The Happy Pontist

Chris Davies very kindly supplied me with a copy of his book Bridging the Tees  (self-published, 2023, 128pp). If you want a copy you will h...

I do love a bridge book which takes a specific river as its focus, and Thames Bridges ( Amberley Books , 96pp, 2022) is a nice addition to ...

This new book is the follow-up to the author's previous Encyclopaedia of British Bridges , which I reviewed in 2019 (and its predecessor...

There ought to be a name for this sort of coffee-table architecture book, churned out seemingly by the dozen every month, heavy on the photo...

Where does engineering end and architecture begin? That's the question I was left with after reading Ronald Yee's wide-ranging and i...

Transporter Bridges  by John Hannavy ( Pen and Sword , 268pp, 2020) is, I think, the first book to bring these unusual structures together...

I've remarked in the past how few books there are on the great bridge designers of the 20th century, other than one or two of the earlie...

Hello readers. I'm back. Did I miss anything while I was away? Anyway ... Bridging the Tweed  (self-published, ISBN 978-1-5272-538...

I have a couple of posts on recent bridge visits in preparation, but meanwhile here's a quick round-up of a few books about bridges that...

Haynes Publishing must be best known for their car and motorcycle maintenance manuals, but they have increasingly branched out into other te...

David McFetrich's "An Encyclopaedia of British Bridges" ( Pen and Sword Books , ISBN 978-1-52675-295-6, 2019, 444pp) is the 2...

This is the third and last of a set of "souvenir" books I'm featuring which document recent major UK bridge projects. The Or...