This is an archive comprising a wide variety of historical and biographical civil engineering papers, presentations, articles and other items written by or about Professor Roland Paxton over several decades. To view simply click “View” after the title.
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The abbreviations HEW = Historical Engineering Work and PHEW = Panel for Historical Engineering Works are used throughout.
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- [Hunter A; Arrol; Titan Crane and steel bridges]
PowerPoint presentation. Adam Hunter (1869-1933) ‘Engineer Extraordinaire’ (Clydebank Titan Crane). Public Lecture at Clydebank Town Hall 19 August 2013. View - [Hunter A; biography]
Biography. Adam Hunter. Engineering Timelines 2012. View - [Ferguson J; Astronomer and Natural Philosopher]
PowerPoint presentation. James Ferguson. Lecture to the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society 22 April 2010. Edinburgh Science Festival’s commemoration marking the tricentenary of Ferguson’s birth. View - [UK HEWs; ASCE IHCEL visit and plaquing in the UK]
PowerPoint presentation. EWRI Friends Visit London ICE HQ, York, Edinburgh, Arbroath for the Bell Rock Lighthouse Museum and Glasgow for Titan Crane Landmark Ceremony at Clydebank, and other sites. August 2013. View - [Scotland; HEWs; Transport {Maritime, Roads, Railways}; Public Health; Power]
PowerPoint presentation. Historical Engineering Works Evolution in the Scottish Built Environment. October 2009. (Also referred to as History of the Built Environment / Landmarks of the Civil Engineer’s Contribution to Civilization in Scotland.) View - [conservation of HEWs; Scotland]
PowerPoint presentation. Conserving Scotland’s Civil Engineering Transport Heritage – A Personal Perspective. 8 April 2014. View - [UK; HEWs]
PowerPoint presentation. Transport Infrastructure Landmarks in Britain 1760-1890. View - [bridges]
PowerPoint presentation. Building Bridges Basics. A presentation at Burntisland Primary School 16 Jan 2014. View - [Bell Rock Lighthouse; Rennie J; Stevenson R]
PowerPoint presentation. Creation of the Bell Rock Lighthouse 1807-11 – Achieving the seemingly impossible! Lecture to the British Science Association in Edinburgh 4 Nov 2013. View - [Bell Rock Lighthouse; Rennie J; Stevenson R]
PowerPoint presentation. Grand Design: Creation of the Bell Rock Lighthouse 1807-11. Presentation to the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 1 February 2011 [the lighthouse’s bicentenary] in the presence of HRH The Princess Royal and Society President Lord Wilson of Tillyorn, 27th Governor of Hong Kong. The video preface see (here)* is indicative of storm force waves at play in Northern France courtesy Sailing News et al, and, at the end, is the author’s theoretical assessment of the failure mechanism of Stevenson’s Carr Rock tower in the North Sea soon after completion in 1817. (* Click on the four arrow icon bottom right of the small video screen to enlarge.) View - [Bell Rock Lighthouse; railway]
PowerPoint presentation. Achieving the Seemingly Impossible – Bell Rock Railway 1810. View - [Union Chain Bridge]
PowerPoint presentation. Union Chain Bridge 1820 – its origin, significance and future. A talk to The Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club at Hutton Parish Hall on 20 May 2015. View - [Rennie J; Scotland; HEWs]
PowerPoint presentation. John Rennie’s Improvement of Scotland’s Infrastructure. View - [Rennie J]
PowerPoint presentation. John Rennie in Scotland 1779-1821. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland after dinner presentation on 30 November 2012. View - [Scotland; HEWs]
PowerPoint presentation. Scotland’s Historical Engineering Landmarks. Lecture at IDA [Danish Society of Engineers] Kalvebod Brygge Copenhagen 22 Oct 2013. View - [Scotland; HEWs; Copenhagen]
Newsletter article. Professor Paxton gives invited lecture (in Copenhagen) entitled Scotland’s Historical Engineering Landmarks. Heriot-Watt University Newsletter 4 November 2013. View - [Scotland; HEWs]
PowerPoint presentation. Danish Tour of Scottish Historical Engineering Works 2012. View - [Telford T; biography and works]
PowerPoint presentation. Thomas Telford ‘Colossus of Roads’ 1757–1834. View - [Craigellachie Bridge; Telford T]
PowerPoint presentation. Telford and Craigellachie Bridge 200, ‘Something like a spider’s web’. Lecture at Craigellachie Village Hall on 1 November 2014. View - [Telford T]
PowerPoint presentation. Telford’s Iron Bridge Mastery. Paper presented at Proceedings of the Collected Papers from a Commemorative Conference of The Royal Society of Edinburgh – The 250th Anniversary of the birth of Thomas Telford. View - [Union Chain Bridge]
Article. Union Chain Bridge 1820 – its origin, significance and future. Article for publication in the History of Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club at Hutton Parish Hall, Instituted 1831 (see also item #12). View - [Ballochmyle Viaduct]
Paper. Historic Landmark Recognition for Ballochmyle Viaduct. School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University, 23 April 2014. View - [Edinburgh water supply; wooden pipes]
Discussionn Paper. Discussion on the History of Edinburgh Wooden Water Pipes. Edinburgh College of Art in January 2019. View - [Rennie J; Bell Rock Lighthouse]
PowerPoint presentation. John Rennie and the Bell Rock Lighthouse. Institute for Infrastructure and Environment, Heriot Watt University, 6 August 2021. View - [conservation; Union Chain Bridge]
PowerPoint presentation. Supporting the conservation of Union Chain … including use of a new radar imaging spectrometer to locate its Scottish anchorages. EGIS Seminar: Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, 20th Nov. 2019. View - [Wick Breakwater]
PowerPoint presentation. The Sea versus Wick Breakwater 1863-77: an instructive disaster. Presented at the 9th International Coasts Marine Structures and Breakwaters Conference 16-18 September 2009. View - [Bell Rock Lighthouse]
PowerPoint presentation. Creation of the Bell Rock Lighthouse 1807-11. History of the Built Environment Lecture 29 October 2010. View - [conservation; Linlathen Bridge]
PowerPoint presentation. Refurbishment of Linlathen Bridge, Dundee. Possibly Scotland’s oldest surviving iron bridge. Slides for presentation to Dundee Civic Trust 2006, updated on completion for an ICE Scotland lecture in 2013. View - [Bell Rock Lighthouse; railway]
PowerPoint presentation. The Bell Rock Lighthouse Railway 1808 and its Significance. Presented to the Fifth International Early Railways Conference at Caernarfon on 9th June 2012. View. Draft paper for presentation View - [Russell JS; bridge decks]
Paper. John Scott Russell’s anti-vibration proposal for suspension bridge decks. Presentation at the Construction History Society’s John Scott Russell bicentenary lecture at the Institution of Civil Engineers, Westminster, on 21 May 2008. View - [ASCE visit; Union Chain Bridge; PHEW]
Paper. Historic-Berwick-upon-Tweed-Bridges [With minor additions to January 2023]. A paper dedicated to Members of the American Society of Civil Engineers History and Heritage Committee on 27 October 2018, to enhance their bridges tour organised by The Friends of the Union Chain Bridge and the Institution of Civil Engineers as a bicentennial tribute to its foresight in 1968 in forming a Monuments Committee, that soon developed into the Panel for Historical Engineering Works (PHEW). View - [Tordarroch Bridge]
Paper. Tordarroch Bridge, Farr, Strath Nairn – its origin? IIE H-WU July 2022. Also published in Strathnairn News magazine August 2022. See also below. View - [Tordarroch Bridge]
Newsletter article. Tordarroch Bridge, Farr, Strath Nairn – Its origin? Strathnairn News Magazine 121 Aug. 2022, 20-23. See also above. View - [Clerk Maxwell J; reciprocal figures]
Paper. Clerk Maxwell’s Reciprocal Figures for determining forces in framed structures. EGIS H-WU 2015. Also published in poster format by the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation and framed in its library. View - [Cay WD]
Newsletter article. Cay, William Dyce {1838-1925), Civil Engineer James Clerk Maxwell’s Mathematical Cousin. EGIS H-WU 2015. Also published in the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation Newsletter No.5 Spring 2015. View - [conservation; Laigh Milton Viaduct; railway]
Paper. Conservation of the 1811 Railway Viaduct at Laigh Milton, Scotland. Tokyo 1996. Japan Soc. of Civ. Engrs. Historical Studies in Civil Engineering, 16, 1996 [ISSN 0915-7293]. View - [conservation; Laigh Milton Viaduct; near Kilmarnock; railway]
Paper. Conservation of Laigh Milton Viaduct, Ayrshire. Proc. Instn Civ.Engrs, Civ. Engng, 1998, 126, May, 73-85 View - [conservation; Laigh Milton Viaduct; railway; Japanese]
Paper. Conservation of Historical Engineering Works (in Japanese), 2010. View - [Loch-nan-Uamh Viaduct; horse and cart]
