Victorian and Edwardian British Industrial Architecture (Lynn Pearson)

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Victorian and Edwardian British Industrial Architecture Chapter 4 BUILDING MATERIALS B RICKWORKS AND SAWMILLS, GLASS WORKS and tile factories, ironworks and cement works – these all produced building materials, enabling other factories to be built. Before the canals, and more importantly the railways, transporting heavy, unwieldy bulk construction material around the country was expensive and time consuming; bricks, tiles, stone and so forth were generally used in their own geological locality.…