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BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS Abbatt. Quaker Annals of Preston & the Fylde 1653-1900 (1931) 168pp + plates Indexed. £100. -do- A Victorian Quaker Courtship; Lancashire Love Letters of the 1850s 1988 Pbk. 291pp+ folding map. Illus VG £8 Abram. . Memorials of the Preston Guilds (1882 – reprint 1971). Pbk 152pp £5,, -do- Bygone Blackburn (1950 – reprint 1989) 204pp + plates & folding map dw VG £30 () Accrington Club : Golden Moments 1846-1995 200pp Illus VG (See Pilkington) £10* (Acts of Parliament) I have a list of Lancashire Acts of Parliament which you can send for, It contains many local Acts, including some for:- Prescot, Liverpool,Stretford, ,,Everton,Lostock, Tonge, ,,Ashton-u- Lyne,St Helens,Aughton (Ormskirk), Nelson,Shaw,Farnworth,Preston,Rainhill,,Salford,Westhoughton,Bury, ,Lancaster,Darwen,,Bootle,,Wigan,Golborne,Seaforth,Sefton,,Birkdale, , Middleton,Little Hulton,,Bury. Ainsworth History & Associations of Altham & Huncoat 1932. 307pp Indexed. List of subscribers. New endpapers. Usual foxing. With the book is a postcard written by Ainsworth to a Huncoat resident in a humourous manner.It may be that the spine is new, with the original one laid onto it. The covers are not new, as they have some wear to the corners.Very scarce £80* (Allerton) The of All Hallows, Allerton 1876-1976. Pbk 1976 58pp Illus Signature on half- title £8 Allen & Mattocks. Industry & Prudence; a Plan for Accrington c 1972. 4to 186pp Illus. VG in a frayed dustwrapper. This is a MUST on every Accringtonian’s shelves. £10*.. Alston. Lancashire & the Lune Valley. 19?? Sutton Pbk. 160pp Photos/captions. VG £6 -do- Doris’ Village (Hawkshaw) 1992 Pbk. Illus 63pp VG £5 Ambrose. Liverpool & District Cricketers 1882-1947 (2002) Pbk 32pp VG £5 Anderson. The Orrell Coalfield, Lancs, 1740-1850, 1975, 208pp, illus dw VG, owner's sig fep £30 ‘An Old Stager’ (Aspinall) Liverpool and few years since. 1869 Second edition. New endpapers 187pp £15 Arthur C. The History of the Fylde Waterworks 1861 to 1911 (1911) 383pp + index & plates. Newly rebound with a map in the pocket. A library stamp on obverse of the title page. VG £75* Ashcroft. Atherton & Tyldesley.. 2013. Images of series. 128pp Photos/captions VG £5 -do- Around Ashton in Makerfield & Golborne. 1997 Archive Photographs series. Pbk 128pp Photos/captions VG £5 Ashmore. The Whalley Abbey Bursars’ Accounts for 1520 (1962) Offprint pamphlet 24pp VG £5 Ashton, Accrington As It Was, 1975, 44pp pbk photos/captions VG £10.. -do-, Economic & Social Investigations in Manchester 1833-1933: a centenary history of the Manchester Statistical Soc, 1934, 179pp, boards £10 2

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do-, Lytham, 1947 (2nd), blue cloth 121pp Illus £20.. -do- Three Big Strikes in the Coal Industry – Pt 3 (of 3) `1925. 508pp No lettering on the spine. Title is printed on the front cover VG Much on Lancashire coalfield 1913-21 £30* -do- The history of St Chad’s Church, Poulton-le-Fylde 1949/ Pbk 74pp £5 Ashworth. Recollections of Richard Cobden & the Anti-Corn Law League (c1876) 295pp Indexed £15 -do- ; a town amidst the Pennines 1984 Pbk 98pp Illus VG £5.. Ashworth & Dalziel. Lancaster & District. 2009 Pbk 160pp Photos with captions. Owners’ signatures ontitle page, o/w VG £8 Aspden Hartley. Fifty Years A Journalist: reflections & recollections of an Old Clitheronian c1930(?) 63pp Ex-library (never issued) £20 Aspin Chris. , 1800-1900, a history, 1962, 187pp + plates, index £50*... -do- Surprising Rossendale 1986 Pbk 55pp VG £5. -do- Surprising Lancashire. 1988 Pbk 74pp + photo plates VG £5 -do- Mr ’s Short Cut to China & other stories of Rossendale enterprise 1983 Pbk. 100pp Illus VG £8 -do- Lancashire; the First Industrial Society 1969. 190pp + 49 photo plates. Indexed. Recommended reading . A small inscription on front paste-down. £10 -do- Just a few words; a boyhood 2003 45pp dw. VG Signed by author £15 -do- Dizzy Heights; the story of Lancashire’s first flying men 1988 Pbk. Illus 132pp Indexed VG £10 -do- The Water-Spinners; a new look at the early cotton trade. 2003 Helmshore Local History Society. Pbk 508pp VG £30 -do- -do- Hardback, VG in VG dustwrapper £40 -do- The Turners of Helmshore & Higher Mill 1970 Pamphlet 24pp £5 -do- James Hargreaves & the Spinning Jenny 1964. 79p + photo plates. Indexed. VG £20 -do- (ed) Manchester & the Textile districts in 1849. (1972) 122pp. A society’s stamp on thetitle page, o/w VG in VG dustwrapper. A series of 1849 newspaper articles by Angus B Reach. £8 Aspin & Pilkington Haslingden, 1979 Pbk spiral bound 153pp Photos/captions VG £12*. Aspin & Simpson The Spirit of Haslingden & Helmshore: the 20th century in photographs 2004 159pp Photos/captions dw VG £15 -do-- Haslingden & District in Old Picture Postcards 1992 Cloth. 76pics/captions VG £10.. Aspin, Pilkington & Simpson (eds) . Helmshore. 2000 Pbk Landcape format, plastic spiral comb spine.125pp Photos with captions. VG £20.. Ashworth. Tales of Old Lancashire 2007 Pbk 96pp Illus VG £5 Atticus - see Hewitson Atherton Rev Robert (‘Robin o’Bob’s’) Pamphlets written in Standard English & dialect, poetry & prose .a) Empire Songs (c1924) 8pp cover loose b) Sir Harry Lauder on the Ship Canal, or The Poet on Pendle Hill 8pp no cover c) Pieces No 8pp.. d)The Oyster & the Elephant 8pp..e)The Hymn of the Christmas Vision 8pp.. Each £10 Atkinson (ed) The Coucher Book of Abbey….Chetham Soc Vols 9.11.14, Some have new endpapers. Further description on application (See Brownbill) £120* 3

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- -do- Vol 9 new endpapers. VG £30 -do- -do- Vol 11 Light foxing of prelims. Some wear top spine. Top corner cut off free endpaper £30 -do- -do- Vol 14. Top corner cut off free endpaper. Label removed fromm paste-down, o/w VG £30 -do-, Notes on the Churches of Lancashire by the late Sir Stephen Glynne 18993 Chetham Soc. Newly rebound. A small library stamp on obverse of title page, o/w VG. 127pp Two Indeces. £40.. -do- Rambles & Scrambles in Lakeland. 1933. 62pp + photo plates. VG £6 Axon (ed) Manchester Sessions : Notes of proceedings (various) Mosley & other magistrates Vol 1 1616-23 Record Society Vol 42 1901. 209pp A society’s bookplate, o/w VG £30 Ayre. From ‘Keer to Kent’ ; a look at life in the Arnside/Silverdale area 2001 Pbk 96pp + plates. VG £8 -do- A Handy Guide to ……1904 Pbk.. 138pp + adverts & maps.Includes the Lakes. VG £20 () Jubilee of the Incorpration of the borough….1882 (1932) Souvenir Handbook Newly bound. 54pp + photo plates. VG £40* Bailey (ed) . Inventories of church goods in the churches & chapels of Lancashire, 1552 : Pt 1 – . Chetham Soc Vol 107 1879. 54pp Many unopened £20 -do- -do- West Derby,Blackburn & Leyland Hundreds. Chetham Soc Vol 113 1888 . Library labels removed. Stamps throughout, o/w VG Bailey & Millington. The Story of Liverpool 1957. Pbk 62pp + photo plates. 1207-1957 £5 Baggoley. Blackburn. Britain in Old Photographs series. 1996 Pbk 126pp VG £6.. -do- Darwen. 2008 reprint, Images of England series. Pbk 128pp photos with captions VG £8 -do- Strangeways; a century of hangings in Manchester 2006 Pbk 176pp Ilus Indexed. VG £6 Bagley, Lancashire Diarists; 3 centuries of Lancashire lives (1975) 210pp & plates dw VG £5.. -do- Lancashire. 1972. 232pp + plates dw VG £5 -do- The Will, Inventory & Accounts of Robert Walthew of Pemberton. 1965. PENB 62pp + pedigree £20 -do- The Story of ; Pt 1 – From the Romans to the Tudors. 12 talks broadcast on Radio Merseyside1968. 95pp Bound in cloth by the library whose label it bears, o/w VG £6 Bagley & Hodgkiss. Lancashire;a History of the County Palatine in Early Maps 1985 Pbk 83pp Ills.VG £8.. Bailey. The School Candidates; a prosaic burlesque by Henry CLARKE occasioned by the election of a schoolmaster at the village of Stretford,1788 (1877) 117pp & 113pp Includes a memoir of Clarke. Newly rebound £50*.. -do- Old Stretford; a lecture ….1878. This is a photocopy of this 60pp book which has been bound in cloth by a library whose label (never issued) it bears. VG. £5 Bainbridge. Brass Triumphant 1980. 171pp Illus. Indexed. ex-library with free endpaper torn out, o/w VG in dw. Brass Banding £5 Baines. A Companion to the Lakes of Cumberland, & Lancashire 1829 First Ed. 276pp + 48pp Itinerary & index. Folding coloured map. Foxing throughout. Newly rebound in red cloth with a paper label (as original) on spine. VG. Very lengthy title, details on application £120* 4

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- 1969 reprint of the 3rd volume of illustration (maps, plans, tables) contained in the two volumes of his ‘History, Directory & Gazetteer of the Co Palatine of Lancaster’1824. 4to VG in a VG dustwrapper. £10 -do- The Parish of Huyton. Extracted from History of :Lancashire (1836) bound in black cloth 35pp. VG £12 Bairstow. Railways of Blackpool & the Fylde. 2001 Pbk 104pp Extensivelky illus VG £8 -do- The Manchester & :Leeds Railway; the Calder Valley line1987 Pby. 72pp Illus. VG £6 Bamford Samuel .The Autobiography of…..2 vols with an intro by WH Chaloner 1967 Cass reprint. Comprises ‘Early Days and’ Passages in the Life of a Radical’. In dustwrappers VG Pair £30. -do- Walks in & on its borders …….1844 (Reprint 1972.) 288pp VG £10 Bamford. The Chronicle of St Paul’s (Wigan) 1977 62pp Ex-library in cloth. Never issued. VG £5 Bancroft Olympic Champions in Manchester. 1993 Pbk. 52pp Illus Ex-library. Lacks free endpaper o/w VG Likely never issued £6 Bankes & Kerridge, The Early Records of the Bankes Family at Winstanley, 1973 dw VG £20 Bannister, The Annals of Trawden Forest, 1922 reprint 1992, 106pp pbk, plates, VG £8.. -do- A Wartime Childhood. 1984 Pbk `105pp Signed by author. 1939-45 VG £8 (Barber & Worthington ) Headed invoice 1854 from BARBER & WORTHINGTON, slate & stone dealers , Brewer St, Manchester to F NEWBURY . Small hole below the firm’s name. £5 (Barker) Headed invoice 1855 from Joseph BARKER, corn & flour factor of Rd, Manchester to Francis NORBURY £5 Barnes, Barrow & District 1968- reprint 1978 Pbk 136pp & plates Index. Bookplate on obverse of front cover o/w VG £10 -do-, Barrow & District 1968 Cloth 136pp + plates & maps. Indexed VG £10.. -do- The Story of Halshaw Moor (Cong) Chapel A history of a century of work. 1908 220pp Illus Index. VGxx £50 -do- Man & the Changing Landscape: Work Notes Pt 3 1981. Pbk. 144pp Illus. Lacks a title page. Ex-Library o/w VG Central Pennines Archaeology £5 Baron Joseph. James Sharples; blacksmith & artist. 1893 Small pbk. 60pp + photo plates. Foxed cover. Sharples was .based in Bury & Blackburn. £10 Baron John T. A Cotton Town Chronicle. 1978 88ppA compilation of dialect & standard English poems by this Blackburn poet reporiduced from local newspapers. Bound inn cloth by a libraryVG £8 Baron Wm. Bill o’Jack’s Lancashire Monthly No 3 July 1909. 24pp pamphlet £8.. -do- Bill o’Jack’s Xmas Annual Dec 1914 28pp pamphlet £8.. Barrett & Eaves. Sabden Past & Present; a photographic history 2004 96pp £8 Barrett’s Directory Preston & District 1948 556pp Newly rebound inma\rfon cloth £60* Barton & Hamilton. Local Literacies; Reading & writing in one community (Lancaster) 299pp Indexed. An academic study conducted in Lancaster VG £10 Basnett. The First Public Railway in Lancashire: the history of the Bolton & Leigh Railway….1824- 28 (1963) Offprint pamphlet 18pp Illus. Some pnecilled marginalia. Ex-library £5 5

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS Bastow. Henry Royce-Mechanic. 1989 Pbk 214pp. VG £10* Bates Joe. Rambles twixt Pendle & Holme (195? Stapled pbk 80pp VG (Nelson) £6 Bates Willie. Monologues & Poems in Lancashire Dialect. 1974. A4 14pp. Ex-library in cloth. Lacks a free endpaper o/w VG Burnley poet.& Radio Blackburn character. £5 Beamont, The Jacobite Trials at Manchester 1694…., (1853 Chetham Soc), 132pp, index, £30.. Bearman Louisa, Poems in the Lancashire Dialect, 1977 Dalesman, 64pp, pbk £5 Beesley & De Figueiredo. Victorian Manchester & Salford 1988 A4 Pbk 109 b/w photos with lengthy, informative captions. VG £15 Bell Peter (ed) Victorian Lancashire 1974. 196pp 8 excellent essays. VG in VG dw. £5 Bell. Whittle as it was’ a nostalgic look at Whittle le Woods. 1984 Pbk Photos with captions. 48pp VG £8 Benas, Notes on the Family of Baron Henry de Worms, 1939, 16pp PENB plates, Toxteth MP £10 Bennett (ed), Lancashire Miscellany of Dialect Verse, 1960, 172pp £5 Bennett, A Very Desolate Position, 1977, 146pp foolscap illus, School £15 (Bennett) Headed invoice 1855. John M & Henry BENNETT, timber merchants. , Manchester £5 Bennett . Burnley to 1400 (1946) 152pp Illus & 2 maps. Signed by author. Pt 1 of a series of 4. VG £10 -do- -do- Vols 1-3 (of 4) . . Red cloth. 1946-51 VG £30 -do- Burnley & the Grammar School in the 16th Century 1930 Pamphlet 32pp + folding chart which has been written on in pencil by a childish hand. £10 -do- The History of Marsden & Nelson. 1957 Pbk 237pp + plates. Indexed. £15.. Benson. Selina ; Saint or Sinner 1993 Pbk 109pp Signed on title page Kirkham author VG £5.. Benson Jack Tales of Toads & Tranklements 2003. Pbk.111pp Signed by author £6 .. Bentley John. The Story of St Luke’s (Brierfield) 1872-1972, 83pp illus dw VG £15 -do- This Was Nelson 1973. Pbk 48pp b’w photos with captions £5 -do- Portrait of Wycoller. 1975 4to 208pp Illis Indexed VG in dw £6 Best. A short history of Clitheroe 1988 Pbk 64pp Illus VG £6 Billington. From Affetside to Yarrow; Bolton Place-Names & their history 19882 Pbk 98pp Index. VG £8 Billington (ed) Captain Dewhurst & his Diary. 1982 Pbk Not paginated With folding map & pedigree of Dewhursts VG £10 Bird. Wickleswick; a lost township. Undated 20pp essay from ‘The Ancestor’ It is a photocopy, bound in cloth by the library whose label it bears VG £10.. Birtill, George, Motorway Country: afternoon runs between Ribble & Condor, 1971, 79pp pbk ills £5 -do-, Now Thus, Now Thus, 1966, 124pp pbk fiction based on James Pilkington £10 -do-, Heather in My Hat (1976) Pbk 115pp Illus & photos VG (Tockholes-Anglezarke) £8.. -do-, Let’s Take A Walk (1969) 71pp Illus newly rebound £15 -do- Follow Any Stream 1968 144pp Illus Pbk £10 -do- The Enchanted Hills 1983. Pbk 110pp Illus VG £10 -do- Balshaw’s School 1782-1982 (1982) Pamphlet 36pp VG £5 -do- Over the Five barred gate. 1967 Pbk 160pp Illus. £10 Blackburn Elizabeth. When I Grew Up. Undated A5 pbk. 80pp Autobiograophy of a lady born 1902 in Blackburn. Latterly she lived in Burnley VG £5 (Blackburn) Corporation Tender Document 1892 –Cash & Co supplying lamplighters’ hats. 2pp VG £5 -do- Memories of Blackburn 1996. Landscape pbk pub True North. Not paginated. Photos with captions and some company histories VG £8.. -do- The Book of Blackburn. 1979 Pbk. 15 essays VG £8.. 6

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- 40Years of Blackburn Buses 1929-69 Pamphlet 24pp Illus VGT £10 -do- 1889 Tender for laying sewerage pipes.Guide-Lower Darwen-Ewood. Handwriten 12pp Appears to be the schedule to be observed. The tender of Wm Jenkins was accepted £10 -do- See (Samlesbury) (Blackburn Rovers) They Think It’s All Rovers….Tales from Ewood – a celebration of 125yrs of Blackburn Rovers 2000 Landscape format pbk. 192pp Photos, text, adverts. VG £10 (Blackpool) Blackpool on Parade; Official Centenary Parade programme 1976 A4 32pp stapled. VG £5 -do- Images of Blackpool. 1994. Pbk published by Evening Gazette 184pp Photos with captions.VG £10 -do- Blackpool & Fylde Coast Memories. 2009 A4 Pbk pub by True North. 144pp Extensively illus. VG £10 -do- 75years of Electric Street Tramway Operation. 1960 A 12pp pamphlet published by the Corporation to celebrate 75yrs of trams. VG £10 Blackwood. The Lancashire Gentry & the Great Rebellion 1640-60 (1978 Chetham Soc Vol 25 184pp Indexed VG. £20 Blakeman. Wigan ; a historical souvenir. 1996 A4 format.159pp Photos with captions. VG in a VG dustwrapper. £10 Bland. John James Audubon in Liverpool 1826-7 (1977) 14pp pamphlet + plates. £6.. Boiler Explosion Reports, pub HMSO. Each 2pp + diagram:- Each £10 b) 1923 Death of W CLARKE, Burnley Workhouse c) 1883 in a tar still, Steanor Bottom Chemical works. No deaths d) 1882. –do- 2 deaths, no names (T STANSFIELD & T OGDEN I have ascertained) g) 1885, Injuries to James LUCAS & 2 others(Joseph WILDING & John WELLS) , Furthergate Chemical Works, Blackburn Bolton. Clayton in History: the story of Clayton-le-Woods to 1800. (1985) Pbk 47pp Illus. VG £8 Bolton & Frost Burnley 2006 Subscribers hardback edn. dw VG Many illus £10 (Bolton) The Times of our Lives-Stories from The Emmanuel Over 60s Club, Derby Ward 1988. A4 stapled pbk 37pp £5 -do- Town plan 1835 for the Boundaries Commission Approx 4x3inches Borough boundary in red. a) In a card mount. VG £10 b) unmounted £5… -do- Four Bolton Directories – 1821/2,1836,1843,1853. Reprinted by Neil Richardson1982. Pbk 106pp £8.. -do- The Bolton Directory for 1818 –reprint 1989 Pbk 75pp VG (Published by Rogerson) £8 -do- Bolton Memories. 2001 pub True North. A4 in laminated boards120pp Extensively illus. VG £10 Bolton Corporation. Joseph Farington; watercolours & drawings. 1977 Catalogue of a touring exhibition Pbk. 116pp 83 b/w plates. Library label o/w VG £10*.. Boney. Liverpool Porcelain of the 18th Century & its Makers 1989. 4to. 223pp + 50 b/w plates Indexed. dw VG £15 Bonner. The Boys went to Malta. 1992. Landscape pbk. 142pp Ilus VG. Manchester Regt in WW2 £10 Booth Mike. Oswaldtwistle in Times Past 1982. Pbk.48pp Photos with captions VG £8 Booth Tony. What’s Left? ; a political memoir. 2002 212pp + photo plates. Ex-library likely never issued. Lacks free endpaper o/w VG Liverpool Leftie/Cherie’s dad/ ‘Scouse git’ dw & cover £5 (Bootle) Klondyke Kaleidoscope; The History of the William Jones Estate in Orrell –the local factories & the memories of the residents 2008. Landscape format A4 Pbk. 74pp Illus VG £10

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BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS Boumphrey, Hudleston & Hughes. An Armorial for Westmorland & Lonsdale 1975 357pp + illustrations As new. . £15* Bowden The Book of Bacup 1994. Laminated boards. 132pp Illus Indexed. Pictorial endpapers VG £25 -do- Samuel Chadwick & 1982 Pbk 24pp VG. Burnley-born Methodist £5 Bowling. The 2011 Pbk. 96pp Colour photos with captions VG Bowman, When Every Day Was Summer 1989 Pbk 220pp Author’s life in Hambleton 1920-39 VG £10.. Brabin. The Black Widows of Liverpool ; a chilling account of cold-blooded murder in the Victorian city 2009 Pbk 154pp Illus VG £6 Bradley Anne (ed) Nature Notes of Joseph Woodruff; a Lancashire Country Diary 1940-51 (1986) Pbk 100pp Illus. Covers a large proportion of the county VG £5 Bradley Helen, And Miss Carter Wore Pink 1971 Coloured illus dw First Edn £10… -do-, Miss Carter Came with Us, 1974, 26 coloured illus. dw VG £10… -do- ‘In the beginning’ said Great Aunt Jane 1975 First edn. Coloured illus. dw VG £10... -do- The Queen Who Came to Tea 1978 First Ed. Coloured illus .dw VG £10 -do- Origins of Street Names in the City Centre of Manchester 1985 A4 Pbk 58pp Illis VG £8.. (Bradshaw) Cricket Club 1884-1984. Pbk 96pp Illus VG £10* Brazendale. Lancashire’s Historic Halls 1994 Pbk. 298pp Illus VG £8 Bridge Mary. Waddington; Village life in the 19th century 1994. 196pp + index. Illus VG in a VG dustwrapper. £10 Bridgeman. History of the church & manor of Wigan…. 1888 Chetham Soc. 4 vols (15,16,17,18) Many unopened pages. An owner’s signature on Vol 15.. A bookplate has been removed from each volume and a corner cut off the free endpaper, o/w VG £120 Bridges Harold. As I Remember: the life story of a Lancashire lad 1900-90: 47years in road transport,1921-68. 1992. Pbk.215pp Illus VG Lytham-based carrier. £6 Bridges Winnie. Threads of Lancashire Life. 1997 Pbk. 100pp Illus. Gt Harwood 1929 onwards. VG £8 Brierley Ben Ab o’ th’ Yate in Yankeeland, 1885, 324pp, red cloth, dialect£10 -do- The Chronicles of Waverlow 1885 280pp red cloth. Dialect £10 -do- Irkdale, a Lancashire Story, 1868, newly rebound. Dialect £10 -do- The Cotters of Mossburn, 1886, 283pp green cloth. Dialect £10 -do- -do- red cloth £10 -do- Spring Blossoms & Autumn Leaves, 1893, 154pp, poems + biog sketch, VG £10 -do- Nights with Ben Brierley 188? 4 @30pp parts together Boards & new cloth spine Readings & recitations Much dialect .Owner’s stamp on title page £20 -do- Home Memories & Recollections of a Life 188? 99pp & ads Boards with new cloth spine. Owner’s stamp on title page £20 -do- Ab o’th’Yate Sketches & other short stories. 3 vols 1896 Top edge gilt.Dialect & standard English £20 Brierley Henry The Rochdal;e reminiscnces of….1923. 148pp + rontis portrait. Indexed. VG £40* Brigg. The Journals of a Lancashire Weaver 1856-60, 1860-64,1872-75 (1982 Record Society) 211pp Index VG in dw ( John O’Neil ,Clitheroe) £25 Briggs Asa. Friends of the People: the centenary history of ’ 1956. 242pp + plates. index,. dw VG £10 Brill. William Gaskell 1805-84 ; a portrait. 1984. Illuis Indexed. Map endpapers. dw VG £10 British Association. A Sciuentific Survey of Merseyside. 1953. 4to British Insulated Callender’s Cables Ltd. Introducing BICC: Regulations& general Information for permanent, probationery &temporary staff. 195? Small bound book 52pp Illus. £8 8

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS British Rail (pub). Rocket 150 ; 150th anniversary of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1830- 1980 – Official Handbook. Pbk Ilus VG £8 Brockbank. The Honorary Medical Staff of the Manchester Royal Infirmnary 1830-1948 (1965) 240pp Indexed. VG £15 Brockbank & Kenworthy (eds), The Diary of Richard Kay of Baldingstone near Bury 1716-51, a Lancashire Doctor 1968 Chetham Soc. 179pp Illus, indexed VG. £10.. Brodie Ian Walking from 1986 Pbk 60pp 14 walks. Illus VG £5… (Brook) Peter Brook, the Pennine Landscape Painter 1992. Not paginated Many b/w illus. dw VG £15 Broome, Dora, Lancashire Tales, 1949, 159pp, 17 comical tales £8 -do-. Lancashire Folks 1940. 126pp 22 comical tales £5 Brown. Bolton As It Was. 1972. 44pp Photos with captions. Bound in cloth by a library whose label (never issued) it bears. VG. £5 -do- Through Stormy Waters; history of Fleetwood FC. 1995 One of 500 copies. 192pp Illus. £30* Brownbill, The Coucher Book of Furness Abbey, vol 2, pt1, 1915 Chetham Soc ,Vol 74 288pp, bookplate removed., (See Atkinson) £30 -do- -do- Chetham Soc 1916 vol 2 pt 2 (Vol 76) label removed from paste-down. Top corner cut from free endpaper (See Atkinson) £30 -do- A Calendar of that part of the collection of deeds & papers of the Moore family of Bankhall now in the - Buckley Annie. History of the Providence Baptist Chapel, Lumb 1928. 105pp + plates. Library stamps on obverse of title page. Labels removed from free endpaper £20… Buckley Stella. John Buckley 1865-1944. :Learner-Teacher-Friend 1926. 139pp. Portrait photo frontis. Wesleyan.educator worked in Wigan 1896-1914 £10* Bulmer’s History & Directory of Furness & Cartmel 2nd edn 1911. 423pp plus (p424-546 ) Part of the Egremont or Western Division of Cumberland. New eps. VG £80 Burgess. Southport through the letterbox; a picture postcard history of Southport 1990 A4 Pbk 64pp VG £10* Burke Mick Lad; the recollections of a …1985 Pbk 74pp VG £5 Burnett Frances Hodgson. ‘Louisiana’ and ‘That Lass o’Lowrie’s’ – 2 stories. 1890. 332pp Latter title is a famous Lancashire-set novel £5 Burnley) Golden Years of Burnley. 1998 pub True North. Large format. 116pp Extensively illus dw VG £10.. -do- Memories of Burnley….1930-70 . (1997 True North) Pbk Many ills. VG £8 -do- Steel engravings (2) byWm Turner,engraved by Basire 1874. 12x14ins. Views of Townley (sic) £10 Burns, A Graduate of the University of Life, 2004, 196pp pbk illus, Blackburn man’s story, VG £5 -do-. Walton le Dale & District in Times Past 1987 Pbk 48pp Photos with captions. VG £8 Bush. A History of the Rockliffe family of Liverpool. 1984. Pbk 68pp Illus. Catholic printers VG £20*.. Burton. Burnley as it was. 1972 Pbk 44pp Photos/captions VG £8 (Bury) Jubilee Souvenir 1876-1926 80pp & plates Newly rebound £20.. -do- Bury Lions Carnival programme 1974. Pamphlet60pp VG £5 Butterworth. Historical Sketches of Oldham, with an appendix on the history of the town to (1856) 256pp + data & ads. Newly rebound £50* -do- -do- reprint 1981. No dustwrapper VG £15 -do- A Statistical Sketch of the County Palatine of Lancaster 1841 –reprint 1968 Pbk 168pp VG £10 -do- Topography of Radcliffe Parish in 1833.(1969 Local History Soc) pamphlet 36pp ex-library £5 9

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- A History & Description of the Parochial Chapelry of Saddleworth….1828 facsimilie reprint of 1828 edition with new introduction by Robert Poole. dw VG £10 Caffrey, Rochdale Voices, 2000, 128pp pbk illus VG £5 Callaghan : Britain in Old Photographs series. (1996 Sutton) Pbk. 126pp Photos with captions. Ex-library.o/w VG Likely never issued £5 Campbell, Rechabite History.. Salford Unity 1835-1911, 464pp illus £40 -do- Oxen,Oat-Cake & Ale : some sketches in the history of Bury 1985 A4 Pbk £5 -do- Tower Above All ;personal memories of Blackpool from holiday diaries 1991 laminated boards. Illus VG £6 -do- The Staff of Life: a Bury lad recalls his story of bread and ale 1987 A4 Pbk Some text highlighted o/w VG 22pp £5 -do- Through East & West: Bury – a Metropolitan Miscellany 1989 Pbk A4 VG £5 Campion. (Kathleen) Ferrier; a career recorded. 1992. 152pp + index & photo plates. dw VG £10 Cannon & Ball. Rock On,Tommy. 2000 206pp + photo plates. Ex-library(Never issued) o/w VG in dw & protective cover. £5 Cantle. The Pleas of Quo Warranto for the County of Lancaster. Chetham Soc Vol 98 1937. Library label & small stamps o/w w VG. £30 Capener et als. The 1851 Census returns for the township of Widnes. An index of furname. 1`986 A4 pbk 98pp in card covers with a plastic spoiral spine. A library’s stamo on the title page, o/w VG £10* Carbis Nellie. Lancashire Chaff (with the odd bit of corn) 1992. Stapled pbk.47pp. Illus. VG £5 Carter Amy. Green Grow the Shamrock. 2000. Pbk. 274pp Fiction based on fact. Irish girl comes to Lancashire for work. Radclife-born author. Ex-library.- Never issued VG. £5 (Cartmel) Auction particulars with large folding plan. High Cark Hall Farm 11.9.1919. The paper cover is pr-esent but torn. Very dusty.Includes land in Broughton & Staveley £30 Catholic Record Society. Miscellanea Vol 7 1911 492pp + plates Indexed. 11 essays, including one on the Catholic registers of Liverpool. An armorial bookplate and signature of S T Eyre A society’s stamp on title page, o/w VG £25 Catlow. Ribble Valley Rendevous- where to go and what to see. 1979 48pp pamphlet. Ilius VG £5 Catlow & Collinge . Over the Setts ; East Lancashire trams & buses1978. Pbk 48pp Illus VG £6.. Catherall Arthur. Vibrant Brass. 1954. 272pp Novel set in Pennine ‘banding’ country Ex-library Never issued. dw. VG £5 (Caton) 1815 Act for inclosing land in Caton. See my list of Lancashire Acts -do- Folding plan on paper of the Ship Inn 1901 Approx 16 x 18inches £20 Champness, Lancashire’s Architectural Heritage: an anthology of fine buildings 1989 Pbk 168pp Ilus Index VG £5.. Chapman Thomas, ‘Namby Pamby’, or a hotch potch of poetic tit bits, c1876, 256pp, some dialect, Atherton(?) author £20 Chapman. Lancashire Halls 1990 Large format Pbk. 80pp Illus VG £5 Chandler. Victorian & Edwardian Liverpool & the North West from old photographs. 1981. 149 photos with captions. dw £5.. -do- Liverpool Shipping; a short history 1960. 256pp + plates. Indexed. VG £8.. -do- Four Centuries of Banking…….Martins Bank Ltd. Vol 1 ;the Grasshopper & the Liver Bird 1964 572pp + plates Indexed. Pictiorial endpapers. Ex-library ( never issued) o/w VG in dw £15 -do-. Four Centuries of Banking…….. Volume 2 ; the Northern banks., 1968. 608pp + plates. Indexed. Pictorial endpapers. Ex-library (never issued) o/w VG in dw. £15 Chapples. The Taverns in the Town; a walk round the pubs of Burnley of 1920s-30s 1986. Pbk 60pp VG £5 10

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS Charities Commissioners Reports. c1899 Approx A4. No covers. Pages sewn together,though some are unstitched: £10 each unless stated otherwise.: Aighton , Bailey & Chaigley 12pp:Aughton (Ormskirk) 12pp; Altham & Church 19pp: Ashton-u-L 40pp: Bury Parish (excluding the county borough) 38pp: Formby 16pp: Flixton 10pp: Leigh 86pp (Repaired); Middleton Parish, exclusive of portions within Bolton & Bury boroughs 42pp: Mossley 28pp: 10pp; , Hackensall, & Stainall (repaired) 12pp; Radcliffe 8pp: Sefton 34pp: Whittington 12pp: Eccleston (Chorley) 27pp 83pp £15: Winwick 94pp £15 Standish 53pp £15 Charles Les. The church of Our Lady, Star of the Sea, St Annes; a centenary history 1890-1990 Pbk 74pp Owner’s signature on free endpaper, o/w VG Illus £10 Cherry, On Bay, 1986, 96pp, colour photos text, dw VG, signed £10… Chilman. Jubilee of Blackburn Ragged School, Bent St 1881-1931.; Brief Historical Sketch. Pamph;et 7pp Illus. Gummed labels have been removed from the paper covers. £10 Chippindall, History of the Township of Ireby, 1935 Chetham Soc.,Vol 95. 114pp + frontis. Indexed. Top corner cut off free endpaper o/w VG £70... -do- A history of Whittington .Chetham Society 1938 Vol 99. 172pp + index & plates. Bears a library’s labels. Withdrawn stamp on title page o/w VG £90 -do- A 16th-Century survey and a year’s account of the estates of Hornby Castle. 1939 Chetham Society Vol 102. Bears a library’s labels. Withdrawn stamp on half-title. o/w VG. 138pp + index £50.. -do- A History of the parish of Tunstall. 1940 Chetham Society Vol 104. 122pp + photo plates. VG £90 Chipping Local History Soc. Chipping Pictures. 2007 A4 Pbk 36pp Photos with captions. VG £10 (Chorley) Auction particulars - farms and land in Charnock Richard & cottages in Chorley, 1920, 4pp card cover + 2 coloured folding plans £25 -do- Images of Chorley 1994 Publshed by Breeden Books for Chorley Guardian . A4 148pp Photos with captions. VG in dw. £10 -do- Chorley Hist & Arch Soc, Bulletin 22, 1993, A4 pbk Vg £5 -do- Chorley A century Ago. 1991. With Intro by Jim Heyes. A4 Pbk, 60pp Illus . Details of firms trading in the town. Rusty staples o/w VG £8 Christie (comp) A Bibliography of the works written & edited by Dr John Worthington. 1888 Chetham Soc 88pp. A bookplate removed from the paste-down. An owner’s signature o/w VG £10 -do- The old church & school libraries of Lancashire. 1885 Chetham Soc. (Vol 7) 215pp Indexed. A bookplate has been removed from the paste-down. An owner’s signature on the free endpaper, with his library mark. A small blind stamp on title page £20 Church & Oswaldtwistle Cricket Club. Centenary Brochure 1890-1990. 48pp Illus VG £10 Clague. Heysham Port; a century of Manx & Irish services. 2004. Pbk. 96pp Illus VG £8* Clare Brian. Recollections: Lancashire dialect poetry. 1978 Pbk 48pp with glossary. Westhoughton chap £5 Clark Jack Lancashire Lad. 1994 Pbk 49pp VG Oswaldtwistle/ author VG £5 Clark Mary . Mary’s Miscellany; prose & verse by Lancashire writers c1967. Pbk 32pp Inscription from (Osaldtwistle) authoress on title page. . £5.. Clark. The Tram Depots of Manchester. 2003. A5 Pbk. 52pp Illus VG £6 Clarke. Moorlands & Memories, 1920, 314pp, plates, new eps £30 -do- Milltown Mischief.; true tales of daring & adventure in Victorian Bolton. 2011 Pbk 209pp Inscription on half-title o/w VG £5 11

