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It's 200 years since Brunel's birth, but his genius continues to amaze us. EUGENE BYRNE visits Bristol to celebrate an astonishing legacy
HE IS our favourite cigar- chomping, top- hat- wearing engineer. Two hundred years after his birth and nearly 150 after his death, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the creator of some of the country's most extraordinary structures, still holds us under his spell.See the full content of this document
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A recent BBC poll named him the second-greatest Briton of all time, and the 200th anniversary of his birth, on April 9, promises to excite our interest still further.
But to find out why Brunel continues to fascinate us, you need to visit Bristol. And to do Brunel's Bristol properly, you should start at Paddington - even if you actu...See the full content of this document
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