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Today service industries predominate in Chester such as tourism, retail, public administration and financial services. This was not always the case, given the city's location on the River Dee and its strategic military position. Chester was a port with ancillary industries from Roman times. In he mid-eighteenth century the port declined due to silting of the Dee and the rise of Liverpool. However, some port-related industries remained and a reduced amount of shipping continued into the twentieth century. The 1770s saw the opening of the Chester Canal and, in 1799, the lead works was developed. The arrival of the railways saw Chester become a transport hub with three locomotive depots and an LNWR wagon works. Other industries that subsequently developed included the Hydraulic Engineering Company, the Westminster Coach and Motor Works, the aluminium manufacturer Williams & Williams and Brookhurst Switchgear Ltd. In Chester at Work Stanley Jenkins and Stewart Shuttleworth trace the changes in the city's working life from its pre-industrial beginnings, through the Industrial Revolution and right up to the present day. This book will be of interest to those who know the city and want to discover more about its rich heritage from an industrial and social perspective.
About the Author: Stewart Shuttleworth worked as a clinical psychologist. He volunteered on the Lakeside heritage railway and wrote Lancaster & Morecambe Tramways. He founded the Chester Canal Heritage Trust and is a trustee of Chester Model Rail Club. He moved to Chester in 1982 and is a volunteer archivist at the Boat Museum. Stanley C. Jenkins, who was educated at Witney Grammar School, the University of Lancaster, and the University of Leicester, has written more than 20 books and some 750 articles on local, transport, and regional history. Having worked as an English Language teacher at Oxford Air Training School for several years, he returned to Leicester University to retrain as a museum curator in 1986, and was subsequently employed by English Heritage as the Regional Curator for South Western England. He is Curatorial Advisor to the Witney & District Museum, and is also working as a curator for the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Trust, which is at present building a military museum at Woodstock.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781445691435
  • Publisher: Amberley Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Amberley Publishing
  • Height: 231 mm
  • No of Pages: 96
  • Series Title: At Work
  • Sub Title: People and Industries Through the Years
  • Width: 163 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1445691434
  • Publisher Date: 15 Oct 2019
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Weight: 607 gr


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