Thomas Telford died in September 1834, just as the railway age was dawning. So he had little idea of how lasting his legacy ...

Despite repair problems, its admirers say Thomas Telford’s Menai Bridge is good for another two centuries When Ian Evans’s grandfather opened a hardware shop on Anglesey in the 1930s, the Menai Bridge ...

Still standing proud, if slightly neglected, are 82 stone monoliths along the route of a road that marked the birth of modern North Wales. Thomas Telford’s A5 trunk road was a masterpiece of ...

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Thomas Telford completed his masterpiece, the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in North Wales in 1805. He went on to spend the next 30 years of his life involved in a vast range of works up and down the country.