administration span close on 200 years of economic and social change. The fortunes of the successive crossings, culminating in the Medway Tunnel project of the 1990s, reflect developments in regional and national affairs. The remarkable surviving archive of the bridge administration provides detail on practical issues such as maintainance and financial management, as well as offering a window on the personalities involved in the history of the bridge. Each of the six studies that make up this book focuses on a distinct period setting the history of this ancient river crossing in the wider national context of economic and social -and inevitably political - history.NIGEL YATES was County Archivist of Kent 1980-90, and is currently Consultant Historian to Kent County Council and General Editor of the Kent History Project.JAMES M. GIBSONis archivist for the Rochester Bridge Trust. He previously lectured in English at Houghton College, New York.NICHOLAS P. BROOKS, R.H. BRITNELL, JAMES M. GIBSON, DAVID ORMROD,JAMES PRESTON, P.F. COOPER, GLYN C. JONES. NIGEL YATES was County Archivist of Kent 1980-90, and is currently Consultant Historian to Kent County Council and General Editor of the Kent History Project.JAMES M. GIBSONis archivist for the Rochester Bridge Trust.He previously lectured in English at Houghton College, New York.NICHOLAS P. BROOKS, R.H. BRITNELL, JAMES M. GIBSON, DAVID ORMROD,JAMES PRESTON, P.F. COOPER, GLYN C. JONES.
Table of Contents
- Rochester bridge AD 43-1381, Nicholas P. Brooks - origins, sub-Roman and early Anglo-Saxon times, later Anglo-Saxon times, reconstruction of the late Anglo-Saxon bridge, the territory of the late Anglo-Saxon bridge, the bridge from 1066 to the 1380s
- Rochester bridge 1381-1530, R.H. Britnell - the new bridge, maintenance and rebuilding, income, administration
- Rochester bridge 1530-1660, James M. Gibson - decline of the medieval system, the Elizabethan commissions, the Elizabethan statutes, the civil war and commonwealth
- Rochester bridge 1660-1825, David Ormrod - the trade and navigation of the Medway valley, the management and control of bridge affairs, maintenance, repairs, and projects
- Rochester bridge 1825-1950, James Preston - planning the new bridge, building the new bridge, maintaining and modifying the new bridge, supporting the bridge - finance and the estate
- Rochester bridge 1950-1993 - an epilogue, P.F. Cooper and Glyn C. Jones. Appendices: wardens and assistants of Rochester bridge
- Rochester bridge accounts
- the Rochester bridgework list.
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