Like myself you may never have heard of Goldsworthy Gurney.
In spite of having studied history in depth in my youth, especially the
industrial revolution period, this chap escaped me. But without Gurney there
may not have been Stephenson’s Rocket, many more miners may have been asphyxiated,
Parliament and central London left in the dark for years and Cathedrals turned
to ice in the winter. Deserved of his limelight this inventor and his daughter
Anna Jane should not be forgot or marginalised in history.
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