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In this book, the first full-length biography of Tom Rolt and a complement to his auto-biographical Landscape trilogy, Victoria Owens draws upon his surviving.

Explores the life of a young engineer turned prolific writer, chronicling Britain's industrial heritage through adversity and literary success.

Lionel Thomas Caswall Rolt (usually abbreviated to Tom Rolt or L. T. C. Rolt) (11 February – 9 May ) was a prolific English writer and the.

Lionel Thomas Caswell (Tom) Rolt was born in Chester in After serving engineering apprenticeships, setting up a garage business, and helping to.

The site of LTC Rolt, writer and engineer, his life and books.

Lionel Thomas Caswall Rolt (usually abbreviated to Tom Rolt or L. T. C. Rolt) (11 February – 9 May ) was a prolific English writer and the....

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Life

(1910 - 1974)

Most of the story of Tom Rolt's life is manifest in the books he wrote, but it is worth highlighting his pioneering work and enthusiasms in so many different fields.

Tom Rolt was one of the first people in modern Britain to draw attention to the value of our canals as a means of transport and a source of pleasure.

Britain's network of canals, so important in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, had been neglected and almost forgotten in the twentieth and was in danger of total extinction. In 1946, Tom, along with a group of of enthusiasts inspired by his book Narrow Boat, founded the Inland Waterways Association (IWA) to restore and revitalise canals.

Lionel Thomas Caswall Rolt was a prolific English writer and the biographer of major civil engineering figures, including Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Thomas Telford.

As with canals, so with neglected railways. Rolt set up the first organisation to save and run a railway with a mainly volunteer workforce. The Talyllyn Railway Preservation Society was established in 1951 to save the Talyllyn Railway in mid-Wales.

A lover of craftsmanship in