Paper. Confirming a West Highland Viaduct Legend. SBE Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. 24 July 2008. 4. Relates to the author’s search for horse and cart remains entombed in a West Highland Railway extension viaduct during construction c.1899. Includes images inside Glenfinnan Viaduct and of Loch-nan-Uamh Viaduct where the remains were discovered using radar. View - [Kilmarnock and Troon Railway]
Paper. An Engineering Assessment of the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway [1807-45]. First International Railways Conference, Durham University, 2001. View - [conservation; Laigh Milton Viaduct; ASCE visit; railway]
Paper. Conservation of Laigh Milton Viaduct, Ayrshire. Min. Proc. ICE. 1997. View - [conservation; Laigh Milton Viaduct]
Paper. Conservation of Historical Engineering Works. JSCE, Tokyo 2010, 216-22 Laigh Milton Viaduct, translated into Japanese by Dr Hiroshi Isohata. View - [Bell Rock Lighthouse; Rennie J]
Paper. John Rennie and the Bell Rock Lighthouse. Northern Lighthouse Board Journal, Winter 2021, 25-28. View - [conservation; Union Chain Bridge]
Paper. [with Dr Hiroshi Isohata] The proposed refurbishment of Union Chain Bridge, UK. Bridge & Foundation Magazine, Japan, Sept. 2018. Enlarged from its first publication in Jan. 2015. View - [Dalhousie Viaduct]
Booklet. Appraisal of Dalhousie iron viaduct (1830-46) on the Edinburgh & Dalkeith Railway extension. Heriot-Watt University, 1998. View - [Edinburgh water supply; Castlehill Reservoir]
Paper. Castlehill Reservoir Edinburgh – An Historical Review. Heriot-Watt University, October 2023. View - [Grainger T; archive]
Archive. Archive of drawings and plans of Scottish civil engineer Thomas Grainger for making railways in Yorkshire 1846-50, March 2023. View. The entire archive has been deposited with Historic Environment Scotland where it is able to be inspected. - [Dalkeith; roads; bridges ]
Booklet. Road and bridge making on main routes in and around Dalkeith 1750-1850. Heriot-Watt University, 1998. View - [Dalkeith; roads; bridges ]
Newspaper article History society told of old roads. Article regarding a meeting of the Dalkeith History Society where Professor Paxton presented his paper on the main roads in and around Dalkeith between 1750 and 1850. View - [Craigellachie Bridge]
Article. “Something like a Spider’s Web” – Craigellachie Bridge 200 and its significance. [Article for Knock News, Banffshire], Heriot-Watt University, 27 October 2014. View - [Watanabe K; Forth Bridge]
Biography. Kaichi Watanabe (March 22 1858 – December 4 1932) – a biography (translated from Japanese). View - [Ritson J; Skerryvore Rocks]
Paper. James Ritson, Surveyor of Skerryvore Rocks, remembered. Heriot-Watt University, 2017. View - [Telford; Menai Bridge]
Paper. Menai Bridge (1818-1826) and its influence on Suspension Bridge Development. The Newcomen Society Transactions Vol49 pp-87-110, 1977-78. View - [Dalhousie Viaduct; Edinburgh & Dalkeith Railway; Miller J]
Booklet. An Appraisal of Dalhousie Viaduct (1830-1846) Scotland’s earliest known major iron and timber viaduct. Heriot-Watt University, 1998. View - [Glenesk Bridge; Edinburgh & Dalkeith Railway; Jardine J]
Booklet. Edinburgh & Dalkeith Railway: Glenesk Bridge, Dalkeith. The case for an 1829-31 date of origin. Heriot-Watt University, 1993. View - [Traffic Engineering]
Paper. Traffic Engineering and Control before the motor vehicle. Traffic Engineering and Control, August 1969 pp193-196. View - [Smeaton J; Eddystone Lighthouse; Forth & Clyde Canal]
Pamphlet. John Smeaton F.R.S. (1724-1792) Programme of Bicentenary Events, 1992. View - [Telford T; Dean Bridge]
Pamphlet. Dean Bridge, Edinburgh – Telford Plaque Replacement. Lothian Regional Council, 24 November 1982. View - [Panel for Historic Engineering Works]
The Institution of Civil Engineers’ Panel for Historic Engineering Works. Dansk Vejhistorisk Selskab Nr 5 Autumn 2002. View - [River Tweed; bridges]
Eight hundred years of bridging the Tweed; in a journey from source to sea. A paper read to a joint meeting ot the West Linton Historical Association and the Edinburgh and East of Scotland Association of the Institution of Civil Engineers at West Linton, Peeblesshire on Tuesday, 16 January 1996. View - [Grainger T; exhibition]
Thomas Grainger, C.E, F.R.S.E. 1794-1852. Exhibition, Edinburgh, 1982. View - [Telford T; letters]
Three Letters from Thos. Telford. Rathalpin Press, 1968. View - [Municipal Engineering; exhibition]
Exhibition of Municipal Engineering in Edinburgh Past and Present. Edinburgh, June 1973. View - [Bell Rock Lighthouse; railway]
Early Railways 5 (Gwyn D. Ed). Papers from the Fifth International Early Railways Conference. Six Martins Publishing, 2014 pp312-29. View - [River Forth; tunnel; ferry]
Forth Crossing Challenges at Queensferry before the Rail Bridge. Topping BHV (Ed). Developments in Structural Engineering – Proceedings of the Forth Rail Bridge Centenary Conference Vol 1 pp36-63, E & FN Spon, 1990. View - [Loch Katrine; water supply; Glasgow]
Rogers JR (Ed). Loch Katrine Water Supply to Glasgow, Scotland. 1855-1903. Great Rivers History – Proceedings of the World Environmental and Water Resources Congress pp126-31. ASCE, 2009. View - [concrete; roads; Edinburgh]
Early Concrete Roads in Edinburgh. Concrete Vol 11 No 9. The Concrete Society, September 1979. View - [concrete; roads; Edinburgh]
Early Uses of Concrete Roads in Edinburgh / Catalogue of the Edinburgh exhibit at the Centennial Exhibition of the Institution of Municipal Engineers Brighton 20-22 June 1972. View - [Laigh Milton Viaduct; conservation]
Newsletter article. Laigh Milton Viaduct Refurbishment. The Scottish Civic Trust Newsletter No 14. The Scottish Civic Trust Autumn 1997. View - [Transit Instrument; Talla Reservoir]
Brian Dumbleton of NCE (New Civil Engineer) an account of his investigation with Professor Roland Paxton and Chris Atkinson into the use of a transit instrument now in the ICE Scotland Museum for setting out the Talla Aqueduct. NCE, 7 April 1988. View - [Cay WD; biography]
Newsletter article. William Dyce Cay (1838-1925), Civil Engineer / James Clerk Maxwell’s Mathematical Cousin. Newsletter of the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation, Issue No 5 Spring 2015. View - [Thames Tunnel; Brunel M; listed structure]
Marc Brunel’s Thames Tunnel was Grade II listed following this approach through New Civil Engineer. NCE 16 March 1995. View - [Union Chain Bridge; Japanese]
Union Chain Bridge under Crisis of the Survival. Unknown Japanese publication. View - [Kilmarnock and Troon Railway; plate rails]
An Engineering Assessment of the Kilmarnock & Troon Railway 1807-46. Guy A. & Rees J. (Eds) Early Railways / A selection f papers from the First international Early Railways Conference. The Newcomen Society, 2001. View - [Civil Engineering; America]
A British perspective on American civil engineering achievement before 1840. American Engineering History / The Pioneering Years / Proceedings of the Fourth National Congress on Civil Engineering History and Heritage November 2-6, 2002. Washington DC, ASCE, 2002. View - [Ayr; Glasgow; railway; Miller J; Ballochmyle Viaduct]
Ayr Station Miller Plaquing – April 2012. Notes by Roland Paxton. ICE Panel for Historical Engineering Works, 2012. View - [Smeaton J; Scotland]
Smeaton Lecture 1992 on the History of Civil Engineering / Smeaton in Scotland. Presented at the Institution of Civil Engineers, London, 14 July 1992. View - [Smeaton J; commemoration; exhibition]
(Flyer) John Smeaton FRS / Civil Engineer / 1724-1792 / An exhibition to commemorate John Smeaton’s Life and Works. Institution of Civil Engineers, 1992. View - [Alderley Edge Mines; survey]
Alderley Edge Mines. A survey by Professor Paxton in 1951 of the Cheshire mines in terms of geology and historical mining activities. Cave Science Vol 3 No 18 October 1951. British Speleological Association, 1951. View - [Suspension Bridges; Telford T; Brown S]
The Early Development of the Long Span Suspension Bridge in Britain, 1810-1840. Proceedings of an International Conference on Historic Bridges to Celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Wheeling Suspension Bridge, October 21-23, 1999, Wheeling, VA, USA. View - [Sydney Ross; obituary]
Professor Sydney Ross / An Obituary. The Scotsman, 21 February 2014. View - [Telford T; bridges; cast-iron]
Introduction to Special Issue “250 Years of Inspiration”. Proceedings of ICE / Civil Engineering 160 / May 2007 pp3-6. View. Paper: Thomas Telford’s cast-iron bridges. Proceedings of ICE / Civil Engineering 160 / May 2007 pp12-19 / Paper 10538. View - [Forth Bridge; significance]
The Evolution of the Forth Bridge and Its Engineering Significance. American Engineering History / The Pioneering Years /Proceedings of the Third National Congress on Civil Engineering History and Heritage October 10-13, 2001. Houston, Texas, ASCE, 2001. View. This publication is also held by the museum – see References.
