History of Preston
Author : Atticus
Publisher :
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 45,62 MB
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN :
Historical Essays
Author : James Ford Rhodes
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 28,11 MB
Release : 1926
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
A History of Preston
Author : David Hunt
Publisher : Gardners Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 32,71 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Preston (Lancashire, England)
ISBN : 9781859361719
Book Description
For a century and a half Preston was the archetypal Lancashire cotton town, with mills and terraced houses for the workers. Charles Dickens used Preston as the darkest face of Victorian industry in his novel Hard Times. This book tells the complete story of Preston's development from earliest times onwards.
Historical Essays by Members of the Owens College, Manchester
Author : Thomas Frederick Tout
Publisher :
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 41,6 MB
Release : 1907
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
The Arkwrights
Author : R. S. Fitton
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 13,93 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780719026461
Book Description
Richard Arkwright was born in Preston in 1732. He married Patience Holt in 1755 and had a son, Richard, in the same year. After Patience's death in 1756, he married Margaret Biggens in 1761. He passed away in 1792, and was buried at Smelting Mill Green, close to Cromford Bridge.
Catalogue of the Books in the Reference Department
Author : Blackburn (England). Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery
Publisher :
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 24,46 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN :
Book Description
History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster
Author : Edward Baines
Publisher :
Page : 1036 pages
File Size : 23,43 MB
Release : 1836
Category : Genealogy
ISBN :
Book Description
A History of Lancashire
Author : Henry Fishwick
Publisher :
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 29,19 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Lancashire
ISBN :
Book Description
The History of the Parish of Ribchester, in the County of Lancaster
Author : Thomas Charles Smith (of Longridge, Eng.)
Publisher :
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,76 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Ribchester (England)
ISBN :
Book Description
The Parish and the County
Author : Sidney Webb
Publisher :
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 33,18 MB
Release : 1906
Category : County government
ISBN :
