[email protected] wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:31 > Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Llangollen Canal > > [email protected] wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Mack, David <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Pete wrote: > >> > >>Take care over there everybody please (:-) > > > > Like this? > > http://grandunioncanalcarrying.co.uk/march03/march03048.jpg > > > Don't jump Martin! > The things that man will do for a story :-) > >"...and looking at the blur of gray as Telford's (*) masterpiece accelerates > past me at a dizzying 9.81 m/s/s, it's hard to believe that this is over 200 > years... crump." > >(*) or Jessop's. Take your pick. And your stonemason's chisel, mallet, > >trowel... > ========================================================================= > Isn't there a story that a local ironmaster was the real brains behind the > aqueduct and that Telford took the credit? > I've not heard that. William Hazeldine was the ironmaster who supplied the ironwork, and had already had some input into the designs before he got the contract, but the only person I've heard it suggested that Telford may have unfairly taken credit from as the 'main man' was Jessop.
One of Charles Hadfields last books, 'Thomas Telford's Temptation' goes into this issue, but it's a long time since I read it. Martin L