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do Clitheroe in its Coaching & Railway Days.1989 Reprint of two books (1900 & 1929) 58pp+ 311pp Top corner of free endpaper cut off. o/w VG £15 Clayton. A History of Ashworth near Rochdale 1979 Pbk 40pp VG £5 -do- Windmill Land 1916 287pp + plates. An owner’s name on the free endpaper. AND More Windmill Land 1917-18 695pp + plates. An owner’s name on the free endpaper.Some discolouring on the spine. . Both have sosme wearat spine ends. £80 (Pair) -do- A Blackburn Childhood in Wartime. 2000 Pbk. 64pp Illus.(Second World War) VG £6… -do- Garstang & Fylde Album 1990 A4 Pbk 56pp Photos with extensive captions VG £10 Clemesha A History of Preston in Amounderness. 1912. 344pp + 5 maps. Index. New endpapers VG £50 Clegg John , Sketches & Rhymes in the Rochdale Dialect, 1895 2 vols., library nos. on spine, label, o/w VG Substantial books £40 (Cleveleys) Clifton Violet. The Book of Talbot. 1933. 440pp + plates & maps. Concerns Talbot of Lytham and his travels around the world. Signatures on front endpaper. £5. (Clitheroe) Steel engraving c 1842 Clitheroe Castle by Pickering & Finden. VG £5 Clough. Forward with The Dale; a history of Rochdale AFC 1981. Pbk 38pp Illus £10 Clucas & Brodie. 40 Rambles (196?) Pbk 96pp Maps. Preston-centred £5 Clulow No Tides to Stem:a history of the Manchester (Ship Canal) Pilot Service 1995 Pbk 339pp VG £8.. Rose Grove Volume 1 : East Lancashire’s great railway complex. 2008 A4 Pbk 96pp B/w and coloured photos with captions. VG £15* Conybeare Frances. Dingle Bank; the home of the Croppers. 1925 65pp + photo plates. Newly rebound in maroon cloth. VG Hale & Liverpool Quaker family £50* Corbett. The ; Pleasant reminiscences of the 19th century & suggestions for improvements in the 20th. 1907 – Reprint 1974. 155pp + index photos plates. dw VG £25> Cole. Rochdale Revisited: a town & its people. Vols 1&2. Pbks 1988/90.ex-library Never issued VG £10 Coles (ed) Lancashire. Vol 18 in The Poet’s England series 1995 Pbk 112pp Anthology about the coiunty from 16th century to present day. VG £5 Collier John The Complete Works of Tim Bobbin in prose & verse, wuith a memoir of the author by John Corry and a rendering into simple English of The Dialogue of Tummus and Meary by Elijah Ridings 1862. 534pp Illus. Newly rebound with original title piece stuck onto front cover. £50* Colley 100 Years of Football at Fleetwood 1985. Pbk Pbk 28pp of photos with captions VG £30 Colligan. A Short History of Littleborough Cricket Club 1980 Pbk 40p Illus VG £10*.. -do- The Weighver’s Seaport; a short history of Hollingworth Lake, Littleborough from 1790 to the present time (1981) Pbk 56pp Illus VG £8 Collins, Lancashire Plain & Seaboard 1953 248pp & plates Index dw VG £5.. -do- Rochdale Roundabout 1960 134pp Illus. Inscription on free endpaper £10 -do- The Roof of Lancashire 1950..184pp + photo plates . £5.. -do- James Crossley; a Manchester Man of Letters 2012 Chetham Soc. 338pp Indexed. dw. As new £15. (Colne) Two sheet music copies by Dick Hoskin (1941) ‘In Old Colunio’ and ‘In the Valley of Wycollar Dene’ VG £10 -do- Ask to see my list of Lancashire legal documents. Conacher The Peelites & the Party System 1846-52 (1972) 246pp Indexed. dw VG £8.. Conroy. The Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe 1999 Pbk 80pp Illus Indexed VG £10 -do- Backcloth to Gawthorpe 1996 enlarged edn. Pbk 96pp Ilus VG £8 -do- Lost Lads of St Joseph’s, 2009. Pbk 189pp The Fallen of WW1 VG £15 12

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- Mysteries & Memorabilia of Gawthorpe & the Shuttleworths. 2003 Pbk 135pp VG £8 Cookson. Goosnargh Past & Present 1888 Owner’s name on endpapers..Inscription on the paste- down reads ‘Margaret Anne Lund from her mother Oct 1890’ (Miss LUND became Mrs EARLES) A repair has been made to the spine. Now VG £80.. Cookson & Hindle Wycoller 1973 Pbk 48pp Photos with captions VG £5 Cooper Heaton. The Tarns of Lakeland. 1960 First Edn. No dustwrapper.237pp + coloured plates. Index. Map endpapers. The Contents page has been ‘ticked’ in biro , o/w VG £10 (Co-operative Society) Rules Book..Pamphlets a) Bury & District 1904 40pp b) Accrington 1934 50pp Each £10* Copeland, Whittington: story of a country estate, 1981, 166pp Plates, index, map, eps dw VG £15 Corbridge, Once Every Preston Guild 1972 Pbk 98pp & plates. £5.. -do-, It’s an Old Lancashire Custom 1964 revised edn. 166pp & plates index. £5 Cornwell. The history of the Whittingham Hospital Railway 1884-1957 (2009) A4 Pbk. 96pp Extensively illus. Signed copy. VG £16 Corser Rev. Iter Lancastrense; a poem written AD 1636 by Rev Richard James…..Chetham Soc Vol 7 1845. New spine & endpapers. 84pp + intro 112pp + Heywood family pedigree, coloured plates Small library stamps throughout £30 Costley Thomas. Lancashire Poets & Other Literary Sketches 1897. 452pp. Library mark o n spine. Bookplate of Russell Markland, a St Annes author, on paste-down. Lacks a free endpaper. Salford author & interest £15 Cotterall. Halsall; the village built on a rock 2000 152pp Ilus dw VG £20 -do-. Preston’s Palaces of Pleasure. 1988 A4pbk 32pp Illus VG ££6 Cotton & Booth One Hundred Greatest Post-War Players (at Preston North End) Large format pbk 144pp Many illus VG £15*.. Cottrell. Gate Pike ; the story of 80years Methodism 1843-1923. (1924) 303pp + plates.(Bolton) £20* Coupe. The Quakers of Tottington 1654-82 (1986) pamphlet 50pp Illus VG £5 -do- Totington Hall through 5 centuries (1987) pamphlet 50pp Illus VG £5 Cowper. Monumental Inscriptions in the Parish Church & Graveyard of Hawkshead….Satterthwaite,Hawkshead Hill, Colthouse 1892. 78pp + subscribers list.The red cloth cover is damp-stained £15 Cowper Agnes. A Backward Glance on Merseyside. 1948 114pp Ex-library. £10 Crambie. A Colne A-Z 1982. Pbk 40pp Illus. VG £5. -do- A Colne Jubilee 1952-77 44pp Photos with captions. Bound in cloth by the library whose label (never issued) it bears. VG £10 Crainer. A History of Chipping 1986 Stapled pbk 40pp Illus VG £8 . Bury in Old Picture Postcards 1985. 108 photos with captions VG £10 Crewdson. Stories & Customs of old West Derby. c1950. 32pp pamphlet Illus VG £6 (Cricket) Official handbooks for a) Northern Cricket League 1969-81 b) Central Lancashire Cricket League 1940-69 d) NE Lancashire Amateur Cricket League 1959 and 1985 (f) Bolton Cricket League 1977-92. g) Lancashire League. 1940- 48. Full details on application. Not a complete run.(Good pun?) £5each Crocker & Tittershill. Rufford in Days Gone By. 198? Pbk 48pp Photos with captions Some ink(?) staining on nfront cover, o/w VG £8.. Crofton, History of the Ancient Chapel of Stretford, 3 vols Chetham Society 1899, A society’s stamp on a preliminary page of one volume. o/w VG £120 -do- -do- Vol 1 Chetham Soc Vol 42. 1899 276pp An ownert’s name & address and bookplate on front paste-down. Front inner hinge broken. £30 13

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- History of Newton Chapelry……Chetham Society 4 vols. 1904-5 A society’s stamp on the free endpapers. o/w VG. Covers Newton, Failsworth, Bradford £120 Crosby Alan , in the Past, 1988, 160pp, pbl illus, index £8 -do- A Society with No Equal : The Chetham Society 1843-1993 (1993 Chetham Soc) 86pp As new £5.. -do- Preston ( in Old Photographs series) 1995 Pbk 126pp £5… -do- Of Names & Places:Selected Writings of Mary Higham 2007 Pbk 24 essays. Monumental £15 -do- The History of Preston Guild ; 800years of England’s greatest carnival 1991. 264pp Ilus. dw VG £6.. -do- Heskin Pemberton’s CofE Grammar School 1597-1997. A4 Pbk m77pp Illius VG £10 -do- A 1998. 144pp Illuis Indexed. VG in VG dw £10 -do- Hutton; a Millennium History 2000 164pp Illus Subscribers List dw VG £12. -do- The History of Preston Guild; 800yrs of England’s greatest carnival 1991 264pp Illus Index. dw. VG £5 -do- (ed), Lancashire Local Studies;essays in honour of Diana Winterbotham 1993 147pp Illus 7 superb essays dw VG £10.. ‘Cross Fleury’ (Rigbye) Time-Honoured Lancaster; Historic Notes of the ancient borough of Lancaster…..1891. 612pp + Plates. Indexed. New endpapers. VG £90 Crossley (ed) Acrington Captains of Industry 1930. 233pp Some portraits. A very important book on the town’s industrialist and families. VG £80 -do- (ed) Observations & Instructions, Divine & Morall in Verse by Robert of . Chetham Society Vol 76 1869. 107pp Many pages unopened. Blind stamp on title page. An owner’s signature on the free endpaper. A bookplate has been removed from the paste-down. o/w VG £12 -do- Potts’s Discovery of Witches in the county of Lancaster reprinted from the original dition of 1613, with an introduction & notes Chetgham Soc Vol 6, 1845. Original binsinf with a new spine and endpapers. A library’s small stamps throughout but none on the title page. 79pp intro. The main body of the book is unpaginated, but is substantial. £100* Croston, Nooks & Corners of Lancashire & Cheshire, 1882 reprint 1975, 241pp dw VG £10 -do- History of the Ancient Chapel of Stretford, 1899 Chetham, 3 vols, new eps £120 (Croxteth Hall) Coloured engraving c1840 by Neale & Lacey Approx 4x6inches in a card miounbt VG £10 Cryer & Cryer. Poems by Father & Son.c1915 229pp Ex-library. Lacks the front free endpaper. A scarce item. Bolton poets £5 Cryer Mrs. Memories of Colne. 1910 –reprint 2006. Pbk 80pp + photos & illus VG £5 (Culcheth) Culcheth ChronicleNo 6,11,13. A Roneod magazine pub by Atomic Energy establishmnent 1961-63 £10 (3) Curtis, Blackpool Tower, 1988,limp cloth 134pp index illus £10 -do- Fleetwood:a town is born. 1986 `128pp Illus Index Limp cloth £15… -do- -do- hardback in dw. VG £20 -do- -do- Cloth-bound in protected dw. Signed copy. VG £20 -do- Images of Fleetwood & the Wyre towns.1996. Large format. 200pp VG in dw. £15 Dakres. The Last Tide ; a history of the port of Preston 1806-1981 (1986) Pbk 328pp Illus. Indexed. £15 -do- A history of shipbuilding at Lytham. 1992. Pbk 144pp Illus Indexed. VG £10 Dale. History of Brunswick Church, Bury. 1896 210pp + appendices & plates. VG (Methodist) £15* Danielson. So Strong, So Fair; the story of the side-loading car ferries of the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company & her people. 1996. Pbk. 128pp Illus with b/w & colour phots. VG £8 (Darwen) 1879 Over Darwen Improvement Act See my list of Lancashire Acts

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BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS Davenport Kay. Lancashire Laugh Lines. 1993. A5 pbk. 40pp 40pp of poems flavoured with Lancashire humour and social history VG £5.. Davies. North Country Bred: a working class family chronicle, 1963 256pp index (Rossendale, M/C,) £10.. -do- Companion to the Fylde 1982 Pbk 68pp Illus £5.. -do- The Pit Brow Women of the Wigan Coalfield. 2006 Pbk 128pp Photos with captions. VG £8 -do- (ed) Jubilee Souvenir , 1905 of the National Division of the Order of the Sons of Temperance of Gt Britain & Ireland,Manchester 60pp Illus. Essays on Manchester history & Temperance in Manchester. Library stamp. Torn at top & bottom of spine £15 -do- Moscow Mill & Its People 199? Limp cloth 80pp Illus.inc Hargreaves pedigree VG (Oswaldtwistle) £10... -do- Henry Tyrer, a Liverpool Shipping Agent & His Enterprise 1879-1979. (1979) 159pp. + plates. Indexed Some Preston references VG dw £10 Dawson, Torver: the story of a Lakeland Community, 1985, 131pp illus, 2 indeces, dw VG£10… -do- The Pamphlet Literature of Liverpool, 1864, 66pp PENB £15 -do- Your Picture’s in the Paper: Garth Dawson’s Haslingden. 2006. 60pp Photos+captions VG £5 Dean Voices of Heysham 1996 A4 Pbk 22pp dedication from author on title page o/w VG £5 De Jonge. A tale of 3 Piers ; a peep into the past of the Blackpool piers 1993/ Pbk 40pp Illus VG £5 De Lacy, Prison Reform in Lancashire 1700-1850╔, 1986, 272pp dw VG £10 Deegan, The Development of Lancashire’s Trams & Buses, Pt 1: & Rossendale; 75yrs of municipal operation 1907-1982 1982) Pbk 36pp Illus £10 -do- Travelling Round the Fylde: a picture postcard viewpoint 1989 Pbk 60pp VG £8.. Dennis The Last Post; the war memorials of Lancaster & Morecambe 2006. Pbk. A4 149pp Illus. Ex-libr (Dialect) Cheyp at t’Price: dialect verse from 'Lancashire Life', 1978, 75pp pbk £5 -do- Just Sithabod; dialect verse from ‘Lancashire Life’ 1975 Pbk 71pp VG £5 Dickinson (ed) Index to the Wills & administrations preserved in the probate registry, Chester 1826-30 Record Society Vol 113 1972 222pp Indexed. Covers both counties. Owner’s bookplate o/w VG £10.. -do- -do- 1831-33 Record Society.Vol 118 1978 VG 165pp £10.. -do- -do- 1824-37 Record Society Vol 120 1980. 219pp VG £10.... -do- -do- 1821-25 Record Society Vol 107 1961 243pp A society’s label on paste-down o/w VG £10 -do- The Flora of Liverpool 11851. 166pp Somtime rebound by the library whose stamps& bookplate it bears. o/w VG £10* Digby & Elliott, A Rossendale Anthology, 1969, 136pp pbk £10… -do- -do- Second Edition with additional material. 1978. 136pp Pbk £10 Digby & Miller. An Accrington Miscellany 1975. Pbk 243pp + plates. VG A collection of essays & poems – it should be on every Accringtonian’s shelves. VG £10 Diggle, The Lancashire Life of Bishop Fraser, 1889, 565pp index Ex-library copy which has been recently rebound. £15* -do- A history of Widnes 1961 212pp + plates. Indexed. ex-library o/w VG in dw £20 Dillon & Coxhead. , Bretherton 1997 pampjhlet 32pp Illuis VG £5 Dingsdale. Ormskirk Old & New 1983 48pp Photos with captions £8 Dixon . Historic Walks in the Ribble Valley 1987 Pbk56pp Illus VG £5 -do- Slaidburn & Newton, Bowland Forest – 8 Family Walks 2003 Pbk 80pp Ilus VG £5 Dixon & Jarvinen Historic Walks around the 1989 Pbk. 72pp Illus Top corner cut from

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BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS Dobb Rev Like a Mighty Tortoise;a history of the Diocese of hester 1978 A4 304pp Illus Indexed. dw VG Inscribed by the author & signed by the photographer, Derek Ralphs £25 Dobbs Lowell. Songs of a Lancashire Warbler 1992. Pbk. 90pp + glossary. Top corner of title page cut off, o/w VG. Dialect poetry £8 Dobson Wm & . A History of Preston Guild…..(1862 – Reprint 1974) Pbk 115pp VG £6 Dobson Bob (ed) In Lancashire Language, 1991, 64pp newly rebound, dialect poems £10 -do- Blackpool & Fleetwood A Century Ago 1989 A4 Pbk.Not paginated. Illus. VG £10… -do- The Really Lancashire Book 1997. Pbk. 96pp Illus. Articles & poems VG (Honest) £5 -do- Living Lancashire : an anthology of Lancashire Dialect Verse & Stories . 1982 Pbk. 84pp VG £5 -do- Woven in Lancashire; some Lancashire dialect poems 80pp VG £6 -do- A Preston Mixture 2003 Pbk 160pp Illus. Essay & a few poems of Preston-interst. VG £10 Dobson & Brindle. Accrington Observed . 1994 Landscape pbk. 60pp Photos with captions. VG £8 Dobson & Brotherton (eds) Fresh Air & Fun: a Blackpool Miscellany 1988 Pbk 154pp Illus £10.. Docton. Lancaster as it was. 1983. Pbk. 48pp Full-page photos with captions VG £5 Doherty Austin. Nathan Barlow:sketches in the retired life of a Lancashire butcher, in verse 1884. 101pp. Ex-library,though it appears not to have been for loan. The binder’s staples are rusting £5 Dottie Robert, The Rambles & Recollections of ‘R. Dick’, 1898, 191pp, new eps, dialect tales £15 Douglas Burnley Once Upon A Time. 1976. Landscape Pbk. 61photos with captions. Ex-library o/w VG £5 Douglas-Kay. The Lune Valley; a guide for the tourist 1956 Dalesman Pbk 80pp + plates. VG £5 Down. Archie ; a biography of AC MacLaren 1981. dw VG Lancashire cricketer £5.. Doyle. Mitres & Missions in Lancashire; the Roman Catholic Diocese of Liverpol 1850-2000(2005) 407pp Illus Indexed. An owner’s signature on the free endpaper, o/w VG. A monumental work in dw . £12 Draper. Lytham St Anne’s 2005 Pbk. Town & City Memories series.86pp Photos with captions VG £10 Driver Paul, hester Pieces, 1996, 306pp dw, prose essays £5 Dronsfield James (edited by Taylor) ‘Ouselwood’ or A Gathering of Old Chums & Other Stories. 1921 160pp + Subscribers List. Bound in cloth by the library whose label it bears VG Oldham dialect £10 Drum & Dowson. ‘God’s Own’: 1st Salford Pals 1914-16; an account of the 15th (Service) Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers 2003. A4 Pbk 82pp Illus VG £5... (Duchy of Lancaster) 1779 Act to allow Duchy to sell farm rents. See my list of Lancashire Acts Duckworth Alan . Aspects of Blackburn 1999 192pp Illus Index. Essays on Blackburn & Darwen VG £8 -do-. Blackburn & Darwen A Century Ago. 1889. A4 pbk. Lists busnesses with an introductory essay, plus photos VG £8 -do- The Man with No Bike Clips : a Lancashire Cycling Year. 2004 Pbk 114pp Signed by author VG £5 -do- A Never to be Forgoten Day 2008. Pbk 34pp Includes essay on Darwen Library by Dr Snape. VG £5 Duckworth & Halsall. Blackburn in Focus. 2002 Pbk 48pp Photos with captions. Photos taken by Blackburn photographers John William & Alfred Shaw c 1900. VG £6 -do- By Rivers,Through Valleys & Dales; a journey through Lancashire & with Edwardian photographers John William & Alfred Shaw. 2009 Pbk 72pp Photos with captions. Ribble & Hodder mainly. VG £4 Duggan Mona. History of Scarisbrick (1996) 160pp Illus dw Subscribers list £25 Dunckley (ed), 'Bamford's Passages on the Life of a Radical' and 'Early Days', 1905 2 vols, 253/348pp, lengthy inscription by Henry Boddington on free endpaper of vol 1 £20 16

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS Dunnachie. Lancashire Pamphlets Vol 1: Rossendale 1987 Pbk 151pp VG £5… Durkin & Mulligan, The Second Spring: 50yrs of Catholic Revival in Colne 1871-1921 ( 1986) A4 Pbk 136ppp Illus VG £15 Durkin. A short history of St Mary’s, Burnley Pamphlet 40pp. Covers 1849-1949 £5 Dutton, Lanky Spoken Here: a guide to the Lancs dialect, 1978, 80pp, lam boards £5 -do-,(ed), Odyssey of an Edwardian Liberal: the political diary of Richard Durning Holt, 1989 Record Soc., 136pp index dw VG £15.. Duxbury. The Brief History of Lancashire 2011. 192pp Illus Indexd VG £5 Earwaker (ed) . The Constables’ Accounts of the Manor of Manchester 1612-47 and 1743-1776. ( 1891) 3 vols. Bound in vellum and marbled boards with red leather title pieces A private library stamp in each volume. o/w VG. Top edges gilt £120 -do- The Court Leet Records of the Manor of Manchester 1552-1686 and 1731-1846. 12 volumes in cream vellum and marbled boards. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. A private library stamp in each volume o/w VG £300* Easdown. Lancashire’s Seaside Piers 2009 Pbk 192pp Illus. Indexed. Also covers the Mersey, Cumbria & Isle of Man. VG £8 East Lancs Cricket Club Centenary Souvenir 1864-1964 Pamphlet 44pp VG (Blackburn) £10*.. (Eccleston) Eccleston Apple Orchards 2004. Pbk. 54pp + map in pocket. Colour photos with text VG £8 Eastwood. ‘Queen Elizabeth’s’ ; a new history of the Ancient Grammar School of Blackburn 1967. 126pp + appendices, index & plates. in VG dustwrapper £8.. Eddleston. Murderous hester; the Executed of the 20th Century 1997. Pbk 192pp VG £5 Edmunds et als. Wildlife of Lancashsire. 2004. 4to in laminated boards. 340pp Extensively illustrated with colour photos. Indexed VG £6 Edwards. The Road to ; the story of Hospital. 1975 57pp + photo plates. Subscribers list VG £20 -do- Joseph Rayner Stephens 1805-79 (1968) 22pp Pamphlet. Typed lecture deliverd in Ashton Library stamp o/w VG £5 Egerton Cricket Club Souvenir Brochure 1864-1989 Pbk 116p VG £12* Elliot, The Story of the ‘Cheeryble’ Grants, 1906, 247pp index illus newly rebound VG £40* Ellis. Dissenters of Every Description; the extraordinary story of Southport’s non-conformist churches 2006 Pbk 121pp Ilis VG £10* Emsley Fred, Lancs Dialect & Other Poems suitable for recitation, 1934, 81pp new spine, unian £15 Engravings: From Roby’s ‘Traditions of Lancashire’ c1830 Approx. 5insx3.5ins with a border, some slightly foxed. By Pickering & Finden b)The Lost Farm near Southport c)Clegg Hall, Rochdale d) Peg ‘’Nelly’s Well, Clitheroe g) Burscough Abbey h) Mab’s Cross, Wigan Wk) Hornby Castle m) The Thrutch,near Rochdale o) Bewsey nr Warrington p) Windleshaw Abbey q) Tyrone’s Bed, nr Rochdale r) Eagle Crag, t)Southport. Printed on a stiffish card Each £5 Escolme (ed) . William Farrer on Old Over Kellet Houses. 2000 Pamphlet 40pp VG £5 Escott-Inman. The Mill-Lass of Ilderleigh (1908) New eps. Fiction £10 () 2 vellum indentures, 1725, re messuage Gledhill and marriage settlement for Jas. FOSTER (Charnock Richard) and Eliz HOLDEN (Leagram), various sigs, more details on request £100 Evans . Mods & Blockers; Lancashire’s Rock n’ Roll Summer.(of 1965) 2009. Pbk 215pp + photo plates. Ex-library o/w VG Likely never issued. Signed by author. £5 -do- A Fylde Country Year. 1991 Pbk 109pp Illus VG. £8 -do- Lost Lancashire:story of Lancashire beyond the Sands 1991 Pbk 181pp + photo plates VG £8 17

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- A history of Renshaw Street Chapel & its institutions, with some accountof the former chapels in Castle Hey & Benn’s Gardens, Liverpool 1887. 175pp. Gilt worn from spine, worn at the ends.(Unitarian) £60* Evans Richard. Dick the Stick2005 Pbk 252pp Illus Indexed. Autobiography of a brass band conductor. Everett (ed) Representing the Past: a social history based upon the memories of elderly people in Lancashire Pbk 135pp Published for Age Concern VG £5 (Everton FC) Goodison Glory: the official history 1998 Bredon A4. 270pp Many photos. dw VG 10 (Everton) 1772 Act re new church at Richmond – see my list of Lancashire Acts Eyre Kathleen, Witchcraft in Lancashire, 1974 Dalesman, 78pp pbk illus £5 -do- The Real Lancashire 1983 Pbk 144pp Illus Indexed. VG £6 -do- Sand Grown: The Story, 1960 reprint 1999, 100pp pbk VG £6 -do- -do- 1972 second edition. Pbk Inscription by author on title page VG £10 -do- -do- 1961 Pbk VG £10 -do- Bygone Blackpool 1971. Pbk 48pp Illus VG £10.. -do- Chapel in the Dunes; The Drive Methodist Chuch, St Annes 1877-1977 Pbk 46pp Illus £5.. -do- Scenes from Fylde Coast & Country 1985. 38pp Landscape pbk Photos/ captions VG. £5.. Fairclough TS Squibs & Crackers; In Verse or Worse (partly on the Lancashire dialect) 1895, published by the author, Patricroft. Card covers 96pp ex-library. Shaky condition, Very scarce. Newton le Willows & Earlestown interest £20 Fairhurst. Policing Wigan; The Wigan Borough Police Force 1836-1969 (1996) Pbk. 86pp Illus Top corner cut from title page, o/w VG £10 Fairhurst & Barnes. The (Masonic) Province of East Lancashire 1826-1976. Pamphlet 32pp VG £5 (Farington) – see ffarington (Farington) Auction particulars Farms etc at the Blue Anchor Inn Farington.5.7.1893. Paper covers 3pp + large folding coloured plan. £30 Farington Joseph. The Farington Diary. Vols 1,2,3 (of 8) Vols 1 &* 2 are in dustwrapper. Vol 3 is not and is in a different (library?) binding. Cover 1793-1806) £30 (Farington, Joseph) Watercolours & Drawings. Brochure pub Bolton Arts Dept 1977. Ex-library o/w VG He was born in Leigh, 1747. 116pp Illus £5 Farnworth Am. Op. & Dram. Soc., Souvenir brochures, The Quaker Girl, 1933, Sally, 1934 pair £10 Farrer. The Chartulary of Cockersand Abbey in 7 parts complete. Chetham Society vols 38.39.40,43.56,57,64. A bookplate has been removed from each vol. . Many pages unopened. Two spines dull. £200* -do- The Chartulary of Cockersand Abbey pub Chetham Society. 1898-1909. 5 parts of 7 ( Vols 40,43,56,57,64) A society’s stamp on free endpaper o/w VG Each £25* -do- -do- Vol 56 New endpapers VG £30 Farrer & Brownbill (eds) The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster. Vol 8 1914 –reprint 1966. Folio size in red cloth 457pp + plates . Several maps. Indexed. Covers Lonsdale Hundred. A society’s library stamp on a preliminary page o/w VG £42 Farrimond John, The Hills of Heaven 1978. 94pp Illus. VG in a torn dw. Fiction set in 1930s coal- mining central Lancashire £10 Ffarington Susan (ed) The Faington Papers – the Shrievalty of Wm Ffarington, 1636 ; Documents relating to the Civil War……….Chetham Society 1856. Volume 39. 179pp Part of spine missing £30.. Fell Jimmy. Window on Whalley (1979) pamphlet 32pp Illus £5… Ferneyhough. Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1830-1980 (1980) 193pp + photo plates. Indexed. VG in VG dustwrapper £10..

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BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS Fidler. ‘Happy Days’ : Hollinwood Congregational- United Reformed Church 1849-1999 : The Continuing Story. A5 stapled pbk 72pp Illus VG £8 Fielding (ed) The Rambler; a record of rambles, historical facts,legends and nature notes. Monthly magazines 32pp Illus Volume 2, Nos 9-16. 1906 (8) £25 Fields Ken. A Journey through Lancashire 1994. Pbk 214pp Ilus. ‘An exploration of the countryside, history & curiosities of the Red Rose county’ VG £5 Fisher Molly. Mr James Baines & the Thornton School 1983 A4 Pbk. 60pp Illus.Signed VG £10 Fisher John. George Formby. 1975 Pbk. 96pp Illus VG. In a series on entertainers £10 Fishwick, The Notebook of the Rev Thomas Jolly 1671-93, 1894 Chetham, 161pp index £35.. -do-, The Lancashire Possessions of the Knights of St John of Jerusalem, 1910, 36pp PEN £15 -do- History of the parish of Kirkham. 1874 Chetham Society 230pp plus folding pedigrees Many pages are unopened – it has likely never been read.. Indexed. A bookplate has been removed from the paste-down. An owner’s signature on the free endpaper VG £80 -do- History of the parish of Bispham. 1887 Chetham Society Vol 10 143pp + folding pedigrees. 2 Indeces. Many pages unopened.. Small repair made to top of spine, o/ w VG £80* -do- History of the parish of Poulton-le-Fylde 1885 Chetham Society 232pp Indexed. A new spine and -do- History of the parish of St Michael’s on Wyre……1891 Chetham Soc Vol 25 268pp Indexed New endpapers. Faded spine £80.. -do- History of the parochial chapelry of Goosnargh1871. Large paper copy, newly rebound in purple cloth Title on spine and front cover.239pp + plates & arms of Parker, Newsam & Fishwick. Indexed. A beautiful book. £100* -do- History of the parish of Preston in Amounderness. 1900 Large paper copy, one of 75 printed, but this not numbered..483pp. Illus. Indexed. Ex-library copy with new endpapers. VG £90* -do-, The Spirit of , Waterfoot,Newchurch & the Whitewell Valley 2003 192pp Photos/captions dw VG. (20th century) £16 -do- Registers of the Parish Church of Rochdale 1617-41. and 1582-1616 1889 2 vols.Last page of the index of one volume has been cellotaped in. Both have had hinges so repaired Both vols have spines repaired with tape and a society’s stamp on the title page. £80 -do- A list of Lancashire Wills1681-1746 Record Soc Vol 13 1886. Worn top spine.291pp Bookplate £10 -do- The History of the Parish of Garstang. (2vols) 1879 Chetham Society Vols 104, 105. Original cloth. Library stamps/ The labels have been removed. A VG pair. £75 -do- History of the parish of Lytham 1907 Chetham Society Vol 60. 118pp + plates. Indexed. Library stam on title page. Bookplate removed. Many pages unopened VG £70*.. Fitton Laura. Poems: Vol 2. 96pp Appears not to have a title page. A library’s mark on spine and a label (never issued) on the free endpaper. Signature of this Lytham St Annes poet on her photograph £10 Fitton Harvey. Lancashire Hotch Potch; stories & verse. 1965 Pbk. 110pp Shaw poet £8.. Fitton Sam, Gradely Lancashire, 1930, 253pp, dialect verse & prose. The spine and part of the cover is sun-faded . A piece of paper stuck onto the title page reads ‘Yours faithfully, Ammon Wrigley’ VG £20 (Fleetwood) The Fleetwood Annual 1998. A4 pbk 60pp magazine. VG £5 -do- Ask to see my list of Lancashire legal documents.-some Fleetwood ones in it. Fleetwood-Hesketh, Lancashire Architectural Guide, 1955, 194pp illus dw VG. Invaluable work £12 Fletcher. The Correspondence of Nathan Wallworth & Peter Seddon of Outwood…Ringley Chapel, 1880 Chetham Soc £30 -do- The Making of Manchester 2003 Pbk. 141pp + index VG £5 Folley. Romantic Wycoller; a haunt of the Brontes1949. 98pp Illus Indexed. In torn dw o/w VG £10 19

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS Foley Alice. A Bolton Childhood 1973. Bound in cloth by a library whose stamp it bears. o/w VG 92pp £8 Forman. Industrial Town: Self-portrait of St Helens in the 1920s1979 Pbk 272pp + phot plates. VG £5 Forshaw. On those Infernal Ribble Banks; a record of lifesaving by the lifeboats oif Lytham St Annes. 2006 Pbk 224pp Illus VG £10 Forsythe. Irish Sea Shipping Publicised. 160pp Illus. VG £8 Fort. Burnley since 1900; 90yrs of photographs/. 1988 A4 Pbk 276 photos with captions. VG £10 Foster, Excursions into Fylde History 197? Pbk 34pp Illus £5 -do- Seven Households; Life in Cheshire & Lancashire 1582-1744. (1992) Pbk 248pp Illus Concerns the Shuttleworths, Fells & Richard Latham of Scarisbrick. VG £5.. -do- Cheshire Cheese & Farming in the North West in the 17th &* 18th centuries. 1998. Pbk116pp Illus Indexed. VG £5.. -do- A history of Farnworth (Widnes) Church, its village & pariash. 1981. Pbk 68pp Illuis with b/w and colour photos VG £12*.. Fowkes Ellen. Looms of Destiny. c1920 (?) 320pp Ex-library . Lacks free endpaper. Novel based on the Peterloo Massacre. £10 Fowler & Wyke. Tickling Lancashire’s Funny-Bone; the gradely cartoons of Sam Fitton (199?) pamphlet 53pp VG £5.. -do- The Coupes & Worsley Mesnes Iron Works or ‘What Auntie Winnie Said’ A4 Pbk 24pp Illus. nd £5. -do- The Barefoot Aristocrats ; a history of the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners. 1987. 272pp + photo plates. Top corner cut off a preliminary page before the frontispiece. o/w VG in a VG dustwrapper in a protective sleeve £10 Fox Brenda. Garstang; the Independent Chapel/Congregational School c1777-1900 (2014) Pbk 122pp Illus Indexed. Signed by author. VG £10 Frangolupo (ed) Rich Inheritance; a guide to the 1962 322pp + plates. Index dw. VG £10.. Freethy Getting to Know the Ribble Valley 1992 Pbk 90pp Illus VG £5.. -do- Exploring Pendle 1984 Pbk 48pp Illus Owner’s sticker inside cover, o/w VG £5.. -do- Memories of the Lancashire Cotton Mills 2008 Pbk 143pp Illus Indexed VG £5 -do- The Wakes Resorts. 198? Pbk 132pp Top corner cut from f/ep, o/w VG. Illus. £5.. -do- Working for Victory 2007 Pbk. 176pp Illus Index VG £5 -do- Lancashire-v-Hitler : Civilians at War 2006 Pbk 176pp Illus Index VG £5 -do- Discovering Coastal Lancashire 1991 Pbk 147pp Illuis Indexed VG £5 -do- Exploring Market Towns. 1987 Pbk 64pp Illus VG £5 -do- Hidden Lancashire 1996 Pbk 159pp Illus Indexed. A short inscription on half-title o/w VG £5 -do- Memories of the Lancashire Fishing Industry 2010 Pbk 127pp Illus Index VG £6 -do- The 1988. 4to limp coth. Illus181pp Indexed. £10.. French. Bibliographical Notices of the church libraries at Turton & bequeathed by Humphrey Chetham 1855. Chetham Soc Vol 38 1855199pp Indexed. Each book title page shown Wear at spine ends Owner signature on free endpaper top corner cut off £12 -do- Registers of Kirkby St Chad’s Chapelry :Marriages & Burials 1610-1839 (1979) 197pp Typed. Card covers with a tape spine. VG £20 Frost . An Edwardian Childhood in Newton le Willows .1983. pbk 44pp Illus. VG £5 -do- Top o’th’Town, Burnley (1981) Pbk 88pp Illus £5.. -do- (ed) I Well Remember: the Briercliffe & Burnley reminiscences of Jeremiah Preston 1998 80pp Illus. Indexed VG £8 20

