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  • An engineer and antiquarian, Clark worked for Isambard Kingdom Brunel on the Great Western Railway. In 1852 he became a trustee of the Dowlais Ironworks, effectively controlling the works until his death. He was deeply committed to improving the appalling living conditions of the town and was Chairman of the Board of Guardians, of Merthyr Tydfil Poor Law Union, as well as the Local Board of Health.
George Thomas Clark (1809-1898), by Joseph Edwards
Crew of the HMS Tara in hospital in Alexandria, Egypt, following their rescue, March 1916
  • The engineer Thomas Telford (1757-1834) used this chair at the George Hotel, Bangor, where he stayed during the construction of the Menai Bridge, 1819-1826.
Chair used by Thomas Telford at the George Hotel, Bangor, 1819-1826
  • The following illustrations by Richard Eustace Tickell are taken from the volume 'The Vale of Nantgwilt - A Submerged Valley' (1894). Eustace Tickell was the civil engineer who supervised the construction of the Pen-y-garreg dam which formed part of the Elan Valley waterworks scheme of 1892. In his introduction, Tickell gave the following reasons for publishing the volume: 'The object of this book is to commemorate scenes in one of the most charming valleys in Great Britain. Scenes which are soon to be lost for ever, submerged beneath the waters of a series of lakes, which, by a colossal engineering undertaking, are about to be constructed for the purpose of supplying water to the city of Birmingham, nearly eighty miles away. The Vale of Nantgwilt lies at the junction of the rivers Elan and Claerwen on the borders of Radnor and Brecon, to the west of the Wye, into which the Elan falls near the little market town of Rhayader. In this neighbourhood upwards of 45,000 acres of land have been acquired by the Corporation of Birmingham under Act of Parliament ...'
Richard Eustace Tickell, 'The Vale of Nantgwilt: a submerged valley ...' (1894), frontispiece [image 1 of 14]
  • This pamphlet was published in 1849 and provides an account of the engineering works involved in the construction of the Britannia Bridge across the Menai Straits. The bridge was designed by Robert Stephenson, son of the locomotive pioneer George Stephenson, and was built to carry trains from the mainland to Anglesey. The construction of this 'tubular bridge' posed a number of difficult engineering challenges. The two iron tubes, which measured 472 feet long and weighed around 1800 tons each, were floated into position, then raised by hydraulic pumps to their final destination.
The Triumph of Science. An account of the Grand Flotation of one of the Monster Tubes over the Menai Straits, Britannia Bridge (1849) [image 1 of 10]
Letter regarding the delivery of rails from Dowlais Ironworks to Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 2 November 1836