On 22 December 1730 he married Mercy Maris ( 1709 – 1790 ), daughter of Richard Maris, a baker and maltster of Worcester, and his second wife, Elizabeth Brindley.

Hugh Henshall, who was the brother-in-law of James Brindley, was asked to re-survey the route in 1792, and recommended a diversion to Newent.

Cullman is located on top of Brindley Mountain plateau at ( 34. 177508 ,-86. 844996 ).

James Brindley, the engineer behind many of the canals in England, did his first canal work on the Trent and Mersey, though his first job in charge of construction was on the Bridgewater Canal.

There are actually two tunnels ; the first was built by Brindley and was 2880 yards ( 2633 m ) long, and barges were ' legged ' through by men lying on their backs and pushing against the roof with their feet.

James Brindley died at Turnhurst within sight of the unfinished Harecastle Tunnel on 27 September 1772.

The inscription on his grave reads " James Brindley, of Turnhurst, Engineer, was interred Sept. 30, 1772, aged 56.

He is remembered in Birmingham by Brindley Drive ( on the site of former canal yards ), the Brindleyplace mixed-use development and a pub, The James Brindley ( both being canal-side features ), and the James Brindley School for children in Birmingham's hospitals ; in Leek with the James Brindley Mill ; and by numerous other streets in the areas in which he worked.

There is also James Brindley Science College ( previously James Brindley High School ) in Chell, Stoke-on-Trent, and also, the Brindley's Lock pub on Silverstone Crescent, Stoke-on-Trent.

Brindley presented his proposals to a meeting in Worksop on 24 August 1769.

Immediately on the passing of the act, construction began under the direction of Brindley.

The standard for the dimensions of narrow canal locks was set by Brindley with his first canal locks, those on the Trent and Mersey Canal in 1776.

James Brindley was commissioned to build the canal, and work started on it in December that year.

Construction began in August 1790, when Thomas Dadford, a pupil of the canal engineer James Brindley, arrived on site, with Thomas Sheasby, his son Thomas Dadford, Jr., and a team of workmen.

The engineer James Brindley cut the first Harecastle Tunnel on the Trent and Mersey Canal near the town ; Thomas Telford cut the second.

Four statues on the parapets represent commerce and agriculture on the south side, both by sculptor Henry Bursill, and science and fine art on the north side, by the sculpture firm Farmer & Brindley.

In his first season in management, Brindley took Hednesford to the playoffs and after beating Merthyr Tydfil on penalties in the semi, and Chippenham Town in the final 1 – 0, Hednesford were promoted to the Conference North.

The School of Computing has now moved to a purpose-built building on the Beaconside campus and the newly refurbished Brindley Building in Stoke, and continues to offer one of the best respected computing degrees in the UK.

Brindley died on 11 December 2009, aged 86, after a long illness.

The team continued to leak goals and, as a result of a number of poor results and the team sinking to the bottom end of the Conference North, Chris Brindley left the club by mutual consent in early December 2005.

Brindley Horatio Benn, CCH ( 24 January 1923 – 11 December 2009 ) was a teacher, choirmaster, politician, and one of the key leaders of the Guyanese independence movement.

Michael Simon Brindley Bream Beuttler ( 13 April 1940 – 29 December 1988 ) was a British Formula One driver who raced privately entered March cars.

He left the club on 12 December, being replaced by Chris Brindley, who was Assistant Manager under Bull.

On 25 December 1977, a WPVP newspaper called The Beacon and edited by Brindley Benn published an expose of the People's Temple cult which had established a compound called Jonestown in Guyana.

The second option gained most support, and a new committee was set up, who asked James Brindley to take over from Smeaton in 1765.

McConnel's Mills, 1820McConnel's Mills, 1913Survey work for the Rochdale Canal was carried out by James Brindley in 1765.

Modern drug therapy for ED made a significant advance in 1983, when British physiologist Giles Brindley, Ph. D. dropped his trousers and demonstrated to a shocked Urodynamics Society audience his papaverine-induced erection.

The Rochdale Canal was conceived in 1776, when a group of 48 men from Rochdale raised £ 237 and commissioned James Brindley to conduct a survey of possible routes between Sowerby Bridge and Manchester.

The drug Brindley injected into his penis was a non-specific vasodilator, an alpha-blocking agent, and the mechanism of action was clearly corporal smooth muscle relaxation.

James Brindley was employed as engineer and work got under way .” ( A quote from Canals, Routes and Roots, The Trent and Mersey Canal, by Peter Hardcastle )

In the 1900s, the Brindley tunnel was closed due to severe subsidence, but the Telford Tunnel-although also prone to the same problems-remains in use, and is the fourth-longest navigable canal tunnel in the United Kingdom.

James Brindley was the chief engineer of the canal, which was part of his Grand Cross plan for waterways connecting Hull, Liverpool and Bristol.

James Brindley was the first to survey a route, which would have run from the Bristol Channel to Exeter, following the course of the River Tone for part of its route.

Leek was the home of James Brindley, the 18th century canal engineer.

James Brindley ( 1716 – 27 September 1772 ) was an English engineer.

Brindley was commissioned as the consulting engineer and, although he has often been credited as the genius behind the construction of the canal, it is now thought that the main designers were Sir Thomas Egerton himself, who had some engineering training, and the resident engineer John Gilbert.

Brindley was engaged, at the insistence of Gilbert, to assist with particular problems such as the Barton Aqueduct.

The first sod was cut by Josiah Wedgwood in 1766 and Brindley carried it away in a barrow.

The route of the canal was surveyed by James Brindley and John Varley, who estimated the cost at £ 94, 908 17s.

The canal was a typical Brindley contour canal, following the contours to avoid costly cuttings and embankments, which resulted in a less than direct route in places.

Surveying of the route and initial construction were originally supervised by the celebrated engineer James Brindley, assisted by Samuel Simcock who was also Brindley's brother-in-law.