Thomas Telford

OUR seasoned stomper Julia donned her walking boots once again — this time to explore her own British backyard. Travelling along the country's network of canals and their accompanying towpath trails, the first episode sees her navigating Highland glens, rolling countryside and river valleys, as well as our industrial heartlands following the magical waterways as they cut a sedate path through some of the country's finest scenery.

OUR seasoned stomper Julia donned her walking boots once again — this time to explore her own British backyard. Travelling along the country's network of canals and their accompanying towpath trails, the first episode sees her navigating Highland glens, rolling countryside and river valleys, as well as our industrial heartlands following the magical waterways as they cut a sedate path through some of the country's finest scenery.

Samuel Smiles published Lives of the Engineers in 1862. The noted biographer presented his engineers as heroic progress makers who conquered nature and overcame impossible obstacles to drive the Industrial Revolution forward, but included twisted and often fabricated accounts in his work.

The series charts a whole generation of great Victorian engineers, told through the rivalries of two great engineering families - the Stephensons and the Brunels.