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- Along t’Cut: a towpath trail through Burnley 1977 Pbk Illus56pp VG £5 -do- Electricity in Manchester 1893-1993. (1993) A4 Pbk. 74po VG £8 Frow. Radical Salford; Episodes in Labour history. 1984 AS4 stap-led Pbk.36pp £8 (Fylde) See my list of Lancashire Acts – 1770 Act for recovering small debts. Gandy. Lancashire Association Oath Rolls 1696. (1921 –reprint 1985) Pbk 131pp Indexed VG £5 Garbutt & Marsh, Around Barrow in Furness, 1993, 160pp pbk photos/captions £5 -do- Lancashire North of the Sands in Old Photographs. 1991 Pbk 160pp VG £5 Gardner. Willie; the life & times of a Rugby League legend ( Willie Thorne) undated First Ed, 199? Pbk 308pp VG Barrow & England player £10 Garlington. Preston; 1995 Chalford’s Archive Photographs series Pbk 128pp Photos/captions VG £8 -do- Preston; a Photographic Record. 1993. Pbk 60pp VG £8.. Garner. There’s only one Simon Garner; an autobiography 2002 Pbk 158pp + photo plates VG £6 Garnett Emmeline. Juvenile Offenders in Victorian Lancashire: WJ Garnett & the Reformatory 2008. Pbk 98pp Illus Index, VG £6 -do- The Wray Flood of 1967 (2002) Pbk 84pp Illus Index. VG £6 -do- The dated buildings of South Lakeland revised & expanded edition) 2007. Pbk 299pp Owners’ signatures on title page VG £20 Garnham Blackpool: a tradition of trams 1976 Pbk 48pp Illus VG £5 (Garstang) Auction Poster: Fern Villa, 21.5.1925 36x24ins £20 Garstang Courier. All isues of 1974 bound together. VG I will ntry to deliver it. £50 Gaskell. A brief history of St Anne’s Church & School, Eccles. 1967 4to card covers, stapled. Library stamps /w VG £8 Gedge & Louden. St Martin’s College, Lancaster 1964-89 (1993) Pbk 75pp Illus VG £6 Gent. Bolton Past 1995 132pp. 148 ills. dw VG £10 Gibson Rev (Ed) Crosby Records; a chapter of Lancashire Recusancy. 1887 Chetham Soc Vol 12. 104pp + folding plate (torn along a fold) and one plate. Indexed. Bears a library’s stramps and spine mark. Labels removed Wear at spine ends Concers Wm Blundell of Crosby Hall (1560- 16380N £20* Gibson & Wright. Joseph Mayer of Liverpool 1803-86. 1988 Pbk.244pp + plates. Indexed. VG £8 Gidman. Sir William Stanley of Holt 2003 Pbk 87pp Illus Indexed. Some handwritten notes on final blank page.o/w VG. Signed by author. The Lancashire family £5 Gillatt, Blackpool (Football Club) On This Day : History, Facts & Figures from every day of the year. 2009 184pp dw VG £5 Girdlestone Edward.Sermons on Romanism & Tractarianism and other subjects suited to the times.Undated Second edition (1851-55 ?) 279pp Lacks the free endpaper. Inscribed by author who was vicar of Deane 1850-54. First 61pp concern George Marsh, the martyr of Deane £30* Glenn (ed) St Giles Street, Padiham.;the history of a working-class street.1986 A4 Pbk 111pp VG £15 Gnosspelius.The Rev James MacGowan in Liverpool 1818-37 (1989) A 15pp essay plus copis of maps , directories & chapters from books.Compiled for a descendant by genealogy researcher. Card covers, spiral plastic binding. £20 Guiuseppi. A Look at Learie Constantine 1974 Pbk 144pp VG Nelson cricket pro. £10 Goddard John. Memories of Accrington 2000 A4 laminated boards. 103pp Photos with captions.VG £10.. -do- Accrington. 2008 Archive Photos series. Pbk 128pp Photos with captions. VG £8 Godkin. Watery Preston; a local miscellany 1980 Pamphlet 32pp £5 Goldthorpe. Further Rossendale Rambles 1991 Pbk 156pp Illus VG £6 -do- Rossendale Rambles 1985 Pbk 152pp + colour plates VG £6 21

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS Gooderson. A History of Lancashire 1980. 192pp + photo plates. Indexed. dw A small inscription on free endpaper o/w VG £10 Goodier. Landmarks,Customs & a Few Reminiscences of Old Irlam. 1972. Bound in cloth by the library whose label it bears. Never issued . An endpaper torn out, o/w VG 10pp £5 -do- Early history of North-West England – Vol 1 ( all published) 1963. 193pp Illus. VG in torn dw. Covers North from Heysham to Penrith. £10 Goss (ed) 1) Abbott’s Journal 2) The trials at Manchester in 1694 Chetham Soc Vol 61 1864 32pp + 42pp plus index to both. A bookplate has been removed from the paste-down.. Owner’s signature on free endpaper Some wear to spine ends.o/w VG £20* Gott Once Upon a Hill. 1989 Pbk 103pp Illus. Signed by authoress. An owner’s name on title page o/w VG. Life in Rossendale 1927-37. £5 Gowland Rochdale Politics & Methodist Schism c19873, Pamphlet 24pp Library stamps o/w VG £6 Graham (compiler) Lancashire One Hundred Years Ago 1968. A4 80pp 114 Prints & engravings ,mostly 1830s. VG dw £5 Graham & Phythian. Manchester Grammar School 1515-1965, 1965, 202pp illus dw bookplate £15 (Grange-o-Sands) Red Book, pub by In Essence 1999/2000 (See Wadsworth’s) £5 -do- Auction catalogue 1919 : Yewbarrow Lodge & Terrace. 10pp + folding plan. Lacks the paper cover £20 -do- Official Guide 1975.50pp + folding map. VG £5 Grant. A brief history of the parish of Inskip with Sowerby 2005. Pbk 84pp Illus. An owner’s signature on the title page o/w VG £10 -do- The Great Canal. 1978 156pp + phot6o plates (one spruing) Indexed. ex-library o/w VG in VG dustwrapper & protective sleeve. (M/C Ship Canal) £10 Gratton. The Parliamentarian & Royalist War Effort in Lancashire 1642-51 (2010 Chetham Soc) 381pp Index. dw Bears a library’s stamps o/w as new £15 Gray. Salford’s Tramways Pt 1…. 1824-1912.(1997.) Laminated boards. Well illustrated. VG £10.. -do- Manchester Road & Rail (Britain in old photos series) 1996 Photos with captions 128pp VG £8 -do- Lancaster’s Litle Ships ; Robert Gardner’s role in the costal trade 1924-62 (1996) Pbk 40pp Illus VG £6. Graystone. Walking Roman Roads in Bowland 1992. Pbk 66pp Illus. Top corner of title page cut off, o/w VG £5 -do- Walking Roman roads in Lonsdale & the Eden Valley 2002. 83pp Ilus VG £8 Greaves. Oldham’s Theatres. 197? A4 pbk. 25pp+ illus. Ex-library o/w VG £5 Greenall. Garstang Past. 2007. Pbk 119pp Photos with captions. VG £8 Greenhalgh. Shuttleworth; ‘Up the Croft’ 1987 Pbk. Illus Label removed from front cover, o/w VG £8.. -do- Hail Smiling Morn; Whit Friday Brass Band Contests 1884-1991(1992) Pbk. 324pp Illus. VG £10* Greenhough Cargo Handling in the Port of Liverpool during the 1920s 1981 Pbk 40pp Illus VG £6.. Greenwood. The Rochdale; an illustrated history of trans-Pennine canal traffic. c1980 pamphlet 32pp Illus VG £5 -do- A Trawdener’s View 1987 Pbk. 64pp POhotos with captions. VG £5 -do- London Midland Steam on the ex-L&Y 1975.Full-page b/w photos with captions. dw. VG £5 Greenwood & Bolton Bolland Forest & the Hodder Valley 1955, reprint 2000. Pbk 139pp VG £10

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BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS Gresswell & Lawton Merseyside; a descriptionof the OS One-inch sheet 100 – Liverpool m 1964 Stapled pamphlet36pp + plates . A library’s bookplate and stamps £5 Griffin Ken Dodd, the biography 2005 288pp + plates dw VG £8 Griffiths. Blind to Misfortune;a story of great courage in theface of adversity. 1989 1980pp + photo plates. Indexed. Ex-library, never issued. dw & cover.VG A Blackburn chap, blind, PoW. £5 -do- A history of the Royal & Ancient Park of Toxteth 1907 (Reprint c2000) Library stamp on title page, o/w VG £6 Grime, Memory Sketches: pt 1, Parliamentary Elections 1832-52, 293pp index Oldham £20 -do- Morecambe, alias Poulton-le -Sands; a dip into the past 198? Pbk 56pp Illus £8 Grindon. Lancashire:brief historical & descriptive notes 1892 355pp Illus Light foxing o/w VG cond £15* -do- Manchester Walks & Wild Fowers. Second edition 186? 12mo. All edges gilt. Cloth with calf spine. 172pp Label removed from pastedown o/w VG Botany £15* Gritt & Virgoe. The Memorandum Books of Basil Thomas Eccleston 1757-89 (Record Society 2004) 214pp Indexed. dw VG SW Lancs estate near St Helens £20 Groom Arsque Labore Nihil m; historical & cointempoorary jottings on Darwen 1889-1993. (1993) A5 stapledd pbk. Ex-library – never issued Label & stamps o/w VG £5* Grosart. The Dr Farmer Chetham MS, being a commonplace book in the Chetham Library,Manchester, temp Elizabeth, James 1 & Charles 1. Chetham Soc Vols 89 & 90 1893.225pp, many unopened. Some wear spine ends. A bookplate has been removed from the paste-downs. Owner’s signature on both vols. (2) £30 Guise & Budden. Bolton le Sands; portrait of a village 2013 Pbj 140pp An introductory essay and phortos with captions. VG £8.. Gurney., From Generation to Generation:the story of a Lancashire clan ( the Garstangs of Tockholes, Darwen, Preston, Whittle & Blackburn) 1970 207pp + plates & pedigrees. Indexed. VG £15*.. (Hadfield) Deed of gift legal document, Mary HADFIELD of to Mary BROWN 1886 £8 Haigh. The last days of the Lancashire Monasteries & the Pilgrimage of Grace.1969 Chetham Society Vol 17. 172pp Indexed. Ex-library with label & stamps. £25*.. (Hale Hall) Coloured engraving 1839 by Pyne & Aspland Approx 4x6inches in a card mount. VG £10 Haley. Lytham St Anne’s ; a pictorial history 1995. 180plates with captions. Index. dw VG. £10… -do- Lytham St Annes. 2001 Tempus Pbk. 128pp Photos + captions.Images of England series VG £8 Halewood. Early Preston & its Environs. 1972. Not paginated. 99 engravings. VG in VG dustwraper, which bears 2 owners’ signatures £10 Hall & Perry. Hospital 1876-1976 2001 Pamphlet 34pp VG £5.. Hall. Fred : the definitive biography of Fred Dibnah 2006 328pp + photo plates dw VG £5 -do- Burnley (a short history) 1977. Pbk 40pp Illus VG £5 -do- The Dock Road; a seafaring tale of Liverpool 1939 –reprt 199? Pbk 269pp Illus Novel VG £5 -do- A Years of Blackpool Education 1970 Pbk 48pp Illus VG £5.. -do- ; a history of Dolphinholme Worsted Mill 1784 to 1867(1969) Pamphlet 40pp Illus VG £8 Hall Dr Spencer T, Biographical Sketches of Remarkable People,Miscellaneous papers & Poems. 1881 Burnley author 450pp several of poems are Lakes-related. Signature of A.Altham 1883 on half-title £20 -do-, Pendle Hill & its Surroundings 1877 (reprint 1995) Pbk 80pp + plates VG £5 Hall & Spencer. Burnley; a Pictorial History 1993. 179 photos with captiions. dw VG £10 23

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS Halle. Life & Letters of Sir Charles Halle 1896 432pp + plates. Indexed Ex-library o/w VG £10 Halsall, Blackburn Tram Rides (1999) Pbk 60pp Photos/captions £6 -do- Blackburn in Times Gone By. 1998. Pbk. 84pp Articloes from the Blackburn Times with accompanying photos & some maps Covers 1890-1939 £10 Halstead, Around Rossendale 1996 Pbk 128pp Photos/Captions Indexed VG (See Bowden) £8.. Halstead & Duckworth. Aspects of Accrington ; Discovering Local History. 2000 Pbk. 192pp Illus. Ex-library. Never issued. VG £10 Hammersley & Hunt. A History of Richard Baxendale & Sons c1996. A4 Pbk20pp Illuis VG £5 Hamerton. Wenderholme; a story of Lancashire & Yorkshire.(1894?) 433pp VG Burnley author £12 Hampson, Salford Through the Ages, 1930 reprint 1972, 296pp illus dw VG £20 -do- The history of the Tottington Home Guard; ‘C’ Company 21st County of Lancaster (Bury) Battalion Home Guard. 1940-44 Undated. 94pp + folding map. VG £40* Handforth. Manchester Radical Politics 1789-94 (1957) offprint pamphlet 20pp ex-library £5 Hankinson. The Story of Higham 1990 Pbk. 54pp but pages 37-40 have been withdrawn by the publisher ‘due to claimed inaccuracies’ A printed label on the title page states this. VG £5 Hanna. Sam Hanna ; Better than talk & chalk. 1993 Pbk. 64pp Burnley film-maker. A large inscription from Sam on the title page o/w VG £5 Hannavy. Historic Wigan; Two thousand years of history1990 Pbk.167pp Extensively illustrated VG £8 Hardman, Sam Around the Fire, 1922, 272pp, stories &poems, dialect & standard English Newly rebound Radcliffe writer . £15* Hardwick. Traditions, Superstitions & Folk-Lore (chiefly Lancashire & the North of England) ……..(1872- reprint 1973) 306pp Indexed. VG in VG dw. £10 -do- History of the borough of Preston & its environs.1857 First Edn. 687pp + plates. A new spine with the original red cloth covers. The front cover bears the town’s crest. All edges gilt.Ne endpapers VG £100 Hardy. Manchester Since 1900; 90 years of photographs. A4 Pbk, pub by Evening News & Archive Publications. 1988. 128pp Ex-library but never issued. VG £5 Hardy, Cooper & Hochland. Manchester at War; a pictorial account 1939-45 (1986) A4 Pbk 112p b/w photos with captions £10 Hargreaves. Cricket is My Life; a story of cricket in Bolton District 1917-83 Pbk 86pp VG £8.. -do- -do- (Second innings) Pbk 88pp VG £8 -do- Victorian Years: Bolton 1850-1860 (1985) Pbk 142pp VG £8 -do- A History of Dr Kershaw’s Cottage Hospital, Royton. 1999 Pbk 4to 82pp Illus VG £8 Harland.The Lancashire Lieutenancy under the Tudors & Stuarts ; the civil and military government of the county, as illustrated by a series of Royal and other letters, orders of the Privy Council, the Lord Lieutenant, & other authorities, chiefly derived from the Shuttleworth MSS at Gawthorpe Hall. . 2 vols Chetham Society 1859. VG £40.. -do- -do- Pt 2 333pp Indexed. A library’s stamps. The labels have been removed £20 -do- Gregson’s Portfolio of Fragments relating to the History & Antiquities,Topography & Genealogy of the County Palatine & Duchy of Lancaster. 1869 3rd Edition with additions & improvements.with a copious general index and special index to the coats of arms. Folio size.425pp with many illus and pedigrees in the text and throughout the books. Recently rebound in green cloth. VG £150 -do-. The House & Farm Accounts of the Shuttleworths of Gawthorpe Hall (& Smithills) 1582-1621. In 4 vols ( 1856-1858 Chetham Society). Newly rebound in green cloth.Dusty edges. Some light staining to text. A small library stamp on obverse of title pages. £170..

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BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- A volume of court leet records of the Manor of Manchester in the 16th Century. 1864/5 Chetham Society Volos 63 & 65. One has an owner’s signature on the free endpaperand evidence of a label removed. The other has a label from the library of Col. Legh of High Legh. £40*. -do- See Baines. -do- Mamecestre; being chapters fom the early recorded history of the Barony; the Lordship or Manor; the Vill; Borough, or Town of Manchester. Vol 2 Chetham Soc1861 Vol LV1 . Library labels removed Wear at spine ends £15 -do- -do- Vol 3 Chetham Soc Vol LV111 1862 Library labels removed. Wear at spine ends. Many unopened pages £15 -do- (ed) Three Lancashire Documents of the 14th & 15th centuries , comprising a)The Great de :Lacey Inquisition, 1311 b) The Survey of 1320-46 c) Custom Roll & rental, of the manor of Ashton-u-Lyne, 1422. Chetham Soc Vol 74 1868. 141ppIndexed. Many pages unopened £20* Harries. Landmarks in Liverpool History ( with a chapter on ‘How Liverpool is Governed’) 1961 122pp + index. Illus. Map endpapers VG £8.. -do- The story of Liverpool Town Hall 1951 Stapled pamphlet 20pp Illus VG £6 Harris. Carnforth 1840-1900:the Rise of a North LancashireTown(1960) offprint pamphlet 16pp ex-library £5 Harrison. The Harrisons of Gisburn Forest; a register of the descendants of Stephen Harrison (1685-1747) Landscape pbk with a spiral spine. 385pp £30* -do- Rage of Sand. 1971 192pp Indexed. Illus dw.VG The birth & rise of Lytham St Annes) £15.. -do- Weak Yet Strong, with Echoes from a Sick Room. 1899 123pp + plates & frontis portrait of Ellen Chadwick, a bed-ridden unian Christian missionary. A short penciled inscription on endpaper £12 -do- Round about Rawtenstall 1985 Landscape pbk Photos/captions 48pp VG £8 Harrop. The Merchant Taylors’ School for Girls, Crosby; One hundred years of achievement 1888- 1988 (1988) 221pp Illus Indexed. Inscription by author on obverse of the front free endpaper. dw VG £10 Hartwell & Wyke. Making hester: Aspects of the Architecture in the city & region since 1800. – essays in honour of John Archer. 2007 267pp Illus Indexed. dw VG £30* Harwood & Fairhurst, Two In Accord, 1991, 40pp pbk, dialect & standard poems, Tydesley duo, VG £5 Haslam Bob . An Industrial Cocktail. 2003. 192pp + photo plates. Index dw. VG £5 Haworth. A Year in the Theatre: 1993 Pbk 432pp Illus Ex-library. Probably never issued. VG £5 Haworth Don, Figures in a Bygone Landscape, 1986, 216pp cloth dw VG £5 -do- The Fred Dibnah Story1993. 192pp Illuis Indexed Bears a library label –never issued. dw VG£5 Haworth Elizabeth. Howton Inheritance 1980 192pp Novel set in 1860s Pendle area Ex-library o/w VG in dw & cover . Never issued £5 -do- Mistress of Howton. 1979 Novel set in Victorian Pendle area. Ex-library o/w VG in dw & cover Never issued. £5 -do- The Farrers of Howton 1979 Novel set in 1830s-40s in Pendle area. Ex-library (never issued) o/w VG in dw & cover £5 Hawkes. Sir Roger Bradshaigh of Haigh 1628-84…with notes on forebears, 1945, 73pp, pedigree, newly rebound £20 Hayes. Bury Past 1996 Pbk 40pp Photos with captions VG £5 -do- Chorley Past 2001 Pbk 40pp Illus VG £5 -do- The Changing Face of Manchester 2001. 188pp Photos with captions. dw VG. £10 25

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- Maritime memories of the River Mersey199? Pbk 48pp Photos with captions VG £5 -do- Reminiscences of Manchester and some its local surroundings from the year 1840. (1905)349pp+ plates & index. Ex-library with new endpapers. Tight. £20 -do- Francis Frith’s Around Preston ; Photographic Memories. 2002 87pp Photos with captions VG in a VG dustwrapper £10.. Hayhurst. The Conquest of Gentleness: Memorials of Christian Church & SS, Bury…Rev Franklin , 1910, 250pp Much Bury history interest, £15* -do- A history and some records of the Volunteer Movement in Bury, , Rossendale & Ramsbottom 1887 332pp VG £40* -do- More Lancashire Murders. 2011 Pbk 158pp Illus. Indexed £5 -do- Glasson Dock; the survival of a village.1995. A4 Pbk116pp + photo plates.An owner’s signatu8re inside front cover, o/w VG £20 Heath Mike Railway Moods - The East Lancashire Railway 2006 141pp Colour photos with captions in VG dustwrapper. Ramsbottom-Bury- £10 Heaton. The Heatons of Deane: the varying fortunes of a Lancashire family over 850yrs. (2000) Pbk 224pp Indexed. Illus VG £8 -do- The Manchester Village : Remembered. 1995 A4 pbk. 62pp Illus VG £5 Helm(ed) Five Mumming Pllays for Schoools 1965 45pp+ photo plates. Bound in clcoth by a library whose stamps it bears, o/w VG Includes a 9pp section on a Lancaster Pace-Egg play £6 Hebdon. Burnley Postal History; the story of the Royal Mail in Burnlery 1994. Pbk 155pp Illus £5 Heppell The History of Preston Grammar School. 1996. 137pp Illus, VG in VG dustwrapper £10 Herford. Memorials of Stand Chapel 1893. 118pp + index. owner’s name on obverse of front endpaper £10 Herford & Evans, Historical Sketch of the North & East Lancashire Unitarian Mission & its Affiliated Churches 1859-1909 (1909) 136pp & plates Usual fading of spine £30 Hertz. The Manchester Politician 1750-1912 (1912) 101pp Indexed. Spine worn and faded. Lacks free endpaper. Cover stained. Ex-library £8 Hesketh Phoebe. Rivington: Village of the Mountain Ash 1990 Pbk 104pp Illus VG £8 -do- Poems. 1939. 56pp Ex-library but no labels. £5 -do- Out of the Dark: poems 1954 81pp Ex-library. Never issued. dw £5 -do- Sundowner 1992. Pbk. 55pp Ex-library. Never issued VG Poems £5 -do- Over the Brook 1986. Pbk 50pp Ex-library but never issued VG Poems £5 -do- Preparing to Leave. 1977 36pp Ex-library. Lacks f.ep o/w VG. Poems £5 Heslewood & Garlington. Robert Pateson, a Scientific Philosopher; the life &* work of an early photographer. 2004 Pbk. An arly Preston pohotographer An owner’s signature on the obverse of the title page, o/w VG £10 Hewitson. Preston Court Leet Records – Extracts & Notes 1905 233pp,+ folding map. VG . £75.. -do- (‘Attticus’) Our country churches & Chapels.1872 584pp + index. Newly rebound Title on spine & front cover VG £120 -do- Northward 1900 –Reprint 2003. Pbk 157pp + folding plate.& Index. VG £15 Hewitt. A History of Policing in Manchester 1979 188pp+ photo plates. Index. dw + polythene covr. Ex-library but never issued. o/w VG £6 Heyes. An album of Old Chorley 1984. Landscape Pbk. 76 photos with captions. VG £8 Heywood D,M & B. Cloth Caps & Cricket Crazy: Todmorden & Cricket 1835-1896 (2004) 266pp Ilus Index. VG Signed by Malcolm £5 Heywood (ed) The Norris Papers 1846 Chetham Society.190pp Indexed. A Liverpool family’s papers. Library stamps but recently rebound in green cloth VG £20

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BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- Cardinal Allen’s Defence of Sir William Sanley’s Surrender of Deventer, January 1586-7. Chetham Soc 1851. Xcix introduction + 38pp Library7 sytamps throughout the text. Labels have been removed. £18 -do- The diary of Rev Henry Newcome from Sept 1661 to Sept 1663 (1849 Chetham Soc Vol 18) 242pp New endpapers £24 Hey Stanley. The Secret Man.1992 Pbk. 51pp llus. Nelson-born astrophysicist’s life. Ex-library (never issued) o/w VG £10 Heys. The Stained & Painted Glass Windows in St Peter’s Church, Swinton. 1958 50pp Illus Roneod text In library binding with stamps,label £8 Hikins. (ed) Roll the Union On; an anthology of Merseyside sights & sounds in celebration of the 125th anniversary of the Liverpool Trades Council 1973 Scouse Press. Ex-library, it lacks a free endpaper, o/w VG in dw & protective cover £5 Hill. Nelson : Politics,Economy, Community. 1997 Pbk 172pp Illus indexed VG £10 -do- Gentlemen of Courage-Forward; the line of Myles Standish within a history of England 1987. 248pp Illus. Bibliography, 2 indeces.dw VG. Inscription from author on free endpaper £10 Hinde. Richard Cobden, A Victorian Outsider 1987. 367pp Indexed. Illus. dw VG £10 Hirst (ed) Free Trade & Other Fundamental Doctrines of the hester School….1903 520pp Index £5 -do- Alexander Gordon Cummins Harvey; a memoir 1925. 162pp +photo plates . Index. Ex-library. dw .Littleborough/Rochdale mill owner/politician. £5 Hindle, Tales of the Brun, 1896, 204pp illus, subsc. list, newly rebound £30 -do-Provision for the Relief of the Poor in Manchester 1754-1826,1975 Chetham,192pp dw VG £25 -do- Grimsargh ; the story of a Lancashire village 2002. 291pp Illus. Top corner of free endpaper cut off, o/w VG in VG dw £30* -do- Around Preston; Heritage,Natural History & Walking in the city and beautiful countryside beyond. 2012 Pbk 198pp Profusely illustrated with colour photos. Inscribed ‘’to Mary’ by author. A piece cut off top of the half-title o/w VG £10 -do- ‘Twice Nightly’ ; an illustrated history of entertainment in Preston 1999 Pbk. 154pp VG £10 (Hindley) Insurance Policy taken out by Henry BATTERSLEY 1821 for Low Mill cotton factory Single sheet 21x14” printed with ink details Signed by 3 London insurers In need of repair on folds £25 Hirst. Alexander Gordon Cummins Harvey; a memoir 1925. 162pp + portrait. Indexed. dw. Ex- library but never issued. £10* -do- John Bright; a study. 1945. 116pp Ex-library. £5** Hirst & Horsley. Maritime Fleetwod; a photoghraphic record. 1996 Pbk.142ppp Extensiveley illuis. An inscription on the inner front cover, which bears the authors’ signatures, reads “To Duncan (Brown?) with grateful thanks for your loyal support from Jill (Marr?) and all at the mission, Jan 1997” o/w VG £15.. -do- Fleetwood’s Fishing Industry ; the story of deep-sea fishing from Fleetwood 1840-1990 (1991) Pbk 155pp Many illus. VG £15 Hodge History of Preston; an introduction 1997. Pbk 58pp Illus £5.. Hodgkiss, Seneley Green Grammar School, Ashton-in-Makerfield, 1952, 34pp PENB, plate £15 Hodkinson Old Chorley; A Pictorial Record of Bygone Days 1988 Pbk. 60pp Photos+captions. VG £6 Hodson James Lansdale. Tall Chimneys. 1920(?) 311pp In a torn & repaired dustwrapper. Bury- born author. Set near Oldham in The Cotton Boom. He also wrote a play with this title £20* Hogg, A History of Church & Oswaldtwistle 1760-1860 (1971) Pbk 112pp& plates Index £20 -do- -do- 1860-1914 (1973) Pbk 143pp & plates Index £20.. Holden Richard. At All Times & In All Places: A Vet’s Life 1992 273pp ex-library (never issued) o/w VG in dw & polythene cover. The place-names have been disd, but are clearly Lancastrian £5 Holden Sue. Clitheroe Ablaze with Glory 1999 Pbk. 60pp Photos with captions – The torchlight 27

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS processions VG £5.. Holding & Rogers (ed) . The Nonconformist Chapel in Rivington & its Early Registers n.d. pamphlet 43pp VG £6.. Holgate, Hours in Idleness, 1913, 199pp, new eps Ribble/Hodder engrs £15 Holland. Beginners of Stage: the story of the Stretford Children’s Theatre 1968 254pp + photo plates. Ex-library, lacks free endpaper o/w VG in dw & cover £6 Hollinshead The Major & his Band. The story of Abram/Bickershawe Colliery Band 1994. Bk 76pp Illuis. VG £10* Holliday, Blackburn in Retrospect, 1984, 52pp pbk photos/captions £8.. -do- The parish church of St Anne, St Annes on Sea 1873-1973 Pbk 42pp Illus VG £5 Hollinghurst. John Foster & Sons, Kings of Georgian Liverpool 2009 A4 Pbk. Signed copy.110pp VG £10 Hollingworth. The Diary of Edwin Waugh; Life in Victorian Manchester & Rochdale 1847-51(2008) Pbk 172pp VG £8* -do- In Thy Light: St Katherine’s College (Liverpool) 1844-1994. Pbk 121pp Illus VG £6 Holme Constance, Crump Folk Going Home 1913 First edn 311pp Foxing on edges & prelims. £15 Holme Peter. Play Up, Higher Walton ; Football in a Lancashire Village from 1882 to 2005 (2006) Pbk 80pp Illus VG £6… (Holme ) Headed invoice 1840 from John HOLME, boot & shoe manufacturer, Pal Mall, Manchester to Wm BARLOW Corner cut off. Signed by HOLME £5 Holmes. The Idiot Teacher.;a book about Prestolee School &its headmaster, E F O’Neill 1952 199pp Mr O’Neill was an educator far in advance of the times and was regarded as an idiot by many. He also taught at Knuzden School. £10 Holt Jennifer. The Hornby Castle Estates; Agrarian Change from the 1582 Survey to the 1751 Sederunt. (2017 Chetham Society Vol 52) 626pp As new in a VG dustwrapper £25 Holt John. Occasional Verses, 1912, 75pp Radcliffe dialect VG £25 Holt & Groves. Rakefoot Methodist Church 1811-1961. pbk 20pp Illus Ex-library stamp & label o/w VG £5 (Hoole) Methodist Church Centenary Celebrations 1948 Pamphlet 22pp Rusty staples Illus Historical £10 -do- History of Primitive Methodism in Hoole (by Miller ?) 192? 32pp £20 Hooper. The past & present of Fylde Borough in The Fylde Story. 1988 Pbk. 95pp Illus. £6.. Hope Mary. Clogs to mayoral robes 1986. Pbk. 143pp + plates. . Accrington girl to Fleetwood mayor. VG £5 Hopwood. A history of the Lancashire Cotton Industry & the Amalgamated Weavers’ Association. 1969.199pp + plates. Marbled endpapers. Withdrawn from a library stamp. o/w VG £10 (Hornby Castle) Coloured engraving c1840. 3x5inches with a generous margin around by Pickering & Finden VG £5 -do- -do- c 1836 by Pickering & Miller 4x7inches in a card mount. VG £10 Horrocks (comp) Lancashire Business Histories .1971pub by Lancashire Joint Committee on the Lancashire Bibliography. Pbk 116pp An owner’s stamp on front cover, o/w VG £5 -do- Lancashire Directories 1684-1957 b(1968) Pbk £8.. Hosfield. A Look at Old Halton: Book One, from Brokenbeck to Cowband Row 1989. Pbk. 64pp £10 Houlding Henry, Rhymes & Dreams: Legends of Pendle Forest & other poems, 1895, 323pp + subscribers text, Burnley poet £10 Howarth. What A Perfore!!!; The Brass Band Plays 1988. 237pp+ plates. Indexed. Library mark opn spine of dw. Lacks the free endpaper, o/w VG in dw & polythene cover. £5

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BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS Howcroft. History of the Chapelry & Church of Saddleworth & Township of Quick 1915 176pp + photo plates £30 Howorth (ed) . The Vicars of Rochdale by the late Rev Raines. Chetham Society Vols 1 & 2 1883.New spines. Each vol bears a bloind stamp of a public library and its stamps throughout . New endpapers VG. £50* Howson. The Making of Lancaster; People, Places & War 1789-1815 (2008). Pbk. 150pp Illus. Index VG £8.. Hoyle & Sankey. Thirlmere Water: a hundred miles, a hundred years. 1994 Pbk. Highlighting on obverse of title page. 88pp 41photos Signed copy £10 Hudson. Bury in old Photographs . 1993 160pp Photos/captions VG £4 -do- Gracie Fields; her life in pictures 1989. Many illus dw VG Bookplate on free endpaper £6 Hughes. The Literary Associations of the of Lancaster & its Surrounding Districts 1929.135pp + supplement. Bound in cloth for a college library.1931 signature on half-title £15 -do- Millstone Grit 1975 RU. 158pp + photo plates dw VG £5.. -do- Port in a Storm: the air attacks on Liverpool & its Shipping in the Second World War 1993. A4 Pbk Illus Indexed. £10.. Hull George. English Lyrics & Lancashire Songs, 1922, 247pp + glossary, £10.. -do-, The Heroes of the Heart & other poems, 1894, 114pp, standard & dialect, glossary, subsc list, new eps, Blackburn poet £25.. (Hulme) See List of Lancashire Acts – 1751 Act for repairing road through Stretford & Hulme Hulton (ed) Documents Relating to the of Penwortham & Other Possessions in Lancashire of the Abbey of Evesham (1853 Chetham) Library stamp New spine & eps 77pp + 132pp Stained frontis £30 -do-. The Coucher Book or Chartulary of Whalley Abbey. Chetham Society 1847-9 Complete in 4 vols Newly rebound £200.. Hunt. Fenty’s Album 1975 Pbk. 84pp Victorian & Edwardian Bowness & Windermere photos. £5.. -do- . Old Lakeland Transport 1978 Pbk 84pp Many photos VG £6 -do- A History of Walton le Dale & Bamber Bridge……1997 Pbk 248pp Illus. VG £15* -do- A History of Preston. 1992 Pbk 296pp Illus Indexed dw VG A monumental work £10 -do- -do- Hbk in VG dustwrapper. Inscribed by author on free endpaper £15.. -do- Preston; Centuries of Change 2003 Breedon. A4 192pp Indexed. Extensively illus £10*… -do- The History of Leyland & District 1990 Pbk 160pp Illus Indexed £15.. Huntington Rev George. Random Recollections of some noted bishops,divines and worthies of the ‘old church’ in hester 1893. 320pp Index Bears labels from a private library on the front paste-down. Top corner of the tile page has been cut off to remove a signature. o/w VG £20* Hurst. Leyland, Midge Hall& 1880-1982 (1984) 48pp Photos wiuth captions. Cover creased. Internally VG £8 Hutchinson. Memoirs of the Life of Col. Hutchinson……The Siege of Lathom House. 1848.523pp In a fine red calf binding with marbled boards, endpapers and edge. Gilt decoratiove panels on the spine. The leather title piece is missing,though the title is still discernible £10 Hutton 29 Herriott Street. 1979 256pp .An owner’s ‘blind’ stamp on the front endpaper, o/w VG in dw. Concerns a Manchester murder in 1931 £10 -do- A Description of Blackpool in Lancashire, frequented for sea-bathing. 1817 (3rd edition) – reprint 2005. One of 200 copies. As new £25 Hutton & Short. Churches dedicated to St Chad in England 1994. 3 vols in card covers. Not paginated but substantial. VG £30*.. Irvine, A Short History of the Township of Rivington…with some account of the church & grammar school 1904 211pp Newly rebound £100 -do- Lancaster Marriage Records – See Brownbill 29

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- -do- Vol 3 1624-32 (Record Society Vol 57 1909) Bears a society’s bookplate o/w VG 308pp £10 -do- -do- Vol 4 1639-44 (Record Society Vol 61 1911) Bears a society’s bookplate o/w VG 164pp £10 -do- -do- Vol 5 1661-67 (Record Society Vol 65) 1912. Bear4s a society’s bookplaste o/w VG 284pp £10 Jackman. Blackburn Rovers; a complete record 1875-1990 416pp dw VG £5.. -do- Blackburn Rovers: the official encyclopedia 1994. Large format.250pp Many illus. dw VG £10 Jacson Catherine. (nee Formby) Formby Reminiscences. 1898. 168pp + plates. Family reminiscnces of life in Formby, Lytham, Barton (Preston) Accrington. Peel, Yates families £20 Jackson. Woodplumpton & ; its history in Religion, Houses & Families 1971. 96pp + photo plates 96pp + photo -do- Liverpool’s Sporting Pages 1991. Pbk 88pp Illus. Page family VG £5 -do- (Intro) Herdman’s Liverpool. 1968 Gallery Press. A4 Pbk 50 plates with caption VG £15 Jackson Nelson. Lays from Lancashire. 1930. Pbk. 60pp. Illus by Arhtur Moreland. Intro by Tom Shaw MP. Lacks the half-title, o/w VG. Ex-library Most of the 12 rhymes are tacklers’ tales – many mention Burnley. £5 -do- Liverpool Fashion; its makers & wearers: the dressmaking trade in Liverpol 1830-1940 (1981) Limp cloth. 48pp 20 plates. VG £5 -do- Around Historic Lancashire 1978. 128pp Jessop is author and illustrator. Laminated boards. VG £6 John. Blackburn Since 1900; 90years of photographs. Pub Lancashire Evening Telegraph 1988 A4 Pbk 1988 233 photos with captions. VG £10 Johnston Old Road; a Lancashire Childhood 1912-26 (1974) 141pp (Failsworth) £10* -do- The Rocky Road to Wembley 1954, 112pp+ plates. VG in torn dw. Blackpool/England footballer £8 -do- Preston Remembered. 2011 Pbk 126pp Illus. An owner’s signature on the obverse of the front cover , o/w VG £10 Johnston, Eccles: the growth of a Lancashire town 1967 147pp & plates Map eps. dw VG £20 -do- (ed) Eccles & Swinton; the past speaks for itself. 1957. Pamphlet 32pp Owner’s signature on front cover o/w VG £5 Johnson Eleanor. The Standish Family, Part 1. 1189-1920 (1972) 55pp + folding pedigree. VG Bound in cloth by the library whose label it bears. o/w VG No further parts published £10.. Joinson Rowland. Join Joinson. 1975 Pbk 90pp Accrington essays. £8 Jones. Jimmy Jones’ Tyldesley/ Jones Again, 24pp pbks 1975/6, dialect poems pair £8 -do- Jimmy Jones Again 1976 24pp Pmphlet. Signed by JJ, a Tyldesley dialect poet £5 -do- Lancashire Lasses, their lives and crimes. 2001. A4 pbk. 104pp Illus. VG £8 -do- Was Lancaster Camelot? & Other Lancashire Mysteries. 1992 Pbk 85pp Ilus VG £8 -do- Bolton’s Industrial Heritage 2006 Pbk 160pp Illus. Indexed. VG £8 -do- A new look at old Clitheroe; changes in the 18th & 19th centuries 1997 Pbk 55pp VG £5.. (Jones, Augustine Gladstone) Birth & marriage certs, 1866 Southport, 1891 Greenheys, with papers re Jones & Gavin of Hulme £10 Jones & Andrew. Homo Northwestus; A quest for the species , North-West Man 1992. Pbk 124pp Illus Based on a TV series fronted by Ray Gosling. VG £5.. Jones & Frost. My Burnley memories – Leslie Chapples 1992 Pbk 56pp VG £5 Jones & Grealey, Roman Manchester, 1973, 198pp + maps. Foolscap pbk VG £10 Jordan, The Social Institutions of Lancashire: a study of the changing patterns of aspiration…1480- 1660 (1962 Chetham Soc) 128pp Index A small academnic library’s stampon the free endpaper. A bookplate has been lifted off the paste-down, o/w VG £20.. 30