- [Hunter A; Arrol; Titan Crane and steel bridges]
- [viaduct; definition]
Too PHEW Arches. Letter to NCE regarding the definition of viaduct. New Civil Engineer. June 2005. View - [ICE; PHEW]
The Institution of Civil Engineers’ Panel for Historical Engineering Works. Proceedings of the Third National Congress on Civil Engineering History and Heritage October 10-13, 2001. Houston, Texas, ASCE, 2001. View. This publication is also held by the museum – see References. - [North Ronaldsay Lighthouse]
More than a landmark. Letter to The Scotsman regarding the status of North Ronaldsay Lighthouse. The Scotsman, 27 July 2006. View - [Wick Breakwater; Stevenson T]
Paper. The Sea versus Wick Breakwater 1863-77 – an instructive disaster. ICE Coasts. Marine Structures & Breakwaters Conference, Edinburgh, 16-18 September 2009. View - [Luggie Aqueduct; Forth & Clyde Canal]
Paper. Luggie Aqueduct, Kirkintilloch on the Forth and Clyde Canal / An historical engineering assessment. Heriot-Watt University, 1992. View - [Kemp E; tribute; obituary]
Obituary. Dr Emory L Kemp / A personal tribute by Dr Roland Paxton. Newcomen Links No 254 June 2020, The Newcomen Society 2020. View - [Kemp E; tribute; obituary]
Obituary, Dr Emory L Kemp / A personal tribute by Professor Roland Paxton. Heriot-Watt University 24 February 2020. View - [Abercrombie C; biography]
Biography. Charles Abercrombie. Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland – Volume 1: 1500-1830 edited by Skempton AW et al, and published in 2002 by Thomas Telford Ltd for the Institution of Civil Engineers. pp1-2. View - [Easton J; biography]
Biography. John Easton. Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland – Volume 1: 1500-1830 edited by Skempton AW et al, and published in 2002 by Thomas Telford Ltd for the Institution of Civil Engineers. p 205. View - [Jardine J; biography]
Biography. James Jardine. Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland – Volume 1: 1500-1830 edited by Skempton AW et al, and published in 2002 by Thomas Telford Ltd for the Institution of Civil Engineers. pp358-360. View - [Landale C; biography]
Biography. Charles Langdale. Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland – Volume 1: 1500-1830 edited by Skempton AW et al, and published in 2002 by Thomas Telford Ltd for the Institution of Civil Engineers. pp393-394. View - [Smith T; biography]
Biography. Thomas Smith. Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland – Volume 1: 1500-1830 edited by Skempton AW et al, and published in 2002 by Thomas Telford Ltd for the Institution of Civil Engineers. pp637-639. View - [Stevenson R; biography]
Biography. Robert Stevenson. Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland – Volume 1: 1500-1830 edited by Skempton AW et al, and published in 2002 by Thomas Telford Ltd for the Institution of Civil Engineers. pp661-667. View - [Telford T; biography]
Biography. Thomas Telford. Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland – Volume 1: 1500-1830 edited by Skempton AW et al, and published in 2002 by Thomas Telford Ltd for the Institution of Civil Engineers. pp682-697. View - [bridges; Scotland; evolution]
Paper. The evolution of bridge building in Scotland to 1900 (part 1). Civil Engineering Technician Vol 8 No 3 June 1983. View - [bridges; Scotland; evolution]
Paper. The evolution of bridge building in Scotland to 1900 (part 2). Civil Engineering Technology Vol 8 No 4 August 1983. View - [Union Chain Bridge; conservation]
PowerPoint presentation. The case for preserving Union Chain Bridge near Berwick-on-Tweed erected 1820. Presented by the author at Paxton House at the first meeting of the ‘Friends’ of the bridge on 25 June 2014. View - [Jardine J; biography]
Biography. Jardine, James (1776-1858). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. View - [Nimmo A; biography]
Biography. Nimmo, Alexander (1783-1832). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. View - [Smith T; biography]
Biography. Smith, Thomas (bap. 1752, d. 1815). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. View - [Stevenson R; biography]
Biography. Stevenson, Robert (1772-1850). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. View - [Stevenson A; biography]
Biography. Stevenson, Alan (1807-1865). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. View - [Stevenson D; biography]
Biography. Stevenson, David (1815-1886). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. View - [Stevenson T; biography]
Biography. Stevenson, Thomas (1818-1887). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. View - [Stevenson DA; biography]
Biography. Stevenson, David Alan (1854-1938). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. View - [Telford T; biography]
Biography. Telford, Thomas (1757-1834). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. View - [bridges; Peeblesshire]
Newspaper article. The historic bridges of Peeblesshire. Peeblesshire News 29 November 1991 referring to a presentation made by Professor Paxton to the Peebles Civic Society on Wednesday 20 November. Following this presentation some three years later in 1994 the Peebles Civic Society published a guide to the heritage trail “The Bridges of Peebles” a copy of which is retained by the museum. View - [Pontcysyllte Aqueduct; Telford T]
Article. Aqueduc Pontcysyllte. L’art de l’ingénieur : Constructeur, entrepreneur, inventeur. Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1997, p370. [With original English text.] View - [Forth Bridge]
Article. Forth (pont sur le). L’art de l’ingénieur : Constructeur, entrepreneur, inventeur. Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1997, pp190-192. [With original English text.] View - [Menai Bridge; Telford T]
Article. Menai (pont sur le détroit de). L’art de l’ingénieur : Constructeur, entrepreneur, inventeur. Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1997, pp291-293. [With original English text.] View - [Telford T; biography]
Article. Telford (Thomas). L’art de l’ingénieur : Constructeur, entrepreneur, inventeur. Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1997, p501. View (Note: The original English text cannot now be found, however an alternative biography of Telford can be viewed here.) - [Stevenson R; Marriott Courtyard Hotel]
Newsletter article. Engineering Heritage promotes Edinburgh’s new Marriott Courtyard Hotel. Heriot-Watt University, 2017 (Published in the PHEW Newsletter, March 2017). View - [Telford T; Malcolm J; poem]
Booklet. To Sir John Malcolm on receiving his Miscellaneous Poems / A poem by Thomas Telford written in the year 1831. Privately printed by the Tragara Press, Edinburgh (1971) from the original in the possession of Roland Paxton who wrote the preface. View - [Rennie J; Bell Rock Lighthouse]
Paper. John Rennie and the Bell Rock Lighthouse. Northern Lighthouse Board Journal Winter 2021. View - [Rennie J; Bell Rock Lighthouse]
Newsletter article. A Piece of Ayrshire’s Rail History. ICE Newsletter of the East of Scotland Association No 7 February 2002. View - [Paxton R; Carr Prize]
Newsletter article. 2001 Carr Prize. ICE Newsletter of the East of Scotland Association No 7 February 2002. View - [Glasgow; Dumfries; Carlisle; railway; Miller J; New Cumnock]
Paper. The Glasgow, Dumfries & Carlisle Railway Legacy of John Miller CE FRSE / Commemorated by a plaque at New Cumnock Station on 2 May 2013. Heriot-Watt University 2013. View - [Bell Rock Lighthouse; Stevenson R]
PowerPoint presentation. Joint presentation with Virginia Mayes-Wright, Director of the Museum of Scottish. LighthousesRSE@Arbroath 2008 / The Bellrock [sic] Lighthouse and the Stevenson family / ‘The Engineer and the Author’. The Royal Society of Edinburgh, 2008. View - [Glenfinnan Viaduct; PHEW]
Letter to the Editor. Highland Awayday. New Civil Engineer 27 March / 3 April 1997. View - [Forth Bridge; riveter; ICE Scotland Museum]
Magazine article. Forth Bridge riveter on loan to ICE Scotland Museum. Resource Issue 47 Summer 2015, Heriot-Watt University. View - [Transit Instrument]
Article. Mystery tool baffles the history men. New Civil Engineer 25 February 1988. View - [Kyle Rhea Ferry; Telford T]
Magazine article. Kyle Rhea Ferry – Glenelg to Skye – Telford 1818. CivilScotland Magazine December 2009, Institution of Civil Engineers. View - [Forth & Clyde Canal; Union Canal; regeneration; Falkirk Wheel]
Paper. Engineering the Forth & Clyde and Union Canals (1768-1822), Scotland and their Regeneration via The Falkirk Wheel (2000-2001). Proceedings of the Third National Congress on Civil Engineering History and Heritage – Houston, TX, United States 10 Oct 2001 to 13 Oct 2001. View - [Forth & Clyde Canal; Union Canal; regeneration; Falkirk Wheel]
