Book description
Fred Dibnah was a man born out of his time. His era should have been
the 'magnificent age of British engineering' - the nineteenth century
- and his heroes were the great industrial engineers of the period
whose prolific innovations and dedicated work ethic inspired a
national mood of optimism and captured the hearts of the British
public.
Fred Dibnah's Victorian Heroes tells the stories of some of
these men - including George and Robert Stephenson, Isambard Kingdom
Brunel and Joseph Whitworth - and what it was that made them such
inspirational figures to Fred. What were their backgrounds? Where did
their drive and vision come from? What sort of people were they at
work and at home? And what was their contribution to the history of
industry and engineering?
Most of them - like Fred - were colourful, larger-than-life
characters for whom no challenge was too great. Taking these
fascinating characters as inspiration, Fred Dibnah's Victorian
Heroes gets to the very heart of what allowed nineteenth-century
Britannia to rule the waves . . .
David Hall
was Fred Dibnah's TV producer for many years, as well as a close
personal friend. He made all of the most recent television series and is
also the producer of
Fred Dibnah's World
. He is the author of
Fred: The Definitive Biography of Fred Dibnah
,
Fred Dibnah's Buildings of Britain
,
Fred Dibnah's Made in Britain
and
Manchester's Finest
, an account of life in Manchester in the aftermath of the Munich air
disaster.