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS Joy. Railways in Lancashire; a Pictorial History. 1976 Dalesman. 96pp Extensively illus VG £5 -do- Traction Engines in the North. 1970 Dalesman Pbk 96pp Illus VG £5 Joyce. Strangers’ Charity; a tale of old Southport 1798-1826 (1982) 188pp VG in a VG dustwrapper the spine of which is sunned £10* Karl & Yeomans. Preston’s Haunted Heritage 2007 Pbk 116pp Illus VG £6 Kay The Chronicles of a Lad 1987 Pbk 82pp £5 -do- More Irish Manchester 2006. Pbk 144pp Photos with captions. VG £5 -do- History of Rivington & Blackrod Grammar School 1931. 208pp + plates Indexed. The cover has lost much of its colour. Title on spine difficult to read £10 -do- -do- 1966 Second edition. 208pp + plates. Indexed . Inscription to a 1968 pupil on the paste- down. VG in VG dustwrapper. £20 Keeling. The Crowded Stairs ; recollections of social work in Liverpool. 1961. 159pp Indexed £20 Kelly . Liverpool; the Irish connection:the storey of some notable Irish people wjho helped to create the great city. 2003 148pp laminated board. VG £8 -do- Lydia Becker & The Cause 1992 Pbk 60pp Illus VG (Suffragette) £5 -do- Viking Village : the story of Formby.1973 163pp + photos. Map endpapers VG in a VG dw £12 Kelly Robert & Sons Ltd. (A Liverpool & Manchester Company) Two trade catalogues 192? a) No 2 Drills, Reamers, screwing Tackle b) Small tools & bench machines. Pbks Some wear of spines. £20 Kelly & Kelly. A schoolmaster’s notebook, being an account of a 19th-century experiment in social welfare by David Winstanley of Manchester, schoolmaster 1957 Chetham Soc. 128pp + portrait. Indexed. Bears small academic library’s stamps on free endpaper title page, o/w VG. A bookplate has been removed from the paste-down ()£10 Kelly’s Directory of Manchester & Suburbs 1887 700pp + 104pp of adverts. Newly rebound in red cloth Lacks the plan called for. VG £100* -do- -do- 1881 Sometime rebound in maroon cloth with black leather spine title-piece. 741pp Lacks the map called for., also the adverts.VG £100* -do- Post Office Directory of Manchester 1873. Newly rebound. In red cloth. 659pp No ads VG £100* Kelleher, The Glamour of Manchester, 1920, 93pp, boards. Local history£12 Kennedy. The Clifton Chronicle, 1990, 303pp illus index dw VG £10 -do- The History of the Royal Manhester College of Music 1893-1972 (1971) 227pp+ photo plates. Indexed. Owner’s signature on free endpaper dw VG £10* -do-. Portrait of Manchester 1971 192pp |+ photo plates. Indexed VG £6 (Kenyon) The Manuscripts of Lord Kenyon. 14th report,appendix Pt 4 of the Historical Manuscripts Commission 1894. 703pp Newly rebound. £35* -do- The Origins of Lancashire 1991. Pbk 202pp Illus Indexed VG £10 Kerrigan. Liverpool; the Gateway to America 2007 Pbk 127pp Illus. Withdrawn library stamp o/w VG £6 Kershaw John. Memorials of the Mercies of a Covenant God… the autobiography of John Kershaw of Rochdale, 1905, 336pp Front endpaper torn Baptist minister £15 Kershaw Harvey, Lancashire Sings Again: First .Encore a further collection of original dialect verses. 1963 87pp £15.. Kevill. The personal diary of Nurse de Trafford 1916-20 (2001 147pp VG in VG dustwrapper £10 King. A Fylde Country Practice; Medicine & Society in Lancashire c1760-1840 (2001) Pbk 110pp Illus £6 -do- Bells and Pomegranates (c1974) Pbk 123pp Owner’s details on endpaper (p124) Concerns Astley £15 -do- Richard Marsden & the Preston Chartists 1837-48 (1981) Pbk 46pp VG £6... 31

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS King & Raven. Another Look at (Samuel) Laycock 1993.Pbk 28pp Illus with glossary. Biographical VG £5 Kirby. Middleton Tramways1976 Pbk 88pp + folding map. Illus. Corner of title page cut off o/w VG £10.. Kirby & Walsh. The Four Blackburn VCs. 1986 Pbk 40pp £8 (Kirkham) See later – Licensed Premises -do- See my list of Lancashire legal documents. Kirkham Winifred, Through the Years 195? Poems by Lytham (?) writer Cloth £10 Kirkham Trevor. The diary of Mary Molyneux of Preston 1716-39. (2015) Pbk 144pp Illius Indexed. Inscribed by author on title page. o/w VG £10 Knight. Step Back in Time: a History of Fulwood 1986 Pbk 42pp Illus £8 Knight & Burscough Historic Fulwood & Cadley 1998 Pbk 218pp Illus Subscribers List. VG £10.. Knowles The War in the Peninsula; some letters of a Lancashire officer, Lieut. Robert Knowles ( of Bolton) 1913 - reprint 2004 with new intro. ex-library o/w VG in dw. £8 -do-. Minden & the Seven Years’ War. 1914. 113pp + plates with tissue gaurds. Indexed. The Lancashire Fusiliers were involved in this war. VG £50* (Knowsley Hall) Coloured engraving 1839 by Neale . Approx 4x5inches. In a card mount. VG £10 Koop, Broughton in Furness, its church & manor, 1954, 71pp + plates £10.. Krieger, Bygone Manchester, 1984, 128 photos/captions, pictorial eps dw VG £5 (Lancashire) The Official County Handbook. Pub Burrows1956. 209pp Bound in cloth by library whose labels etc it bears. Never issued VG £5 Lancashire County (& Manchester) Cricket Club Year Book Pbks:1934…1948...1953…1954…1955… 1956…1957.,..1958…1959…1960…1963…1964…1965 Each £10 I have later years too. -do-. –do- Cloth-bound. 1935 & 1936 Each £15 -do- Centenary 1864-1964 Cloth in dw VG £15 -do- Diamond Jubilee Souvenir Brochure 1864-1924 published M/C Guiardian 40pp Ilus £20*.. (Lancashire) Within Living Memory 1997 Pbk 224pp Illus. Memories of Women’s Institutes members VG £5 -do- 85years of The Lancashire Amateur Football League 1899-1984 Pbk 72pp VG £6 -do- Lancashire Education 1870-1970 Pbk 75pp Illus £8.. (Lancashire County Council), Recreation Study Consultation Report 1973 A4 Pbk 28pp £8 -do- Rochdale-Oldham Motorway A627(M) Official Opening Brochure 7/1/1972 with folding maps. Bound in library cloth, lacks f.ep. o/w VG £5 -do- North East Lancashire Structure Plan – Public Participation, First Phase.197?. A4 ex-library. Lacks a free endpaper o/w VG £8 -do- North East Lancashire Structure Plan. Public Participation; Second Phase. 1978 A4 Ex- library .Lacks f.ep, o/w VG £5 -do- County Council Accounts 1903-04. 259pp + many folding accountsA trifle looe at ront inner hinge. £10 Lancashire Evening Post. .mages of Preston. 1995. A4 216pp Photos with captions dw VG £10 Lancashire Historian The, Aspects of Lancashire History; essays in memory of Mary Higham 2007- 8 Nine essays Pbk VG £8 Lancashire Industrial Development Assoc Reports:Stapled pamphlets Ex-library a) No 6 The Coal/Chemical Area 1950.60pp b) No 3. Merseyside 1949 64pp Each £5 (Lancashire Priory) History of the (Masonic) Priory of Lancashire 1956, 190pp + folding map. & photo plates.Glossary. Concerns Masonic history and that of the Temple & Hospital of St John, with some on medieval priories. Spine has the usual fading o/w VG . £25* (Lancaster) Lancaster Charities. 1871 Details and accounts of 6 local charities.. some with plan. Limp cloth. Rusted staples. £50 32

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- Lancaster A Century Ago, introductory essay by PRICE. 1990 A4 Pbk.Much on businesses £8 -do- Lancaster Historical Pageant 1913. Souvenir brochure. 4to .Card covers Some wear. £20 -do- Several Lancaster Acts in my list of Lancashire Acts – sends for it please. Lane The Murder Club Guide to NW England;true tales of dark deeds & arch fiends 1988 Pbk 181pp Illus indexed. Covers Cheshire to Cumbria VG £5 Langford Joan. Farington: a Lancashire Cotton Mill Village – Book 7 : People, Places & Events 2009 A4 Pbk 218pp £10 Langton. The Visitation of Lancashire & a part of Cheshire made….1533 ….Thomas Benalt. – Pt 1. (1876 Chetham Soc Vol 98) 104pp £20 -do- -do- Pt 2 Chetham Soc Vol CX 1882 Newly rebound. VG £20 Law Thomas Graves. A Catechisme or Christian Doctine by Laurence Vaux, 1583. With memoir of Vaux. 1885 Chetham Society Vol 4. 111pp Indexed. Nerw spine. An owner’s signature on a prelim. VG £30*.. Latham. Works by Southport Authors. Pub by Southport Library. Pre-1974. 100pp Ex-library. o/w VG £5 Lavalette & Marsden (eds) Mark Our Words; We Will Rise – mEpisodes in Prston;s radical History. 2014 Pbk. 229pp As new. £10 Law. The Fieldens of Todmorden ; a 19th century business dynasty 195. Pbk. 302pp Extensively illus. Indexed. Top corner of the half-title has been cut off o/w VG. Many Lancashire connections. £15 Lawton (Th'Owd Weighver), Reaund bi' th'Derby & other sketches in the Lancs dialect, 1890, 100pp newly rebound, Rochdale author £25 -do- Webs from Fancy's Loom, 1918, 259pp dialect & standard poems & sketches £20.. Lawton Tommy. My Twenty Years of Soccer 1955 258pp + photo plates Torn dw £10 Lavington. A History ofManchester Computers. 1975. Pbk. Spiral spine.43pp Illus. Produced on a photocopier (?) £5* Laycock Kelbrook in Times Past 1987 Pbk 48pp Photos/captions Slightly damp-affected £5 Laycock Samuel. The Collected Writings of…with biog intro by MILNER 344pp £10 -do-, Warblin’s fro’ an Owd Songster 1893. 376pp Original bright blue cloth with gilt decoration VG £20 Lear Winifred. I Like This Place 1980. 214pp Ex-library but never issued.VG dw. Author taught at Brighthelmston School, Southport 1933-61. £10* Leaver, Images of East Lancashire, 1993, 219pp A4, cloth bound, pics/captions dw VG £10.. Lee Helen, Bits o’ Things, 1893, 280pp, VG, dialect poems & tales Oldham writer £15 Lee Peter, Mystery o'Sunny Fowt (also) Fotchin Relief, 1906 340pp Rochdale dialect author £20 Lee & Stubbs, The History of Dorman Smith 1878-1972, 176pp illus dw VG, M’chester Co £10 Leech Old Stretford ; reminiscences of the past half-centuruy 1910.Privately published. This is a photocopy which has been bound in cloth by the library whose label it bears. Never issued. 40pp Illus £10 Leigh’s Guide to the Lakes & Mountains of Cumberland, Westmorland & Lancashire 1832 12mo Newly rebound in grey cloth 160pp Indexed Lacks a map of the general area though others present VG £90* Leonard (ed) A register of births, baptisms, deaths & burials 1788-1812 and baptisms & burials 1813-1837 in the parish of Hawkshead 1971. 228pp Indexed. £10 Lewis. The Billingers 2009. 313pp Illus. Pictorial endpapers VG £12 Lewis’ Manchester & Salford Directory 1788 (Richardson reprint) A4 Pbk 32pp Map in centerfold. VG £6

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BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS (Leyland) Farington House, Leyland – Building Recording. A report by West Yorkshisre Archaeological Services for Rowland Homes Ltd . Nov 2002. In a plastic spine Not paginated. With folding plan. £10 Leyland Historical Society. Lailand Chronicle, the journal of…No 34, 1988 A4 Pamphlet 38pp £5 Lithgow. Life of John Critchley Prince.1880. 280pp + portrait. Bears a library’s label,Inscribed on the half-title by Geo Twedell’s family to Charles Bell, with a cutting – a sonnet written by Twedell to Lithgow. £10 Lightbown. Blackpool ; a pictorial history 1994. Not paginated. A4 cloth. Pictorial endpapers. Extensively illus with captions. VG £10 -do- Buildings of Liverpool. 1978 card covers. pub City Planning Dept. 278pp Ilus Library stamp on half-title Spine sunned o/w VG £8 -do- List of Buildings of special architectural or histyoric interest. 1985. In 2 @ A4 volumes. Published by Dept of the Environment. Card covers in plastic spiral bindings Total of 847 typed pages. £30 -do- Liverpool Extension Bill –Minutes of Evidence,House of Lords 1950-51. 128pp Ex-library in red calf half-bound style. Lacks an endpaper, o/w VG £10 -do- Catalogue of the Historical Exhibition of Liverpool Antiquities, Walker Art Gallerty 1907 . Pbk 244pp A small tear at bottom of spine & front cover. £20* -do- . Liverpool & Merseyside. ; This is your region in a series published by Holmes McDougall c 1972 Landscape pbk120pp Extensively illus. £20 -do- Liverpool Planning Handbook 174 Pbk 160pp VG £8 -do- The parish of All Hallows, Allerton 1876-1976 4to pbk 57pp Illus. Owner’s signature on free endpaper, o/w VG £6 -do- The parish church of St Mary the Virgin, Grassendale. Centenary handbook 1954-1954 24pp + photo plates VG £6 -do- Official guide 1974(?) Pbk 116pp VG £6 -do- Official handbook 1953. Pub Littlebury. 124pp Illus & ads. Pbk £5 -do- Parish of St John the Baptist, Tue Brook 1871-1971. A4 stapled brochure. 60pp Illus. Light foxing on cover. o/w VG £10 -do- Sefton Park 1984. Pbk 142pp Illus published by Sefton Park Civic Society. VG £5 -do- Sea Liverpool ; Maritime History of a great port. 2005. A4 Pbk. 124pp Extensively illus. VG £8 -do- The Port of Liverpool Handbook & Directory 1995. A4 Pbk 138pp VG £6 -do- Commemorative pamphlet 1962. Opening of Langton-Canada Improvement Scheme by Mersey D&H Board. 20pp + inserts. VG £5 -do- Memories of Liverpool 2002 pub by True North. A4 card covers.Not paginated. VG £10 (Liverpool Diocese.) Portrait of a Diocese 1880-1980. Pbk 42pp Illus VG £5 Liverpool History Society Journal. A5 pbk. VG 2002/2003/2004/2005/2006/2007/2008/2009/2010/2011/2012 £5 each or £25 the lot. Liversedge. Liverpool Footbal Club 1976. 104pp Many photos. dw VG £10* Livings, That The Medals & the Baton Be Put On View ;the story of a village band (Dobcross) 1875- 1975 96pp Illus. dw polythene cover .Library stamp (Withdrawn) o/w VG £10 Lloyd, The Township of -cum-Hardy, 1972, 126pp + plans illus dw VG £25 London & Lancashire Fire Insurance Co. After Fifty Years 1912 62pp+ plates. Contemporary signataure on free endpaper. A society’s stamp on front paste-down o/w VG. Liverpol company. £10 Lofthouse Jessica, Lancashire Countrygoer 217pp Index illus VG £5 -do-, Lancashire’s Fair Face 336pp Index Illus (Ribble-Lune) £5 -do-, Lancashire Villages 207pp Illus dw Owner’s sig o/w VG £5 -do-, The Curious Traveller : Lancaster to Lakeland 224pp Illus Index New eps. dw VG £5.. 34

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- Lancashire Landscape: Discoveries South of the Ribble 1951 334pp Indexed. Signed by author, who has illustrated it. £5 -do- Portrait of Lancashire .239pp + plates dw £5 -do- Countrygoer in the Dales. 1964. dw. 224pp Illus Indexed Owner’s signature on f.ep. £5 -do- West Pennine Highway; roadside discoveries Clitheroe & Craven –to . 1954. 189pp + plates Indexed £5 -do- Off to the Lakes. ; a Lakeland walking year 1949. 280pp Illus Index. VG £5.. -do- Off to the Dales; walking by the Aire,Wharfe, Ure & Swale 1950. 314pp Illus Index £5 -do- Three Rivers, being an account of many wanderings in the dales of Ribble, Hodder & Calder. 1946 .301pp Illus Indexed Short inscription on front paste-down £5.. -do- Lancashire-Westmorland Highway 1953. 227pp Illus Indexed. . £6. -do- West Pennine Highway; roadside discoveries Clitheroe & Craven to Carlisle. 1954 First Edn. Lacks the free endpaper. o/w VG £5 -do- Lancashire’s Old Families1972. 255pp Illus Indexed. VG in a VG dustwrapper £6 -do- North-Country Folk Lore in Lancashire, Cumbria & the Pennine dales 1976 222pp Ilus Index VG. £6 Longbottom. Maritime Heritage: Liverpoo & the Mersey. Vol 1 – Gladstone Dock & the great liners. 1995. A4 Pbk 128pp Many Illus VG £8. Loomes. The History & Development of Scouting in Wast Lancashire. 1994. A4 in a plastic- fronted binder. Lacks the title page but includes a loose, separate index. Ex-library. o/w VG £5 Loran. There was a Time……Childhood memories of Manchester & Salford 1991. Pbk 132pp VG. £6.. Lord Rambles Around Rossendale 1985 Pbk 40pp Illus 10 walks £5 (Lostock) 1807 Act for enclosing Chew Moor See my list of Lancashire Acts -do- The diary of Roger Lowe of Ashton in Makerfield 1663-78 (1994) Pbk 86pp VG £8 Lowles (ed) From Cable St to Oldham ; 70 Years of Community Resistance 207. Pbk170pp Illus Indexed. VG . (Anti-Racism) £15 (Lowton) See my list of Lancashire legal documents. Lumby .A Calendar of the Norris Deeds (Lancashire)12th-15th Century…. Record Society Vol 93 1939.289pp A society’s bookplate o/w VG £30 -do- A Calendar of the deeds & papers in the possession of Sir James de Hoghton of .1936 Record Society Vol 88. .372pp + folding map & deed. The front cover and a few preliminary pages are damp-affected, o/w VG. Reduced to take into account the staining £20 Lunn, History of Leigh Grammar School 1592-1932 (1935) 210pp & plates Index Some pencilled annotations o/w VG in repaired dw £50 -do- History of Atherton 1971 234pp VG £40.. Lyddon & . Paper in Bolton : a Papermaker’s Tale 1975. 208pp + photo plates dw VG £15. Lynch (ed) Crown Pleas of the Lancashire Eyre 1292. Vol 1 – Introduction. (2014 Record Society Vol 148) 107pp dw VG ‘Withdrawn for sale’ stamp on endpaper, but no other library stamps. As new £10. -do- -do- Vol 2 Pt 1 2015 ( Record Society Vol 149) 501pp . As new in VG dw £10*.. -do- -do Vol 3 Pt 2 2015 (Record Society Vol 150) pp502 -927 Indexed. Stamped ‘Withdrawn from library’ on free endpaper o/w as new in VG dw £10.. Lyons. The Leeds & Liverpool Canal; a photographic journey 1977. Landscape pbk.Not paginated. b/w photos with captions. VG £10 (Lytham St Annes) Church Rd Methodist Church Centenary 1888-1988 Pbk 36pp VG £5 -do- St Annes United Reform Church Centenary 1880-1980 Pamphlet 32pp VG £5 -do- The listed buildings of Lytham St Annes. 2003/ Pub by Civic Society. 100pp Cloured photos. VG £10.. 35

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- See my list of Lancashire legal documents. Lythgoe. A House Nigh Unto Heaven ; the first 150 years of Bispham (Wigan) Methodist Church. 132pp + plates. VG £6 McAlpine The Origins of Monton Chapel 1662-1715 (1985) Pbk 44pp VG £5 McCallum. New Church House & its Origins. 1782-1982 (1983) Pbk 124pp An owner’s notes in pencil on inside of covers, o/w VG . The hster-based Swedenborgian Church £10 McCarron & Jarvis. Give a dock a bad name? 1992 Pbk. 119pp Illus. Owner’s signature on title page. o/w VG (Liverpol Dock) £5 McClintock. Shaping the Future : a history of the University of Lancaster 1961-2011 324pp extensively illus in colour & b/w. Indexed. Slight tear top of dustwrapper, o/w VG £10 McDowall Margery. Ters & Laughter; memories of Liverpool1998 Pbk McKay Pendle Hill & Pendle Forest in Song & Story; The Pendle Laureate (Henry Houlding) 1887 47pp Bound in cloth by the library whose label (never issued) it bears. £10* McLachlan Records of a Family 1800-1933(1935) 240pp+ pedigrees BEARD & DENDY Rebound £50* McMullen R&W. The Heart of the Village; the story of St James School, Brindle, founded in 1624.(2005) 20p1pp Illus VG £10 McMurray. Old Order, New Thing: 1972 Pbk. Illus. 78pp Illus. Concerns the tugs, men & machinery on the Manchester Ship Canal. An owner has written on the front cover, o/w VG £5 McNulty (ed). Thomas Sotheron-v-Cockersand Abbey;a suit as to the advowson of Mitton Church 1369-70. (1939 Chetham Soc) 159pp Indexed. Newly rebound £40 Maitland & Drinkall Blackpool & the Fylde Past & Present 1994 Pbk 56pp. Then & Now photos with captions VG £10.. (Maghull) The Unsworth Chapel – a short history & guide 1985 Pbk 37pp + 8 plates VG £5 Maitland & Drinkall. Blackpool & Fylde Past & Present 1994 Pbk Photos + captions 56pp VG £8 Makepeace Chris. Lancashire in the 20s & 30s from old photographs 1985 120 photos with captions. dw VG £5 Malcolmson (ed) . A Londoner in Lancashire 1941-43; The diary of Annie Beatrice Holness. 2016 Record Society. 221pp Indexed. As new in dw. £15*.. (Manchester) A Quincentenary Celebration; the Ancient Collegiate Church of Manhester 1421- 1921. 236pp. Includes a history of the church. £10.. -do- Estimate of Expense, including expenditure for permanent works. Submitted to Parliament 1919.4pp covers tramroad,watewrworks & electricity. £6 -do- The Police : 150years of Policing in the Manchester Area. 1989 Archive Publishing A4 Pbk Many b/w illus. Not paginated. A substantial book. VG £10 -do- Manchester and its Region, 1962 British Association, 265pp, dw. VG £10.. -do- Theatre Royal 3 posters/programmes for perfores1828,1832 and one which is torn at bottom with some missing for 1831. One is for Paganini. Full details on application Rather delicate paper £100 -do- Manchester Memories 2002. Pub. True North. Laminated boards. 200pp Many b/w photos. VG £10. -do- Coal, Cotton & Chemicals : the Industrial Archaeology of Clayton (2013 Oxford Archaeology) Landscape pbk. 48pp Coloured illus. VG £5…. -do- Mount Street 1830-1930 : An account of the Society of Friends in hester, with short essays on Quaker life & thought. Boards with cloth spine. No dust jacket. VG £10 -do- Pictures of Manchester by (5) Eminent Hands, 1866, 42pp PENB VG £15 -do- Centenary Celebration of Manchester’s Incorporation: Official Handbook of the Exhibition of Civic Services at the City Exhibition Hall, Deansgatre May 2nd-7th 1938. . Brochure. 112pp + folding plans. Illus. A small repair has been effected to the paper spine. £5 36

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- Manchester; Heart of the Industrial North. Pub Chamber of Commerce. Intrio by JB Priestley 193? 48pp + coloured plates. Bound in cloth by library whose plate etc in bears (never issued) VG £5 -do- Coloured engraving- Garret Hall c 1830 by Pyne. Approx 5x9inches in a card mount. VG £10.. -do- Engraving – Collegiate Church c 1830 by Pickering & Finden. 5x2 inches + generous margins. VG £5 -do- Engraving – Heaton House 1798 6x10inches £5 -do- Manchester’s Picture Post. 2007. Pub Evening News 144pp Colour photos with captions. VG in dw £8 -do- Granada’s Manchester Plays; TV adaptations of 6 plays recalling the Horniman Period at the Gaiety Theatre. 1962. 310pp Ex-library, lacks the free endpaper o/w VG in dw & cover. (Brighouse, Houghton,Monkhouse) £8 -do- Chetham’s Hospital & Library,Manc hester - Pamphlet reprinted from ‘Country Life’ August & September 1934 36pp Illus VG £5 -do- Copy of a 1728 engraving by Buck, published 1874. The South West Prospect of Manchester….a panorama view, folded but opens to approx 24x10inches. For framing £5 -do- Treasures of Manchester University; an exhibition to celebrate the granting of the Royal Charter constituting the Victoria University in 1880 Pbk 4to 72pp Illus. VG £5 -do- The Story of St Joseph’s; a short history of the hospital 1966 Stapled booklet 48pp Illus. Covers enveloped in platic protective o/w VG £10 -do- Auction Catalogue 1933 . Sale of woodworking maschinery, lorries owned by Premier Cabinet Wroks, Cheetham Hill. Held by Edward Rushton, Son & Kenyon 25pp Pamphlet Rusty staples £10 Manchester Chamber of Commerce . Directory 1953-4 252pp. Covers much of North West £15* Manchester Grammar School. Biographical register of Old Mancunians 1888-1951 (1965) 757pp VG £10 -do- -do-- 1914-65 789pp VG £10 -do- -do- 1910-93 (2001) 1928pp + index. pp247-263 (1939-41) have been mis-printed in that they are blurred though over-printing. o/w VG in a VG dustwrapper. £15 (Manchester & Salford) Illustrated Catalogue of the Old Manchester & Salford Exhibition held at the City Art Gallery, M/C, Spring 1904. Pbk 78pp + photo plates. 654 exhibits. £10 -do- -do- Newly rebound in red cloth. £20* -do- 3 large folding maps on paper,entitled ‘A Topographical Plan of Manchester & Salford’ by C Laurent, engineer, pub 1793 Approx 24 x 24inches. One hole on a fold.Published 1810 by Stockdale. £30 Manchester Guardian. The MGC hester Year Book 1923. 159pp + ads. Ex-library, lacks f.ep £8* Manchester Lit & Phil Soc. hester Memoirs Pbks a) Vol 124 1984-5 b) Vol 125 1985-6 c) Vol 3 NS 1982-4 Each £5 Manchester Press Club. Fifty Years of Us; a jubilee retrospect of men & newspapers.1922. 82pp Illus. Owner’s signature on the free endpaper. Slightly grubby cover with a small blob of blood (?) on it. £10 Manchester Ship Canal Co. Centenary Souvenir Programme 1894-1994. A4 Pbk 80pp VG £5 (Manchester Ship Canal) 1885 MC Act. 247pp See my list of Lancashire Acts (Manchester & Oldham Rail Road) Deed of Covenant on vellum 1826. 2 large sheets Signed by 52 subscriber shareholders, alongside a seal, with other seals blank, ie no signatures,Each sheet aprox 24x30inches. Dusty ( needs cleaning) £100 Mancini Pat. Queen of Blackpool 200? Pbk 128pp Illus. Hotelier’s autobiography. £5 Mandley (ed) The Portmote or Court Leet of…..Salford …1597- 1669 (1902 Chetham Society) Two volumes. One has a society’s stamp on a preliminary page o/w VG £40 37

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS Mannex & Co. History, topography & directory of Westmorland with Lonsdale & Amounderness in Lancashire. 1851 – reprint 1978. 719pp VG in a VG dw £20 Manning & Wright. Then & Now: the life of Percy Manning 1989 Pbk. 192pp Illus. Signed by Manning, a Southport chap. VG £8 Margolis. Bernard Manning; a biography 1996. 204pp + photos Corner of f,ep cut off, o/w VG dw. £5 Marsden, Foxdenton Hall, Chadderton, 1969, 17pp offprint, illus £5 Marsden & Threlfall. Eccleston & Heskin in times past. 198? Pbk Photos/captions 48pp £8 Marsh Arnside, Storth, Sandside, Beetham & Milnthorpe in Old Photos, 1987, 48pp pbk, pics/captions £8 (ed),Lancashire, 1974, 128pp, illus index dw VG £5 Marshall. Hackensall with Preesall; Pt 1 ,Earliest Times to 1479 (1993) Pbk 80p VG £10*.. -do- -do- Pt 2 1479-1995.135pp + plates & folding pedigree. Small piece cut from top corner of front endpaper o/w VG £10*.. -do- Cockersand Abbey, Lancashire 2001 Pbk. 64pp Illus VG £6… -do- Lancashire’s Medieval Monasteries 2006. Pbk 156pp Illus As new £10 -do- The parish church of Bispham : All Hallows, the mother church of Blackpool c 1996 A4 in card covers with a plastic sp[iral spine.165pp VG £20 Marshall & McClintock. The History of Lancashire County Council. 1889-1974. (1977) 456pp Index. Map eps.VG Covers the set-up and all departments. £5.. Martin. The Account Book of Clement Taylor of Finsthwaite, 1712-53 (1997). 264pp Indexed. dw VG £15.. Martland Russell, Ultimate Light; poems by,,,52pp boards with cloth spine. Lytham poet £10 Mason. The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway undated. Pamphlet 32pp Illus VG £5 Mason & Brown. From Eccles cake to Hawkshead Wig; a celebration of Northern Food. 2007/ Laminated bo0ards. 140pp VG £10 Masters Caroline. The Shuttle of Fate. 1896 299pp + plates. Lacks the frontis plate. Sunday School label on paste-down. Corners bumped. Cotton mill strike novel Pictorial cloth £20* Mather Geoffrey. To See Dead Man Dance ; the disturbing tale of a gruesome Lancashire murder in 1863 (1989) Pbk 80pp Illus. (Haigh, between Wigan & Chorley) VG £6.. Mather Marshall. Rambles Round Rossendale 1888.168pp with Subscribers List. Two owners’ details on the free endpaper, and inscription from Rev Leatherbarrow to Rev Titterington of Rawtenstall,1975 Glue repair effected to spine. £10 -do- -do- (Second Series) 1894. Large paper copy184pp + plates. Subscribers List. £15 -do- Lancashire Idylls 1897. 341pp Top edge gilt. Fiction based on Pennine folk and their churches VG £6 Maxim. A Lancashire Lion 79pp + b/w photo plates. 1965 An owner’s signature on free endpaper o/w VG. Concerns Blackstone Edge & the ‘Roman’ road. £8... Mayes & Mayes. On a Broad Reach;the history of the St Anne’s on the Sea Lifeboat Station 1881- 1925 (2000) A4 laminated boards 212pp Many Illus VG £10.. McGarrigle. hester United – the Irish Connection. 1990 Pbk 112pp VG £8 McKay, Pendle Hill in History & Literature 1888 538pp + index & Subscribers list Original binding with new spine lettered in gilt VG. A monumental work £90* Mersey Regional Health Authority. Opening of Fazakerley District General Hospital. 1974. Landscape stapled brochure12pp Illus £6 Merseyside Co.Council Merseyside Structure Plan; Draft Report of Survey – Economic. 1975 A4 111pp Ex-library. The free endpaper removed o/w VG £5 Merseyside Archaeological Society. The Changing Face of Liverpool 1207-1727 (1981) Pbk 48pp Illus Indexed. VG £5 38

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- M58 Archaeolgical Survey 1977 A4 50pp card coverswithplastic spine. VG £5. VG £6 -do- Archaeological Survey of Merseyside – Handbook 1 ; Recording the Evidence. A4 in card covers and plastic spiral spine 21pp VG -do- -do- Report 1 - Prescot Action Area; an archaeological view. Stapled card covers.66pp VG £6 Middleton, Annals of Prestwich: a chronological record, 1902, 215pp, society bookplate, owner's signature on f.ep £50* Middleton et al. The Wetlands of North Lancashire. 1995. A4 Pbk 280pp Folding map in pocket. Illus Indexed VG £15 Miles. Lancashire Textiles; a case study of industrial change. 1968. Laminated card covers. 124pp Bears label, stamp etc of an academic library.Small tear/loss of spine. £5 Millar. William Heap & his Company 1866 (1991 3rd edn) 282pp Illus. dw VG Company history £10 Miller. Bygone Blackburn (1950 – reprint 1989)) 204pp & folding map & plates dw VG £30*.. -do- Bygone Preston; a brief study of Preston in the olden days. 1956. Pamphlet 36pp £8 -do-, More Lancashire Yarns 1959. Pbk 48pp Humourous dialect tales £5 -do- Poverty Deserved? ; Relieving the Poor in Victorian Liverpool . 1988 Pbk 63pp Illus VG £10 Milligan. Runcorn & Widnes Industrial Co-operative Society Jubilee History 1864-1912. 172pp + photo plates & Statstics. VG £20.. Mills Haslam. Sir Charles W Macara, Bart.; a study of modern :Lancashire 1917.334pp + plates. Index. He was a hester businessman who settled at St Annes and started ‘Lifeboat Saturday’ £6 Milner (ed) Selections from ‘Odds & Ends’; a manuscript magazine issued by the St Paul’s Literary & Educational Society.Vol 3, 1875-88 (1890 Manchester) 285pp Ex-library. Calf half-bound £10 Milliken. Changing Scene; 200yrs of church & parish life in Worsley 1976 Pbk. 48pp Illus VG £5 Mills. The place-names of Lancashire 1990 Pbk. 154pp VG £10.. Mitchell. Lancashire Milltown Memories: Colne, Nelson, Burnley 1987 Pbk 72pp Many illus. VG £5 -do- Life in the Lancashire Milltowns. 1997 Pbk. 115pp Illus VG. Signed by author. VG £6 -do- Around . 2005 150pp Illus Indexed. Map endpapers VG in VG d/wrapper £10 Moffit. England on the eve of the ;a study of economic & social conditions from 1740 to 1760 with special reference to Lancashire 19q25 – reprint 1963.31w2pp + 2 folding mnaps. From an academic library – never issued. VG £8 -do- Bowland & Pendle Hill 2004. 150pp Illis Indexed. VG in VG dustwrapper £10 Monkhouse, The Manchester Whitworth Institute Historical Catalogue of the collection of water- colour drawings by deceased artists, 1894, 126pp + xxipp + plates, cover stained, worn, school library label £20 Moore The Blackburn Samaritan: James & Blackburn Orphanage, 1990, 80pp, newly rebound £15 -do- -do- Pbk. Signature on title page , o/w VG £5.. Moore Benita Lancashire Lives; the lives and times of some interesting Lancashire Folk – Book 2: Rossendale. 1991 A4 Pbk 62pp Illus VG £8 -do- A Lancashire Look: A Lancashire Book 1996 A5 Pbk 88pp Illus VG £5.. -do- A Lancashire Year 1989 A5 pbk 72pp Illus VG A librarian’s experiences £5.. -do- Just Life. 1988 Pbk 32pp Illus Hymourous and reflective verses VG £5 -do- Gobbin Tales 1986. Pbk 224pp Discussions with Oswaldtwistle old folk VG £8 Moorhouse. The Ancient Borough of Lancaster,1831 (1996) spiral bound A4 Pbk 106pp Illus VG £8 -do- At the George & other essays on Rugby League 1989 Pbk 178pp Indexed. VG £5 -do- Twenty Miles around Morecambe Bay; a guide to local beauty spots and how to reach them 1962. Pbk handbook 80pp Illus VG £5 -do- The Scotforth Murder. Pamphletr 36pp VG. Inscription from author on obverse of front cover. £6 (Morecambe) Sion Baptist Church Golden Jubilee Celebrations. 1953/ Pamphlet 32pp Ilus £10

