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L. T. C. Rolt

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scientist, and with them see the picture whole, he could share their sense of mastery and confidence, and believe wholeheartedly in material progress. But so soon as science and the arts became divorced, so soon as they ceased to speak a common language, confidence vanished, and doubts and fears came crowding in.
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as "An exceptionally original collection of ghost stories ... Rolt had the special talent of combining folkloric spontaneity with artful sophistication." Several of Rolt's stories were anthologised; they were also adapted as radio dramas. His "Winterstoke" (1954) is a unique perspective on the
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Men spoke in one breath of the arts and sciences, and to the man of intelligence and culture it seemed essential that he should keep himself abreast of developments in both spheres. ... So long as the artist or the man of culture had been able to advance shoulder to shoulder with engineer and
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in the English car industry, claiming that "mass production methods must develop towards the ultimate end , although by doing so, they involve either the supersession of men by machines or a continual expansion of production". His preference for traditional craftsmanship helps to explain his
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South), a former actress. During the war she had become one of the amateur boatwomen who worked the canals and had married a boatman. She had been on the council of the IWA. They had two sons, Tim and Dick, and continued to live in Stanley Pontlarge until Rolt's death in 1974.
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The inland waterways of Britain were nationalised in 1947 and faced an uncertain future. The traditional life that Rolt had described seemed to be threatened with extinction. Rolt pioneered direct action on the
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From the period of 1958 onwards, Rolt was commissioned by many engineering companies to document their history. Many of these are unpublished internal documents; only the published works are listed here.
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of 1898. However, Lionel Rolt lost most of his money in 1920 after investing his capital in a company that failed, and the family moved to a pair of stone cottages in
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from closing it; organised a hugely successful Inland Waterways Exhibition, which started in London but toured the country; and proposed the first boat rally at
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Rolt observed the changes in society resulting from the industrial-scientific revolution. In the epilogue to his biography of Brunel he wrote, two years before
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and fitted it with a steam engine. Then, having discovered that the steam made steering through tunnels impossible, he replaced the engine with a
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Rolt became a full-time writer in 1939. The 1950s were Rolt's most prolific time as an author. His best-known works were biographies of
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and railways. In his later years he produced three volumes of autobiography, only one of which was published during his lifetime.
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had an immediate success with critics and public, leading to fan mail arriving at the Rolts' boat, which was then moored at
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During the summer of 1939 Rolt and Angela decided to defy her father's objections and married in secret on 11 July. Work on
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After Kerr Stuart went into liquidation in 1930, Rolt became jobless and turned to vintage sports cars, taking part in the
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from his uncle and set about converting her into a boat that could be lived on, the most notable addition being a bath.
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to an end and return to his family home in Stanley Pontlarge. Angela departed to continue the mobile life, joining
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In 1958, Rolt gave the first Brunel lecture in the newly renamed Brunel College of Technology, later to become
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after working on a cattle station in Australia and a plantation in India, and joining (unsuccessfully) in the
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to a line of Rolts "dedicated to hunting and procreation". His father Lionel had settled back in Britain in
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and at the age of 16 he took a job learning about steam traction, before starting an apprenticeship at the
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engine. He was saved from the tedium of the production line by the offer of a job in a bell foundry at
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intervened and Rolt, a pacifist at heart, immediately signed up at the Rolls-Royce factory at
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through storms, reaching Banbury a day before the canals were frozen over for the winter.
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The Rolts' first four-month cruise was described in a book that Rolt initially called
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Rolt bought into a motor garage partnership next to the Phoenix public house in
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Slater, J.N., ed. (July 1974). "Notes and News: Death of L. T. C. Rolt".
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Shadows in the Attic: A Guide to British supernatural fiction, 1820-1950
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Rolt's work (arranged by topic in rough chronological order) includes:
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made similar statements about the split between the arts and sciences:
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A Hunslet Hundred: One Hundred Years of Locomotive Building by the
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Oxford Canal, Banbury. Bridge 164 carrying Compton Road over canal
