train in the world: it did two hundred kilometres per hour in 1938.
Steam engines like this were the machines of the industrial revolution. In the 1800s they made Britain the worlds first industrial nation.
Part 6. West Yorkshire
The West Yorkshire moors, where two great writers, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, lived. Their best-known books, fane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, were like the moors: dramatic, austere and romantic. They lived in the 1800s in the village of Haworth with four brothers and sisters. Their father was the minister at the village church.
The children all died by the age of thirty, except Charlotte. Charlotte Bronte lived on alone with her father in this house. Then at thirty-eight she married. But only nine months later she, too, died, and was buried in the village church by her old father.
Not far from Haworth is the market town of Skipton.
Auctioneer: 41, 41, 42, 42, 42, 42, 42, 43, 43, 44, 44, 5, 46, 46, take a half. . .
If youre not a farmer, its hard to understand the auctioneer - even if youre British! But you can still enjoy the drama of the auction.
Auctioneer: 48, 48, 48, youre out at the left, go 48, 48, 48, 48, 48, all out from my left, make no mistake, youre down, finished, way a half, eight a half, 9, 49, 49 bid,
bid, 49 bid, a half, getting down sharp
here, Dad, finished, weighed a half, 49 a
half, 49 a half pull em out. . . 50 bid,
bid, again, 50 down. . . half finished,
weighed, a half, 49 a half, 49 a half, pull
em out . . . 50 bid, 50 bid, a half, again,
50 down. . .
Sheepfarmer 1: How many have you
here, Jim? Sheepfarmer 2: Eh? Sheepfarmer 1: How many have you
brought?
Sheepfarmer 2: 140. Sheepfarmer 1: Dont take all the money-
leave a
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