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BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- Green St Methodist Sunday School Souvenir Handbook & Diary of Centenary Celebrations 1953 24pp pamphlet Illus £10 Morecambe Gary The Illustrated (Eric) Morecambe 1987 160-pp. Extensively illus with photos of Eric & Ernie. Top corner cut from free endpaper, o/w VG. dw £5 Morgan. Vanished Dwellings; early industrial housing in a Lancashire Cotton Town – Preston 1990 A4 Pbk 73pp Illus VG £10 -do- Deadly Dwellings ; the shocking story of housing & public health in a Lancashire Cotton Town; Preston 1840-1914. 1993 A4 Pbk 114pp Illus. VG £10 Morris. North Lonsdale Magazine and Lake District Miscellany. 1867 312pp Described as Volume 1, it is all that was issued. Newly rebound in maroon cloth with gilkt spine title. Some foxing. A libnrary stamp on obverse of the title page. VG £120* Mortimer. : Test Matches Since 1884. (2005) 225pp + b/w photo plates. Index dw VG £10 Moscardini. Liverpool City Centre; Architecture & Heritage; An urban design sketchbook. 2011 Landscape pbk. 64pp Superb drawings. b/w and colur. Library stamp on half-title o/w VG £6 Mould, Lancashire’s Unknown River, 1970, 127pp, illus indexed, R. Wyre £15.. Mourholme Local History Soc). How it was. ; a North Lancashire parish in the 17th Century 1998. Pbk. 212pp + appenbdix & index. Illus. An owner’s pencilled notes on the title page,m o/w VG £12.. Muir. History of Liverpool 1907 – reeprinbt 1970. 372pp + plates. Bears a library’s bookplate & stamps o/w VG in dustwrapper & protectivce sleeve. £10 Mullett Michael Conflict, Politics & Elections in Lancaster 1660-88 (1983) Offprint pamphlet 24pp £5 -do- ‘A Recepticle for Papists and an Assilum’ : Catholicism & Disorder inlate-17th century Wigan. 17pp essay in The Catholic Historical Review. July 1987. Pbk with 2 essays by other writers 150pp VG £5 Mumford. The Manchester Grammar School 1515-1915. (1919) 563pp + plates. Indexed. From an academic library, with labels, stamp,spine mark £15 -do- William Ewart MP 1798-1869; Portrait of a Radical 1960 208pp + photo plates. Indexed Ex- library £5 Murphy. The Religious Problem in English Education: The Crucial Experiment. 1959. 287pp Indexed Ex-library. Concerns Liverpool schools £5 -do- William Roscoe; his early ideal;s & influence. An illustrated account of Liverpool’s most distinguished citizen 1981 Stapled pamphlet 36pp £6 Munro & Ling, , Poems by 2 Blackburn friends, 1905, 133pp £15 Murray, Leading Lady 1947 Blackpool-set novel 414pp Torn dw Corner cut off f.ep £10 -do- Windows on the Past: Photographs of old St Helens 1985. A5 Pbk 49pp Photos with captions. £5 -do- The Royal Grammar School, Lancaster; a history. c1952 258pp +Photo plates . Indexed. . Light foxing on edges & endpapers, o/w VG in dw. £15 -do- A Companion & Useful Guide to the Beauties of Scotland to the Lakes of Westmoreland,Cumberland & Lancashire 1799. 396pp Recently rebound in maroon cloth. VG £100* Mutch. Rural Life in SW Lancashire 1840-1914 1988. Pbk 61pp Illus. £10.. Mynott. The Postal History of Preston, Garstang & the Fylde of Lancashsire. 1986. A4 Pbk. 145ppp Illus One of 250 copies. An owner’s bookplate & signature on title page, with signature of the author £15*.. Nadin. Lancashiore Mining Disasters 1835-1910 (2006) Pbk 170pp Illus Indexed VG £8. (Nateby) Coloured auction plan, lands of Mrs Finlow, 1943, 15 x 12 inch on linen £10 40

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS Neal Frank. Sectarian Violence; The Liverpool Experience 1819- 1914 ; An Aspect of Anglo-Irish history 1988 hester University Press. 272pp Indexed.A society’s stamp on the free endpaper. dw. VG £15* (Nelson), 2 docs, 1854/63 re licensing the National Schoolroom for divine service and declaration of James Wilson TAYLOR to conform to liturgy, Bishop’s stamp & sig £40 Nevell, Robert & Smith. A history of the Royal Ordnance Factory, Chorley. 1999 263pp + photo plates. Indexed. VG £20* Nevin. Lancashire, Where Women Die Of Love. 2005.317pp + photo plates. dw VG £10 Newbigging, Sketches & Tales, 1883, 227pp, 11 tales, Rossendale interest £10 -do-, Lancashire Characters & Places, 1891, Rossendale author £10 -do- Poems & Songs 1881. 252pp Index & glossary of Scottish dialect words. . A b/w portrait of author ( a Rossendale man) is stuck onto the free endpaper. VG £10* -do- Sketches in Prose & Verse. 1905. 191pp In a library’s binding with its mark on the spine. Pages 74-76 have a very small repair on the leading edge, o/w VG £10* -do- History of the Forest of Rossendale. Second Edition, 1893 369pp + plates. Top edge gilt Subscribers List. Index The free endpaper is browned with an owner’s name and address thereon £40* -do- Lancashire Humour 1900 . 135pp Illus Indexed. Top edge gilt £5 .(Newton with Scales, Elswick, ), Auction particulars,-farms & land to close a Trust. 1909, + 3 large coloured folding plans £40 (Newton in Makerfield) A printed notice giving conditions imposed on purchasers of land from Thomas Leigh, along with a plan of land bought by John BARLOW, 1855.and another handwritten sheet which appears to be linked to the plan .£15 Nichol. The History of Newton (Bluecoat) Charity School 1977. A4 Pbk. 53pp Ex-library £10.. Nicholson & Axon, The Hatfield Family of Manchester & the Food Riots of 1757 & 1812, 1910, 32pp PENB plates £15 Nightingale, Lancashire NonConformity….the ( Cong & Presbyterian) churches of Manchester, Oldham & Ashton 1893 345pp Indexed. New eps £50* -do- Lancashire Non-Conformity….the (Cong & Presbytertian) churches of the Blackburn District. 1893 296pp Indexed £50* -do-, Lancashire Non Conformity….the (Cong & Presbyterian) churches of Wigan, Warrington & St Helens 1893 305pp Bears a small college library’s stamp,o/w VG. Newly rebound £50* -do-, Lancashire Non Conformity….the (Cong & Presbyterian) churches of Southport, Liverpool & the Isle of Man 1893 282pp Index. Bears a small college library’s stamp o/w VG/ Newly rebound £50* -do- Lancashire NonConformity Vol 3 –Bolton, Bury,Rochdale. 1892 306pp New endpapers. VG £50 North West Civic Trust. The of Lancashire. 1989 Pbk 250pp Illus VG £10 -do- First Report of Survey of Water Management &Use, 1978 A4. Not paginated. A substantial report bound in library cloth. Never issued. Lacks the free endpaper o/w VG £10 Norton, The End of the Voyage: an account of the last sailing craft of the British coasts, 1959, 145pp, 20 craft inc Morecambe Bay prawner £8 Nown. 1960-85 ; 25years. (1985) Large format 214pp Profusely illustrated. Pictorial erndpapers showing the area . VG £5 Nutter Brian. A Venture of Faith; the history of St George’s Presbyterian Church, Blackpool 1966. Pbk.116pp £20

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BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS Nuttall Edward. History of the Baptist Church & congregation meeting in Providence Chapel, Lumb…..1879. 96pp Ex-library with marking on spine, stamps on title page. Evidence of a label on the free endpaper, o/w VG. See similar title by Buckley £30* O’Connor Freddy (ed) More Memories of Liverpool. 2000 A4 in laminated boards. 140pp Extensively illus with b/w photos VG £10 O’Neill. Red Army General: Leading Britain’s biggest hooligan firm 2004 245pp + photo plates. (hester United gangs) dw VG £6 O’Sullivan.Teresa Higginson,Servant of God. 1845-1905 n.d. 189pp ex-library, a ‘reading copy’ only £5 (Oldfields Ltd) Headed Invoice for Liverpool jewellers to Miss Le Maistre receipt signed by E Petrie £5 (Oldham) Oldham Centenary Shopping Scheme, May 1947. 160pp stapled booklet Staples rusty, cup ring on front cover pub Worrall & Co. £10 -do- Minutes of Proceedings taken before the Select Committee of the House of Lords on the Oldham Extension Bill, 1926. A4 122pp Ex-library, it lacks the title page. Bound in black cloth with leather spine and title in front & spine in gilt. Some annotations £20 -do- Map of the borough 1821 by Creighton & Walker for the Boundaries Commission. 4x9” £5 -do- New Housing in a Cleared Area: a study of St Mary’s. 1971. A4 Pbk. Ex-library, it lacks the title page.o/w VG. Pub by Dept of the Environment. 78pp £5 -do- 1895 Oldham & Royton Canal Act See my list of Lancashire Acts Ormerod Frank, Lancashire Life & Character, c1920, 231pp £10 -do- The Cock Hall Boggart & other stories (c1930) 128pp 10 tales £10 Ormerod Henry. The Liverpoool Royal Institution; a record & a retrospect 1953. 93pp Index. dw VG £10 Ormerod Oliver The writings of….(1901) 351pp Spine discoloured. Rochdale dialect with glossary £25.. -do- A Rachde Felley’s Visit to the Greyt Eggsibishun ( very lengthy title) 1856 3rd Eden. Pocket size. Bound in period cloth. 87pp includes a 5pp dialect.glossary. Slight wear at spine ends. Light staining on the endpapers o/w VG £40* (Ormskirk) 1813 Act for inclosing land in Aughton. See my list of Lancashire Acts (Ormskirk & Southport ) Special Rules of the Ormskirk &Southport Branch of the Independent Order of Oddfellows. 1917. Pamphlet. 16pp New staples £5.. -do- Annual Reports. Stapled pamphlets (rusty) 1909- 39. 18 issues. Each £5; the lot for £50 (Oswaldtwistle) See my list of Lancashire legal documents. Overend. History of Ebenezer Baptist Church, Bacup. 1912 280pp + plates. VG £20 * (Over Wyre) Silver Jubilee Book of Over Wyre, 1977. Stapled pbk. 28pp Illus. Owner’s signature on title page, o/w VG Presented to St Aidan’s pupils £10 Owen. TheManchester Ship Canal. 1983. Ex-library copy but o/w VG in dw. £10 -do- The Headless Cross Ghost undated A4 pamphlet pub Horwich Heritage 10pp VG £5 Padfield. The Story of Ormskirk 1986 Pbk 128pp Illuis Indexed. VG £8 Palmer & Turner, The Blackpool Story, 1976, A4 Pbk 140pp illus VG £10 -do- Edwardian Blackpool; a tour by tram 1973 Pbk 24pp Photos with captions £6.. -do- Victorian Blackpool, featuring th story of the Tower 1975. Pbk 24pp. Photos with captions VG £6.. -do- Blackpool By Tram, 1978, 112pp pbk, many illus, VG £10 -do- Blackpool’s Heyday, 1979, 24pp pbk photos/captions £6.. -do- Trams & Buses Around Blackpool, 1982, 80pp pbk illus VG £10 Palmer Blackpool’s Century of Trams, 1985, 114pp, pictorial boards, many illus £10 -do-, A Nostalgic Look at Blackpool Trams 1950-66, 1995, 100pp pbk photos/captions £8 42

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do-, Odd Yarns of English Lakeland …..1914 160pp Folk-lore £10 Pannikar A Short Biography of Major-General Daniel Hoghton; Hero of Albuera 1993 PObk 28pp Illus. Short inscruiption by author on title page ‘To Mary’ VG. £5 Pape, The Washingtons & the Manor of Warton 1948 96pp & folding plan Illus Newly rebound Owner’s sig on top of title page VG £25 -do- The Charters of the City of Lancaster 1953. Pbk. Dusty cover o/w VG 80pp 4 plates £8 Parker Col John (ed) Lancashire Deeds vol 1, together with Shuttleworth deeds Vol 1. Chetham Society 1934 (Vol 91) (There were no subsequent volumes) 158pp + index. A bookplate has been removed from the paste-down, o/w VG £45 -do- Plea Rols of the County Palatine of Lancaster; Roll 1. 1928 Chetham Societyt143pp Indexed. Bedars a college loibrary’s bookplate and a society’s stamps. Dull spine £20 Parker Richard. Rustic Lays (the fruits of leisure hours) 1856. 128pp The contents list occupies 4pp. An ex-library copy in original cloth binding, it lacks the front free endpaper and has a library mark on spine. Poet lived at Westby His maternal grandmother was Mrs Golding £20 Parkin Cecil. Cricket Triumphs & Troubles.1936. Pbk 207pp + plates. £6 Parkinson, Fred J., Rhymes & Reveries, both grave and gay, 1933, 93pp, Blackburn poet £10 Parkinson, Canon Richard, The Old Church Clock, 1880, newly rebound, 253pp, indexed. Parkinson family interest, also Manchester & Cumbria, £15*.. Parry, The Resorts of the Lancashire Coast, 1983, 200pp index illus, lib stamp, new eps £6... -do- History of Cloughfold Baptist Church 1675-1875 (1876) 236pp + plate. Bound in original red cloth with title on front cover and a new, lettered spine and endpapers. Withdrawn library copy VG £30* (Parr & Pemberton) See my list of Lancashire legal documents – some on these townships Parson & White. History, Directory & Gazetteer of Cumberland & Westmorland , with Furness & Cartmel 1829 – Moon reprint1976 732pp + index. dw VG £20 Partington. The Romance of the Dialect. 1920. Ex-library. 77pp A glossary. £10* Pateman, Dunshaw: A Lancashire background, 1948, 262pp, Dunshaw = Accrington £10 Pattinson (ed) Longridge: the way we were. 1999 Pbk. 159 pp + Subscribers list. Illuis VG £15 Paul & Smith. A History of Middleton Grammar School 1412-1964.(1965) 41pp + photo plates. Bound in cloth by a library whose stamp is on the title page, o/w VG £15 Peacock & Atkinson. A Glossary of the Dialect of the Hundred of Lonsdale, North & South of the sands 1869. 95pp Bound by a library whose labels etc it bears, o/w VG £25 Peaples. History of the Great & Little Bolton Co-operative Society…..1859-1909 670pp + photo plates. Indexed. Dusty top edge. The title has been letterd in ink on the front endpaper by a previous owner. Tight. No wear. £15* Pearce (Ed) Red Rose Leaves: prose, verse by Lancashire Authors Assoc,1925 200pp, some dialect £10.. Pedigree Charts a) Langton of Broughton, Kirkham etc 1836 on paper b) Westby of Mowbreck & 1836 on paper Each £5 Peet, Mrs Charles Tinsley, novelist & poet, a little-known authoress, 1929, 34pp PENB, plates £10 (Pemberton) Burial Certificates, Up Parochial Chapel: Ellen COOK, 1811; Mary WEBSTER, 1817; David WEBSTER, 1820, Pemberton family all three £15 -do-. Typed carbon letters 1933/39 re purchase of former Victoria Hotel & other Goose Green properties, LIVOCK £15 (Pendlebury) An ‘In Memoriam’ card of intricate designapprox 6x10inches mounted on black cloth in remembernace of Ellen LEVER , nee DOODSON (?) , interred at Pendlebury Church 25.3.1859 VG £10

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BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- The church of St John the Evangelsi, Pendlebury ; a short hstory of the parish & its people at Irlams o’th’ Height. 1842-1969. Card covers, stapled 28pp Illus /Library stamps £8 Peroni. Industrial Lancashire in Photographs 1975. Pbk. 74pp Photos with captions. Index VG £5 Penn. Manchestrer Fourteen Miles. 1979. .241pp + photo plates. VG £10 Penney (ed) The Household Book of Sarah Fell of Swarthmoor Hall. 1920. 597pp Indexed. An owner’s name in ink with his address label on ther half-title. Foxing on endpapers o/w VG £75* -do- Lancaster: the evolution of its townscape to 1800 1981 Pbk 48pp Illus £8.. Peter David In & Around Silverdale 1984.Stapled Pbk 80pp Illus VG £5 -do- ‘Cross Kent Sands : the story of Morecambe Bay & the Guides across Kent Sands. 1985 A5 Pbk 48pp Illus VG £5 Phoenix Pat. All My Burning Bridges1974. 245p + photo plates. Autobiography of Coronation St actress. Ex-library. Never issued dw VG £5 Philpotts. Building the 193 Pbk 46pp Illus VG £5 Pickering, Roman Walton-le-Dale (1956) Offprint pamphlet 46pp & folding plate. Illus rusty staples £5 Picton. - -do- Vol 1 (of 2) 1875. 607pp Half-bound style in red calf. Some wear. An owner’s signature on front free endpaper £20 -do- General & Classified Directory for Manchester, Salford etc for 1832. 392pp + other lists.& adverts. Pigot & Co. National Directory 1828-9 (Facsimile reprint Pbk 1995) ….Cumberland, Lancashire, Westmorland . 356pp VG £10 Pike Diana (ed), Rossendale. (1974) 30pp. Anthology of poems & prose. Illustrated with woodcuts. No,160 of 750 copies on handmade paper VG £5 Pilkington, The Chimneys of Tattleton: a story of old Lancashire, 1928, 308pp £10 -do- Down the Ages 1841-1960. Pbk 30pp £10*.. -do- Flashes of Preston Methodism in Celebration of the Jubilee of the Wesley Circuit, Preston 1916. Privately published. 63pp £30* -do- To Play the Man; Lady Derby & the siege of Lathom House 1643-5 (1991) Pbk 128pp VG £8 Pilling Historical Society. The Over-Wyre Historical Journal Vol 3 1984-5 .Card covers 36pp VG £5 Pogson. Miss Horniman & the Gaiety Theatre,Manchester 1952 216pp + plates. Indexed. dw VG £8 Pomfret Joan (ed) Lancashire Evergreens: 100 old favourite poems, 1969, Pbk 196pp £5.. -do-(ed) Nowt So Queer; New Lancashire verse & prose (1969) Pbk 122pp £5.. -do-(ed) Summat from Home; Lancashire Poems & Stories 1964. Pbk 84pp £5 -do- (ed) ‘Twixt Thee an Me ; an Anthology of Yorks & Lancashire Verse & Prose 1974 Hbk 232pp dw £5.. -do- (all 16pp pamphlets):- Second Officer, 1944,( signed)..; The Old Peel Line & other poems.., 1972; Coastal Command – poems (signed) (Each) £5 Poole Robert.. Popular Leisure & the in 19th Century Bolton 1982.83pp Illus VG £8 Pope & Phillips. University of Central Lancashire: A History of the development of the institution since 1828 (1995) Pbk. 234pp Illus Indexed. VG £10* Popham. Where Shall We Go In The Ribble Valley? 1993 Pbk 50pp Illus VG £5 Porter, History of the Fylde of Lancashire, 1876 reprint 1968, 484pp index. VG in dw £30.. -do- -do- 1876 484pp. VG £40 -do- The Making of the Central Pennines 1980 155pp Illus. Index. £5 Postlethwaite. Captain Thomas Paulden; a family historian’s dream fulfilled 2010 Pbk. 196pp Illus. Civil War period VG £5 Potter. Reflections on Blackpool 1994 Pbk 114pp Illus. Ex-library but never issued £5 Poucher The Backbone of England 1946. Large format. 208pp Indexed. b/w photos by author £8 44

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS (Poulton le Fylde) See my list of Lancashire Legal Documents Poulton. Alan Rawsthorne; biographical essays 1984 Bravura. A4. 63pp + appendix. Ex-library, it lacks the front free endpaper. The glue has failed at the spine. No 101 of 250 copies. £5 -do- Alan Rawsthorne; a catalogue of his music Vol 1 (of 3) Bravura 1984. Ex-library, it lacks the front free endpaper. The glue has failed at the spine. 108pp No 108 of 250 copies £5 Powell Norman. John Burnley’s Newsview; a lighthearted look at Burnley & its folk. Undated stapled pbk. 48pp Dedication to a friend by author on title page o/w VG £5 Power (ed) Liverpool Town Books 1649-71. (1999 Record Soc Vol 136) 302pp Indexed dw VG £20 Pownall David, Light on a Honeycomb 1978 229pp Lancaster author’s Lancaster-set novel . College library’s stamp £5 -do- Between Ribble & Lune;scenes from the North West 1980 127pp & plates dw VG £10… Powter, 25 Seasons at Deepdale:the Complete Record 1977/8 –2001/2 160pp laminated boards VG £5 Pratt. “Workedslegh” ; a history of Worsley 1977. Pbk 92pp llus Indexed £10 (Preesall) See my list of Lancashire legal documents (Prescot) Prescot Grammar School: Quatrecentenary Booklet 1944 84p + photo plates VG £12 -do- See list of Lancashire Acts – 1745 Act for repairing road to Liverpool -do- Auction particulars & catalogue: The Leigh Estates – Whiston & Eccleston Estate near Prescot. 13th June 1913. 16pp + large folding coloured plan.Paper covers VG £30 (Preston) When the Boat Comes In: working life at the Port of Preston 1892-1981, 1987, 46pp pbk, photos/captions, VG £8.. -do- 1922 Guild: Textile Trades Section. Official souvenir programme. Paper covers loose. Large format 34pp + ads. Riusty staples £20 -do- Preston Guild Merchant 1952; Pictorial Record. Stapled pamphlet (rusty) 36pp Photos / captions. £10 -do- Preston Guild Merchant 1972- Official guide & souvenir. Pamphlet 80pp VG £8 -do- Nostalgic Preston 1996 Pbk. Not paginated. Photos with captions and some company histories £8 -do- Trade Catalogue – Page & Taylor Ltd. c1930. Not paginated. Stiff card covers. VG £25 -do- A Tour of Edwardian Preston. 198? Pbk 69 photos Captions by Stephen Sartin. Top corner of title page cut off, o/w VG £8 -do- The Changing Face of Preston. 1984. Pbk 48pp 69 photos with captions by Stephen Sartin VG £8.. -do- A Tour of Victorian Preston 198? Pbk Photos with captions by Stephen Sartin £8 -do- Preston in 1992: Photographs of Everyday Life in Preston Pbk 40pp of photos. Top corner cut off free endpaper, o/w VG £5 -do- Preston Guild Guide. 1922; a survey of over 700 years.Pbk 72pp An advert on every other page. Edited by ‘a leading authority on the district’ VG £20* -do-, 7 Centuries of Guild History, 1952, 72pp pbk £8 -do- Preston On Postcards; (1987) 100 postcards Red Rose Postcard Club. Pbk VG £5 -do-, Vanished Preston 1983 Pbk. 68 photos/captions. Pub Harris Museum VG £8 -do- Reflections by members of Preston Poets Society 1972 96pp Some poems autographed by poets £5 -do- The Story of Preston from Earliest Times to the Industrial Revolution 198? Pbk 48pp illus VG £5.. -do- The Story of Preston from the Industrial Revolution to early 20th Century 1986 pbk 48pp Illus VG £5 -do- A Nostalgic Look at Preston from Old Photographs. (undated) Pbk pub by Lancashire Evening Post 48pp b/w phtos with short captions VG £5 45

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- Preston Memories. 2001 True North Publishing. Large format, laminated pictorial boards. 104pp Extensively illustrated. VG £10.. -do- More Memories of Preston. 1998 True North Publishing. A4 Pbk. VG £10 -do- 1992 Guild Official Souvenir Brochure, with history of the Guild & diary of events. A4 Pbk 98pp VG £5… -do- A Century of Telephone Service `1880-1980. A4 stapled pbk.42pp Illuswith captions. VG £10 -do- Plungington Memories. c1985. Pbk Not paginated. Illus VG £5 -do- 1883 Ribble Navigation & Preston Dock Act. See my list of Lancashire Acts -do- Legal Documents. See last page of this catalogue. Preston Writers. Preston Writers ’72. Pbk 82pp Anthology published for the Guild VG tales & poems VG £5 Price Manufactory,Methodism & the Making of a Village: Summerseat 1700-1988 A4 Pbk 30pp VG £5 -do- Sharpe, Paley & Austin; a Lancaster architectural practice 1836-1942 1998 Pbk 104pp Illus VG £6.. Priestnall, Heppleshaw, c1935, 140pp, fictional village near Rochdale £10 Procter Literary Reminiscences & Gleanings. 1860 162pp Ilus. Much Manchester/ South Lancs material. In a library’s cloth New endpapers £20* Prudhoe John. The Heart of a City; a history of hester Cathedral in sound,light, spectacle and dramatic episode. 1971 enlarged & edn . Pamphlet 32pp. A play which was narrated by Violet Carson £5 Quayle Tom. Reservoirs in the Hills ; the story of the construction of the reservoirs in the Longdendale Valley which feed Manchester with water. 1988(?) Landscape format Stapled pbk. 56pp Illus. VG £10 Queen’s Lancashire Regt. Regimental Handbook 1997. 109pp VG £10* Quick. The History of Morecambe & Heysham. c1963. Pbk 162pp Illus & ads. £10* Quinn. Travelling the Furness Line – Book 1Around Morecambe Bay) 1994 Stapled pbk 56pp Illus. Ex-library. Never issued VG £5 (Radcliffe) 1809 Act for inclosing lands in Radcliffe & Ainsworth. See my list of Lancashire Acts -do- Borough Charter Celebrations 1935. Brochure bound in cloth by a library.38pp VG £15 Raffald’s Directory of Manchester & Salford 1772 -reprint 198? A4 pbk 20pp £6 Raines, Rectors of Manchester & Wardens of Collegiate Church, 1885 Chetham Soc., 2 Vols £40 -do- History of the Chantries within the Co Palatine of Lancaster, being the reports of the R oyal Commissioners of Henry V111, Edward V1 and Queen Mary. 2 vols 1862. Chetham Society. 323pp. many unopened. Indexed. Labels on pastedowns. Signatures on free endpapers. Some wear spine ends. £60 -do- Visitation of the County Palatine of Lancaster in 1664-5 by Sir William Dugdale. Chetham Soc Vols 84,85 & 88 . 1872./3 Some pages unopened. Some wear to spine ends. Signature on free endpapers, which have top corner cut. In 3 parts complete £45 -do- -do- Parts 2 & 3 Slight wear at spine ends, corners bumped. o/w VG Each £15 -do- The Journal of Nicholas Assheton of Downham….part of the year 1617 & part of the year following. 1848 Chetham Society Vol 14. 163pp Indexed. New spine & endpapers VG £90* -do- See Howorth Rainford Mary.(Langley) Childhood Memories.1986 Pbk 64pp Illus. Lancaster-Garstang-Knott End £8.. Ralphs Edith. Pennine Hotpot/ Even More Pennine Hotpot. Two pamp-hlets of dialect verse by an Oldham poet. 196? 36pp/44pp VG One is signed. VG £10 Ramsbottom) Annual Report of the UDC Medical Officer & Sanitary Inspector, 1936, 50pp pamphlet £5 46

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- Festival Year (1951) Souvenir Handbook. Pbk 823pp + photos £10 Rathbone. The Lives of the People of Crompton 1580-1700. (2000) offprint pamphlet 40pp VG £5 Raven (ed) Victoria’s Inferno. Songs of the old mills,mines, manufactoriews, canals & railways 1978 192pp. A pbk bound in cloth by a library, whose label it bears, o/w VG £10 Rawstorne Lt Col. An account of the regiments of Lancashire Militia 1759-1870……(1874) 355pp + indeces. New endpapers. Some wear to spine ends and a small repair has been effected to a short tear on the spine. £60* (Rawtenstall) Corporation Abstract of Accounts year ending March 1902 133pp + folding plate Some cuttings stuck onto endpapers. £10 -do- David Whitehead & Sons Ltd 1815-1909. A short history of the firm. 43pp + photo plates. Card covers. £20 1886-1986 Centenary Souvenir Brochure. A4. 48pp Illus VG £8* Ray. The Lancashire Fusiliers 1971. 135pp Illus. an owner’s bookplate on the pastedown o/w VG in a VG dustwrapper. £10* Rayment & Dunnachie. Gawthorpe Remembered 1994. Pbk 38pp Illus VG £5 Read The Duke of Lancaster’s Own Yeomanry: a short history 1992 Pbk Illus VG £5 -do- Lancashire History Makers 1975. 96pp Illus.12 subjects. dw VG £5..ecord Society of Lancashire & Cheshire Vol 12 1885. 296pp 5 essays including Homage Roll of Warrington by Beamont 39pp and List of the freeholders in Lancshire 1600 ; Futher details on application. Ex-library £20 I have many other Record Society publications, mostly listed under the editor. Many of these are entitled ‘Wills at Chester’. Lancashire was in Chester Diocese, so they contain Lancashire material. Ask for any by the volume number and I will check if I have it/them. Redding. The Pictorial History of the County of Lancaster, with 170 illustrations . (engravings) 1844. 238pp + xlviii pp of statistics & index. Lacks the map. A few pages tape-repaired. An ex- library copy which has been newly rebound in cloth. Author is not shown, but usually attributed to Cyrus Redding. £30 Redhead. Stretford in times past. 1979 40pp Photos with captions. £8... Red Rose Postcard Club. Preston on Postcards: 100postcards 1987 Pbk VG £10… Rees, Penwortham, Hutton & Longton in Focus, 2004, 72pp pics/captions newly bound £15 Renaud, November Stories: 200 yrs of public houses in old Salford, 1980, 56pp pbk + map £5 -do- Preston Methodism’s 200 Fascinating Years 1776-1976 Pbk. No 278 of 330 copies. VG £15.... -do- Gosh! You Look Just Like Me: the story of an adopted son’s search for his birth mother 2004 Pbk 98pp VG. Lancashire Methodist minister’s story £5 -do- A History of Joseph Holt (Brewery)1984 A4 pbk 28pp Illus VG £5 -do- Fallen in the Fight; Farnworth & Kearsley Men who died in the Great War /1990 A4 Pbk. I*lus VG £8 Richardson Sue (ed) The Recollections of 3 in the Great War 2006 A4 pbk 80pp llus. VG £5.. Richardson & Hall. The pubs of Swinton & Pendlebury, including Clifton & Newtown. (n.d) A4 Pbk 50pp Illus. Signed by both authors. VG £10 Richie-Noakes. Jesse Hartley, dock engineer to the port of Liverpool 1824-60 (1980) Pbk 60pp b/w and colour plates VG £8 Richmond. The Growth & Decline of Places of Live Entertainment in the Borough of Wigan.(undated) A photocopied, privately published A4 book 43pp Bound in cloth by a library .The front free endpaper has been torn out, o/w VG . £15 Rigby & Payne. Proud Preston: Preston North End’s One Hundred Seasons of Football League History 1999 Large format pbk 308pp Many photos VG £10* Rigby Janet. Life on the Lancaster Canal. 2006 Pbk 112pp Illus. VG £4 47

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- The Lancaster Canal in Focus. 2007 Pbk. 60pp Photos with captions. VG £4 Rimmer, Summer Rambles Round Manchester c1891 235pp Index. illus A ‘large paper’ copy, limited to 250 numbered copies. This is No 78 £20 -do- Rufford; its Past & its People. 2006 Pbk 112pp Illus. VG £6 Roberts. The Story of Alston Hall 1994 Pbk 50pp Illus. Top corner of title page cut off, o/w VG £5.. -do- Prescot of Yesteryear; pictorial review of an historic town 1990 Pbk 96pp Many illus VG £10 -do- A History of Linen in the North West 1998 Pbk 118pp Illus VG £8 ‘Robin o’Bob’s’ (Robert Atherton) When the Robin Sings & Other Verses 1924 published by Stockwell, which indicates it was a ‘vanity’ venture. 24pp in card covers. Ex-library. The preface is written by Robert Hesketh Banks, which is another pseudonym used by Atherton, who lived at Kirkby. £5 Robinson Cedric. 40Years on Morecambe Bay 2003 Pbk 95pp Illis VG £5.. -do- Sandman of Morecambe Bay 1989 Pbk 98pp Illus VG £5 -do- One Man’s Morecambe Bay 1984.Dalesman. Pbk 95pp Illus. VG £5.. -do- Life around Morecambe Bay 1986. Pbk 72pp Illus VG £5 Robinson William. Poems. 1885 56pp + index. Ex-library but I suspect never issued. Burnley poet VG £10 Robinson & Lee, Treales, Wharles & Roseacre Recollections. 2000 Pbk. Pbk 72pp Illus VG £8 Robson. The Cotton Industry in Britain 1957. 364pp Indexed. Ex-library in dw & polythene covert. Lots of stats. Author an economist with Cotton Board, Manchester £5 Roby The Legendary & Poetical Remains of John Roby, author of ‘Traditions of Lancashire’ with a sketch of his literary life & character, by his widow. 1854. Roby was born Wigan in 1793. 376pp Ex-library.bearing labels. Scarce. £15* (Rochdale), 7 letters 1906-9 to Preston solicitor re tenancy of Meadows Farm, Norden £10 -do- Do You Remember?; Some Rochdale people look back to the turn of the century. 1975 stapled pbk 70pp Illus VG £5 -do- Steel engraving – Tyrone’s Bed.c1830 by Pickering & Finden. Approx 3x5inches with a wide surround on paper. VG £5 -do- Handbook to the Co-operative Congress, 1892. 200pp, much of which is taken up by an essay by Robertson entitled ‘Rochdale ;the birthplace of modern co-opertation. The cover and spine are much worn. The folding map at the front is torn and incomplete. Many adverts . £20* Rogerson John Bolton. The Poetical Works of…1850. 256pp Bound in cloth by the library whose label it bears, o/w VG £10* Rollinson & Harrison, The Diary of William Fisher of Barrow 1811-59 (1986) Pbk 97pp VG £5…. Rooney Ralph. The Story of My Life. 1947.Card cover stained. 76pp Tottington man’s autobiography. Some cuttings stuck onto front free endpaper. £20 doper. Materials for the history of Lancaster Chetham Soc 1907 2 vols-complete ( Vols 61 & 62) . Labels removed from paste-downs. Top corners cut off free endpaper o/w VG Many pages unopened £60*.. -do- -do Vol62 (Pt 2) Occaional library stamps. Labels removed o/w VG £30 -do- Materials for the history of the church in Lancaster. 4 vols (of 4) Chetham Society1892 - 1894. Vols 26, 31,58,59 A bookplate has been removed from each paste-down and the free endpaper has been corner-clipped. Many pages unopened. VG. £120 Rose EA. The heritage of the Red Hall Methodist Church, Audenshaw 1782-1982. Pamphlet 45pp An owner’s stamp on front cover,. o/w VG £5 Rose (ed) & Chapman. The Wheels of Change ; the cycle of life and lives in lowland Lancashire &South Cumbria. 2006 Pbk. 96pp Illus. Internally VG but the covers have had gu8mmed labels removed, leaving a residue. Interviews in an oral history project £8 (Rossall School) Directory 1844-1882 271pp Some wear to spine. Internally tight. £40* 48

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(Rossendale) The Story of Mount Zion Baptist Church, Edgeside 1853-1953. Pbk. New staples. 40pp Illus £20. Rossendale Free Press Year Book & Almanac for 1898 Pbk Not paginated. Cover is fragile .The back cover is written on. £10 Rushton ; Sesquicentenary Celebration 1845-1995 Pbk 104pp Short inscription from author on title page VG £10 (Rochdale) 1825 Act for regulating,watching Rochdale. See my list of Lancashire Acts -do- Lithograph c 1860 – Court Yard of Belfield Hall. Photo by Jackson, Drawn &. Litho by Wrigley Approx 8x10inches in a cream card mount. VG £10 Ross Danny. A Blue Coat Boy in the 1920s (c1996) Pbk Owner signature on title page o/w VG £5 (Rossendale) Borough Offiial Guide c 1990 pub British Publishing Co. 96pp. VG £5 Rothwell Catherine. Garstang & Over Wyre in Times Past, 1979, 48pp pbk illus £5 -do- Garstang in Times Past 1990 Pbk 48pp Photos with captions VG £8 -do- Lytham, Freckleton, Warton & Wrea Green in Times Past. 1988 Pbk 48pp Photos/captions VG £8 -do- Kirkham, Weeton & Treales in times past. 1988 Pbk. 48pp Photos/captions VG £8 -do- Over Wyre in Times Past 1990 48pp Photos + cap[tions. VG £8 -do- Fleetwood in Old Photographs 2004 Pbk 128pp Photos/captions VG £8 -do- The Fylde as it was. 1976 Pbk 44pp Photos/captions VG £6 -do- The Fylde in the 1930s & 40s. 1984. Landscape pbk. 1984 Photos/captions VG £5 -do- Poulton le Fylde in Times Past 198? Pbk 52pp Photos/captions. Signed. VG £8.. -do- Lancashire in old Photographs 1996. Pbk 158pp Photos/captions. VG £5 -do- Around Clitheroe 1995. Pbk 125pp Photos/Captions VG £8 -do- Lytham St Annes in Times Past. 1978 Pbk. 56pp Photos/captions VG £5.. -do- The ; People & Places 1991 Pbk 64pp Illus VG £5.. -do- Ports of the North West 1991 Pbk. 84pp Photos with captions. VG £5.. -do- Bright & Breezy Blackpool 1991 Pbk 72pp Photos & captions VG £5.. -do- Lancashire Sea Stories 1985. A5 pbk 64pp VG £5 -do- Fleetwood : a pictorial history 2007 Pbk.Photos with captions. VG £8 -do- Fleetwood as it was 1983. Landscape pbk Photos with captions 44pp VG £8 -do- Early Carleton 1986. Landscape pbk 44pp b/w photos. VG £8 -do- Bispham in Times Past 198? 48pp Photos with captions VG £8 -do- Blackpool; Britain in Old Photographs series(2009 History Press) Pbk 128pp Photos/ captions VG £8.. -do- The Lancashire Coast (Britain in Photograph series’) 2002. 126pp Photos/captions VG £5.. -do- My Lancashire Childhood. 193 Pbk 112pp Ilus VG £5 -do- The Preston & Wyre Railway 1991. Pbk 46pp Photos/captions VG £8.. -do- Wyresdale in Times Past n.d.Pbk 48pp Photos.captions VG .£8 -do- Around Poulton-le Fylde 1995 Pbk Britain in old photographs series. 126pp Photos + captions VG £5.. -do- Greetings from the Lancashire Coast; a trip up the Lancashire coast in picturepostcards 96pp VG £5 -do- Poulton, Thornton & Bispham (in old photographs) 2002 144pp Photos with captions.. Laminated boards. VG £10 -do- The Lancashire Coast 2002 Pbk. 126pp Photos with captions VG £5 Rowlands. Lydiate & Maghull in Times Past 1986. Pbk 48pp Photos with captions VG £8.. -do- Around Maghull & Lydiate . 2000 Pbk 96pp Photos with captions. Images of England series VG £6 49

