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Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Years
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One of the best places to start would be the area where Brunel's Watcombe Park estate evolved. Over the years houses have been built on the surrounding land... two keys areas remain untouched which are Brunel Manor and its grounds, and Brunel Woods.
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Brunel suffered several years of ill health, with kidney problems, before succumbing to a stroke at the age of 53. Brunel was said to smoke up to 40 cigars a day, and get by on only four hours of sleep a night.
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Two severe incidents of flooding halted work for long periods, killing several workers and badly injuring the younger Brunel. The latter incident, in 1828, killed Collins and Ball, the two most senior miners, and Brunel himself narrowly escaped death; a water break-in hurled him from a tunnelling platform, knocking him unconscious, and he was washed up to the other end of the tunnel by the surge. As the water rose, by luck he was carried up a service stairway, where he was plucked from almost certain death by an assistant moments before the surge receded. Brunel was seriously hurt (and never fully recovered from his injuries), and the event ended work on the tunnel for several years.[6]
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Throughout the year there's a varied program of celebrations, including group tours of the original Bristol Temple Meads terminus and a "Nine Lives of Brunel" exhibition at Great Britain. For all the details of Brunel 200 events, see www.brunel200.com.
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