Paper. Regeneration of the Forth & Clyde and Union Canals, Scotland. Proceedings of ICE Civil Engineering 138 May 2000 Issue 2 pp61-72. View. This publication is also held by the museum – see References. - [Kirkwood JP; ASCE; water engineering]
Paper. (Co-author Rogers J.) James Pugh Kirkwood, ASCE Second President, Water Filtration Pioneer, and his Scottish and U.S. Engineering Practice. World Environmental and Water Resources Congress, Austin, Texas, May 17-21, 2015. View - [cast iron bridges; modular; Telford T; Hazledine W; Rennie J]
PowerPoint presentation. Modular Cast Iron Bridges & Their Significance. The Paul Dunkerley Memorial Lecture, ICE Cheshire Branch & the Historical Engineering SIG, Thursday 18 October 2012. View - [Stevenson R]
Article. Stevenson Robert. The Dictionary of Art, Macmillan, 1996. View - [Lighthouse]
Article. Lighthouse. The Dictionary of Art, Macmillan, 1996. View - [Kilmarnock & Troon Railway]
Paper. Kilmarnock & Troon Railway Bicentenary – 6 July 2012. ICE Scotland Panel for Historical Engineering Works Scottish Group, 2012. View - [EWRI; HEWs; UK]
PowerPoint presentation. Historic Civil Engineering in the UK: EWRI Visit London, York, Edinburgh, Arbroath and Glasgow. Presented at the EWRI World Environmental & Water Resources Congress, Austin, Texas, May 17-21 2015. View - [Smeaton J; Scotland]
Newspaper article. Smeaton’s Scots Legacy. New Civil Engineer 23 July 1992. View - [Telford T; 250th anniversary celebrations]
Magazine article. Thomas Telford 250th Anniversary Celebrations. CivilScotland, ICE Scotland Issue 4 06. View - [Forth Bridge; viewing platform]
Letter to the Editor. How about a viewing platform on the new Forth Bridge? New Civil Engineer 24 January 2008. Letter from Tam Dalyell, MP in support of the “concept of a Forth Bridges Visitors’ Observation Post.” View - [River Forth; bridge; Roman]
Newspaper article. Notional Bridging of River Forth at Queensferry. By James McGhee featuring a reputed boat bridge built by the Romans 208AD. Edinburgh Evening News 1 March 1990. View - [Glenesk Viaduct; blunder]
Newspaper article. Historians admit Midlothian bridge boob. Referring to a plaque at Glenesk Viaduct with an incorrect date of construction. Edinburgh Herald & Post 12 January 1995. View - [Bell Rock; bicentenary]
Photo Call Notice. Bell Rock Cake Marks Bicentenary of Bell Rock Lighthouse / Photocall 10 March 2011. View - [Gattonside; PHEW]
Letter to the Editor. Grave doubts at Gattonside, New Civil Engineer 25 October 1990. View - [Rendel JM; Inverness]
Letter to the Editor. Rendel’s suspense story / Inverness Suspension Bridge., New Civil Engineer 1 December 1988. View - [Fonthill; speleology; caves; grottoes]
Letter to the Editor. Caves at Fonthill Salisbury Times and South Wilts Gazette dated 24 July 1953 and follow-up commissioned article Grottoes at Fonthill dated 14 August 1953. View - [Scotland; footbridges]
Letter to the Editor. Highland Footbridges. The Times 6 April 1988. View - [Innocent Railway; cycleway]
Pamphlet. The Innocent Railway [jointly with R Nellist]. A leaflet describing its conversion as a cycleway issued by Lothian Regional Council June 1990. View - [PHEW; USA]
Newsletter article. PHEW in the USA. ICE East of Scotland Newsletter No 9 March 2003. View - [Dunkeld Bridge; Telford T]
Foreword. Ford CR. Dunkeld Telford’s Finest Bridge (Foreword). Perth & Kinross Council, 2004. View - [Traffic surveys; registration number]
Paper. Orientamente inglesi nel campo della circolazione e della regolazione del traffico (Italian). Segna la Zione Strada Li, May June 1967. View - [Traffic surveys; registration number]
Paper. Improved Techniques for Registration Number Traffic Surveys. Traffic Engineering & Control, Vol 8 No 2, June 1966. View - [Romans; levelling]
Letter to the Editor. Roman Levelling Techniques. New Civil Engineer 16 June 1988. View - [Peebles; Neidpath Viaduct]
Newspaper article. Talk helps save bridge. Neidpath skew-arch Viaduct. A review of Professor Paxton’s Bridges of Peebles talk. Article in New Civil Engineer 2/9 January 1992. View - [Pontcysyllte Canal; Telford T]
Letter to the Editor. Credit to Telford where it’s due. New Civil Engineer 6 April 1989. View - [Institution of Civil Engineers; story; Watson G]
Book Review of The Civils – The Story of the Institution of Civil Engineers by Garth Watson. Structural Engineering Review Vol 2 No 3 September 1990. View - [Dean Bridge; Edinburgh; Telford T]
Magazine article. Dean Bridge. Edinburgh. Edinburgh History Magazine, No 3 1990. View - [Tay Bridge; engineers; biographies]
Biographical notes. The Tay Railway Bridge 1887-1987 / A review of its origin. Preface and Biographical Notes on Engineers. Institution of Civil Engineers, 1987 pp4, 29-33. View - [River Tweed; bridges]
Magazine article. A bridge not so far (Tweed bridges). Scotland’s What’s On, 17 July 1991. View - [Dean Bridge; Edinburgh; Telford T]
Magazine article. Dean Bridge, Edinburgh. Forthright / The Magazine of The Lothian & Borders Police, Vol 26. View - [Leicester; Southgates Underpass]
Brochure. Southgates Underpass Opening Ceremony brochure opened 2 May 1968. City of Leicester, 1968. View - [Forth Bridge Visitor Centre Trust; Arrol W]
Book launch. Forth Bridges Visitor Centre Trust’s Commemoration of Sir William Arrol at Queensferry Lodge Hotel on 3.9.2000 – Book launch; Arrol portrait acceptance and donation to ICE Scotland Museum in 2012. Heriot-Watt University May 2021. View - [Watt J; book schedule]
Archive. Professor Paxton’s James Watt Archive in Room 339, Sir William Arrol Building, Heriot-Watt University. View - [Cleveland Bridge Engineering Company; archive]
Archive. Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Company Archival Images. Listed 30 June 2022. Updated 15 September 2022. View - [Edinburgh; Kelso; Berwick; bridges]
Booklet. A Heritage of Bridges between Edinburgh, Kelso and Berwick (co-author Ted Ruddock). The Institution of Civil Engineers Edinburgh and East of Scotland Association, Edinburgh, undated (c.1980). View - [Edinburgh; Kelso; Berwick; bridges]
Newspaper article. East of Scotland / Borders to publish book on bridges. New Civil Engineer 27 March 1980. . View - [book review; Stevenson; Bell Rock Lighthouse; Cordelia Stamp]
Book review. Review for the CE Journal of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Stevenson, R. L. Robert Stevenson’s account of the building of the Bell Rock Lighthouse. 24 June 2004. View - [traffic surveys; registration number]
Paper. Improved techniques for registration number surveys… Road Abstracts, Road Research Laboratory / Ministry of Transport, Vol 33 No 7 660-769 July 1966. View - [Telford T; Aberdeen; exhibition]
Newspaper article. Historic Works / Paxton launches Telford exhibition in Aberdeen. New Civil Engineer 11 October 2007. View - [Tayside; Loch Earn Canal; Dundee & Newtyle Railway; Aberfeldy Bridge; Perth Bridge]
Newspaper article. Civils in Tayside’s past [1750-1850]. New Civil Engineer 13 June 1985. View - [Laigh Milton Viaduct; Archive; South Ayrshire Council]
Archive. Laigh Milton Viaduct Paxton Archive, 22 June 2023 (to access the archive contact South Ayrshire Council Archives). View - [Mitchell J; Inverness]
Letter to the Editor. Joseph Mitchell. Municipal Engineer Vol III, No 3 March 1984. View - [Dean Bridge; Leith Docks; Forth Bridge]
Booklet. (Co-authors Kerr J and McBeth D) Our Engineering Heritage / Three Notable Examples in the Edinburgh Area. Institution of Civil Engineers, Edinburgh and East of Scotland Association, Edinburgh 1981. View - [Proudfoot; Historic concrete roads; Edinburgh]
Archive. David C Proudfoot [City Road Trust Surveyor, Edinburgh, 1869-1906].- Salvaged Drawings donated by Prof. Paxton to Edinburgh City Archives on 8 March 2019 where they can be inspected. View - [Carfrae GS; biography]
Biography. Carfrae George Somervel (1854-1934). Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland Volume 3: 1890-1920. ICE and Thomas Telford Ltd 2014, pp119-120. View - [Carfrae & Morrison]
Paper. Norman, W, Senior Partner at firm’s closure in 1978. Short History of the Firm now known as Carfrae & Morrison, CCE. From Professopr Paxton’s collection. View - [PHEW; Administration; Telford T]
News Bulletin. Scottish Associations Report. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works News Bulletin No 5 September 1976, pp3-4. View - [PHEW; Administration; ICE Scotland Museum]
News Bulletin. Scotland Report. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works News Bulletin No 6 December 1976, p9. View - [PHEW; Leaderfoot Viaduct; ASCE Study Tour; Dundee & Newtyle Railway]