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that Rolt's book was published, in December 1944, under the title
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Red for Danger: A History of Railway Accidents and Railway Safety
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two seater "duck's back" that he kept for the rest of his life.
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Waterloo Ironworks: A History of Taskers of Andover, 1809–1968
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development of modern Britain from the Feudal system via the
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engine. This was Rolt's introduction to the canal system.
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in Hampshire. Its breakdown vehicle was an adapted 1911
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The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and The Supernatural
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The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural
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in Cheshire. A blue plaque to Rolt was unveiled in at
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It is now in the National Railway Museum at Shildon
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The Balloonists: The History of the First Aeronauts
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Tools for the Job: a Short History of Machine Tools
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London: IPC Transport Press Ltd: 364. 1094:(1971, Longman), first part of autobiography 750:bears his name (in commemoration of his book 354:contains a diatribe against the emergence of 8: 1161:(1954), history of a fictional Midlands town 1153:Horseless Carriage: The Motor Car in England 1025:, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA: MIT Press, 135:Industrial history, Biography, Ghost stories 2071:Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature 1744: 1730: 1722: 1529:Historical Dictionary of Gothic Literature 754:), as does a centre at the boat museum at 31: 1531:. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 212. 1392:. National Railway Museum. Archived from 995:of Millbank: The First Seventy-Five Years 542:in 1950 resulted in the formation of the 2016:20th-century English short story writers 631:. These were modelled after the work of 430:in Wiltshire. The Rolts headed south in 1321: 1213:Closeup of bridge parapet showing name 1191: 554:(1953), which became the basis for the 437:In March 1940 the Rolts negotiated the 143:Railways, waterways, industrial history 1390:"Vehicles of all descriptions welcome" 692:Association for Industrial Archaeology 418:to work on the production line of the 1522: 1520: 1518: 1228:Plaque attached to retaining wall of 544:Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society 7: 1621:. University of Bath. Archived from 1107:(1977), second part of autobiography 971:: The Prehistory of the Steam Engine 1310:History of the British canal system 1980:Slate Landscape of Northwest Wales 367:In 1936 Kyrle Willans bought back 14: 2021:20th-century English male writers 1645:"L. T. C. (Tom) Rolt (1910–1974)" 1619:"Honorary Graduates 1966 to 1988" 1420:. London: Constable. p. 120. 2101:English male non-fiction writers 2091:English male short story writers 1289: 1275: 1253: 1237: 1221: 1206: 1194: 1022:A Short History of Machine Tools 931:, Father of the Steam Locomotive 806:(1950, George Allen & Unwin) 690:. He was a joint founder of the 16:English historian and biographer 2026:20th-century English historians 2011:20th-century English memoirists 1649:Oxfordshire Blue Plaques Scheme 1555:British Library, London, 2000. 804:The Inland Waterways of England 666:Rolt was vice-president of the 481:. Two of the letters were from 648:dissolution of the monasteries 536:A letter Rolt had sent to the 190:Richard (1953), Timothy (1955) 1: 1376:Tom Rolt and the Cressy Years 1003:(Part I, 1962; Part II, 1973) 696:Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust 678:Committee; an honorary MA of 346:in 1934. He also founded the 1974:Railway with a Heart of Gold 1963:Great Little Trains of Wales 1378:. 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Co-edition published as 864:), with Patrick Whitehouse 826:; rpt. 1973 by Hutchinson 742:A bridge (no. 164) on the 225:Lionel Thomas Caswall Rolt 45:Lionel Thomas Caswall Rolt 18: 1953:Corris Railway Grand Tour 1598:"The Newcomen Rolt Prize" 933:(1960, Lutterworth Press) 682:; an honorary MSc of the 503:Stratford-upon-Avon Canal 207: 1527:Hughes, William (2013). 1447:"L.T.C. Rolt Collection" 1232:on mooring side of canal 944:: The Railway Revolution 798:George Allen & Unwin 654:Achievements and honours 561:The Titfield Thunderbolt 340:Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost 227:(usually abbreviated to 177:Angela Orred (1939–1951) 2041:English autobiographers 1092:Landscape with Machines 1036:Rolt, L. T. C. 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M & M Baldwin. 1431:David Bolton (1990). 1332:No 59086, 11 May 1974 1283:United Kingdom portal 1167:(1955), travel essays 1146:(1949, Robert Hale), 1138:(1948), ghost stories 1117:The Landscape Trilogy 1105:Landscape with Canals 1069:Victorian Engineering 838:From Sea to Sea: The 728: 717: 661: 381: 268:Tom Rolt was born in 21:Tom Rolt (locomotive) 1416:Rolt, L T C (1950). 1173:(1966; rpt. 2006 as 1130:High Horse Riderless 927:Giant: The Story of 814:from Mouth to Source 737:High Horse Riderless 615:Rolt also published 410:The outbreak of the 295:locomotive works in 284:in Gloucestershire. 198:Lionel Rolt (father) 164:Newcastle University 2036:English biographers 2031:People from Chester 1148:County Books series 975:David & Charles 889:(1964, H. 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Index

Tom Rolt (locomotive)
Thomas Rolt
Chester
Stanley Pontlarge
Cheltenham College
Narrow Boat
Newcastle University
University of Bath
Sonia Smith
www.ltcrolt.org.uk
civil engineering
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Thomas Telford
vintage cars
heritage railways
Chester
Hay-on-Wye
Klondike Gold Rush
Stanley Pontlarge
Cheltenham College
Kerr Stuart
Stoke-on-Trent
Kyrle Willans
flyboat
Ford Model T
veteran run to Brighton
Alvis 12/50
Hartley Wintney
Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost
Vintage Sports-Car Club

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