Lionel Thomas Caswall Rolt (usually abbreviated to Tom Rolt or L. T. C. Rolt) (11 February 1910 – 9 May 1974) was a prolific English writer and the biographer...
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Rolt (British Army officer), (died 1856) Cecil Rolt, Dean of Cape Town Sir John Rolt (1804–1871), English lawyer and Attorney-General L. T. C. Rolt,...
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river navigations. Notable founding members included L. T. C. Rolt and Robert Aickman. In 1944, Tom Rolt published his book Narrow Boat, which reflected on...
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List of horror fiction writers (section L)
(1959–2014, US) Don Roff (born 1966, US) Ian Rogers (born 1976, Canada) L. T. C. Rolt (1910–1974, England) Ray Russell (1924–1999, US) Joanna Russ (1937–2011...
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List of people from Chester (section T)
Radford, actor Paul Raynor (footballer born 1957) Bill Rigby footballer L. T. C. Rolt, biographer, engineer, writer and canal enthusiast Gary Roberts (footballer...
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L. T. C. Rolt. Originally published in 1944 by Eyre & Spottiswoode, it has continuously been in print since. It describes a four-month trip that Rolt...
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became an 0-4-2T and was named Tom Rolt after the author L. T. C. Rolt who inspired the Talyllyn's preservation. Tom Rolt is running in the standard Talyllyn...
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book Railway Adventure by established railway book author L. T. C. Rolt, published in 1953. Rolt had acted as honorary manager for the volunteer enthusiasts...
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North) station on the Great Northern Railway, on 9 June 1866. According to L T C Rolt, "from the point of view of damage to engines and rolling stock it was...
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Know | DFT Valves". DFT Valves. 6 March 2018. Retrieved 22 June 2018. L. T. C. Rolt and J. S. Allen, The Steam Engine of Thomas Newcomen (Landmark Publishing...
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2 ft 3 in (686 mm) was relatively uncommon; in his book Railway Adventure, L. T. C. Rolt states that apart from the Talyllyn, the only public railways to use...
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John Masefield, H. J. Massingham, George Orwell, J. B. Priestley, L. T. C. Rolt, Siegfried Sassoon, Evelyn Waugh, John Moore and P. G. Wodehouse. The...
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for leisure. A large amount of credit for this is usually given to L. T. C. Rolt, whose book Narrow Boat about a journey made in the narrowboat Cressy...
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pompous engine's train. Notes This book was written at the suggestion of L. T. C. Rolt and was based upon the Talyllyn Railway.[citation needed] The story...
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List of non-fiction writers (section L)
Rollinson (1884–1948, US, T/Nh) L. T. C. Rolt (1910–1974, England, T/Bg); Narrow Boat Isabella Frances Romer (1798–1852, England, T/Bg) Emma Romeu (living...
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(1946–2013) American architect, preservationist, South Beach Miami) L. T. C. Rolt (1910–1974) English writer, Biographer, Preservationist) Nancy (Boyd)...
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century or the early twentieth. It was given wider use by the late L. T. C. Rolt, who used it in his book about canal life, Narrow Boat, in 1944. A gawn...
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barge History of the British canal system Houseboat Lighter (barge) L. T. C. Rolt Pleasure craft Widebeam "Why more people are choosing to live on canal...
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Duff, and many later sources cite Dugan's work. Other authors, notably L. T. C. Rolt in his biography of Brunel, have dismissed the claim (noting such a...
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boat's headlamp and water cans. In The Inland Waterways of England, L. T. C. Rolt described how boatmen would gladly decorate any part of their vessel...
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Perfection. Oxford University Press. pp. 28–29. ISBN 978-0-19-514287-7. L. T. C. Rolt (1982). Isambard Kingdom Brunel. Penguin Books. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-14-021195-5...
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English children's writer and illustrator (died 1988) February 11 – L. T. C. Rolt, English biographer and writer of ghost stories (died 1974) February...
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tunnel before its restoration was the Rolt/Aickman expedition in the Ailsa Craig in 1948. Writing in 1948, L. T. C. Rolt described the journey as taking two...
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the dominant language in Tywyn until the middle of the 20th century. L T C Rolt in his book 'Railway Adventure' recounts walking up the track of the Talyllyn...
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and travelling in Great Britain Samuel Smiles (1867) Thomas Telford L. T. C. Rolt, Longmans (1958) Thomas Telford, Penguin (1979), ISBN 0-14-022064-X...
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collections of ghostly stories by such writers as R. H. Malden, A. N. L. Munby, L. T. C. Rolt, Margery Lawrence, and Eleanor Scott. It also has published newly...
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Stone in November 2000, aged 114 Sarah Ward (1895–1965), politician L. T. C. Rolt, (1910 – 1974) author of ‘Narrowboat’ and several engineering biographies...
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Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge. ISBN 0-521-09418-6. L. T. C. Rolt and J. S. Allen, The Steam Engine of Thomas Newcomen (Landmark Publishing...
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collection Couching at the Door: Strange and Macabre Tales (1942). L. T. C. Rolt also modelled his ghost stories on James's work, but, unlike other Jamesian...
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Vauxhall, London, on 25 May 1824. An account of his death is given by L. T. C. Rolt, who states that it is likely that as gas gradually escaped from the...
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