“Five floating bridges at Dartmouth, Saltash, Torpoint, Southampton and Portsmouth were born of necessity where land bridges, for reasons of navigation or lack of finance, failed to materialise…. Devonian James Meadows Rendel was their reluctant inventor. Six times he tried and failed to build a major suspension bridge, so created instead the floating bridge as a cheap, temporary substitute..”

144 pages, illustrated .

Published by Twelveheads Press.

ISBN 978 0 906294 67 3