Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide, 1913

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Gadsby, John (1885). "Bradshaw". Notes and Queries. London: John C. Francis. 11 (6th Series) (262): 15–16. ISSN 0029-3970– via Internet Archive. Grand Hotel du Louvre (Paris). This is Paris’s original “Grand Hotel,” the first large luxury hotel in France, the Grand Hotel du Louvre opened in 1855–just in time for the International Exhibition. It boasted some 300 richly decorated rooms, but in 1888 it had just been renovated, so guests were treated to an updated look. Coincidentally, the hotel is temporarily closed from January 2023 till some point this spring for yet another renovation. Maybe it’ll be a bit different to the hotel experienced by a Bradshaw traveller, but hey, it seems renovation and change was a thing even then.

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From the Mediterranean port of Tangier to the Berber city of Marrakech. Michael visits Fez, and then heads to Casablanca and the desert city of the Berbers; he then travels to a souk, finally arriving in Marrakech. They’re open seven days a week everyday of the year from 11h30 am to midnight –Covid was probably the first time Bouillon Chartier had closed since the war. You’ll find mainstays on the menu that would have been on the menu in Napoleon times; it’s not gastronomy that will blow you away, we just enjoy their towering plates of fries, the cheese, a massive dessert and the great people-watching. The Latvian capital, Riga, the Singing Revolution at a ruined 13th century cathedral in Tallinn, ice swimming, the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius in Helsinki, and one of Finland's 180,000 lakes in Tampere. At the end of 2012, a new series, Great Continental Railway Journeys, was broadcast with Portillo using the 1913 edition of Bradshaw's Continental Railway Guide to make journeys through various European countries and territories, prompting two publishers to produce facsimiles of the handbook. A second series was broadcast in 2013. [13] Further series covered Asia, Australia and India. The Balkans, the Orient Express, the ancient city of Plovdiv, the region of Rumelia, the former capital of the Ottoman Empire ( Edirne), the Bosphorus, Turkish delight, and the Marmaray metro line underneath the Bosphorus.Literary Gossip". The Athenæum Journal. No.2409. London: John Adams. 27 December 1873. p.872 – via HathiTrust. Lomax, E S, "Bradshaw, the Timetable Man", The Antiquarian Book Monthly Review, vol II, N° 9 and 10 (Sept-Oct 1975), pp.2–10 and 13–16, ill (extremely well-researched, contains the fullest list of Brashaw publications) Rivington, John (1883). "Bradshaw's Railway Guide". Notes and Queries. London: John C. Francis. 8 (6th Series) (186): 45–46. ISSN 0029-3970– via Internet Archive.

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Memoirs – Mr. George Bradshaw". Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. 13: 145–149. 1854. doi: 10.1680/imotp.1854.23931. Kay, Rost. D. (10 January 1874). "Who Invented Bradshaw?". The Athenæum Journal. No.2412. London: John Adams. p.95 – via Internet Archive. Bradshaw was born at Windsor Bridge, Pendleton, in Salford, Lancashire. On leaving school he was apprenticed to an engraver named Beale in Manchester, and in 1820 he set up his own engraving business in Belfast, returning to Manchester in 1822 to set up as an engraver and printer, principally of maps. [2] Former British politician Michael Portillo used a copy of what was described as a Bradshaw's guide (the 1863 edition of Bradshaw's Descriptive Railway Hand-Book of Great Britain and Ireland) for Great British Railway Journeys, a BBC Two television series in which he travelled across Britain, visiting recommended points of interest noted in Bradshaw's guide book, and where possible staying in recommended hotels. From the Swiss Alps to the shores of Lake Geneva. Caught up in a war zone with the Red Cross and rescued from an avalanche by a St Bernard puppy. Takes to the skies in a vintage biplane and tries watchmaking James Bond style.

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Milligan, Edward H. (2007). British Quakers in Commerce & Industry 1775-1920. York: Sessions Book Trust. p.61. ISBN 9781850723677. Fitzgerald, Percy (1890). The Story of "Bradshaw's Guide". London: The Leadenhall Press– via Google Books. As of 2021, series 1-6 of Great Continental Railway Journeys have been released on DVD by FremantleMedia under licence from Boundless and the BBC. Leighton, John (1906). "Early Railway Guides: A Retrospective". Chambers's Journal. Vol.9 (6th Series). London: W. & R. Chambers. pp.774–777 – via Google Books (access restricted outside United States).