Newspaper article. North of the Border. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 13 February 1982, pp1-4. View - [PHEW; Castlehill Cistern; Alnwickhill Filtration Works; Glencorse Reservoir; Talla Reservoir]
Newsletter article. Visit to Historical Waterworks in SE Scotland. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 19 August 1983, pp1-2. View - [PHEW; Edinburgh; Caledonian Station; “time capsule”]
Newsletter article. Edinburgh [Caledonian] Station “Time Capsule”. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 21 February 1984, p4. View - [PHEW; Bell Rock Lighthouse]
Newsletter article. Account of a visit to the Bell Rock Lighthouse – 18th-20th August 1986. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 32 December 1986, pp4-10. View - [PHEW; Scottish Group]
Newsletter article. News from Scotland [on Scottish Group’s 10th Anniversary]. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 33 March 1987, pp1-2. View - [PHEW; Scotland; HEWs]
Newsletter article. Reinstating Scottish HEWs [Robert Whitworth Bridge on Forth & Clyde Canal; Union Canal; Falkirk Tunnel Re-opening and Laigh Milton Viaduct]. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 40 December 1988, pp5-6. View - [PHEW; Forth Bridge]
Newsletter article. Forthcoming Forth Bridge Centenary Events. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 44 December 1989, pp3-4. View - [PHEW; Bristol visit; Forth Bridge Centenary]
Newsletter article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 48 December 1990, p3. View - [PHEW; Gattonside Bridge; Leaderfoot Viaduct; Laigh Milton Viaduct]
Newsletter article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 49 March 1991, pp4-5. View - [PHEW; conservation]
Newsletter article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 50 June 1991, p5. View - [PHEW; Smeaton Lecture; conservation]
Newsletter article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 51 September 1991, pp5-6. View - [PHEW; Brunton RH; St Katherine’s Dock; Laigh Milton Viaduct]
Newsletter article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 52 December 1991, pp2-3. View - [PHEW Mission; Laigh Milton Viaduct; Smeaton Exhibition]
Newsletter article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 53 March 1992, pp4-5. View - [PHEW; Laigh Milton Viaduct]
Newsletter article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 54 June 1992, p5. View - [PHEW; ASCE Tour; ICE Corporate Plan; Smeaton Exhibition]
Newsletter article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 55 September 1992, pp5-6. View - [PHEW; Smeaton Exhibition]
Newsletter article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 56 December 1992, pp6-7. View - [PHEW; conservation; Fitting Roads; Smeaton Exhibition]
Newsletter article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 57 March 1993, pp2-3. View - [PHEW; Carron Bridge Preservation]
Newsletter article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 58 June 1993, pp4-5. View - [PHEW; RCAHMS]
Newsletter article. Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments – Appointment of Royal Commissioner… Archivist, ICE. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 58 June 1993, p1. View - [PHEW; Laigh Milton Viaduct; Gleann Mor Bridge]
Newsletter article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 59 September 1993, pp4-5. View - [PHEW; Hadfield C; book review]
Newsletter article. The Chairman’s Column: Book Review of C. Hadfield’s ‘Thomas Telford’s Temptation’. ICE Panel for Historical Engineering Works Newsletter No 60 December 1993, pp6-7. View - [PHEW; Saltire Awards; Laigh Milton Viaduct]
Newsletter article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historical Engineering Works Newsletter No 61 March 1994, pp4-5. View - [PHEW; Stevenson Symposium; Japan; bridges]
Newsletter article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historical Engineering Works Newsletter No 62 June 1994, pp3-5. View - [PHEW; bridges]
Newsletter article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historical Engineering Works Newsletter No 63 September 1994, pp5-6. View - [PHEW; ICE Scotland Museum; Elton J; The Literature of Engineering Invention]
Newsletter article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historical Engineering Works Newsletter No 64 December 1994, pp6-7. View - [PHEW; Laigh Milton Viaduct]
Newsletter article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historical Engineering Works Newsletter No 65 March 1995, pp4-5. View - [PHEW; Thames Tunnel; Forth Bridge]
Newsletter article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historical Engineering Works Newsletter No 66 June 1995, pp2-3. View - [PHEW; Laigh Milton Viaduct; Cartland Craigs Bridge]
Newsletter article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historical Engineering Works Newsletter No 67 September 1995, pp4-5. View - [PHEW; Laigh Milton Viaduct]
Newsletter article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historical Engineering Works Newsletter No 68 December 1995, pp2-4. View - [PHEW; Forth Bridge; Laigh Milton Viaduct]
Newsletter article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historical Engineering Works Newsletter No 69 March 1996, pp3-4. View - [PHEW; Thames Tunnel; Laigh Milton Viaduct]
Newsletter article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historical Engineering Works Newsletter No 70 June 1996, pp3-4. View - [PHEW; Laigh Milton Viaduct; Usui Railway]
Newsletter article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historical Engineering Works Newsletter No 71 September 1996, pp2-3. View - [PHEW; Japan visit; bridges; Tokyo]
Newsletter article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historical Engineering Works Newsletter No 72 December 1996, p4. View - [PHEW; Telford T; mason-mark; Japan visit; bridges; Tokyo]
Newsletter article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historical Engineering Works Newsletter No 73 March 1997, pp2-4. View - [PHEW; English Heritage presentation; Japan visit; bridges; Tokyo]
Newsletter article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historical Engineering Works Newsletter No 74 June 1997, pp3-4. View - [PHEW; bridges; Vermont; Japan; Westerkirk Library; Telford milestones]
Newsletter article. The Chairman’s Column ICE Panel for Historical Engineering Works Newsletter No 75 September 1997, pp4-6. View - [PHEW; Japan; Brunton RH; Historic Bridge Award 1998]
Newsletter article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historical Engineering Works Newsletter No 76 December 1997, pp5-7. View - [PHEW; Japan; Akita; Fujikura Dam]
Newsletter Article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historical Engineering Works Newsletter No 77 March 1998, pp2-4. View - [PHEW; USA]
Newsletter Article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historical Engineering Works Newsletter No 78 June 1998, pp2-3. View - [PHEW; USA]
Newsletter Article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historical Engineering Works Newsletter No 79 September 1998, pp2-3. View - [PHEW; Historic Bridges Awards]
Newsletter Article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 80 December 1998, pp5-6. View - [PHEW; Bilston Glen Viaduct]
Newsletter Article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 81 March 1999, pp2-3. View - [PHEW; historical engineering knowledge]
Newsletter Article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 82 June 1999, p3. View - [PHEW; Erie Canal; Whipple truss bridges]
Newsletter Article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 83 September 1999, pp2-4. View - [PHEW; Garth Watson Medal; Historical Bridge Awards; Washington DC and Wheeling HEWs]
Newsletter Article. By the Editor: Garth Watson Medal; Historical Bridge Awards; Washington DC and Wheeling HEWs. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 84 December 2001, pp1-6. View - [PHEW; Laigh Milton Viaduct]
Newsletter Article. Laigh Milton Viaduct Receives Saltire Commendation. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 85 March 2000, p1. View - [PHEW; historic engineering infrastructure]
Newsletter Article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 85 March 2000, pp3-4. View - [PHEW; Bo’ness Foundry; Inubosaki Lighthouse]
Newsletter Article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 86 March 2001, pp3-5. View - [PHEW; Camelon Aqueduct]
Newsletter Article. The Chairman’s Column: [Camelon Aqueduct]. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 87 September 2000, p3-5. View - [PHEW; USA HEWs]
Newsletter Article. The Chairman’s Column: [USA HEWs]. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 87 September 2000, p3-5. View - [PHEW; Fairmont Waterworks; Philadelphia; Falls Bridge PA.]
