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See also:GEORGE See also:BRADSHAW (1801–1853)
, See also:English printer and publisher, was See also:born at See also:Windsor See also:Bridge, See also:Pendleton, See also:Lancashire, on the 29th of See also:July 1801
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On leaving school he was apprenticed to an engraver at See also:Manchester, eventually setting up on his own See also:account in that See also:city as an engraver and printer—principally of maps
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His name was already known as the publisher of See also:Bradshaw's Maps of Inland See also:Navigation, when in 1839, soon after the introduction of See also:railways, he published, at sixpence, Bradshaw's Railway See also:Time Tables, the See also:title being changed in 1840 to Bradshaw's Railway See also:Companion, and the See also:price raised to one See also:shilling
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A new See also:volume was issued at occasional intervals, a supplementary monthly time-See also:sheet serving to keep the See also:book up to date
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In See also:December 1841, acting on a See also:suggestion made by his See also:London See also:agent, Mr W
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