Traffic and Politics

• Rochester bridge AD 43-1381, Nicholas P. Brooks - origins, sub-Roman and early Anglo-Saxon times, later Anglo-Saxon times, reconstruction of the late Anglo-Saxon bridge, the territory of the late Anglo-Saxon bridge, the bridge from 1066 to the 1380s; Rochester bridge 1381-1530, R.H. Britnell - the new bridge, maintenance and rebuilding, income, administration; Rochester bridge 1530-1660, James M. Gibson - decline of the medieval system, the Elizabethan commissions, the Elizabethan statutes, the civil war and commonwealth; Rochester bridge 1660-1825, David Ormrod - the trade and navigation of the Medway valley, the management and control of bridge affairs, maintenance, repairs, and projects; Rochester bridge 1825-1950, James Preston - planning the new bridge, building the new bridge, maintaining and modifying the new bridge, supporting the bridge - finance and the estate; Rochester bridge 1950-1993 - an epilogue, P.F. Cooper and Glyn C. Jones. Appendices: wardens and assistants of Rochester bridge; Rochester bridge accounts; the Rochester bridgework list.

A story of great local interest [and] a series of illustrations both of changes in civil engineering and of the working of English local politics...also a wonderful illustration of the slow development of ideas of legal incorporation. May the Kent History Project produce more work of this standard. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW Detailed insights into the importance, for all those concerned with transport interests - and to regional historians generally - how the history of bridges elsewhere may, and should, be attempted... well illustrated by diagrams and photographs...strongly recommended.