Newsletter Article. The Chairman’s Column: Fairmont Waterworks Philadelphia, Falls Bridge, PA. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 88 December 2000, pp6-8. View - [PHEW; Saltire Awards; Bilston Glen Viaduct]
Newsletter Article. Saltire Awards 2000. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 89 March 2001, p1. View - [PHEW; Usui Viaduct]
Newsletter Article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 89 March 2001, pp3-5. View - [PHEW; Erie Canal]
Newsletter Article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 91 September 2001, pp3-4. View - [PHEW; Platte Fougére Lighthouse; Guernsey; West Cornwall Bridge CT USA]
Newsletter Article. The Chairman’s Column: Platte Fougére Lighthouse, Guernsey and West Cornwall Bridge CT USA. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 92 December 2001, pp8-10. View - [PHEW; Watanabe K; Dalingross Bridge]
Newsletter Article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 93 March 2002, pp2-4. View - [PHEW; Buxton; Denmark]
Newsletter Article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 94 June 2002, pp2-4. View - [PHEW; Peterson C; Fairmount Waterworks; ICE Scotland Museum; Miller J; Falkirk Wheel; Maryhill Locks]
Newsletter article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 95 September 2002, pp3-4. View - [PHEW; Cornish-Windsor; Vermont; timber bridges; Fairmount Waterworks; Philadelphia]
Newsletter Article. The Chairman’s Column: Cornish-Windsor and Vermont timber bridges; Fairmount Waterworks, Philadelphia. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 96 December 2002, pp7-8. View - [PHEW; Anderton Boat Lift New Hampshire; Fairmount Waterworks]
Newsletter Article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 96 December 2002, pp7-8. View - [PHEW; Shipway J]
Newsletter Article. Dr Jim Shipway’s Graduation. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 97 March 2003, p1. View - [PHEW; Braid Burn Bridge; Indian Railways]
Newsletter Article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 97 March 2003, pp3-5. View - [PHEW; Forth Bridges Visitor Centre Trust; Falkirk Wheel]
Newsletter Article. The Chairman’s Column. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 98 June 2003, pp4-5. View - [PHEW; plaques, Menai, Conwy, Falkirk Wheel; Philadelphia Waterworks]
Newsletter Article. The Chairman’s Column: IHCE Landmark plaques: Menai and Conwy Bridges and Falkirk Wheel; Philadelphia Waterworks Interpretation Centre. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 99 September 2003, pp2-5. View - [PHEW; Stevenson R]
Newsletter Article. ICE President Unveils Robert Stevenson Plaque in Edinburgh. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 102 June 2004, p1. View - [PHEW; Laigh Milton Viaduct]
Newsletter Article. Scottish Regions, Summer Visits, 2004. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 103 September 2004, pp3-5. View - [PHEW; Forth Bridge; rivets]
Newsletter Article. Forth Bridge Rivets For Sale. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 104 December 2004, pp8-9 View - [PHEW; Teaching Engineering History; Heriot-Watt]
Newsletter Article. Teaching Engineering History at Heriot-Watt. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 105 March 2005, pp4-5 View - [PHEW; Miller J]
Newsletter Article. Delayed Recognition for Scotland’s Railway Hero has Arrived at Platform 4 (The Scotsman headline!). ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 107 September 2005, pp1-2 View - [PHEW; Scottish Lime Centre; Fife]
Newsletter Article. Scottish Fife Visit. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 107 September 2005, p6 View - [PHEW; Chanonry Lighthouse; Conon Viaduct]
Newsletter Article. News from Scotland – North Scotland Visit. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 108 December 2006, pp6-8 View - [PHEW; Balmoral Bridge]
Newsletter Article. Royal Recognition for Brunel’s Balmoral Bridge. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 110 June 2006, pp1-2. View - [PHEW; Ritson J]
Newsletter Article. A Remarkable Ritson Remembered. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 111 September 2006, pp4-5. View - [PHEW; Burton WK]
Newsletter Article. William K Burton Memorial. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 112 December 2006, p3. View - [PHEW; Shipway J]
Newsletter Article. Retirement of Dr Jim Shipway. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 115 September 2007, pp1-2. View - [PHEW; Telford T]
Newsletter Article. Thomas Telford 250th Birthday Celebrations in Scotland. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 115 September 2007, pp2-5. View - [PHEW; McCrae KC]
Newsletter Article. Kenneth Campbell McCrae 4 June 1915 – 8 September 2007. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 116 December 2007, p1. View - [PHEW; Kyle Rhea Ferry; Glenelg; Telford T]
Newsletter Article. Kyle Rhea Ferry – Glenelg to Skye – Telford. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 124 December 2009, pp2-3. View - [PHEW; Bertha]
Newsletter Article. Bertha on the Stocks at Eyemouth. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 125 March 2010, pp2-3. View - [PHEW; Kylerhea Ferry; Glenelg Slipway]
Letter to the Editor: Kylerhea Ferry – Glenelg Slipway Postscript. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 125 March 2010, p5. View - [PHEW; Book Review; Paterson A-M]
Book Review. Pioneers of the Highland Tracks: William & Murdoch Paterson. A Biography of Two Railway Engineers. By Anne-Mary Paterson. The Highland Railway Society, 2010. 80pp. Paperback. £9.90. ISBN 9780954548551. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 131 June 2011, pp5-6. View - [PHEW; Rennie J; Scotland]
Newsletter Article. John Rennie Remembered in Scotland. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 132 September 2011, pp2-3. View - [PHEW; Laigh Milton Viaduct; bicentenary]
Newsletter Article. Bicentenary Celebration of Laigh Milton Viaduct. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 135 September 2012, p2. View - [PHEW; Scotland; plaques; Miller J; Ayr Station; Bell Rock Lighthouse]
Newsletter Article. Recent Scottish Plaques: John Miller, Ayr Station and Bell Rock Lighthouse. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 136 December 2012, pp2-3. View - [PHEW; Bell Rock Lighthouse]
Newsletter Article. Institution Award for Bell Rock Lighthouse. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 138 June 2013, pp4-5. View - [PHEW; Shipway J; Obituary]
Newsletter article. Jim Shipway. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 140 December 2013, p2. View - [PHEW; Ballochmyle Viaduct; Miller J]
Newsletter Article. [co-author Rodgers J] Ballochmyle Viaduct. [The authorship of the article was corrected in in the following PHEW Newsletter (No 143 September 2014) “The item on the Ballochmyle Viaduct, which appeared in the June Newsletter, No.142, should have been credited to Professor Roland Paxton and Jerry Rogers”.] ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 142 June 2014, p6. View - [PHEW; Union Chain Bridge]
Newsletter Article. Union Chain Bridge. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 145 March 2015, p1. View - [PHEW; Forth Bridge; Riveter]https://ice-museum-scotland.hw.ac.uk/the_paxton_archive/
Newsletter Article. The Forth Bridge’s Original Riveter. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 146 June 2015, pp2-3. View - [PHEW; Edinburgh & Glasgow Union Canal]
Newsletter Article. Edinburgh Award for Edinburgh & Glasgow Union Canal. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 147 September 2015, pp1-2. View - [PHEW; Harper D; book review]
Newsletter Article. Review of D Harper’s ‘River, Railway and Ravine: Foot Suspension Bridges’. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 147 September 2015, pp3-4. View - [PHEW; Brown S; Netherbyres, Eyemouth]
Newsletter Article. Captain Samuel Brown’s Iron Chain Bridge at Netherbyres, Eyemouth. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 151 September 2016, pp4-5. View - [PHEW; Edinburgh; Marriott Courtyard Hotel; Stevenson R]
Newsletter Article. Edinburgh’s new Marriott Courtyard Hotel [former home of Robert Stevenson CE]. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 153 March 2017, p3. View - [PHEW; ICE Scotland Museum]
Newsletter article. ICE Museum display – Edinburgh Doors Open Day. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 156 December 2017, pp3-4. View - [PHEW; Union Chain Bridge]
Newsletter Article. Union Chain Suspension Bridge 1820 – Radar Site Investigation of Scottish Anchorages. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 158 June 2018, pp3-4. View - [PHEW; Union Chain Bridge]
Newsletter Article. Union Chain Bridge 1820 – Scottish Anchorages Revealed by Radar. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 159 September 2018, pp2-4. View - [PHEW; Horkstow Bridge]
Newsletter article. Horkstow Bridge. ICE Panel for Historic Engineering Works Newsletter No 167 December 2022, pp4-6. View - [Forth Bridge; construction photographs]
Photographs. Forth Bridge Construction Photographs 1884-1885 / From thirteen 10×8 inch glass plate negatives attributed to professional photographer Philip J Phillips with explanatory comment. Donated to RCAHMS [now Historic Environmemt Scotland] in January 2009 where they can be viewed. View - [Forth Bridge; skewback model; ICE Scotland Museum]
Newspaper article. Replica’s made to measure / It’s all go-go. Edinburgh Evening News 25 March 1998. View - [Isle of May; excursion]
Paper. Notes on the Isle of May and its Lighthouses. The Watt Club Summer Excursion, Saturday 3 June 1995. View - [Miller J; biography]
Biography. John Miller. Engineering Timelines, 2012. View - [Stevenson R; biography]
Biography. Robert Stevenson. Engineering Timelines, 2012. View - [Culross]
Paper. Culross. Notes for Heriot-Watt University JBM Excursion 30th June 2011. View - [Union Chain Bridge; celebrations]
Magazine article. An International Engineering Accolade. A View from the Bridge, Friends of the Union Chain Bridge, September 2023. View - [PHEW; conservation]
Flyer. Engineering Heritage of the British Isles, 1998. View - [Laigh Milton Viaduct; plaque]
Newspaper article. Historic plaque marks world’s oldest viaduct. Kilmarnock Standard, Friday, July 20, 2012. View - [Bell Rock Lighthouse; Rennie J; Stevenson R]
Newspaper article. Forgotten lighthouse hero hailed at last. Sunday Times 6 February 2011. View - [Cullalo Quarry; visit]
Newsletter article. PHEW Visit to Cullalo Quarry. ICE East of Scotland Members’ Newsletter, September 2005. View - [Miller J; plaque]
Newsletter article. Plaque Honours Rail Pioneer. ICE East of Scotland Members’ Newsletter, September 2005. View - [HEWs; Civil Engineering Heritage Scotland; Highlands and Islands]
Book. [Co-author Shipway J] Civil Engineering Heritage Scotland – Highlands and Islands. Thomas Telford Ltd, 2007. [The following chapters, notes on authors, subject index and name index are for reference only and may not be copied for publication elsewhere without the express permission of Thomas Telford Ltd.] - >>Foreword and Preface]. View.