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS Royal Lancashire Agricultural Society Annual 1942. Pbk. Library label in front cover. Glue repaired £5 Royle. Rusholme; Past & Present……1905. 58pp+ plates & folding map. Newly rebound.VG £40 (Rusholme) Headed invoice from PERRIN & BENNION , off Marlbrough Terrace, plumber. £5 Russell. Preston North End.; 100yrs in the Footbal League 1987. Pbk 54pp VG £5 -do- (ed) Sport in Manchester 2009. Pbk. 7 essays. 169pp Illus. VG £8 Ryan. A history of the Yacht Club 1894-1994 (1993) 194pp Illus Index. Mint in dw. £8. (St Helens) See my list of Lancashire Acts Saddleworth Historical Society. Bulletin : Volume 1, Nos 2,3,4.(1971) Volume 2 (1972) 4 issues ; Volume 3 (1973) 4 issues ; Volume 4 (1974) Nos 1,2,4 : Volume 5 (1975) Nos 1,2 ,3. A4 Roneod in stapled paper covers £10 per year Saintsbury. Manchester. 1887 208pp + map. Indexed. New spine & enbdpapers. Owner’s name on title page ,1887. £20 (Salford) St James Church, Hope, Jubilee Bazaar Handbook, 1911, 36pp pbk illus ads £15 -do- Salford Historical Pageant …..1930. Official Souvenir & Programme. Pbk brochure 128pp VG £10.. -do- Bridging the Years; A history of Trafford Park & Salford Docks as remembered by those who lived and worked in the area 1995 Pbk Perfect bound. 65pp Illus VG £6 -do- Salford & Cheetham Hill in Focus; Iconic photographs fom 1950s and 60s. Undated pbk.58pp VG £6 Salisbury John. Nateby and Pilling Moss; the pre-historic legacy. 2004. A4 Pbk.70pp Illus Mint £20 (Samlesbury) Lease agreements between Blackburn Corporation and a) Ellen Knight,Roach Hall Farm 1875 ….b) Wm & Margaret Thompson, Blue Slate farm 1875…c) Wm & Margaret Thompson, Blue Slate Farm 1877 d) Margaret Thompson,1878. Blue Slates Farm 1877 …e) Richard Walmsley, Darwenside Farm 1875 ….f) Richard Walmsley Darwenside Farm 1877. Each is signed and sealed. £10 each Sanders. Manchester. 1967. 160pp Ilus dw VG £6 Sandiford & Ashworth. The Forgotten Valley 1981 Pbk. 76pp Illus. An owner’s signature on title page and two reviews from magazines stuck inside the covers. Concerns the Cheesden Brook £5 Sankey & Norman, Blackpool & Fleetwood (1989) pbk photos/captions 64pp £5 Sankey. Maritime Heritage : Barrow & Morecambe Bay 1986 A4 Pbk 64pp Photos/captions VG £8 Sartin, The People & Places of Historic Preston (1988) pbk Illus by Hanks, Beattie/photos 84pp £6 -do- Preston In Focus 2002. Pbk 478pp Photos with captions. VG £6 -do- Preston Past & Present 1992. Pbk. 64pp Photos with captions VG £8 -do- Beattie’s Preston. . 1979 Pamphlet 44pp 20 plates Spine sunned o/w VG £6 Saunders Langford. Mister Macfoodlum & Son / The Luck of a Tramp etc etc. 1919 256pp Ex- library o/w VG. Dialect a-plenty in these comical tales. This book is unusual, possibly unique, in that the author set the type for the printer. £15* Savidge, & Gordon. Travis’ Flora of South Lancashire 1963. 400pp + plates & folding map. Ex- library copy with new endpapers. dw VG £10 Saxelby (ed) Bolton Survey, 1953, 140pp, plates, index £10.. -do- -do- 1971 reprint. VG in VG dw. £10 £10 Scott, Sir James William Scott: a short memoir, 1914 privately, 54pp, boards rubbed (Mancunian) £15 -do- Industrial Leadership & Joint Consulation; a study of human relations in 3 Merseyside firms. 1952 210pp Ex-library £5 50

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- Memories of old Withnell Fold. 1866 Pbk 36pp Phjotos with captions. VG £10 Seal Wm H. Selections from Poems 1919 245pp Spine worn. Whalley Range poet. £12 Searson. Longton; a village history 1988 Pbk 101pp. Illus Indexed. VG £10 -do- Longton in the 19th Century 2004. 188pp Illus. dw VG £12.. Seed Thomas. Poems by….1906 29pp Hodder Valley poet £10 Sellers. Non-Conformist Attitudes in Later 19th Century Liverpool.1962 offprint pamphlet 26pp ex- lib £5 Senior & Hennion. St Helens as it was. 1987. Landscape pbk. 40pp Photos with captions. £10 Seatree. Lakeland Memories 1923. Boards (stained) 60pp Owner’s details on inside of front cover £10 Shakeshaft. The History of Freckleton 2001. 294pp Illus Indexed. dw VG £30.. -do- History of Holy Trinity, Freckleton 2012 Pbk 55pp Illus VG £5 -do- St Anne’s on the Sea: a history. 2008 Pbk. 331pp Ilus Indexed. VG. £10.. -do- History of St Paul’s Church, Warton 2013 Pbk 75pp Illus VG £6 Shansky, Life in Dear Gran’s Day: a social history, 1992,101pp pbk 32 poems, Preston authoress £5 Shapely. Charity & Power in Victorian Manchester. 2000 Chetham Society .151pp Indexed. Lacks dustwrapper o/w VG £10* Sharpe France, The Lancashire Sessions Act 1798, 1945, 57pp, newly rebound, essay & Act £10 -do- Lancashire Acts of Parliament 1415-1800 (1950) pamphlet 49pp £6.. Sharples. Liverpool. Pevsner’s Architecural Guide. Pbk 2004 Pbk 332pp Illlus. A library’s stamps on the half-title o/w VG £10 Shaw, The Records of a Lancashire Family from the 12th to the 20th Century, 1940, 304pp + folding (Shaw) pedigrees illus. Indexed. Sometime rebound. VG £40 -do-, Men of the North, c1960, 430pp, plates, subscribers list society bookplate o/w VG dw £25 -do- Minutes of the Manchester Presbyterian Classis1646-60. 3 vols (20,22,24) Chetham Society 1890-91 464pp Indexed. Bookplates have been removed rom the paste-downs A small academic library’s blind stamp on the title pages. Top corners cut off free endpapers. Dusty top edges £75* Shaw & Shaw. Liverpool’s First Directory for 1766……(reprint 1987) Pbk. 76pp VG £8 (Shell Refining Co) Heysham Refinery./ Shell Refining in the UK. Two booklets 4pp/36pp 2000. £5 Shepherd, R. G., Green Days, 1982, 100pp, pbk, Fylde & Over Wyre tales £5 -do-, Country Memories, 1981, pbk, -do- £5 -do-, Village Year, 1979, 133pp, pbk, -do- £5 -do-, In the Country, 1977, 107pp, pbk, -do- £5 -do-, Gathered Leaves, 1978, 104pp, pbk, -do- £5 -do- -do- Newly rebound -do- Owner’s signature on half-title £10 -do-, Gleanings, 1979, 105pp, pbk, -do- £5 Shercliff, Manchester; a short history of its development 1965 60pp illus index. VG £5 Short. The Ridgways of Horwich. Undated A4 pamphlet 26pp £5 Shotliff, Images of Blackpool, 1994, 192pp photos/captions dw VG £10 Shotter. Romans & Britons in North-Wesr England 1997 Revised Edn 121pp 121pp Illus Indexed. VG £5 Shotter & White. Roman fort & town of Lancaster. 1990 Pbk 93pp Illus VG £6 -do- Romans in Lunesdale 1995 Pbk 106pp Illus Indexed. A few pencilled marks in index o/w VG £5 Shryhane. Wigan & Wiganners 2006 Pbk. Illus 88pp Owner’s signature on title page,o/w VG £5

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BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- Potted Guide to the History of Wigan 2006. Pbk 96pp Illus. Owner’s signature on title page o/w VG £5 ‘Sigil’ (Geo Jones), Cracks & Humourous Sketches, 1888, 163pp, Blackburn dialect tales £20 Silver. Manchester Men & Indian Cotton 1847-72 (1966) 349pp. Tables, maps, plates ,figures. Indexed Ex-library £10 (Silverdale) Auction plan & particulars. Sale of Oak Lea & 6 closes of land fronting Emesgate Rd 18.6.1902 7pp. Colourted plan. Some notations on text. £20 Simey. Eleanor Rathbone 1872-1946 ; a centenary tribute. 1974. Stapled pamphlet VG £5.. Simm. Salford Grammar School; a history 1956 Stapled pamphlet47pp + ads. Illus. £10* Simpson. Musbury & Alden: 700yrs of life & landscape 2008. 80pp Illus Indexed. dw VG £15… -do- : a centenary history of the Methodist Church 1993 Pbk 38pp Illus., VG £15 -do- Lumb Hall; the story of a Rossendale house & its people. 1986 Pbk 117pp £10.. -do- The History & Antiquities of the Town of Lancaster compiled from Authentic Sources 1852. 376pp + Subscribers list, a pedigree , folding plate & frontis. Newly rebound. £90.. Singleton (ed), Jubilee Souvenir of Accrington Corporation, 1928, 135pp illus Paper covers £20 -do- another copy but rebound in cloth £30 -do- Images of Lytham St Annes 1996. Large format 158pp ‘Gazette’ photos with captiions. dw VG £10..* Sisson. ‘The Very Best of Order Please’ : a history of the Preston & District Concert Secretaries Federation 1958-2008 A4 Pbk 80pp Illus VG £8 Skelmersdale Writers’ Group. Tales from a New Town 2009 Pbk 69pp Ex-library. o/w VG £5 (Skelmersdale) Auction notice from a newspaper - sale of land & mines,1854. (Rotherham’s Farm etc) with a printed & handwritten conditions of sale. £35 Skipworth. The Hundred Pound School; Richard Durning’s Endowed School – a celebration of 300 years 1992. Pbk 48pp Illus VG (Parbold) VG £10 Slate. A brief history …….Lancashire Congregational Union & of the Blackburn Independent Academy 1840 146pp Indexed. A new cloth spine and endpapers. £70* Slater. Directory of Manchester 1855 Lacks the title page and the plan called for., also the adverts. 522pp Sometime rebound in black calf & marbled boards. 522pp The paper is delicate. £100* Smedley. Thornton Cleveleys remembered . 2001 Pbk 128pp Illus with captions. VG £8 Smirk. Preston; A Photographic Recollection 1976. 80pp Sometime rebound. VG £15 Smith Mary. Mary’s Meanderings; Dialect Verse Pbk 54pp undated pbk.Spine sunned. Signed £5 Smith Mrs Leah (Owd Linthrin’ Bant), Bits of Local History, 1981, 40pp pbk, illus (Radcliffe) £5 Smith, Salford As It Was, 1974, 44pp pbk photos/captions £8* -do-. The Admission Register of the Manchester School .4 Pts Chetham Soc. 1866-74 Vols 69,72, 93, 94. An owner’s signature on the free endpapers. Labels removed. Worn at spine ends £100 -do- The Great Human Exploit ; Historic industries of the North West 1973. Limp cloth. 91pp Illus. VG 35 -do- History of Mossley Hill parish 1875-1975 ; to celebrate the centenary of the consecration of the church of St Matthew & St James28pp stapled pamphlet. Illius VG £8 -do-, Adlington & District, 1991, 245pp laminated boards illus VG £20 -do-, Moorland Sanctuary, 1984, 293pp illus lam. boards, Brinscall, Withnell, VG £20.. -do-, A Short History of Huncoat Baptist Church, 1909, 62pp plates £30* -do- About Standish 200p Laminated boards Large format 240pp + colour plates An owner’;s signature on the (map) free endpaper VG in a VG dustwrapper. £20 -do-, Rivington, Lancashire, 1988, 203pp lam boards, illus VG £20 -do- Old Rivington 1995 A4 laminated boards. 96pp Owner’s signature on free endpaper, o/w VG £10 52

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do-, Leverhulme’s Rivington 1983 113pp Illus VG laminated boards £20. -do-, Old Rivington & District, 1995, 96pp A4 laminated boards, map VG£10 -do- Anyon Kay’s Horwich : Recollections of old Horwich 2001 reprint with added photos Laminated boards VG £10 -do- A Brief History of Heath Charnock Isolation Hospital near Chorley 1901-89 . Pbk 30pp Illus £5 -do- Chorley & District in old photographs. 2000 Pbk m 128pp Photos with captions. VG £8 Snell & Rushton. Ulverston & District in Times Past 1979 Pbk.48pp Illus VG £8 Sobee, A History of Pilling 1953 157pp Illus. Subscribers List. Signed on title page. A cup ring & stain on front cover. Spine sunned with loss of gilt title, o/w VG £90 -do- -do- Reprinted 1995 with extra photos & new intro. VG £15.. Somerville. Office-holders in the Duchy & County Palatine of Lancaster from 1603. (1972) 260pp Indexed. dw VG £10.. -do- The Savoy : Manor, Hospital, Chapel. 1960. 278pp +~ plates. Index. Map endpapers. Concerns buildings & land in London owned by the Duchy. Ex-library. VG in dw £15* Soulby (Publisher) . The Public Charities of the Hundred of Lonsdale North of the Sands, reprinted from the report of the Commissioners dated 1820……. (1852) 12mo 152pp Qtr-bound, marbled boards,calf spine. £50* (Southport) Marriage certificate, 1898 at Waterloo Parish Church, Rev HOPE & Miss APPLEBEE £5 -do-, Nat. Assoc. Head Teachers Conference Souvenir, 1947, 192pp illus dw local essays £15 -do- Waterworks Company Report & Accounts Feb & August 1888. Two folding leaflets £15 -do- Fine Art Photographic View of Southport. (c1900) Landscape photos with short captions. Published by Rock Bros 34pp £15 -do- 1951 directory of Southport & District, including Banks, Formby & Freshfield…..published by P.S. Publications 938pp A new spine has been added, with the original letterd one layered on. VG £75* -do- Oddfellows – see (Ormskirk) Sparke. (ed) The township booke of Halliwell from the original in Bolton Library . 1910 Chetham Society Vol 69 164pp Indexed. A library’s stamps inside and on spine. £90*.. Sparth, John, A Flower i’ t’Ditch, 196?, 67pp pbk dialect poems, Accringtonian £5.. -do- Both Blood & Sheen, 1968, 28pp pbk, Accrington dialect poet £5.. Spencer. Colne As It Was 1971. Landscape pbk. 44pp Photos with captions.Ex-library £5 -do- Parochial Chapelry of Colne – Baptism Register 1790-1812 (1970) Pbk. 237pp £20 -do- Baptisms & Burials 1774-89 (c1970) Pbk with spiral spine 165pp £20 -do- -do- Marriages 1654-1754 (1975) Pbk. 146pp VG £20 -do- Remembrances of Freckleton 1990 Pamphlet 16pp Illus VG £6.. Spencer & Postlethwaite (eds) The Registers of the Parish Church of St Andrew, Slaidburn 1771- 1837/52 (1998) 288pp VG. £30… (Stalmine) Auction Plan & Particulars: ‘The Trees’ 1935 9 lots with large folding coloured plan. Some pencilled prices on a blank page £20 Stammers. West Coast Shipping1983. Pbk 88pp History in Camera series. Index. £5.. Stamper. So Long Ago… 1960. 224pp Social history. St Helens author. VG in dustwrapper VG £12* Stansfield Abraham Nugae, being selections from many years’ scribblings in verse. 1892. Leather half-bound School library stamp 352pp £12* -do- Poems, Sonnets & Translations 1903. 328pp Library label £5.. Stanton Derick. In mi Gobbinland Home. 1984 Pbk.72pp Illus. VG (Oswaldgtwistle) £10 Sterling Jane. Famous Northern Crimes, Trials & Criminals 1983. Pbk 109pp + plates 20 essays. £5 Stott. A History of Norbreck & Little Bispham 2007 Pbk 48pp Illus. VG £5.. -do- Layton Village; brief history of the manor,principal estates & public institutions 1989 Pbk 24pp VG £5 53

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS Steel (ed) Prescot Churchwardens’ Accounts 1635-63 ( 2002 Record Society) 253pp Indexed. From a society’s library with small stamp on free endpaper, o/w as new. £12 Stevens. Manchester of Yesterday (1958) 180pp index illus £5... Stockley. Accrington Cricket Club: Golden Moments – a record of achievements 1846-1995 (1995) Pbk. 200pp Illus VG £8*.. Stocks (ed) . The Records of Blackburn Grammar School Pt 2.(of 3) 1909 Chetham Soc Vol 67 A label has been removed from the front pastedown £20* -do- -do- Pt 3.(of 3) Chetham Soc 1909 Vol 68. A label has been removed from the font pastedown. £20* Stocks & Tait (ed) . Dunkenhalgh Deeds c1200-1600. (1921 Chetham Society) 108pp Indexed. Newly rebound. A library’s stamps throughout. New endpapers. VG £30.. Stokes. Greater Manchester Transport Album. 1984. Pbk A4. Ex-library Lacks title page, o/w VG £5 -do- Queen Mary’s Grammar School, Clitheroe ; Pt 1 ( all published) – the 16th & 17th centuries. `1934 Chetham Soiety 212pp Indexed. A bookplate removed from faste-down. Top corner cut from free endpaper o/w VG £40.. Storey Christine. Portrait of Poulton le Fylde 2007 Pbk72pp Photos with captions. VG £5 -do- History & Guide – Poulton le Fylde. 2001 Tempus. Pbk. 128p Ilus Indexed. £5. -do- Poulton le Fylde through time 2012. Pbk 96pp Colour & b/w photos with captions VG £8 Stretford Local History Society. Stretford People & Places 1918-45 (1984) Pbk 48pp Photos with captions. Top corner of title page cut off. £6 Summersgill. The History of Mellor in Lancashire. 1999 125pp + plates. Indexed. dw . Top corner cut from front free endpaper, o/w VG £30 Swain. Industry before the Industrial Revolution; North East Lancashire c1500-1640 (1986 Chetham Soc) 235pp Indexed. VG £10 -do- A Walker’s Guide to the Lancaster Canal 1990 Pbk 116pp Illus £5 Swindells, Chapters in the History of Eccles (1914) 93pp Newly rebound. Some staining £15 -do- Manchester Streets & Manchester Men. 5 vols. 1975 reprint of 1906-08 originals. Bright green cloth. All VG except Vol 4 which has been chewed one one corner and back cover at spine jont. £50 (Swinton & Pendlebury) Souvenir of charter celebrations 1934.card covers 40pp New staples. Library stamp on title page. VG £10… -do- Programme of the presentation of the freedom of the boroughto Ald John Bradley, Ald Ethel Crompton & Ald Rev Edwin Kerby 1960 8pp Library stamp o/w VG £5 T’ Parson’s Wife. ( Kathleen Jarvis) Lancashire Hot Pot 1961 133pp A parson’s wife’s tales of her experiences after coming to the county. dw £5.. Taberner Ernie. A Lancashire Upbringing 198? Pbk. 96pp Illus.(Wigan) VG £5.. Tait. Taxation in Salford Hundred 1524-1802 (1924 Chetham Soc) 188pp Many unopened. VG £30 -do- Lancashire Quarter Sessions Records Vol 1 –Qtr Sessions Rolls 1590-1606 (1917 Chetham Soc Vol 77) 332pp Faded spine. A bookplate has been removed from the paste-down o/w £30* Tanner. Everyman: the first ten years. 1974. Illus. In a library binding, o/w VG (Liverpool theatre) £5 Taylor, Popular Politics in early Industrial Britain: Bolton 1825-50, 1995, 253pp, dw VG £10 -do- Manchester’s Transport :Pt 1 –Tramway & Trolleybus Rolling Stock 1965 Pbk Illus Covers soiled,stained £10 -do- -do- : Southport via the West Lancashire line / Morecambe via Preston & Lanmcaster1996. A4 Pbk 128pp Many b/w photos VG £10 -do- The Railways of Colne1994 A4 pbk 194pp Many illuis VG £15 54

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do-. Rambling Recollections of 7 Decades: Memories of Bolton & District 1998 Pbk 75pp £8 -do- The Ancient Crosses of Amounderness. C 1915 PENB. 68pp n+m plates & folding map VG £15 -do- Through the Hole in My Head. 2001 Pbk. 166pp Illus Leyland man blinded in Burma VG £5 -do- Liverpool Social History 1820-70 (1972) Stapled pamphlet 21pp VG £5 -do- Noel H Leaver A.R.C.A. 1889-1951. (1983) Pbk. Published by Burnley Corporation in conjunction with an exhibition of Laver’s work in Towneley Art Gallery 98pp Ilus VG £10 Taylor ,J. T, Stories & Poems, 1928, 424pp plates, , new eps, Oldham dialect (See Dronsfield) £25 Taylor Frank. Musings in Verse 1898 Privately published by Bolton JP/poet. 232pp. Ex-library, lacks f.ep. o/w VG £15* -do- History of the West Yorkshire Regiment 1941 Pbk 64pp £10* Thacker. The Chester Diocesan Records & the Local Historian. 1981. Offprint pamphlet 40pp VG £4.. Thomas, History, People & Places in Lancashire, 1976, 160pp index illus dw VG £5 -do- Sir Bob; the autobiography of Sir Robert Thomas 1985 208pp + plates. Signed by author, Lord Mayor of Manchester VG £5 Thomason, Warp & Weft; cuts from a Lancashire loom (1938) 183pp & plates Leigh author/poet £50 Thomson. Blackpool – Images of England series.2007 Pbk. Photos with captions. 128pp VG £8 Thompson Tommy, a) Under the Barber’s Pole, 1949, £8 e) Lancashire Lure, 1947 £8; f) Lancashire Rampant, 1953 £8; h) Lancashire Laughter, 1951 £8; j) The Lancashire Omnibus (Pride/Lure/Rampant), 1951, £10; k) Lancashire Mettle, 192pp £8 Thompson, The Marr Story; the history of a fishing family 1995 Pbk 168pp Illus VG £25 Thornber Titus Taking the Car for a Walk. No 1 – Walking in the South Pennines Pbk 122pp VG £5 Thornber Rev Wm. An Historical & Descriptive Account of Blackpool & its Neighbourhood. (1837 - = reprint 1985) A4 Pbk 4 pages of the original on one page. Indexed. With a biograpjhy of the author. VG £15 -do- -do- 1837. First edtion. 345pp + 4pp list of charities. VG £120* -do- Penny Stone, or A Tradition of the Spanish Armada 1886. 78pp + list of subscribers. The book is No 7 of 200 copies Recently rebound in brown cloth with gilt on spine and front cover. VG £100* Thornley & May. In Fine Fettle ; Lancashire dialect poems. 1994 Pbk 40pp VG £5 (Thornton-Cleveleys) Church Rd School Chronicles 1879-1979. Stapled pamphlet 24pp VG £5… -do- Fleetwood Rd Methodist Church Centenary 1879-1979 Pamphlet 28pp VG £5 -do- See my list of Lancashire legal documents Till. A History of Longridge & its People. 1993 Pbk. 170pp Indexed. Subscribers List. Illus VG £15 Tilsley Frank. Seth Makepeace. 1956. 256pp. dw VG. Industrial Revolution novel £5 -do- Brother Nap. 1954 288pp Labour Movement novel dw VG £8 -do- Voice of the Crowd 1969. 315pp Bound in laminated boards. Labour Movement novel VG £8 -do- Jim Comes Home. 1974 reprint. 222pp dw. VG £8 Tillmanns, Bridge Hall Mills: 3 Centuries of Paper & Cellulose Film Manufacture, 1978, 219pp, illus indexed dw VG Bury Company £10… Timmins. Handloom Weavers’ Cottages in Central Lancashire 1977.Pbk 74pp with plates & figures VG £8.. -do- Preston; a pictorial history 1992 88 b/w photos. dw VG £10.. -do- Four Centuries of Lancashire Cotton 1996 Pbk 92pp Illus Indexed VG £8 Tipper. De Balderston 1573-1973 Pbk 80pp Ex-library (never issued) o/w VG (Rochdale) £10 55

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS Todd (comp) Around Ramsbottom. 1995 Pbk 128pp Photos with captions. An owner’s signature inside front cover.o/w VG £8 Toller (ed) Correspondence of Edward, 3rd Earl of Derby during the years 24 to 31 of Henry V111 preserved in a MS in the possession of Miss Ffarngton of Worden Hall .Chetham Soc Vol 19, 1890 138pp Indexed. Library stamps on title page and front cover. £20 Tomlinson Seasiders - the first 100years: a history of Blackpoool Football Club. 1887-1987. A4 Pbk 88pp Illus . £15 (Tonge) 1812 Act for inclosing land in Tonge. See my list of Lancashire Acts Tootle. The Moorfield Pit Disaster. (Altham) 1998. Pbk 64pp Illus. VG £6.. Townend. Burnley ( Images of England series, Tempus) 199 Pbk 128pp Photos with captions VG £8.. -do- Burnley Revisited. 2006 Tempus,. Pbk. Photos with captions. 128pp VG £8 (Toxteth) 1774 Act re a new church. See my list of Lancashsire Acts (Trafford) 1751 Act for repairing road through Stretford & Hulme – see list of Lancashire Acts Trappes-Lomax. History of the township & manor of Clayton le Moors 1926 Chetham Soc.175pp + folding maps Index.A bookplate removed from the paste-down. A small stamp on title page o/w VG £100.. -do- The diary & letter-book of Rev Thomas Brockbank 1671-1709 (1930 Chetham Society Vol 89) 417pp Indexed. Library label removed from paste-down. £30 Travis & Bradley. Sexton’s Daughter; a Lancashire country child, wife. Pbk 1990 80pp VG £5.. -do- Sexton’s Daughter Comes Home and Fleet Air Arm Memories. c990 A5 pbk 136pp VG £6 Trott. Return to the Lune Valley 1972 Obk 72pp Illus. VG £5 Tunstall, The Shining Night 1937 calf half-bound 430pp Lonsdale-set novel £8 Tupling. The Economic History of Rossendale 1927 Chetham Soc. Vol 86.A library’s small stamp on paste-down & free endpap[er o/w VG 274pp + plates & maps. Index Some pages unopened £90* -do- South Lancashire in the reign of Edward 11, as illustrated by the pleas at Wigan recorded in Coram Rege Roll No 254 1949 Chetham Society Vol 1. 160pp + plates. Indedx A small library stamp on title page o/w VG £40* Tupling & Horrocks. Lancashire Directories 1684-1957. (1968) Pbk 78pp Bibliographical details of books in Lancashire libraries £10.. Turnbull & Southern.More Than Just a Shop: a history of the Co-op in Lancs.1995 Pbk 58pp Illus VG £5 Turner, Reform & Respectability: the making of a middle-class Liberalism in early 19th century Manchester 1995 Chetham Soc, 352pp dw VG £8.. -do- The Accrington Pals a pictorial history 1986. Pbk 44pp VG £8 -do- Pals: The 11th (Service) Batallion (Accrington) East Lancashire Regiment (1987) Large format Pbk. 254pp Many illus. VG £15 -do- Blackpool to Fleetwood 197? Pbk 99pp Many photos. Rusty staples o/w VG Tramway history £5 -do- The Freckleton Tragedy, 1944. (2007) Pbk 62pp Illus. VG £6 Turner & Palmer, The Blackpool Story 1976. Cloth 140pp Many illus £10 -do-, -do- Cloth. dw VG £15 Tyrer & Bagley. The Great Diurnall of Nicholas Blundell of Little Crosby; Volume One, 1702- 11(Record Society Vol 110 1968) 350pp Indexed VG £15.. -do- -do- Volume 2 , 1712-19 Record Society Vol 112 328pp VG £15.. -do- -do- Volume 3 1720-28 (Record Society Vol ) VG £15 -do- -do- Vols 1,2,3. VG in dw. £50*

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BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS Tyrrell (ed). Lancashire Soccer Annual c1971 Laminated boards 120pp 110photos, Pictorial endpapers £10 (Ulverston) Official Guide 1981-2 52pp + folding map. VG £5 -do- -do- 1968-9 46pp + folding map. Ex-library o/w VG £5 Unwin Frank,. Reflections on the Mersey; memoirs of the 20s & 30s. 1983 Pbk 224pp Illus. Some marking on final pages. Signed by author £10 (Upholland) Engravings (3 views, exterior & interior) – St Thomas the Martyr Church Approx 9x6inches on a cream card mount VG £10 Urmston Conservative Club. Souvenir o the Golden Jubilee 1936. Card cover 12pp Illus VG £10 of Lancashire : Parts from this major works 1908 in paper covers . VG;- b) Schools, 64pp Paper covers £5 d) -do- Lancashire Schools 63pp newly rebound £10 Vigeon Rev.Owen. Reflections: Random Thoughts on 25years in the Ministry. A5 pbk 40pp VG £5 Virgoe. A History of Parbold 1994 Pbk. 132pp Illus. VG £10.. -do- Thomas Eccleston (1752-1809) ; a progressive Lancastrian Agriculturist. Chetham Society 2012. 242pp Indexed. dw VG A Scarisbrick Roman Catholic farmer £18* Vose. The Lancashire Caruso. 1982. Pbk. 201pp + photo plates VGT £20 Wadham & Crossley The Fourth Battalion the King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) & the Great War. 1920 136pp+xxiv pp Indexed. VG £15 Wadsworth’s Red Grange Books. Pbks a)1954 b) 1957 c) 1959 d) 1961 e) 1969 f) 1975/6 Each £5 Wake. Thwaites; the life & times of Daniel Thwaites Brewery 1807-2007 (2007) Large format 232pp Many coloured & b/w illus. Indexed. VG in dw. £15.. (Wakefield), Legal document bound in leather as book re share of personal estate of Geo. H. WAKEFIELD of Liverpool, corn merchant, to his daughter Mary Constance on her marriage to Geo. Morley SAUNDERS 1882, 5pp signed & sealed with GHW’s death cert £35 Walker. Historical Geography of SW Lancashire before the Industrial Revolution 1939 Chetham Soc.156pp A small blind stamp on the title page. o/w VG £20.. Wallis & Weaver. Whalley Through Many Eyes. 199? Pbk 108pp Illus VG £5 Walmsley. The Diary of the Revd Peter Walkden January 1733-March 1734. (2000 Chipping Local History Society) 517pp dw VG £35*.. Wallbank. Chingle Hall: Britain’s Most Haunted House 1992. Pbk 56pp Ills Title page corner cut o/w VG £5 Waller (ed) Harold Pilkington Turner; Memories of his work & personality. 195? 87pp From a university library. o/w VG in dw Manchester University educator £10 Walsh & Butler, The Old Lamb & Flag: the songs and story of Preston & its Guild, 1992, 84pp pbk, illus, VG £10 Walton ‘For a Kirk & a Castle’; Dalton in Furness; a concise history. 1972 Pbk. Spiral-bound 78pp Ex-library £5 -do- Wonderlands by the Waves; history of the seaside resorts of Lancashire 1992 44pp Illus Pbk. VG -do- Blackpool .1998. Pbk 195pp Illus Indexed. VG Social history £8 -do- Pendle Forest Folk 1977. Pbk 54pp Illus VG £5 Ward (ed) Poems of John Byrom. 5 vols complete set. Chetham Society Vols 29,30,34,35,70 Bookplates have been removed from the paste-downs Some wear at spine ends but not on corners. Many pages unopened £100 * Ware The State of Parties in Lancashire before the Rebellion of 1715……Chetham Society 1845. Rebound in library cloth.Library stamps o/w VG 56pp + 292pp £40 Warren. A Short History of St Wilfrid’s Church, Preston 1972 Pbk 27pp + photo plates £5 57

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS (Warton) How It Was: a North Lancashire Parish in the 17th century. 1998 Mourholme Local History Society. Pbk 212pp + index. Illus. VG Covers neighbouring too. £15 (Waterfoot) St James’. 1937 This is a book of unused blotting paper with some local adverts VG £5 Waterloo & Crosby Amateur Operatic Society production programmes 1961/62/63 (3) £12 Waters. Stained Glass from Shrigley & Hunt of Lancaster & London., 2003. Extensively illustrated with 49 colour plates & 38 figures in the text. VG £10 Watkin, Roman hester, 1879, 20pp PENB, plates £12 Watson. A Hundred Years of Sugar refining; the story of Love Lane Refinery 1872-1972. (1973) 155pp + photo plates . Map endpapers. dw + protective cover. VG £10 Watson & McClintock. Traditional Houses of the Fylde. 1979 Pbk 102pp Illus VG £10 Waugh, Edwin & Jackson, Robert, 12 Songs, (words EW, music RJ), c1890, 90pp, newly rebound £25 Waugh, Edwin, blue cloth ‘Autograph’ edition, c1885 a) Poems & Songs b) Rambles in the Lake Country c) Tufts of Heather vol.2; e) Lancashire Sketches vol.1 Each £8 -do-, 15 Lancashire Songs with music by various others, c1890, leather binding £20 -do-, Collection of 15 Songs, music by various writers, lib stamp, newly rebound £25 -do- Rambles in the Lake Country & its Borders 1861 267pp New rebound Blackpool –Furness- Lakes £15* -do- Round the Yule Log; a series of (20) tales for the fireside. 191pp Owners’ names on free endpaper. £10 Waugh, Edwin & Rowley, C E, 20 Songs by Waugh, with music by Rowley 1899, subscibers list £25 Webb An Edition of the Cartulary of Burscough Priory (1970 Chetham Soc) 297pp index dw VG £30 -do- Standish & Shevington. 1999 Pbk. Pocket Images series. 128ppVG £5 Webber. Liverpool Social Area Study – 1971 Data –Final report . pub Centre for Environmental Studies. A4 142pp Ex-library, lacks a free endpaper o/w VG £10 Welch Glorya (comp) British Temperance Emigration Society Information 1986 A privately-issued A4 file, unpaginated with a plastic spiral spine. This Liverpool-based society (1842) sold land in Wisconsin for settlement £10 Weld. A History of Leagram; the park & the manor 1913Chetham Society Vol 72. 168pp + map plate. Indexed. Ex-library with occasional stamps. Label removed o/w VG £75* Wells, A History of Cartmel Priory…(1910) pamphlet 37pp & plates £5 Welsby (Owd Mo), Tales & Talks, 1903, 159pp Rochdale Joyful News preacher £10 Welsh Mary Lancaster Canal Walks, 1993, 120pp pbk illus VG £5 -do-. Walks from the Leeds-Liverpool Canal 1996 remains of a library label o/w VG. £5 West 50years of the Lancashire Cricket Federation 1947-97: The Memoirs of Jim Gledhill 1913-95 (1997) Pbk 158pp Illus VG £10.. -do- The Taylors of Lancashire ; Bonesetters & Doctors 1750-1890 (1977) Pbk 134pp Illus VG £12* -do- One hundred years of the Ribblesdale Cricket League 1892-1992. (1992) Pbk 129pp Illus VG £6.. Westall Wm, Two Pinches of Snuff 1890 314pp Ex-library newly rebound Novel part-set Manchester £15 Whale. The Liners of Liverpool- Pt 1. 1986 Pbk 115pp Illus VG £6 -do- -do- Pt 21987 Pbk. 128pp Illus Withdrawn library stamp o/w VG £6 Whalley. Acrington Stanley : the club that wouldn’t die. 2006. 384pp Indexed. dw VG £8 Wheat. On the Duke’s Cut. 1977 pamphlet 32pp + folding table of distances £5 58

