Giant of the Industrial Age ; Thomas Brassey, From Birkenhead, Became the World's Greatest Builder of Railways. But, 200 Years After His Birth, This Eminent Victorian Is Almost Forgotten. David Charters Reports

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EVERYONE noticed the swell in the tummy of Elizabeth Brassey who was waddling along the yard, spraying seed for the chickens, as the brown cows grazed on the lush pastures beyond.

The child she was carrying 200 years ago became one of the most important figures of the Victorian age, when the possibilities of life seemed to have no boundaries and the men of ambition bristled with energy and ideas, driven on and on by the mechanised factories of Britain.

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Giant of the Industrial Age ; Thomas Brassey, From Birkenhead, Became the World's Greatest Builder of Railways. But, 200 Years After His Birth, This Eminent Victorian Is Almost Forgotten. David Charters Reports

It was their world. But nobody talks much now of Thomas Brassey, the boy born on November 7, 1805, to Elizabeth and her husband, John, at the family farm in Buerton, five miles south east of Chester.

Yes, there is a street named after him in Birkenhead, down ...

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