The Industrial Revolution

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Identifikator:: 1027928145

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-159926

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Cunningham, William http://d-nb.info/gnd/128907487

Title:: The Industrial Revolution

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: The University Press

Year of publication:: 1922

Scope:: xxii S., S. 404-886

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS 535 fe 2 4 ul ir Ww is is 18 dad a more favourable view of the situation, and Messrs Child, ADJ by successive advances which amounted in all to £25,000, enabléd him to complete this second undertaking. Brindley was next employed upon the Grand Junction and the canal, which was eagerly promoted by the Wedgwoods. For ra certain branches of the pottery manufacture, materials were Jirciom required which had to be brought considerable distances— eagerly ’. flints from the Eastern Counties and clay from Devonshire and Cornwall? Several of the leading proprietors in Cheshire and Staffordshire were eager to carry out a scheme for opening up their estates by making a water-way, which should start from the Duke's canal near Runcorn on the Mersey, and connect with the Trent at Wilne, near Derby, and also with the Severn at Stourport. It more than realised the most sanguine expectations, as it reduced the cost of cartiage to about one-fourth of what it had beens. Cheshire salt could be manufactured on a much larger scale, and the Potteries benefited enormously, not only by the improved means of obtaining materials, but by the increased facilities for the safe transport of brittle wares. The development of internal navigation was of immense importance to manufactures of every kind¢, but it also gave The roads an incentive to agricultural improvement; it was possible to Lm convey produce to more distant and better markets®. This kad ben kind of advantage accrued, in an even greater degree,/all ino isrepair through successful efforts to rescue the roads of the country from the frightful state of disrepair into which they had been allowed to fall in the later middle ages. Till the time of Philip and Mary, the maintenance of the roads had been for the most part a matter of private benevolence, and during the fifteenth and sixfeenth centuries, they appear to have decayed. In the time of Philip and Mary, parish surveyors® were instituted, whose business it was to enforce the necessary labour from each parish. The justices had pewer to punish the neglect of surveyors and to assess the t Smiles, op. cit. 1. 398. 2 Id., op. cst. 1. 425. 3 Id., op. cit. 1. 447. 4 Whitworth (op. cit. p. 86) gives an interesting account of the local manu- factures which would benefit by his proposed canal. 8 Id., op. cit. p. 81. 8 2 and 8 Philip and Mary, ¢. 8. The Bedfordshire Quarter Sessions Records, 1650—1660 have frequent complaints of parishes not appointing surveyors. See 11so Atkinson, Yorkshire Quarter Sessions Records.

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