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- Handbook of Whalley 1884. Boards. 84pp Small loss of paper on spine. £10 -do- Lancashire’s Ghosts & Legends 1980 176pp + plates. Indexed. dw VG £10 -do- The History of Manchester.in 4 Books.( Two Vols only- all that was ever published.) Second Edn 1773 8vo Recently rebound in cloth by the library whose label they bear. Dusty top edge, o/w VG condition. No plates ( none published). £40 Whitaker T.D An History of the Original Parish of Whalley & Honor of Clitheroe…..Parish of Cartmell. 4th Edition 1872/76 2 vols Original green cloth. New endpapers. All pedigrees and plates present. New spines with original titles laid on. No corner wear. A fine pair. £200* -do- The History & Antiquities of the Deanery of Craven. 1878 3rd edition. 655pp + plates & pedigrees. Appears to have had repair to the spine and new endpapers. A fine copy £200 Whittaker (ed) A Lancashire Garland of Dialect Prose & Verse. 1936. 365pp. 53 potted biographies with examples of the poets’ work and a glossary. Gilt worn from spine. The front free endpaper has been neatly cut out .£15 Whitaker Harold. A descriptive list of the printed maps of Lancashire 1577-1900 (1938 Chetham Soc) 247pp + folding maps & plates. VG £100 White Life in Georgian Lancaster 2004 Pbk 103pp Illus VG £6.. -do- Lancaster’s Historic Inns 2009 4to Pbk. 148pp As new £6.. -do- Lancaster; a pictorial history 1990 4to A lengthy introduction plus 168 illustrations. VG £10.. -do- A History of Lancaster 2001 Pbk 284pp 6 essays Illus VG £10 -do- The buildings of Georgian Lancaster 2000 Pbk. 76pp Illus Indexed. VG £6 -do- A history of the corporation of Liverpool. 1835-1914 (1951) 211pp Indexed. A library’s bookplate & stamps, o/w VG £10 Whittaker, History of Withington, 1969, 46pp, VG £10 -do- The Bury Improvement Commissioners. 1933.PENB 36pp + folding pan. £10.. Whittington-Egan. Liverpool Characters & Eccentrics. 1989 Pbk 62pp VG £5 -do- Tales of Liverpool ; murder, mayhem & mystery 1987 Pbk 64pp VG £5 Whittle Marina, or An Historical & Descriptive Account of , Lytham & Blackpool…….1831. 160pp/88p/74pp + plates. 3 books in one.In a fine binding of red leather,half-bound antiquarian style with gilt tooling.. Marbled endpapers. An owner’s bookplate on the paste- down. Red edges. The title on spine is ‘’Seaside Bijou’ A jewel of a book £200* -do- Blackburn As It Is; a topographical, statistical and histoprical; account………1852 401pp Original marbled boards with a new cloth lettered spine. New endpapers. An 1854 inscription in ink on a preliminary page.The edges are uncut. Includes an 1852 trades directory £100 Wickham Some Notes on Hindley Chapel, 1910, 50pp PENB, plates £20 -do- Church Street, Eccles. : from village lane to high street 1992 A4 Pbk. 58pp Illus. VG £5 Winstanley. Working children in 19th-century Lancashire1994. Pbk 145pp Ilus VG £8 -do- Rural Industries of the Lune Valley 2000. A5 pbk m147pp + index. Illus VG £10.. -do- Town plan 1835 for Boundaries Commission Approx 4.3inches in a card mount VG Borough boundary in red £10 -do- Steel engraving – Ince Hall c1830 by Pickering. Approx 3x6inches with wide margins VG £5 -do- Steel engraving –Mab’s Cross c1830 by Pickering. Approx 3x6inches with wide margins VG £5 -do- Nostalgic Wigan. Undated (199?) Published by True North A4 Pbk 128pp Extensively illustrated b/w photos. VG £10 Wilcock A Lancashire Village Victorian Diary : The story of & Oakenclough 2012. Pbk 164pp £8.. Wild. The Greatest Free Show on Turf ; the centenary of the Lancashire League 1992 Pbk 52pp VG £5.. -do- Top o’th’Steps: a history of St Chad’s Parish Church, Rochdale 1982 Pbk 52pp Illus VG £5 59

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- 1837-1987 Pbk 96pp Illus VG £5.. Wilde, When I was Down Beside the Sea, 1984, 30 colour pics, lam boards VG £10 -do-, The Music of the Streets, 1983, 29 colour plates, lam boards, signed fep o/w VG £10 -do-, The Clatter of Clogs in the Early Morning 1982 Laminated boards 30 colour plates VG £10 Wilding. Memories of a Preston Childhood 1992 Pbk. 114pp Illus. Inscription from author on obverse of cover. VG He was born 1927. £8 Wilkinson, The Letters of Thomas Langton, Flax merchant of Kirkham 1771-88 (1994 Chetham Soc ) 219pp Indexed. As new £20.. -do- Puppets Through Lancashire. 1936 First ed. 204pp Map eps £10 -do- Preston’s Royal Infirmary; a history of health care in Preston 1809-1986 (1987) 228pp Illus Indexed. Subscribers List dw VG £6 .. Wilkinson Nellie. Nellie’s Poems; 1982 pamphlet 28pp. Barrowford poet VG £5 Williams, Some Events & Personalities concerned with the Parish of Sefton & the Free Grammar School at Gt Crosby 1755-1811, 1952, 24pp illus £12 -do- Viewed from the Water-Tank: a history of the 1993 390pp + plates Index. Subscribers List. dw VG £10 Williams & Burns.(eds) The Registers of Colton Parish Church 1891. 282pp Covers 1623-1812. The title page bears a society’s stamp and the top edge has been repaired. Newly rebound – the spine shows William rather than Williams. £60* Williams & Farnie. Cotton Mills of Greater hester 1992. A4 . 212pp Illus Indexed. A society’s stamp on the title page o/w VG in dw £20 Willis. Views of Leyland Old & New 1984 Pbk 60pp VG. £6 Wilson Manchester,Manchester & Manchester Again: from ‘Second Doctrine’ to ‘A Free Ministry’ – the theological travail of London Yearly Meetings throughout the 19th Century 1990 Pamphlet 38pp dedication copy from author (Quaker interest) £5 -do-(ed) King Cotton; a tribute to Douglas Farnie. 2009 Chetham Soc. 341pp Illus Essays. VG £12 -do- Aspects of Lancaster 2002 Pbk 160pp Indexed. VG 12 essays £8 Wilde, Fred, The Clatter of Clogs in the Early Morning, 1982, 64pp, 24 col plates, boards, VG £15 -do-, When I was Down Beside the Sea, 1984, 64pp, coloured plates, pictorial VG £15 -do-, The Music in the Streets, 1983, 64pp, coloured plates, pictorial VG £15 Wilkinson (ed) The Letters of Thomas Langton, Flax Merchant of Kirkham 1771-88. (Chetham Soc 1994) -do- Rural Industries of the Lune Valley 2000 152pp Illus Indexed VG £8 -do- Preston’s Royal Infirmary; a history of health care 1809-1986.(1987) Pbk. 228pp Illus. Indexed. Subscribers list. VG £10 Winstanley & Byers. Survivors : an illustrated record of the older buildings in Charnock Richard 2003 Pbk 74pp Illus VG £20.. Winterbottom Vera The Ghost Within, 1969, 99pp, stamp fep, dw, Saddleworth author £10 -do- The Devil in Lancashire 196? 87pp Illus dw VG £6 -do- Lark in Smoke. ; Narrative verse 1963 26pp + plates. Ex-library o/w VG in a dustwrapper £6 Wiseman David. Poulton-le-Fylde in Bygone Days, 1981, 72pp pbk £10.. -do- Poulton-le-Fylde Once Upon A Time, 1979, 44pp pbk, £10 Wolff, Stories of Lancashire Life, 1876, 183pp, moralistic Blackburn authoress £10 Wood Fresh Air & Fun ; the story of a Blackpool Holiday Camp 2005 Pbk 106pp Illus. VG £8 -do- A Lancashire Gentleman; the letters & journals of Richard Hodgkinson 1763-1847 (1992) 407pp Illus Indexed. dw VG £12… -do- The Big Ditch : Manchester’s Ship Canal 2005 Pbk 160p Illus VG £6 -do- Blackpool; postcard collection 2015. Pbk.95pp 2 captioned cards per page.Signed VG £10 60

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- Blackpol through Time; second selection 2012 Pbk. 96pp Photos with captions VG Signed £10 Wood & Lightbown. Blackpool in old picture postcards. 1986 140 cards with captions VG £10.. -do- Volume 2. 1990 108 cards with captions. VG £10 Wood & Bottomley Blackpool Pubs. 2016 Pbk 96pp Illust with b/w and Coloured photos.VG £10 Wood Ben, Lancashire Sketches & Recitations, 1904, 256pp, Rebound with some marking on covers, Bury dialect £20.. Woode Ann. 1066-1970 26pp pamphlet Illus VG £8 Woodhead & Chapman(eds). Human or Physical : People & Places of Edge Hill, Ormskirk 2006. Pbk. 368pp Illus. Essays on Edge Hill College and geography by staff & students VG. Signed £10 Woodcock, Haslingden: topographical history 1952 Chetham Soc 181pp+ plans, index VG £60 -do- Some Ewood Deeds. 1931 Chetham Soc. Newly rebound 26pp + folding plate. Indexed.. A society’s stamp on the title page. (Worsley Hall) Steel engaving c1830 by Pickering. Approx 6x9inches with wide margins VG £5 Wray. Manchester Victoria Station 2004. A4 Pbk 132pp Many illus VG £10 Wright. The History of the Lytham Charities, subsequently called The Lytham Schools Foundation 1950. 83pp + folding map & photo plates. Indexed. Signature of Major Hill, Recorder of King Edward School on front paste-down. VG £20* -do- Lancashire Dialect .1976 Dalesman. .Pbk 80pp Indexed. owner’s signature on title page. £5.. -do- The Lancashireman’s Dictionary 1982. Pbk Not paginated. VG £5 Wrigley Ammon Lancashire Idylls 1942 £10 -do-, At the Sign of the 3 Bonnie Lasses c1930 224pp £20.. -do- O’er the Hills & Far Away. 1931 288pp + photo p[lates Spine & cover sun-faded, o/w VG £30 Wrigley Bernard. Wrigley’s Writings ; songs & monologues 1999 Pbk 60pp VG £5 -do- A Load of Bullfrog (1990) Pamphlet 52pp Words & music £5 (Wycoller) Steel engraving- Wycoller Hall, Christmas in 1650 by Melville & Smith. 1842 6x9ins. VG £5 Wylie, The Baptist Churches of Accrington & District, 1923, 483pp index illus Some spine wear £40 -do- Old Hymn Tunes; their composers & their story 1924. Mainly Accrington interest. Subscribers’ edition. 64pp + index. £20*.. Yates, Henry, Songs of the Twilight & the Dawn, 1904, 136pp standard/dialect Blackburn poet £20 Yates & Strickland, Green Village Heroes: …Burscough FC, 1996, 320pp pbk, 130 photos VG £20

General Interest Books: counties adjacent to Lancashire/Cheshire and subjects of interest Allen, The Early Christian Monuments of Lancashire & Cheshire 1893 PENB 32pp & 18plates £15 -do- Some founders of the chemical industry; Men to be remembered. 1906. 289pp + photo plates. Ex-library copy. Lacks the free endpaper £10 Alpert & Lesley. The Role of Public Transport in New Towns ;a bibliography & research guide with special reference to Runcorn, Skelmersdale & Telford 1979 Pbk476pp Ex-library( never issued) £10* Andrews, Don’t Fret, My Lad, 1987,70pp pbk (A-u-L) £5 Anstey & Hair (ed), Liverpool, the Slave Trade & Abolition, 1976 Historic Soc of Lancs & Cheshire, 244pp, index, dw, VG £25.. Armitage. Chantrey Land, being an account of the North Derbyshire village of Norton 1910- Reprint 1998 461pp Illus dw VG £10 61

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS Ashworth, Recollections of Richard Cobden MP & the Anti-Corn-Law League, c1876, 295pp, index £15 Axon (ed) . Oliver ’s ‘Life of John Angier of Denton’, together with Angier’s diary & extracts from, his ‘an helpe to better hearts’, also Samuel Angier’s diary 1937 Chetham Soc.178pp indexed. A small blind stamp on title page o/w VG £30 Barclay, The Inner Life of the Religious Societies of the Commonwealth 1876 700pp Newly rebound £40 Bardsley. A Dictionary of English & Surnames, witth special American instances. 1901- reprint 1980. 837pp Owner’s label on paste-down. £15* Barnard, Viewing the Breathless Corpse; Coroners & Inquests in Victorian Leeds 2001 pbk 112pp £5 0. History of Latchford, A Cheshire township 1889. 245pp. Sometime rebound in maroon cloth by a library whose stamps & bookplate it bears, o/w VG £90* -do- The Jacobite Trials at Manchester in 1694 (1853 Chetham Society Vol 28 132pp Indexed. Recently rebound VG £30 Berriman. Historical Metrology; a new analysis of the elating gical & historical evidence relating to weights & measures 1953. 224pp Illus Indexed. dw £20* Booker. A History if the Ancient Chapels of & Chorlton…..1857 Chetham Soc. 337pp + plates. Newly rebound in maroon cloth. Occasional library stamps. VG £30.. -do- A History of the ancient chapel of Birch……a sketch of the township of Rusholme…..Chetham Soc Vol 47 1859 253pp + plates & folding pedigree (Worsley of Platt & Birch of Birch) New endpapers. Dusty top edge. £50.. Boscow. Warrington; a heritage. 1947. L96pp + plates. Library stamps on title page. Inscription from author on free endpaper o/w VG £12 Bowman, England in Ashton-u-Lyne 1960 710pp & plates & maps Index new eps. VG £120 Boyson Rhodes. The Ashworth Cotton Enterprise ; the rise & fall of a family firm 1818-80. 1970. 285pp |+ 76 plates. Indexed. VG in VG dustwrapper Bolton & Manchester firm £20 Brennand (ed). Research & Archaeology in : An archaeological framework for NW England. Vol 2 2007. A4 Pbk 214pp Ilus Indexed. VG £10 -do- -do- Vol 1 : Resource Assessment 2006 A4 Pbk 238pp Illus indexed VG £10 British Assoc. hester & its region: a survey for the hester meeting 1962.265pp + 29 photo plates. Covers North Cheshire & most of Lancashire dw VG £10 Brown. Most Splendid of Men; Life in a (Staffs) Mining Community 1917-25 186pp + plates dw VG £5 Bulmer’s , History, Topography & Directory of Cumberland…, 1901, 983pp Newly rebound £90 -do- History,Topography & Directory of Westmorland 1906 632pp & ads new eps £60 -do- History, Topography & Directory of Lancaster & district 1913. 599pp Newly rebound. £65 -do- History, Topography & Directory of West Cumberland 1883. Newly rebound in green cloth 679pp + 24pp of adverts. Lacks the map. £30* -do- Register of St Oswald’s, Winwick; Marriages 1754-1812 (1985)353pp library stamps o/w VG £20* Burney, Mrs G L Banks, author of ‘The Manchester Man’ 1969,167pp index, repaired dw o/w V £10 Burrell. A Walk Across the Waves; a brief history of the existing seaside pleasure piers in England & Wales. 1998 Pbk 129pp Illus. VG £5 (Bury) All Saints’(Elton) Amateur Operatic Society. Six Production prgrammes1957-64 Pamphlets VG £20 Butterworth James. History & description of the town & parish of Ashton-u-Lyne & the village of Dukinfield. (1823 Reprint 1972). 182pp dw VG £15 62

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- Several books by Butterworth recently bound together . The first 375pp contains histories of Ashton, Assheton family, Shepley, Glossop, Mottram and Stockport. To this is added (116pp) Memoirs of Francis Dukinfield Astley with his poetry.((1828) . The first 48pp of Ashton section have been trimmed to a smaller size than the rest of the book. Several plates. VG condition. £50* Challinor, Lancashire & Cheshire Miners, 1972, 320pp index dw VG £15.. Chaloner, Palatine Studies: chapters in the social & industrial history of Lancs and Ches, 1992 Chetham, 198pp illus index, 8 engr, dw VG £8.. (Chetham Society) Chetham Miscellanies. Vol 4 ( Vo 83 1872) Essays on :-General Robert Venables of Antrobus ; A form of confession grounded upon the ancient catholique& apostolique faith, composed by Lady Bridget Egerton, 1636 ; a calendar containing the names of those who have paid their money to Sir Hugh Cholmondley in the co. of Chester ; History of Warrington Friary. An owner’s signature onfree endpaperLibrary mark on spine £20.. -do- -do- Vol 2 (Vol 63 New series 1909 ) Essays on : Broughton, M/C its topgraphy & manor court ; the Apostolic life of Ambrose Barlow ; A Manchester assessment of 1648. Unopened pages £20 -do- -do- Vol 6 (Vol 94 New series 1935) . Essays on : The Cowcher Book of Furness Abbey – transcript of Folio 70 ; On a 15th-century York missal formerly used at Broughton in Furness; The rectors & deans of Manchester prior to the collegiation of the parish church ; The court leet or portmoot records of Salford 1735-8; Scotish Ffielde. Library stamps on free endpaper o/w VG £20.. -do- -do- Vol 7 (Vol 100 New Series 1939) . Essays on : The Chetham Society; Thomas Sotheron – v- Cockersand Abbey – a suit as to the advowson of Mitton Church 1369-70 £20 -do- -do Vol 8 (Vol 109 New series.1945 ) Essays on : James tait ; Centenary of the Chetham Society ; The Royal & Seigniorial bailiffs of Lancashire v; The Ribble salmon fisheries ; Sir Roger Bradshaigh of Haigh 1628-84. Private library’s stamps onfree endpapers £20 Clarkson. The Pre-Industrial Economy in England 1500-1750 (1971) 2168pp Indexed dw VG £6... Clarkson & Fenton. Feilden’s Mersey : a selection of the post-war ship photographs of Basil Feilden. 2001 Landscape pbk 80pp of phots with informative captions. £8 (Clitheroe) Torchlight Procession 1986 - official programme pamphlet 56pp Illus. VG £6 Crosby. Through Eight Preston Guilds ; the story of Starkies 1842-1992. (1991) Pbk 64pp Illus VG £8 -do- Preston Guild 1992 ; Official Record Pbk 248pp + photo plates VG £10 -do- Hutton; a Millenium History 2000. 164pp Illus VG in VG dustwrapper £12 -do- The Lancashire Dictionary of dialect, tradition & folklore 2000 Pbk 223ppp VG £10 Crosby & Taylor. Whittle Walks; Exploring the heritage of Whittle-le-Woods. 2006. Pbk 59pp 3 walks round the village VG £5 Crowe. Warrington Ancient & Modern; a history of the town & neighbourhood 1947.Library stamp on title page 19pp + index. Illus. £20*.. Croxford. in Lancashire & Cheshire 1950. Pbk 127pp + plates. Library stamps £20 Cruickshank. Children & Industry: Child Health & Welfare in NW textile towns during the 19th century Davies, North Country Bred: a working-class family chronicle, 1964, 256pp + map, index dw £10 -do- Liverpool Seen: Post-war artists on Merseyside, 1992, 223pp index, colour & b/w illus, dw VG £10 -do- Henry Tyrer, a Liverpool Shipping Agents & his Enterprise 1879-1979. 1979 159pp + plates. Indexed.

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BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS Dickinson, The Lordship of Man under the Stanleys: government & economy in the Isle of Man 1580-1704, 1996 Chetham, 396pp £10* -do- Misericords of the North West of England 2008. Pbk. 125pp Illus Indexed. VG £8 Dickinson ((ed) Index to the Wills & Administrations formerly preserved in the Probate Registry, Chester, 1826-30. (1972 Record Soc Vol 113) An owner’s label on front paste-down o/w VG £10.. -do- Marriage Bonds for the deaneries of Lonsdale, Kendal, Furness. Copeland & Amounderness in the archdeaconry of Richmond now preserved at Preston – Pt V11 1746-55. Record Society Vol 115 1975. 162pp VG £10 -do- Index to the Wills & Administrations formerly preserved in the Probate Registry, Chester 1831-33 (Record Soc 1978 Vol 118) 165pp Indexed VG £10. -do- from 1838 to 1858. Record Society Vol 105 165pp Bears a society’s bookplate op/w VG £10 Earwaker (ed) An Index to the wills & Inventories now preserved in the Court of Probate at Chester. 1545-1760 In 7 volumes. Rebound into brown cloth. Pub Record Society of Lancashire & Cheshire 1879-1892. Vol 1 has some letters to Earwaker and some cuttings/reviews bound in. Each volume has blank leaves interjected, The set has been heavily annotated, perhaps by Earwaker. They cover both counties and also ‘Infra’ wills Each volume bears a society’s bookplate £140 -do- Wills at Chester – I have several volumes in the society’s green cloth. Some are are ex-library. Enquire -do- Lancashire & Cheshire Church Surveys 1649-55 (Record Society Vol 1 1879) Covers Lancashire, also Collegiate Church, Manchester 282pp Indexed. ex-library £20 -do- Local Gleanings; an archaeological & historical magazine chiefly relating to Lancashire & Cheshire. Vol 1 (all printed) 1879. Bound in leather , half-bound style by the library whose small stamp in bears. o/w VG £45* Elsam, Mann & Cooper. Looking Back ; Liverpool & New Brighton photographed by…1993. Landcsape pbk. 48pp Full-page b/w photos. VG £8 Fishwick. A Calendar of Lancashire & Cheshire Exchequer. Depositions by Commission 1558 to1702. Record Society Vol 11 1885. 216pp Many unopened. Indexed by name & places. Bears a library’s stamps New endpapers. New spine.VG £20 Fishwick & Wadsworth, The Strutts & the Arkwrights 1758-1830 ; a study of the early factory system. 1958 361pp + plates & folding map. New endpapers. £25 Fitton Harvey. Lancashire Hotch Potch ; Lancashire Stories & Verse 1965 Pbk 110pp £5 Flaxington. The history of Heysham ; a wide-angled view. 2001 Pbk 74pp Illus Indexed. £8 Foster (ed) Ashton-u-Lyne: its story through the ages 1847-1947, 151pp illus, newly rebound £25 -do- -do- Copy in original paper covers. Ex-library copy with a ‘Withdrawn’ stamp o/w VG £20* Frangolupo. Tradition in Action: the historical evolution of the Greater Manchester County 1977 306pp Illus Indexed. Map endpapers dw VG £8.. -do- Rich Inheritance: a guide to the history of Manchester 1962. 322pp + plates. Indexed. dw VG £10 Freeman, Rodgers & Kinvig . Lancashire, Cheshire & the Isle of Man. (Regions of the British Isles series) 308pp + photo plates. Index dw VG £6 Glover & Andrew. History of Ashton-u-Lyne & surrounding district. 1884. 4to. Bound in calf and cloth half-bound. Top dge gilt. Raised bands on leather spine. 372pp + plates, followed by 46pp of Local Notes. Some wear4 at corners and outer hinge of spine.Some library stamps and librarymarks on spine. £130*. Green. The Flora of the Liverpool District. 1933 163pp + plates. Ex-library, o/w VG £5 Hardie, History of the Chemical Industry in Widnes 1950 250pp & plates Index New eps Some corner wear, o/w VG £25.. 64

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS Heywood. Cardinal Allen’s Defence of Sir William Stanley’s Surrender of Deventer,1586 (1851 Chetham Soc) Library binding, stamps,label £20 -do-(ed), The Diary of Rev Henry Newcome , Sept 1661-Sept 1663 Chetham Soc 1849 242pp Index. £25 Hill Sam, Foirewood: splinters an’ shavins fro’ a carpenter’s bench, 1902, 317pp, dialect rhymes, Stalybridge poet, subsc edn £24 -do-, Little Spadger’s Dog & other Lancashire Dialect Sketches 1906 110pp & Subscribers List Library numbers on spine £15 Hill Jeffrey. Nelson; Politics, Economy, Community. 1997.Keele Univ Pbk 172pp Illus. IndexVG £10 Hodgson, History of Penketh School 1834-1907 274pp & plates indexed Lists scholars, staff. Withdrawn library copy New spine & endpapers £50 Holdsworth. The Handy Book of Parish Law. 1995. 112pp A library’s stamon title page, o/w VG £6 Howarth Ken. Dark Days: Memories of the Lancashire & Cheshire Coalmining Industry up to Nationalisation 1985 A4 pbk 134pp Indexed. VG £8… Hyde. A history of pubic transport in Ashton-u-Lyne 1980 Pbk 120pp + folding map. Illus VG £10 Irvine (ed) An index to the wills & inventories now preserved in the Probate Registry at Chester 1761-80 Record Society Vols 37& 38 1898/9 Bear a society’s bookplates. Cover both counties £40* -do- -do- in paper covers. Library stamp o/w VG Covers both counties £10 -do- -do- 1781-90 Record Society Vol 44 1902 168pp A society’s bookplate £20* -do- -do- 1791-1800 Record Society Vol 45 1902. 242pp A society’s bookplate £20* James .Manchester; a football history. 2008 510pp Illus. Covers many teams around city. Dw VG £15*. Jolly. Lord Leverhulme 1976. 246pp + platesIndexed. ex-library in dw & protective sleeve £15* Jones Norman. Lancashire Canal Carriers; J Monk & Sons (of Adlington) n.d. 4to Pbk 64pp Many illus with captions. VG Signed by author. £8 Jones Thomas.(ed) A Catalogue of the Collection of Tracts For & Against Popery published in or about the reign of James11 in the Manchester Library founded by Humphrey Chetham. 2 vols Chetham Society 1859/1865 Vols 48 & 64 Library labels removed. Sorne wear at spine ends £30 Kealey. Harvestring the Air ; Windmill Pioneers in 12th-century England 1987 307pp Illus Indexed VG in VG dw £10 Kelly’s Post Office Directory of Westmoreland & Cumberland 1858 (reprint 2009) 344pp + 60pp of adverts & 2 folding maps. Westmoreland (sic) covers to page 100. I have reason to believe that this may be a one-off copy, as I can find no others. As new £60* Kidd & Brindle. The diptera of Lancashire & Cheshire Pt 1.(all published) 1959 136pp Bound in cloth by library whose stamp it bears on title page. VG £10 Lawson. A check list of the fauna of Lancashire & Cheshire. Party 1. 1930. 115pp Interleaved with blank pages for notes. Bound in cloth by a library whose label it bears o/w VG. There were no succeedeing parts. £10 Leverhulme Lord. The Six-Hour Dayt& other industrial questions. 1919 344pp Indexed. Bears a Lewis Samuel. A Topographical Dictionary of England….1844. 4 large volumes. Sometime rebound in maroon cloth with the original title pieces laid onto the spines. Each vol has over 700pp. Very lengthy title VG £120* Lewis Samuel A Topograhical Dictionary of Scotland……..(very lengthy title) 1851 Second Ed. 2 volumes 4to 611/622pp Internally VG, Worn at corners and spine,which has been repaired with Cellotape at some past time.Photos availabale on request. £100 65

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland……(very lengthy title) 2 vols1849 Second edition. 696/704pp 4to in original cloth.Intyertnall;y VGH. The corners are worn, as is the spine which has been Cellotape repaired. Photos available on request. £100 -do- A Topographical Dictionary of Wales…………(very lengthy title) 2 volumes 4to in original cloth. Internally VG. Worn at corners and on spine, a portion of which is missing in vol 2. The spine has been repaired using Cellotape. Photos available on request. £100 Littlebury Bros. The Liverpool, Bootle, Birkenhead & Wallasey Official Red Book for 1914. Cloth. A glue repair has been effected to the spine. 657pp Library stamp on title page. £45* Liverpool Echo. Mersey Ferry Tales. Undsated. A4 pbk 82pp. Many photos. A library’s stamp o/w VG £6 -do- Liverpool Then – Volume 2. A4 Pbk. 80pp Many b/w photos with captions. VG £6 -do- Liverpool 60s; souvenir of the decade. Pbk 82pp Many b/w photos. Lib stamp on title page, o/w VG £6 -do- Mersey Christmas; a stockingful of memories. Undated. A4 Pbk 80pp Photos with captions Library stamp on title page o/w VG £6 Liverpool Nautical Research Society. Transactions & Research 1938-88. A Merseyside Maritime History. Stapled pbk 76pp Illus 11 essays £5 Lockett, North Western Sail, 1978, 56pp pbk, photos/captions £5.. Malone. Peter Newby, friend to mankind 1745-1827. (1964) One of 500 copies only. 192pp Indexed. VG in dustwrapper Much on Catholicism in Liverpool & the North £10 Marsh. Dear Mr Salvin ; the story of the building of a 19th-century Ulverston church. 1999 Pbk 84pp + foding map. Illus VG £5 Marshall JD & McClintock (ed) The History of Lancashire County Council 1889-1974 (1977) 456pp Indexed VG £5 Mellor. Picture Pioneers ; the story of the Northern Cinema 1896-1971 96pp Illus Indexed. dw VG £10 -do- Are you putting it about that I am barmy? : They Made Us Laugh ; a compendium of comedians whose memories remain alive 1982. 122pp Illus dw. VG in a VG dustwrapper. Lots of Lancashire comedians £15 (Merseyside) Merseyside Architecture Week, July 1978 ; Programme Information & Guide Book.4to Brochure pub by Merseyside branch of British Artchitects 92pp Illus VG £8 Merseyside Archaeology Society Journal Card covers a) Vol 1 1977 60pp £6.. b) Vol 4 1980-81 158pp £6 c) Vol 3 1979 60pp £6 Merseyside County Council. Merseyside Structure Plan – Written statement. 1980 A4 in card covers with a plastic spiral spine and folding map in pocket. 180pp VG £15 Merseyside & N Wales Electricity Board. ‘Contact’ – staff magazine Vol2 32 & 33 (1980-81) bound together in maroon cloth. Bears a library’s ‘Withdrawn’ stamp o/w VG £15 Mersey Tunnel Joint Committee. The Mersey Tunnel. Undated (c1962?) landscape format book120pp b/w and colour pics. Library stamps on title page. Spine torn. Internally VG £10 Mills, Grey Pastures 2003 second edn Pbk 74pp Illus VG Concerns Albion Chapel, Ashton-u-Lyne. Originally pub 1924 VG £5 -do- The Place Names of Lancashire 1976 154pp An owner’s bookplate on the pastedown o/w VG in a VG dustwrapper £10 Mountfield. Western Gateway; a history of the Mersey Docks & Harbour Board 1965. 206pp + photos & folding plates. A piece is missing from the frontispiece. Bears a library’s stamps & label o/w VG £10 Nevell. Tameside before 1066. 1992 A4 Pbk. 129pp Illus Indexed. History & Archaeology VG £12 -do- Tameside 1066-1700 (1991) A4 Pbk 155pp Illus Indexed History & Archaeology VG £12

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BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS Nevell & Walker. Lands & Lordships in Tameside 1998. A4 Pbk 110pp Illus Indexed .History & Archaelogy VG £12 North West Water. Summary of Fisheries Statistics 1974-77 125pp A4. Bound in library cloth. Lacks free endpaper o/w VG (Angling) £5 O’Brien. Warrington Academy 1757-86; Its predecessors & successors. 1989. 164pp Illus. Indexed. A library’s stamps on title page. o/w Vg in VG dustwrapper & protective sleeve £10 Overton. Water-Works !!’ Temperance readings & recitations for the platform, library & fireside. 1896 121pp £12* Paget-Tomlinson, North West Steamships, 1980, 88pp pbk, many illus £10 Pape. The Washingtons & the Manor of Warton 1948. 96pp Ilus Newly rebound. £25 Parkinson, Autobiography of Henry Newcome . Vols 1&2 Chetham Soc 1852.New endpapers. A small library stamp on a preliminary page each vol o/w VG £50* -do- Catholicism in the Furness Peninsula 1127-1997 (1998) Pbk 114pp IIllius VG £6.. Patmore & Hodgkiss. Merseyside in Maps 1970 4to Pbk. 64pp Library stamp on title page £6 Paynter Eddie. Cricket all the way. 1962. 115pp + photo plates. ex-library. Enfield , Lancashire & England cricketer. £8 Paz. The Politics of working-class education in Britain 1830-50 (1980) 203pp Index. VG in VG dw £6 Peisson, Outward Bound from Liverpool, 1934, 248pp novel, trans from French £10 , Manhester 14 miles, 1947 reprint 1979, 241pp new intro, illus, working class autobiog, VG £8 -do- Young Mrs Burton. 1954 256pp Second in trilogy. Library stamps o/w VG dw £8 Pike. Liverpool & Birkenhead in the 20th Century.1911. 287pp Large 4to in a fine leather binding. All edges gilt. Contained potted biographies and a photo of hundreds of local digtnitaries. A library’s stamps on the title page and obverse o/w VG. £90* Poole. Old Widnes & its neighbourhood. 1906 Reprint 1972. 270pp Illus. Library stamps, o/w VG £30* Pollard & Robertson The British Shipbuilding Industry 1870-`1914 (1979) 312pp Indexed. Charts & tables but no illus. From university library but never issued. VG £20* Preston, Smith & Smith. Chapbooks & Traditional Drama; Pt 1 – Alexander & the King of Egypt Chapbooks 1977 Sheffield Univ. A4 38pp Bound in library cloth, lacks free endpaper o/w VG £10 Prince. God’s Cop; the bioghraphy of James Anderton.1988 217pp dw VG. (Chief Constable, GMP) £5 Pugh & Nickalls, Great Enterprise: a History of Harrisons & Crosfield, 1990, 272pp illus dw VG Liverpool-founded tea & coffee merchants £5.. Raines & Gastrell. Notitia Cestriensis: Historical Notices of the Diocese of Chester. 4 vols (complete) Chetham Soc 1845-50 Newly rebound 3 vols cover Lancashire £200 Richardson & James (ed). The Urban Experience; a sourcebook – English, Scottish & Welsh towns 1450-1700 (1983) 192pp Indexed. dw VG £6 Rigby Charles. Philip Godlee by his friends. 1954. 84pp + photo plates. A library’s stamps and a hand-written paper label on the free endpaper. An inscription in ink on the paste-down. Fading arund the spine. A small amount of wear at top of spine £10* Rylands Lancashire & Cheshire Wills & Inventories 1563 -1807 now preserved at Chester Vol 3 Chetham Soc Vol 37 1897 167pp Many unopened. Indexed. Remains of a label on paste- down. Top corner of free endpaper cut off, o/w VG £20* -do- Lancashire Inquisitions….Duchy of Lancaster now in the Public Record Office ; Stuart Period Pt 2, 1614-22 . Record Society Vol 16 1887.293pp £10 -do- Cheshire & Lancashire Funeral Certificates 1600-78. Record Society Vol 6 1882 237pp £15 Saunders Roman NW England: Hinterland or ‘Indian Country’ ? 2011 A4 Pbk 142pp Illus VG £10 67

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS Searle, Spas & Watering Places 1977 160pp Illus dw VG £5 Shaw, History of the Liverpool Directories 1766-1907, 1906, 50pp PENB + plates £20 -do- Minutes of the Committee for the Relief of Plundered Ministers………Lancashire & Cheshire Pts 1& 2 1650-60/ Record Society Vols 28, 34 1897 278/ 334pp Indexed. A society’s bookplate o/w VG £50* Skelton, Reminiscences of Joe Bowman ( Ullswater Foxhounds) 1921 reprint 1980 Limp cloth VG £20 Sotheby’s. The Leverhulme Collection (Auction) Thornton Manor.Wirral June 2001. 2 heavy pbk volumes. VG condition. b/w & colour illustrations. £22* Stalker John. Stalker 1988 288pp + photo plates. Index dw VG. Manchester police chief £6 Stewart-Brown, The Tower of Liverpool, and some notes on the Clayton family, 1909, PENB £15 -do- A history of the manor & township of Allerton 1911. 242pp + plates, Indexed. Ex-library with new endpapers and new spine using original tile piece. VG £30* -do- The Inhabitants of Liverpool from 14th to 18th Century. 1930. One of 150 copies only. 36pp Bound in thin card covered with paper. The spine has been hand-written, o/w VG £15* -do- Lancaster Marriage records – see Brownbill and Irvine. Swale. Forerunners of the NW Electricity Board 1963. Pbk. 107pp +plates. Indexed. Small Cellotape repair to cover. A society’s stamp on the half-title £5 Taylor Henry. Old Halls of Lancashire & Chshire, including notes on the ancient domestic architecture of the counties palatine 1884. Folio size, newly rebound. 164pp + plates. Indexed. VG £100 Taylor & Ward, 3 Sides of the Mersey: an oral history of Everton, Liverpool & Tranmere Rovers, 1993, 290pp illus dw VG £10 Tepper (ed). Passengers to America ; a consolidation of ship passenger lists from the New England Historical &Genealogical Register 1977 Baltimore. 554pp Foxing on tiop edge o/w VG £15* Thornton & McLaughlin, The Fothergills of Ravenstonedale: their lives & letters 1905 250pp & plates Newly rebound in maroon cloth VG £35* von Volborth. Heraldry Customs,Rules & Styles 1981. 229pp Some of 1219 ills are coloured. dw VG £10 Walker. The Liverpool Competition: ..the development of cricket on Merseyside 1988 Pbk 87pp Ex-library. Never issued. VG £5 Wightman, Pennine Panorama: people & places past & present, 1969, 196pp illus index endpaper. VG in a torn dw £5… Wilkins-Jones. Tameside: an outline history of those parts of Lancashire & Cheshire now in Tameside 1978 Pbk 77pp+ index VG £5.. Williams, Walks & Talks with Fellman, 1951, 269pp, boards, cloth spine, sig fep o/w VG £10.. -do-, Metropolitan Manc hester: a Social Atlas 1975. 41pp + map plates. Library stamp on title page which is marked (where a label has been stuck?) but newly rebound £15 Worsley, The Dwindling Furrows of Lowton 1988 151pp Illus dw VG £25 -do-, Family Furrows 1992 second ed Limp cloth 105pp illus Limited to 200 copies (Lowton) £25

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LANCASHIRE ACTS OF PARLIAMENT These are disbound, with no separate cover, approx A4 size. Price £5 each post-free unless otherwise stated. Pay on receipt (This list is dated 23.3.2020)

