• 2012
  • 1h
How Britain Worked

Summary Guy Martin celebrates the workers of the Industrial Revolution by getting stuck into six of the country's biggest restoration projects, bringing some of the 19th century's most impressive engineering achievements back to life. View more details

  • 2012
  • 1h

How Britain Worked

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Bernard Hill Guy Martin Charles Doble

All cast & crew

8.6

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Oct 20, 2012

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : Official site

Language : English

Summary Guy Martin celebrates the workers of the Industrial Revolution by getting stuck into six of the country's biggest restoration projects, bringing some of the 19th century's most impressive engineering achievements back to life. View more details

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Oct 20, 2012

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : Official site

Language : English

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How Britain Worked (2012) Guy Martin in How Britain Worked (2012) Guy Martin in How Britain Worked (2012)

Episodes

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Episode 1 • Oct 20, 2012
Train
Guy helps to overhaul a steam locomotive used on the popular Severn Valley Railway, a 16-mile stretch of track in Shropshire preserved to look just as it did in the 19th century.
Episode 2 • Oct 27, 2012
Mill
Guy works to get a Yorkshire saw mill up and running again, and then use it to make a replica of one of the less-celebrated inventions of the Victorian era: the first pedal-powered bicycle.
Episode 3 • Nov 03, 2012
Seaside
Guy Martin visits Llandudno in north Wales to try to return the seaside resort to its former Victorian glory. Over the course of the winter, Guy gets stuck into restoration work on the town's pier, rebuilds an original helter-skelter and services the town's funicular tramway. He learns how the appetite for sea-bathing began when word spread that it was good for the glands and finds out how engineering developments in factories also led to a revolution in musical instruments.
Episode 4 • Nov 10, 2012
Mine
Guy Martin works on a machine that can be credited with helping to kick-start the Industrial Revolution. Joining a team from the Black Country Living Museum, he helps to restore a Newcomen engine - an 18th-century steam-powered device used principally to pump water out of mines. As the rotting timber structure is replaced, worn parts repaired, the boiler cleaned and crumbling brickwork rebuilt, the presenter also learns about the lives of the men, women and children who mined coal.
Episode 5 • Nov 17, 2012
Trawler
Guy helps restore the oldest surviving Brixham sailing trawler, the boat that launched the modern fishing industry and transformed the way a nation ate.
Episode 6 • Nov 24, 2012
Garden
Birmingham Botanical Gardens may seem an unlikely place to explore the wonders of the Industrial Revolution, but hidden behind its fragrant borders Guy Martin finds a hidden world of hi-tech Victorian engineering, show-off architecture, intrepid plant-hunters scouring the furthest corners of the Empire, and city fathers terrified of the 'degenerate' urban poor.

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