HISTORY OF NEYLAND, including Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Lord Gordon Parry.

Brunel and his Times

1790-94 Watkin George constructed first iron girder bridge in modern world.
1800  Maudslay's precision screw-cutting lathe
    
1802  Dalton states his Atomic Theory
   1804  Beethoven's Eroica
    
1804  Richard Trevethick invents steam engine to run on rails
   
1805  Battle of Trafalgar
    1806  ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL BORN

1807  Fulton's steamboat on Hudson River
  
1811  Luddite riots
   
1812  Napoleon retreats from Moscow
   
1814  Stephenson builds the Blucher
  
1815  Battle of Waterloo
    
1817  Constable paints Flatford Mill

1820  BRUNEL GOES TO FRANCE


1820  Ampere's Laws of Electro-dynamic Action
  
1821  Faraday invents the electric motor
  
1822  BRUNEL ENTERS FATHER'S OFFICE AT 16

1823  Babbage begins his calculating machine
    
1825  Stockton and Darlington Railway opened
    
1825  William Crawshay builds Cyfarthfa Castle, merthyr Tydfil
      at cost of £30,000.00

1826  BRUNEL, ENGINEER IN CHARGE OF THAMES TUNNEL                      CONSTRUCTION

1827  Ohm's Law stated
     1829  Stephenson's Rocket wins Rainhill Trials

1830  BRUNEL WINS SECOND CLIFTON BRIDGE COMPETITION

1831  CONSTRUCTION BEGINS ON CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE

1832  First Reform Bill
   
1833  BRUNEL CARRIES OUT WORK ON BRISTOL DOCKS and
      G.W.R. ROUTE SURVEY

1834  Tolpuddle Martyrs
   
1836  BRUNEL MARRIES MARY HORSLEY

1837  Queen Victoria succeeds to throne
 
1837  BRUNEL LAUNCHES "GREAT WESTERN"

1839  People's Charter
   
1841  BRUNEL COMPLETES TAFF VALE RAILWAY

1841  Birth of Sir Henry Morton STANLEY (of Africa)
   
1841  BRUNEL OPENS LONDON TO BRISTOL LINE

1843  BRUNEL OPENS THAMES TUNNEL and LAUNCHES "GREAT               BRITAIN"

1843  List of Ships arriving in Australia
   
1848  BRUNEL COOMENCES WORK ON SALTASH BRIDGE

1848  'Year of Revolutions'
    
1849  'David Copperfield'
 
1851  'The Great Exhibition'
   
1852   BRUNEL OPENS CHEPSTOW BRIDGE

1854-5  Crimean War
    
1855  BRUNEL BUILDS PREFABRICATED HOSPITAL FOR CRIMEA

1855  Lawrence's turret lathe invented

1856  Bessemer's steel-making process
    
1858  BRUNEL LAUNCHES "GREAT EASTERN"

1859  'Origin of Species' and Tale of Two Cities'
   
1859  BRUNEL OPENS SALTASH BRIDGE
1859  BRUNEL DIES

1860's Great American Railways constructed
      Interesting Web-Sites relating to ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL which may be of use to those carrying out research into the life and times of the great man.

I K Brunel - 1  www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel.html
I K Brunel - 2  http://web.ukonline.co.uk/b.gardner/brunel/kingbrun.html
I K Brunel - 3  http://web.ukonline.co.uk/b.gardner/brunel/kingbrun.html
I K Brunel - 4  www.structurae.de/en/people/data/des0002.php
I K Brunel - 5  http://www.ss-great-britain.com/3.htm
I K Brunel - 6  http://www.ss-great-britain.com/8.htm
I K Brunel - 7  www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/greatbritons/gb_brunel_isambard.shtml
I K Brunel - 8  www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/brunel_kingdom_isambard.shtml
I K Brinel - 9   http://www.bris.ac.uk/is/services/specialcollections/brunel.html
I K Brunel - 10 www.brunel.ac.uk/depts/mech/ikb.htm
I K Brunel - 11 http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh/ART14076.html
I K Brunel - 12 http://www.museumweb.freeserve.co.uk/ikbrunel.htm
I K Brunel - 13 http://web.ukonline.co.uk/b.gardner/brunel/marcbrun.html
I K Brunel - 14 www.britainexpress.com/History/bio/brunel.htm
I K Brunel - 15 www.brush4.co.uk/galery.piccbbw0084.html
I K Brunel - 16 www.steam-museum.org.uk/stm-dislays/stm-displays-brunel.htm
I K Brunel - 17 www.the-telfords.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/victorians/brunel.htm
I K Brunel - 18 www.empiremuseum.co.uk
I K Brunel - 19 www.computing.dundee.ac.uk/staff/imurray/brunel.asp
I K Brunel - 20 www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Temple_Meads_Station-html
I K Brunel - 21 http://website.lineone.net/~carpenter9
I K Brunel - 22 www.strum.co.uk/wessex/swindon2.htm
I K Brunel - 23 www.strum.co.uk/wessex/swindon3.htm
I K Brunel - 24 www.strum.co.uk/wessex/swindon4.htm
I K Brunel - 25 www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isambard_Kingdom_Brunel
I K Brunel - 26 www.museumweb.freeserve.co.uk
I K Brunel - 27 www.steam-museum.org.uk
I K Brunel - 28 www.brunel.de
I K Brunel - 29 www.cwhistory.com

POST ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL

1890's Gaddarn Ship-building in Neyland

1900  Queen Mother born
   
1903  Construction of Bethesda Chapel, Neyland completed.

1904  Great Revival
   
1910  General Election
   
1918/ Russian Civil War
1920 

1928  Future Lord Gordon Parry born in a snowstorm

1930  Jazz in the 1930's
   
1933  Land Settlement Houses built at Honeyborough

1933  Rev T L Parry competes with rival minister by bringing Settlement
      Residents to Chapel by Horse and trap

1930's?Three visiting New Zealand All Blacks play for Neyland Rugby Team,
      resulting in Neyland Rugby team being only team in world allowed to
      wear famous Silver Fern
  
1940  Battle of Britain
  
1950  Television in the 50's
    
1952/ Kenya
1960 
1964  Beeching's Closure of Neyland Railway Station
   
1970  Glastonbury Festival formed
   
1974  Discovery of Terracota Army in Xian, China
    
1978  Neyland Ladies Choir formed

1980  Cricket in the 80's
   
1985  Commencement of work on Neyland Marina

1990  Panda Sanctuary established in China
    1990  Hope MS Centre opened at Honeyborough Business Park

1999  Unveiling by H.R.H. Prince Charles, Prince of Wales of Statue of
      ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL

2002  Sarah Waters, Neyland born, wins CWA Ellis Peters Historical Daggers
      Prize 2002 for "Fingersmith"
   
2003  Broadband comes to Neyland.