- >>Chapter 1: Argyll, pp1-36. View.
- >>Chapter 2: Angus, pp37-66. View.
- >>Chapter 3: Aberdeenshire and Moray East, pp67-122. View.
- >>Chapter 4: Highlands East and Moray West, pp123-182. View.
- >>Chapter 5: Highlands West and North, Hebrides, Orkney, Shetland, pp183-256. View.
- >>Notes on Authors, pp257-258. View.
- >>Name Index, pp259-262. View.
- >>Subject Index, pp263-272. View.
- [HEWs; Civil Engineering Heritage Scotland; Lowlands and Borders]
Book. [Co-author Shipway J] Civil Engineering Heritage Scotland – Lowlands and Borders. [The following chapters, notes on authors, subject index and name index are for reference only and may not be copied for publication elsewhere without the express permission of Thomas Telford Ltd.] - >>Foreword and Preface View.
- >>Chapter 1: Dumfries and Galloway, pp1-58. View.
- >>Chapter 2: Scottish Borders; Berwick-upon-Tweed, pp59-107. View.
- >>Chapter 3: Lothian and Edinburgh, pp108-180. View.
- >>Chapter 4: Lanarkshire, Glasgow, Renfrewshire and Dunbartonshire, pp181-272. View.
- >>Chapter 5: Ayrshire and Bute, pp273-294. View.
- >>Chapter 6: Stirling, Perthshire and Kinross, and Clackmannanshire, pp295-346. View.
- >>Chapter 7: Fife, pp347-374. View.
- >>Notes on Authors, pp375-376. View.
- >>Name Index, pp377-382. View.
- >>Subject Index, pp383-396. View.
- [Bright Lights; lighthouses; Stevensons; Smith T]
Book. (Co-author Leslie J) Bright Lights: The Stevenson Engineers 1752-1971. Gibson Print, 1999. [The following chapters and appendices are for reference only and may not be copied for publication elsewhere without the express permission of the authors.] - >>Front Cover, Introduction etc, pp1-12. View.
- >>Chapter 1: Thomas Smith 1752-1815 – Scotland’s first lighting engineer, pp13-23. View.
- >>Chapter 2: Robert Stevenson 1772-1850 – Erector of the Bell Rock lighthouse, pp24-49. View.
- >>Chapter 3: Alan Stevenson 1807-1865 – Of Skerryvore Lighthouse fame, pp50-62. View.
- >>Chapter 4: David Stevenson 1815-1886 – River improver and consolidator of the dynasty, pp63-78. View.
- >>Chapter 5: Thomas Stevenson 1818-1887 – Investigator of natural phenomena and innovator, pp79-92. View.
- >>Chapter 6: Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1894 – Reluctant trainee civil engineer, pp93-109. View.
- >>Chapter 7: David A. Stevenson 1854-1938 – Extender of the coastal lights, pp110-127. View.
- >>Chapter 8: Charles Alexander Stevenson 1855-1950 – Inventor, electrical and radio engineer, pp128-143. View.
- >>Chapter 9: D. Alan Stevenson 1891-1971 – Last of the line and lighthouse historian, pp144-149. View.
- >>Illustrations, pp150-170. View.
- >>Source notes and select biography. pp171-175. View.
- >>Appendix 1: A selected list of publicatiomns with notes, pp176-190. View.
- >>Appendix 2: Lighthouses by Smith and the Stevensons, pp191-195. View.
- >>Appendix 3: David Stevenson’s apprenticeship indenture 10 July 1834, pp196-197. View.
- >>Appendix 4: The Stevenson Family tree, pp198-199. View.
- >>Index, pp200-207. View.
- [Stevenson; Bell Rock]
Flyer: Dynasty of Engineers – Stevensons and the Bell Rock, Whittles Publishing, 2011. View - [Union Chain Bridge; Opening Ceremony; The Caledonian Mercury]
Paper. Thoughts on press coverage of the opening of Union Chain Suspension Bridge in 1820. Heriot-Watt University, March 2024. View - [London Underground; Central Line; Huddleston F; Contracts Archive]
Paper. Central London Railway Construction. Contracts archive [1896-1902] of Electric Traction Co’s Managing Engineer: Ferdinand Huddleston MICE. June 2023. View - [Union Chain Bridge; Bicentenary; Radar; Restoration; Brooklyn Bridge; Akashi Straits Bridge]
Book. Paxton, R (Ed). Spanning the Centuries / Union Chain Bridge / An anthology of essays reflecting the influence and heritage of the Union Bridge to celebrate its Bicentenary / 1820 – 26th July – 2020. The Friends of the Union Chain Bridge, 2020. - >>Front Cover, Contents, Foreword et al View
- >>Chapter 1: Paxton, R. International Engineering Aspects and the Explorative use of radar site investigation (pp10-19). View
- >>Chapter 2: Stove, C. Union Bridge, Revelation of Scottish Anchorages by Atomic Dielectric Resonance (pp10-26). View
- >>Chapter 3: Jones, SK. Union: The Welsh Link (pp28-33). View
- >>Chapter 4: Rudman, S. Union Bridge Restoration and Progress to date (pp34-41). View
- >>Chapter 5: Giroux, RP. The Brooklyn Bridge USA – the world’s longest bridge span in 1883 pp42-47. View
- >>Chapter 6: Isohata, H. The World’s longest bridge span today: Akashi Straits Bridge, Japan pp48-55. View
- >>Chapter 7: Seland, H. Capt. Samuel Brown’s influence on Norway’s iconic first suspension bridge pp56-61. View
- >>Chapter 8: Oglethorpe, M. Union Bridge’s future contribution to Society pp62-69. View
- >>Chapter 9: Brown, R and Storey, M. Union Bridge and its future: A personal perspective by a local resident pp70-75. View
- >>Chapter 10: Thompson, H. Union Bridge and its future contribution to Society pp76-79. View
- >>Back Cover, The Trustees of The Friends of the Union Chain Bridge. View
- [Smeaton J; Innovator]
Keynote presentation. R. Smeaton: Legacy of an Innovator. Keynote presentation for the John Smeaton International Symposium on Innovations in Civil Engineering held at Heriot-Watt University on 4 September 2024. View - [The Stevensons; Lighthouses; Bell Rock]
Book. Dynasty of Engineers / The Stevensons and the Bell Rock. Northern Lighthouse Heritage Trust, Edinburgh, 2011. This publication is also held by the museum – see References. - >>Front Cover: Contents, Foreword and Introduction. View
- >>Part I: Bibliographical Articles. View
- >>Part II: A new look at the creation of Bell Rock Lighthouse from little-known records. View
- >>Part III: Lighthouses by Smith and the Stevensons – Chronology. View
- >>Part III: Lighthouses by Smith and the Stevensons – Illustrations. View
- >>Back Cover: Index. View
- [Horkstow; Rennie J]
Paper. Horkstow Suspension Bridge, Lincolnshire, after 185 years in Service. Institute for Infrastructure and Environment, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh – 12 November 2021. View - [Linlathen Bridge; Conservation]
Paper. Thoughts on refurbishing Linlathen East Bridge, Dundee – Scotland’s oldest surviving iron bridge? Paper presented to Dundee Civic Trust at Abertay University 29th January 2004. View - [Bridges; River Tweed]
Magazine article. A Bridge not so Far. Scotland’s What’s On, Vol 16 Number 175, July 1991. View - [Telford T; Pontcysyllte Aqueduct; Bonar Bridge; Menai Bridge]
Paper. Telford’s Iron Bridge Mastery. Collected Papers from a Commemorative Conference of The Royal Society of Edinburgh – The 250th Anniversary of the birth of Thomas Telford. View - [Neidpath Viaduct]
Newspaper aticle. Talk helps save bridge. New Civil Engineer, 29 January 1992. View - [Craigellachie Bridge]
Magazine article. Something like a Spider’s Web. Resource, Issue 45 Winter 2014. The Royal Society of Edinburgh. View - [Grainger T; biography]
Biography. Thomas Grainger (1794-1852). Edinburgh City Engineer’s Department Office Magazine, December 1971. View - [Paxton R; biography]
Magazine article. Hendrie WF. Bridging the Years. The Scots Magazine, September 2004 pp302-7. View - [Telford T; Colossus of Roads]
