Last Updated on April 23, 2026
“Mr. Rolt at the full height of his powers… animates the scene with life just as though some old print started out of its pages
JOHN BETJEMAN, DAILY TELEGRAPH
“Mr. Rolt writes faithfully and thoroughly of Telford’s work and achievements. He brings to their interpretation the outlook of an engineer, something from which his book benefits greatly’
SIR ARTHUR ELTON, THE SUNDAY TIMES
*A most readable and enjoyable book, for Mr Rolt manages to bring and keep Telford alive… a feat which has hitherto defeated his biographers’
LISTENER
*Mr Rolt realises from the start that what makes Telford important is what he did, not what he was … an original writer on fresh themes; he knows his subject inside out’
THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
The son of a shepherd from the Scottish borders, Thomas Telford rose to be the greatest engineer in Victorian Britain, whose bridges, aqueducts, roads and canals combined aesthetic grace with brilliant engineering. His life spanned one of the most dynamic periods in British history, the decades of the industrial revolution, and no one contributed more to making Britain the ‘workshop of the world.
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