Anthony Burton

Anthony Burton
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Anthony Burton is a freelance author and broadcaster, who has specialized in industrial and transport history. He has been involved in around a hundred TV documentaries on these subjects, appearing on all the major networks. He has written biographies of some of the leading characters of the early industrial age: Thomas Telford, Richard Trevithick, Joseph Locke and Matthew Boulton, the latter with Jennifer Tann

Books By Anthony Burton (20 Books)

Around Britain by Canal
Joseph Locke
Steam Traction on the Road
Railway Empire
A Steam Engine Pilgrimage
Tracing Your Shipbuilding Ancestors
Thomas Telford
The Canal Pioneers

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The Canal Builders
The Light Railways of Britain & Ireland
The Locomotive Pioneers
The Great Western Society
Balloons and Airships
Josiah Wedgwood
George & Robert Stephenson
Mines and Miners of Cornwall and Devon
Silk, the Thread that Tied the World
The Brunels
Maritime London
London's Transport From Roman Times to the Present Day