Paper. Kennedy K. A report on Professor Roland Paxton’s presentation “Thomas Telford Colossus of Roads” to the Royal Society of Edinburgh on Wednesday 13 October 2010. View - [Forth Bridge; Paxton R; Book review]
Book review. Griggs FE. 100 Years of the Forth Bridge. Structural Engineering Review, Vol 3 No 3 September 1991 pp191-2. View - [Miller J; appreciation]
Pamphlet. An appreciation of the professional work of John Miller CE FRSE (1805-83) Scottish Railway Engineer Extraordinaire / On the occasion of the unveiling by Sarah Boyak MSP Edinburgh Central of a plaque in his honour at Haymarket Station, on the bicentenary of his birth 26th July 2005. School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, 2005. View - [Ritson J]
Paper. James Ritson ‘surveyor extraordinary’ to Robert Stevenson & Son. Civil Engineers. EGIS, Heriot-Watt University 9.2.2017. View - [Rennie J; biography]
Biography. John Rennie 1761-1821) FRSE FRS Civil Engineer. / Contemporary biographical notices reprinted on the 250th anniversary of his birth. School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, 7th June 2011. View - [Mallaig Railway]
Broadsheet. Paxton R acknowledged as contributor. The Mallaig Railway – The West Highland Extension 1897-1901. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland Broadsheet 10, 2002. View. This publication is also held by the museum – see References. - [Environmental & Water Resources Institute (EWRI); visit]
Paper. Bulloch W, Bulloch K, Rogers J, Fredrich A and Paxton R. Historic Civil Engineering in the U.K.: EWRI Friends Visit London, York, Edinburgh, Arbroath, and Glasgow for Titan Crane Landmark Ceremony. World Environmental and Water Resources Congress, Austin, Texas, May 17-21, 2015. View - [Forth Bridge]
Newspaper article. McGhee J. National Disgrace: How part of our heritage is simply rusting away. Edinburgh Evening News, 12 October 1995. View - [Hunter A; archive]
Archive. [Draft] The Paxton archive of Adam Hunter (1869-1933) – Chief Engineer, Sir William Arrol & Co Ltd, Glasgow, Scotland [builders of the Forth, Tay and Tower {London} Bridges]. Includes many items formerly in Hunter’s home or in the firm’s photo archive [370+ items]. View - [Hunter A; works; bridges]
PowerPoint presentation. The Work of Adam Hunter 1869-1933 Chief Engineer, Sir William Arrol & Co Ltd. ‘Industrial Heritage Month’ of Historic Environment Scotland’s ‘History, Heritage and Archaeology Year’ Lecture 5 May 2017 at Longmore House, Edinburgh. View - [Ritson J; biography]
Paper. A remarkable Ritson remembered on the bicentenary of his birth. School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University, July 2006. View - [Rennie J; Scotland; HEWs]
PowerPoint presentation. Rennie’s Scottish Projects 1779-1821. View - [Telford T; HEWs]
PowerPoint presentation. Untitled presentation on the works of Thomas Telford. View - [Scotland; industrial archaeology]
PowerPoint presentation. Industrial Archaeology in Scotland: Future Perspectives. Edinburgh Saturday 20th October 2007. View - [Transport; HEWs; roads; canals; railways, maritime]
PowerPoint presentation. History of the Built Environment / Transport Development Landmarks in Britain. View - [Union Chain Bridge]
PowerPoint presentation. Union Chain Bridge’s historical engineering significance / a talk by Professor Roland Paxton Heriot-Watt University; Institution of Civil Engineers Panel for Historical Engineering Works; at the Friends reception for the Lord Lieutenants at Paxton House on 26 May 2016. View - [Innocent Railway; cycleway; opening]
Newspaper article. Gaffney praises cycle scheme. Relating to the opening of the Innocent cycleway in Edinburgh 1983. New Civil Engineer 1 December 1983. Refers to the strategic use of a former railway solum in Edinburgh to improve cycleways “last year a section of the ‘Innocent’ railway under Arthur’s Seat was converted by Lothian [Region] under the the direction of strategic highway planner Roland Paxton and team leader Bob Nellist“. View - [Colinton; Bonaly]
Paper. Fragments of pre-1840 Colinton and Bonaly. Written as a civil engineering historian and Bonaly resident since 1964. View - [Watt J; tribute]
Paper. A commemorative tribute on James Watt’s 274th birthday anniversary to Watt Club diners at the Cafe Royal, Edinburgh, 19th January 2010. View - [PHEW; Rennie J]
Magazine article. Rennie to the fore at PHEW Summer Visit. CivilScotland 15 October 2010. View - [Bell Rock Lighthouse; Stevenson R; Rennie J]
Papere. A grand design – Creation of the Bell Rock Lighthouse 1807-11. [To be read at the RSE/NLB Conference at the Royal Society of Edinburgh on ‘The Bell Rock Lighthouse, the Stevensons and emerging issues in aids to navigation‘ on 4 February 2011]. View - [Smeaton J; exhibition]
Newspaper article. Smeaton on Show. Relating to the Smeaton Exhibition in Edinburgh in 1992. New Civil Engineer, 22 October 1992. View - [Bell Rock Lighthouse; ICE; award]
Press Release. Institution Award for Bell Rock Lighthouse. 2013. View - [Stratfield Saye; PHEW; award]
Newspaper article. Iron Bridge shortlisted for PHEW awards. New Civil Engineer 14 October 1999. View - [Edinburgh; heritage]
Newspaper article. Edinburgh publishes a guide to greatness. New Civil Engineer 6 September 1979. View - [Telford T]
Magazine article. Telford 250 Events. CivilScotland 10, 2008. View - [Rennie J; Liverpool; Leith]
Letter to the Editor. …or a Rennie original?. New Civil Engineer 5 April 1984. View - [Kyle-Rhea; Killin; road]
Letter to the Editor. Kyle-Rhea to Killin Road, Scotland – 1810. Journal of the Institution of Municipal Engineers, Vol 94, December 1967. View - [Paxton R; Laigh Milton Viaduct; Forth Bridge; Glenesk Viaduct]
Magazine article. Rail Man Gets Reward. Project Scotland, 2 February 1995. View - [Telford T; Bonar Bridge; Old London Bridge]
Letter to the Editor. Who says Telford’s plan wouldn’t have worked. New Civil Engineer, 6 August 2007. View - [Union Canal]
Broadsheet. Paxton R acknowledged as contributor. Union Canal. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland Broadsheet 8, 2002. This publication is held by the museum – see References. - [Forth and Clyde Canal]
Broadsheet. Paxton R acknowledged as contributor. The Forth and Clyde Canal. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland Broadsheet 9, 2002. This publication is held by the museum – see References. - [Forth Bridge; riveting machine]
Newspaper article. Now here is a riveting story!. Edinburgh Evening News, Thursday 26 May 1988. View - [Forth Bridge; lectures; review]
Newspaper article. Going Forth – and multiplying. 100 Years of the Forth Bridge – review of lectures. New Civil Engineer 19 April 1990. View - [Forth Bridge; paint]
Newspaper article. Millions to be spent on Forth Bridge. Edinburgh Evening News, 28 March 1996. View - [Loch-nan-Uamh; radar; horse and cart]
Newspaper article. Radar hunter hits a nag. Solving a 100-year old Highland mystery of a lost horse and cart. Daily Mail, Thursday 10 May 2001. View - [Forth Bridges Visitor Centre; closure]
Newspaper article. Curtain falls on Forth Bridges Visitor Centre after 20 years. New Civil Engineer, 22 March 2012. View - [Laigh Milton Viaduct; rail]
Newspaper article. Unique rail track found at old viaduct worksite. Kilmarnock Standard, 6 September 1996. View