1745 For enlarging..Act for repairing & enlarging the road from Prescot to Liverpoole.. £10 1751 For repairing road from Crosford Bridge through Stretford & Hulme to Manchester, 20pp £15 1772 For completing a building intended for a new church at Richmond, Everton 12pp £10 1774 For establishing a new church or chapel at Toxteth Park 20pp £10 1779 To enable Duchy of Lancaster to sell fee-farm rents etc 15pp £10 1786 For augmenting and ascertaining the income of the rectors of the parish church & parochial chapel of Liverpool 9pp £10 1813 For inclosing lands in the parish of Aughton (Ormskirk) 30pp £20 1815 For inclosing lands within Caton 26pp £20 1817 For vesting certain estates devised by the will of John Seacome….12pp £10 1820 For reviving, extending and varying the powers of an Act (1820) for making and widening certain streets, passages & places in the town of Liverpool and for several other purposes in the said Act and also for further improving the said town 22pp including a 4pp schedule £20 1822 For the building (of) a church in the town of Liverpool and for enlightening and cleansing of the streets of the said town; and for keeping and maintaining a Nightly Watch there £20 1825 For lighting ,cleansing, watching, regulating Rochdale 58pp £20 1826 For erecting & endowing a church in Liverpool to be called the church of St David 14pp £10 1828 To enable the town of Liverpool to build a church and endow the same; and for making the said town and liberties thereof a parish of itself, distinct from Walton. 8pp Some underlining of the text. £20 1828 For building and endowing a church upon the scite (sic) of the Castle of Liverpoole, held by lease from the Duchy of Lancaster; and for explaining a former Act for the building (of) another church there (1828 above) . 6pp £20 1828 For completing a building intended for a new church or chapel at Richmond near Everton and for other purposes 11pp £10 1830 For better paving & sewerage of the town of Liverpool; and for settling the boundaries between the said town and the township of Kirkdale and parts of the townships of Everton and West Derby60pp, incuding 3pp schedule of streets and owners/occupiers of properties £20 1838 For uniting the medieties of the rectory of Liverpool and for better endowments thereof, and of certain churches in the said town 20pp Some underlining of the text £10 1842 For paving….improving Fleetwood 79pp Bears the stamp of the Improvement Commissioners £20 1844 Act to alter an Act for the appointment of a stipendiary magistrate within Manchester & Salford 3pp+ 1847 For better supplying water…Rochdale 20pp 1851 For building two new churches and providing burial places within the town of Liverpool and for the better preserving the pavements of the streets in the said town, and for ascertaining the fairs and prices to be paid carters, carmen, hackney coachmen and chairmen 69

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS and for regulating their behavior within the said town. 28pp £20 1851 For enlarging the term and powers granted by an Act of the second year of the reign of his present majesty for erecting and building two new churches and providing burial places in the town & parish of Liverpool (1851 above) 14pp £10 1864 A-u-L & Stalybridge Corporations Waterworks 28pp 1865 Liverpool Improvement 14pp 1864 Liverpool United Gaslight Co 6pp 1865 For authorizing the M/C, Sheffield & Lincs Railway Co to make a railway to Liverpool 20pp 1866 Nelson Water & Gas 28pp 1866 Manchester Division Petty Sessions Court 7pp 1866 Dryclough, Shaw & Rochdale Roads (Repeal) 20pp 1866 Liverpool Corporation Waterworks 10pp 1867 Liverpool Improvement 26pp 1869 Preston Improvement Act 15pp+ 1870 Rainhill Gas & Water 20pp 1870 Oldham Corporation Waterworks 15pp + 1870 North Union Rlwy (Preston Station) 8pp + 1870 Salford Improvement 38pp + 1871 Westhoughton Gas 22pp 1871 Mersey Docks (Liverpool River Approaches) 16pp 1871 Liverpool Improvement & Waterworks 46pp + 1872 Liverpool Hydraulic Power Co. 14pp 1873 Manchester South District Railway 27pp 1873 Mersey Dock (Liverpool Dock Extension) 13pp 1873 Mersey Dock (South Reserve Landing Stage) 8pp 1874 Manchester South District Railway 9pp 1875 Oldham Corporation Water 17pp 1878 Liverpool Improvement 16pp 1879 Nelson Local Board 27pp 1879 Lancaster Gas 20pp+ 1879 Preston Gas 10pp 1879 Liverpool Corporation Electric Lighting 8pp + 1879 Manchester Corporation Waterworks 89pp (Thirlmere) £8 1880 Liverpool Corporation Waterworks 45pp 1880 Lancaster Corporation 60pp+ 1880 Liverpool Corporation Loans 22pp 1880 Liverpool Corporation 1881 Southport & Cheshire Lines Extension Rlwy 35pp £8 1881 Lancashire County Justices 31pp 1882 Liverpool Improvement 57pp 1882 L&NW Railway (Ordsall Lane) 12pp 1882 St Helens Corporation Water 21pp 1883 Liverpool Improvement 17pp 1883 Ribble Navigation & Preston Dock 123pp £10 1884 West Lancashire Railway (Preston Docks Extension) 20pp+ 1884 West Derby Local Board 41pp 1884 Liverpool Hydraulic Power 16pp+ 1884 Mersey Docks 7pp 70

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS 1885 Liverpool Improvement 10pp 1885 L&NW Railway 64pp 1886 Liverpool Improvement 14pp+ 1886 Oldham Corporation 33pp+ 1886 Liverpool United Gaslight Company’s11pp+ 1887 L&NW Railway 57pp 1887 Liverpool Waterworks & Improvement 34pp 1887 West Lancashire Railway 9pp + 1888 Nelson Local Board 41pp 1888 L&NW Railway 73pp + 1889 Ribble Navigation 8pp £2 1888 Ribble Navigation 36pp £10 1889 Mersey Docks & Harbour Board 24pp 1889 Liverpool Corporation 16pp 1890 Ribble Navigation 10pp £2 1890 North West Central Rly, 68pp + 1890 Mersey Railway 8pp 1890 Bootle Corporation 58pp £8 1892 Mersey & Irwell Joint Committee 7pp 1892 Ribble Navigation 7pp £2 1892 Liverpool Overhead Railway 34pp £8 1893 Manchester, Sheffield & Lincs Railway 40pp + 1893 Fleetwood Improvement Act 58pp Bound in boards. Bears Improvement Commissioners stamp £20 1893 Liverpool Corporation 34pp+ 1893 St Helens Corporation 47pp.. £8 1894 Manchester, Sheffield & Lincs Railway 30pp 1894 Liverpool Corporation Loans 38pp+ 1895 Oldham & Royton Canal 39pp £10 1896 Manchester ,Sheffield & Lincs Railway 38pp 1896 Ribble Navigation 18pp 1896 Liverpool Cattle Market 35pp+ 1897 Wigan Junction Railways (Capital) 6pp £2 1897 Liverpool, St Helens & South Lancashire Railway 17pp.. 1898 Mersey Docks (New Works)13p1898 Liverpool Corporation25pp+ 1898 St Helens Corporation 67pp.. £10 1899 Stretford Tramways 16pp £8 1899 Liverpool Overhead Railway 28pp £8 1899 Bootle Corporation 30pp+ 1900 Liverpool Overhead Railway 19pp + 1900 Lancashire Electric Power 18pp+ 1900 Liverpool Corporation 22pp 1900 Salford Corporation 22pp+ 1900 Mersey Docks & Harbour 5pp + 1900 South Lancashire Tramways 123pp £8 1901 Manchester & Liverpool Electric Express Railway 135pp £8 1901 Golborne Gas 21pp £8 1902 Liverpool Corporation 41pp+ 1902 Manchester & Liverpool Electric Express Railway 11pp+ 71

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS 1902 Manchester Corporation Tramways 15pp+ 1902 Manchester Corporation (General Powers) 24pp+ 1902 Liverpool Tramways & Electric Supply (Garston Transfer) 20pp £8 1903 Seaforth & Sefton Junction Railway 50pp £8 1903 South Lancashire Tramways (Hindley) £8 1903 Manchester Southern Tramways 83pp £8 1903 North-Western Electricity & Power-Gas 72pp+ 1903 Mersey Docks & Harbour 9pp+ 1903 Manchester Corporation 59pp+ 1904 Victoria 6pp 1904 Manchester Corporation (General Powers) 119pp + 1905 Bolton Corporation 67pp+ 1905 Bootle Corporation 24pp+ 1905 Ribble Navigation 10pp + 1906 Lancashire Electric Power 19pp+ 1906 Manchester Corporation 9pp+ 1906 Mersey Docks & Harbour Board 24pp+ 1907 Ashton, Stalybridge & Dukinfield District Waterworks 16pp+ 1907 Manchester Ship Canal (Various Powers) 11pp+ 1907 Southport,Birkdale & West Lancashire Water Board 27pp £8 1907 London & North Western Railway (Superannuation Fund) 15pp+ 1907 Heywood & Middleton Water Board 12pp £8 1908 Liverpool Corporation (General Powers) 39pp+ 1908 Liverpool Corporation (Streets & Buildings) 19pp+ 1908 Manchester Corporation 43pp+ 1909 –do- 83pp+ 1909 Liverpool Corporation 20pp+ 191 Little Hulton UDC 54pp £8 1911 Liverpool Overhead Railway 10pp 1911 Manchester Corporation 77pp+ 1912 Manchester Royal Exchange 11pp+ 1912 Liverpool Corporation 5pp 1913 -do- 57pp+ 1913 Manchester Royal Exchange 11pp+ 1913 Manchester Ship Canal 22pp+ 1914 Manchester Corporation 88pp 1915 Liverpool Corporation 190pp+ 1915 Seaforth & Sefton Junction Railway 20pp+ 1915 Prescot Gas 28pp+ 1915 Mersey Railway 8pp 1916 Clayton Aniline Co Ltd (Railways) 39pp+ 1917 Levinstein Ltd (Railways) 31pp+ 1917 Sir WG Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd (Railways) 66pp+ 1918 Lancaster Corporation 89pp+ 1919 Fylde Water Board 9pp 1919 Mersey Docks & Harbour Board 8pp+ 1919 Stretford UDC Act 77pp bound with a M/C Act Poor binding Ex-library 1919 Manchester Corporation 246pp £8 1920 -do- 90pp + 72

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS 1920 Manchester Ship Canal 15pp+ 1920 Liverpool Overhead Railway 19pp 1920 Bootle Corporation 18pp+ 1920 Mersey Docks & Harbour Board 19pp+ 1920 Liverpool Corporation Waterworks 48pp+ 1920 Lancaster Corporation Water 18pp+ 1921 Preston Corporation 70pp + 1921 Liverpool Corporation 590pp £8 1921 St Helens Corporation 65pp 1922 Stretford & District Gas Board 54pp £8 1922 Bolton Corporation 155pp £8 1926 Chorley Corporation 109pp + 1927 Manchester Corporation 20pp+ 1928 Stretford & District Electricity Board 46pp 1928 Bury & District Joint Water Board 19pp 1930 Manchester Corporation (General Powers) 45pp 1938 Salford Corporation 44pp 1947 Preston Corporation 122pp+

LANCASHIRE LEGAL DOCUMENTS

Most are on vellum, some on paper. S&S = Signed & Sealed Post free to a UK address. Pay on receipt.

This list is correct at 1.11.2020

Where different listed documents refer to the same land, property or name, I will reduce the price if all items are bought

(Blackburn) 1889 Handwritten completed and accepted tender /contact for the main sewerage of Guide, Ewood & Lower Darwen. On paper, 12 large pages. Bears the name of JENKINS and the signature of George WHITELEY ,chairman of the Corporation’s committee. £20 (Blackpool) 1852 Probate of the will of Peter ROSSALL of Little Marton Single parchment with printed certificate Wm WHITESIDE was executor Also one dated 1847 £10 (2) -do- 1876 Draft mortgage - land in Hornby St 7pp handwritten WHITESIDE-GORTON & VEEVERS Unsigned £10 -do-1883 Abstract of title of James MYLES to land in Hull Rd 9pp Handwritten Unsigned £10 -do- 1895 ( Photocopy of) agreement between AINSWORTH & CARDWELL to sale of estates in Bispham for £2000. Typed. 6pp with a large folding plan which shows that Uncle Tom’s Cabin & Fanny Hall were on the land, which was immediately abutting, to the South, the borough

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BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS boundary. £10 -do- 1920 Draft reconveyance of 7 messuages in Springfield Rd, General St. GILBERTSON – BRIERLEY 3pp handwritten Signed by HARBOTTLE, Town Clerk £10 -do- 1894 Conveyance. No 4 Granville Rd, CLITHEROE to HILL S&S , with 1894 Abstract of title of Robert CLITHEROE to it. £10 -do- 1896. Abstract of the title of Jabez KAY to land in Revoe 2pp handwritten with a plan and a separate typed document copying 1896 covenants made between KAY, James BROWN & Henry MARSHALL re 54 Woolman Rd £10 -do- 1897 Abstract of the title of Messrs Fielding to hereditaments in Egerton Rd & Warbreck Rd 24pp+ 3pp (printed) with small plan . Land formerly belonged to HODGSON £10 -do- Abstract of the title to an estate formerly belonging to Wm HODGSON on the East side of Warbreck Rd. 24 large printed sheets + 4 coloured plans £50 -do- 1911 Abstract of title of Frances BINNS to 5 Oxford Rd. 2 types sheets + small plan 1912 Conveyance 5 Oxford Rd BINNS to HILTON 5pp S&S 1912 Mortgage 5 Oxford rd HILTON TO BINNS 7pp S&S (3) £10 -do- 1915 Mortgage 22 Henry St NELSON to JUKES with 1921 reconveyance vellum 6pp S&S £10 -do-. 1915 Conveyance 22 Henry St HARRISON to NELSON Single sheet S&S Plan overleaf £10 -do- 1915 Typed abstract of Joseph Graham HARRISON to land in Central Drive 17pp £10 -do- 1913 Conveyance 5 Oxford Rd HILTON to McCAFFERY 6pp handwritten S&S 1919 Conveyance, 5 Oxford Rd McCAFFERY to CLAYTON 2pp handwritten S&S 1919 Mortgage 5 Oxford Rd CLAYTON Signed 1926 Mortgage 5 Oxford rd CLAYTON Signed (4) £10 -do- 1920 Abstract of the title of KING to land in St Paul’s Rd ( 2 items together) 8pp + coloured plan £10 -do-. 1920 Mortgage 4 Granville rd ORTON to BELL 6pp handwritten S&S £10 -do- 1920 Mortgage 4 Granville Rd HORNBY to BELL 6pp S&S £10 -do- 1921 Abstract of the title of 70, Broadway. SS. WRIGHT. Typed 4pp with plan £10 -do- 1923 Abstract of the title of land off Whitegate Drive 8pp typed + a coloured plan showing land in Cumberland Ave owned by CARDWELL. Previous owners were COOKSON, COCKER £10 -do- 1924. Conveyance of a plot of land in Bispham Rd. 20 handwritten pages with a plan. PYE/ SANDHAM to BODEN £10 -do- 1924 Abstract of title of Polly KEMPSON to 22 Henry St 2 typed pages. Bought from NELSON £10 -do- 1920 Conveyance of 4 Granville Rd ORTON to HORNBY 4pp S&S £10 -do- 1920 Conveyance 4 Granville Rd & 1919 Abstract of title of late Jospeh HILL to it. ORTON & Others, with Inland Revenue certificates £10 -do-. 1920 Conveyance 28 St Paul’s Rd KING to SCHOFIELD S&S £10 -do-. 1922 Conveyance of land & 22 Henry St. NELSON to KEMPSON S&S £10 -do- 1924 Conveyance 22 Henry St KEMPSON to WALMSLEY 2pp S&S £10 -do- 1924 Typed abstract of title of Joseph ENGLAND to a portion of the Knoll Estate, off Waterloo Rd, Marton with plan £10 -do- 1924 abstract of title of GARDNER &* SMITH to land in Cumberland Ave.Typed with small plan £10 -do- 1925 Abstract of the title of Wm Elwood BODEN to the houses ‘Golconda’ & ‘Fantine’, Bispham Rd ( nr Lower Moor Farm) 14pp+ large folding plan & a small plan £10 -do- 1925 Conveyance of ‘Golconda’ & ‘Fantine’ BODEN to HAWORTH & CARTMELL 4pp S&S £10 -do- 1925 Conveyance 35 Cumberland Ave. GARDNER & SMITH to ELLIS. 2pp S&S £10 -do- 1925 Abstract of the title of Thomas BRIERLEY to land in Bispham £10 -do- 1925 Mortgage of 8 Byron (formerly Percy) St. DAVIES to PARKER & BEE 5pp S&S £10 74

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- 1926 Conveyance of ‘Brooklyn’, Clifton Rd ECKERSLEY to WHITTAKER 3pp handwritten S&S £10 -do- 1926 Copy abstract of the title of James & Emma WOOD to land (Webster’s farm) in South Shore 10pp Typed. A CARTMELL; interest £10 -do- 1926. 2 items re ELLIS of 35 Cumberland Ave with a 1964 abstract of ownership £15 -do- 1926. Mortgage Halifax Building Soc to RODGERS Land in Samlesbury Ave 14pp £10 -do- 1926 Conveyance of 23 Samlesbury Ave, BRIERLEY to RODGERS 2items £10 -do- 1927 Mortgage . Moorfield Ave, Layton ALMOND 3pp S&S £10 -do- 1927 Abstract of the title of Wm LANCASTER to land in Poulton Rd 18pp Damp-stained £10 -do- 1928 Typed asbstract of title of Wm PYE TO Ingthorpe Grange Farm -do- 1929 Mortgage 5 Oxford Rd WARING & ABBOTT 3 printed & typed pages £10 -do- 1930 Legal charge by Burnley Borough Building Soc for £500 on Savina GALLOWAY 5 Oxford Rd 4pp S&S with covenant of surety. Chris FLETCHER, assigned £10 -do- 1930 Conveyance of ‘Fantine’ , Bispham Rd. HAWORTH to NUTTALL 4pp S&S £10 -do- 1930 Abstract opf the title of Harry PIMLEY to land in South Park Drive 8pp with plan £10 -do- 1931 Abstract of the title of Graves HARGREAVES to land in Middle Lane, South Shore. 3 printed pages with 2 plans £10 -do- 1931 Conveyance of 14 South Park Ave PIMLEY to MANLEY S&S £10 -do- 1931 Abstract of the title of ATKINSON to land in Powell Ave. 7 typed pages with coloured plan, also 1932 conveyance for 105 Powell Ave, ATKINSON to BURTON 5pp S&S £10 -do- 1932 Abstract of the title (from 1839) of the trustees of the will of Cuthbert CARDWELL to hereditaments in Layton Hawes. 6 typed sheets £10 -do- 1932 Abstract of the title of John SHEPHERD & Others to CARDWELL’S FARM, Lytham Rd, 6 typed sheets + large folding plan £20 -do- 1932 Continuation (typed) abstract of the title of Cuthbert CARDWELL to land in Layton Hawes with torn plan £10 -do- 1932 Conveyance of house ‘Belmont’, 38 Brun Grove ECKERSLEY –BARTON S&S, with a land search document and also an abstract of the title (1953) Elizabeth CATTERALL to that property £20 -do- 1933 Abstract of the title of Herbert HAWKSWORTH & Ernest BAILEY to premises in Burlington Rd 23 large sheets + plan £10 -do- 1933 Conveyance of 41 (later 43) Wynwood Ave FIELDING to THOMAS S&S £10 -do- 1933 Conveyance, 66 Roseway Ave. HAWKSWORTH & BAILEY to HAWORTH 4 sheets S&S with 1933 abstract of HAWKSWORTH & BAILEY’S title to it (2) £10 -do- 1934 Abstract of the title of Harold POWNALL to ‘Bispham House’, Bispham16pp typed. , along with 1934 conveyance of 13 Gretna Crescent POWNALL to FLITCROFT, also a 1965 abstract (3) £10 -do- 1934 & mortgage document – 43 Wynwood Ave. THOMAS – MULLINEUX S&S £15 -do- 1935 legal charge to secure £500. 63 Southbank Ave. Padiham Building Soc to Helen NISBET 6pp S&S with copy conveyance FOSTER & RIMMER to NISBET (2) £10 -do- 1935 typed supplemental abstract of title of Riobert FIELDING to 38 Bedford Rd -do- 1935 Copy conveyance of land in Winton Ave. LYNN –FLETCHER Typed 3pp with coloured plan. £10 -do- 1935 Typed Abstract of the title of Sir Thomnas AINSWORTH & another to land in Ave £10. -do- 1935 Conveyance, 34 Gosforth Rd. FIELDING to BEEVIS & HOUGHTON 6pp handwritten S&S £10 -do- 1935 Conveyance , 38 Bedford Rd. FIELDING Trustees to BOSWELL 5 sheets S&S £10

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BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- 1937 Mortgage of 5 Oxford Rd Isabella BEATON to Alfred HANSON with 8 others relating to this property –other names 1926-40 £20 -do- 1938 Conveyance 27 Samlesbury Ave ROGERS-CHADWICK with 2 others documents £10 -do- 1938 Typed conveyance of ‘Belmont’ 38 Brun Grove BARTON to CATTERALL 2 items £10 -do- 1942 Typed conveyance of 133 (was 105) Powell Ave, BURTON to HEY S&S £10 -do- 1942 Conveyance of 29 Fredora Ave GAULTER to PIERREPOINT S&S £10 -do- 1943 & others - 5 documents on ownership of 54 Woolman Rd BILLINGTON,BULLEN, MARSHALL, LATHAM, HARRISON £15 -do- 1949 Conveyance of 184 Bispham Rd NUTTALL to WILKINSON 9pp S&S £10 -do- 1954 Abstract of the title of Wm WALMESLEY to rents at Little Bispham 4pp (Gretna Cres) £10 -do- 1957 Typed conveyance of 46 Helen’s Close WALSH & GREENER to MELLOR £10 -do- 1957 Typed conveyance of 34 Gosforth Rd BEEVIS to ROBINSON -do- 1958 Abstract of the title of Eda SANDERSON to 25/23 Sunningdale Ave. Typed 3pp £10 -do- 1958 Abstract of the title of Hannah CADMAN to 25/23 Sunningdale Ave. Typed 4pp £10 -do- 1959 Abstract of the title of COLLINS to land at 25 Sunningdale Ave. Typed 2pp +plan & Land Charges forms £10 -do- 1960 Abstract of title of Charles Vivian & Stanley Morris THORNLEY to 9 Orme St. 7pp typed. £10 -do- 1961 Typed abstract of title of Agnes SMITH to 47 Arnott Rd with plan £10 -do- 1961 Typed abstract of title of NELSON to 273 Hawes Side Lane, -do- 1968. Typed abstract of late Mrs ASHTON to 14 South Park Drive with a 1946 conveyance WATSON to ASHTON £15 -do- 1969-70 Mortgage & Conveyance Henry NORCROSS –Sandbach Building Soc for 25 Sunningdale Ave (5 documents ) £10 -do- 1978 Conveyance of 63 Limbrick Rd. WOODS to HORSFIELD & DAVIES with several earlier documents for this address (Bretherton) 1692 single sheet document relatinbg to Moore Family of Bank Hall. £20 (Burnley) 1855 Leasehold premises in Anne St CHADWICK & CRYER –LIVESEY £10 (Bury) 1817 Lease (copy) of premises in Elton CALROW to SHAW 3pp £10 (Chorley) 1705 Copy of a document pertaining to Thomas CROSS of Cross Hall. 9pages on paper. Difficult to read due to the style of writing. Copied are signatures of Thomas CLAYTON, ,Bertie ENTWISTSLE, Geoff CULCHETH, Peter BILLINGE , J(?) PRESCOTTand StanLey WORDEN (?) A hole on the final page with little loss of text. £20, -do- 1895 Appointment Rev Charles MICHELL & Miss Mitchell of as trustees, 1895, will of Miss AHMUTY of Lymington, 2 sheets S&S £20 (Colne) 1708 indenture, sale of mansion at Gt Athey, Foulridge, signed by 15 creditors of Tim. GAUKROGER, bankrupt maltster, vellum bit grubby with few rust stains and holes £30 -do- 1885 conveyance, freehold, FLH MORRICE to TR KNOWLES & others, 3 sheets + plan S&S £ -do- 1885 conveyance, freehold, S&S 4 sheets including plan, names as above £15 -do- 1885 conveyance, freehold, MORRICE to KNOWLES, 5 large sheets + colour plan £15 -do- 1889 duplicate lease, land Charles St/York St/Portland St, T R KNOWLES to T ORMEROD, single sheet with plan £15 (Euxton) 2 vellum indentures `1725 various signators Includes messuage ‘Gledhill’ & various named closes and is marriage settlement for Jas FOSTER (Charnock Richard) & Eliz HOLDEN (Leagram) £100 (Farnworth) 1925 agreement of employment LAWSONS Ltd & Geo CROMPTON 7pp signed £15 (Fleetwood) 1875 Printed abstract of the title of Fleetwood Estate Ltd to freehold hereditaments & premises in Fleetwood 32 large sheets with 3 large folding coloured plans £50 76

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- 1905 lease of Central Billiard Rooms, North Albert St Mary & Charles BRADLEY 3pp S&S £10 -do- 1938 mortgage & other papers re 37 Church St- HEARNSHAW £10 -do- 1932 mortgage 33 Church St, Typed/handwritten, Signed EV WOOLLEY £10 -do- 1932 mortgage 51 (formerly 3) Warren St, with various related letters SUMNER Signed £10 -do-. 1920 Abstract of the title of WJ EDMONDSON to hereditaments in Elm /Willow St. 9 typed sheets with a small plan £10 (Joynson) 1899 marriage JOYNSON-Miss FRANKLIN, Torquay, 8pp vellum + 2 typed memos, 1925 appointment of trustee MANSFIELD 6pp, 1931 release trustee BOLD 7pp paper. Most S&S £30 (Kirkham) 1879 mortgage, land etc, John RICHARDS to Hy FISHER, 2 sheets £20 -do- 1836 marriage settlement Thomas Langton BIRLEY, with an 1845 promissory note £30 -do- 1876 Draft mortgage of Mill Hey, Warton. CLIFTON-WORTHINGTON 6pp Handwritten,unsigned. Lists some field names but appears incomplete, along with another 1876 draft mortgage of land in Warton & Bryning CLIFTON-WINSTANLEY 7pp handwritten Unsigned. Includes field names Pair £15 -do- 1876 draft mortgage –land ,buildings in Ribby Rd BENSON to DICKSON, GORTON, VEEVERS 5pp handwritten Unsigned £10 -do- 1971 Conveyance of 20 Danes Close WALSH & GREENER to WEBB 12pp + folding plan £10 (Little Lever) 1855 mortgage, land etc in the Stopes, 2 large vellums S&S HOLME - ALLEN; 1864 reconveyance ALLEN - HOLME & others single sheet signed ALLEN(pair) £30 (Liverpool) 1637 Single sheet S&S by John BOWER of Ayntree and 4 witnesses. Difficult to read due to the style of writing 10 x 15inchs £20 1678 Single sheet document between Robert WHITFIELD of Liverpool & Henry MARTIN of Fazackerley. S&S by WHITFIELD Witnesed by John Higginson & Richard STOCKLEY. Difficult to decipher due to the style of writing £20 -do- 1698 Small document Difficult to decipher due to style of the writing. Concerns Robert WHITFORD, watchmaker of Fazackerly (S&S by him) also signed by John HIGGINSON (his mark), Richard STOCKLEY & WH (?) GANDY 15x7inches £20 -do- 1707 and 1752 Two documents relating to lease of land in Fazackerley Between (illegible name) JOHN Hawarden FAZACKERLEY of Ormskirk S&S by ?. Witnessed by two BROWNSWORD men. £40 (2) -do- 1709 Indenture Single sheet on paper. Concerns land in Fazackerly between Wm HEATON & Thomas MARTIN of Fazackerly and Thomas CROSS of Cross Hall, Chorley. S&S by HEATON. I suspect that there may be slight loss of text on one edge which is holed, perhaps for stitching. . £20 -do- 1712 Indenture between Wm HEATON and Thomas MARTIN, both of Fazackerley and Thomas CROSS of Cross Hall, Chorley. Single sheet of paper. S&S by HEATON Other signatures are Daniel BURLINGHAM (?), Robert WHATMOUGH and Dan BIRCHALL. Some of the ink has been smudged. One small hole on a fold, without loss of text. £20 -do- 1719 Condition of an obligation. A bond between Robert WATMOUGH of Fazackerly and Thomas MARTIN. Single sheet S&S by WATMOUGH,Witnessed by Richd ECCLESTON & Dan BIRCHALL £20.. -do- 1720 Indenture between Robert WHATMOUGH & Thomas MARTIN, both of Fazackerly…..’messuage & tenement with stables, yard…’ A single large sheet of paper. Some foxing. Holed at the folds without loss of text. S&S by WHATMOUGH, also by Richard ECCLESTON and others.. £20

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BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- 1723 Indenture of Assignment between Henry HARPER of Walton and Richard HIGINSON (sic) re a lease. S&S by HARPER.Witnessed byRobert BOOTH,Jas LUNT & James ROGERSON’S mark. £20 -do- 1740 Lease of land in Fazackerly between Viscount MOLYNEUX & Richard HIGGINSON Single sheet. S&S by MOLYNEUX. Witnesses signatures also £20 -do- 1827.lease for a year, land in St Annes St GERARD to LEIGH Single sheet S&S £10 -do- 1839 Halmote Court surrender of land near Old Swan PARR to DICKENSON Single vellum sheet Some staining Holed on fold £5 -do- 1840 Halmote Court (copy) surrender of land near Old Swan THORNTON,BACKER, CARR to DICKENSON Single vellum with plan £15 -do- 1841 probate of will of Isabella BUGGELN single vellum sheet with registrar’s certificate & seal £10 -do- 1841 copy surrender of land near Edge Lane & Old Swan Single vellum sheet DICKENSON- - OAKDEN £10 -do- 1845 Account of the personal estate of James BARLOW (d.4.12.44, of Liverpool 4-sides form with 5 schedules attached. Forms completed by John BARLOW , merchant of Manchester (His son ?) £20 -do- 1849 contract for sale of house St Ann St LEIGH to KITCHEN 3pp on paper handwritten S&S £10 -do- 1863 reassignment of land in Hopwood St WARD & MOSS TO myers single sheet vellum S&S £10 -do- 1863 mortgage MYERS of Toxteth Park & Liver Building Soc re buildings in Hopwood St 11pp on paper in linen cover £10 -do- 1867 schedule of deeds re messuages in Whiterock St, West Derby REEVES, HOLDEN single sheet handwritten £5 -do- 1869 schedule of deeds re 3 houses Mossley Hill mortgaged by RUSHWORTH – LOTT single sheet receipted £5 -do- 1869 deed of confirmation re land in Hopwood st ALLETSON & JONES –Liver Building Soc 3pp vellum S&S £10 -do- 1869 assignment of messuages in Hopwood St. Liver B Soc to PARRY single vellum sheet S&S £10 -do- 1877 mortgage of a share in £6,000 from will of Wm CLAXTON 7pp handwritten on paper DUNCAN-CLAXTON –HOLMES S&S £10 -do-, 1882 assignment of shares – premises in St, Everton CROSBY 4pp vellum S&S £10 -do- 1883 settlement after death 22pp vellum The bottom edge has been chewed, but no loss of text JONES, THEW, CATTRALL £10 -do-, 1886 inventory of marriage settlement EDMONDSON – CORNELIUS 5pp vellum along with 1937 appointment of trustees of that marriage settlement EDMONDSON & Miss CORNELUIUS 4pp typed on paper S&S £25 -do-, 1886 marriage settlement EDMONDSON & Miss CORNELIUS 19pp vellum £20 -do-, 1888 appointment of trustee BADGER single vellum sheet 3 signators & seals £10 -do-, 1895 discharge of E MOSLEY from trustees of marriage settlement, OLDERSHAW & HOLBROOK 3pp S&S £15 -do-, 1897 marriage settlement HARRIS to Miss ELLIS of Toxteth Park 29pp vellum The bottom edge has been chewed (?) No loss of text but a solicitor’s signature partially lost £20 -do-, 1904 marriage settlement CORNELIUS to Miss HAUGHTON of Oxton 30pp vellum £20 -do-, 1906 marriage settlement Fred MONTAG to Louisa UNDERWOOD 12pp S&S along with 1912 appointment of new trustee of the settlement £30 78

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do-, 1906 mortgage: ‘Hazlehurst’, Wavertree 3pp vellum S&S STRICKLAND – WAINWRIGHT £10 -do-, 1907 marriage settlement IRELAND to Miss CLAXTON 30pp vellum S&S £30 -do-, 1909 appointment of trustees of will of Harry DICKENSON 5pp vellum S&S £10 -do-, 1910 appointment of new trustees re marriage settlement (1879) NIMMO to Miss PENNEFATHER 5pp vellum S&S £15 -do-, 1912 marriage settlement CORNELIUS – Miss STUART 14PP Vellum S&S £20 -do-, 1914 Conveyaance of 8 Norwood Grove 4pp vellum ASBURY to SILVERBECK S&S £10 -do-, 1919 reconveyance of unidentified hereditaments in L:iverpool & Cheshire 6pp vellum S&S PATERSON (Lodge-Dickinson-Harper) 1874 marriage settlement Ed Hewitt LODGE & Aspden Pickup DICKINSON Blackburn/ Liverpool/Lancaster families Single sheet S&S £10 (Lowton) 1812 lease, farm, MACKIE to ECCLES, vellum sheet S&S £20 -do- 1812 covenant Mackie to Eccles, vellum sheet S&S £20 -do- 1813 leae of farm BALDWIN & MACKIE to SIXSMITH, vellum sheet S&S£20 -do- 1813 release, lands, MACKIE, BALDWIN to SIXSMITH, 3 large vellum sheets S&S £20 -do- 1820 lease RIGBY & DUTTON to LEIGH, land etc, vellum sheet S&S £15 -do- 1821 release WORSLEY to LEIGH, vellum sheet 12 signatures £20 -do- 1835 release, estate, EVER & SIXSMITH to PICKUP & LORD, 2 large vellum sheets £20 -do- 1838 mortgage, farm, MARSH, SIXSMITH, PICKUP, LORD, vellum sheet S&S £20 -do- 1842 conveyance LEGH to WHITTLE, 3 large sheets, 8 sigs and seals£20 -do- 1848 mortgage, MARSH, SIXSMITH, DIXON, LORD, 2 large vellum sheets £20 -do- 1869 mortgage Hague Bush Farm, CHESTER to HETHERINGTON, 8pp vellum S&S £20 -do- 1869 reconveyance Garton Common, LORD to CHESTER, 10pp vellum S&S £15 (Lytham St Annes) 1913 assignment 98 Mayfield Rd ASHWORTH - WHITAKER, 7pp S&S £8 -do- 1913, house as above to SHAW, 9pp S&S £8 -do- 1922 lease land etc Mayfield Rd COLLINS - WHITAKER, 13pp inc plan£10 -do- 1913 mortgage 98 Mayfield Rd WHITAKER, 17pp £8 -do- 1896 indenture John HOLT of Park Road owes £120, lists furniture against debt S&S £10 -do- 1919 lease 23 Kensington Rd, CONSTANTINE of Bolton to WHITAKER of Halifax, S&S £10 (Maghull) 1693 10 x 12inches single sheet. A lease difficult to read/transcribe.. Concerns Wm MAGHULL of Maghull. S&S by him. Two witnesses’ signatures. £20 (Manchester) 1794 Release & assignment re the estate of William WHITTAKER. 2 large vellum sheets. Bears seals & signatures of Esther, William & John WHITTAKER, Thomas TIPPING & James BARTON. £30 1797 Grant of a pew in St Mary’s church at yearly rent of 10s.with a receipt from George DOANO Large single sheet of vellum, handwritten. Bears three signatures- NOT Doano’s and a seal £20 1803 Office copy , unsigned, ,re a case heard before justices at Lancaster between John BARTON, John BALDWIN & Henry BARTON and Jonathan WATSON OF Stretford, John & Frances POTTER & Jonathan WATSON re a messuage, shippon, orchard, garden & pasture in Chorlton Row £5 1815 Probate of the will of John BOOTH of Ardwick with copy of the will + certificate with seal. £20 1817 Certificate of Conformity of the bankruptcy of William NORRIS ,formerly of Manchester, hat manufacturer, dealer and chapman. Large sheet S&S by NORRIS and Commissioners Richard ASHWORTH, & Samuel EDGE also 16 creditors. Dusty £20 1822 An uncompleted handwritten ‘Command’ to James & Elizabeth HINDLEY relating to a tenement in Bury Street with Richard Meadowcroft WHITLOW. Single velum sheet. Two 79

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS signatures have been deleted £10 1831. Assignment of bankruptcy etc….Richard Walker RUSHFORTH merchant & chapman, John WALKER & Richard POTTER. Large single sheet, printed and handwritten. S& S by Geo CONDY, Richard DUCK & Richard Meadowcroft WHITLOW Dusty. £20 1831 Assignment of an insurance policy on the life of John Sayers GRAY, wine & spirit merchant. Involves Wm MOORE of Liverpool & Wm SMITH of Manchester re GRAY’s estate and John BARLOW of Manchester One sheet, two sided , holed at the fold.. With a handwritten addendum pinned to it. S&S by five persons. £20 1834 Schedule of the accounts of Alexander UNSWORTH, commercial traveller formerly of Aytoun St, Manchester now in Lancaster Prison. A 7-page form part-printed and filled in with ink, apparantly by UNSWORTH whose signature it bears. . The form is prepared by the Court for the Relief of Insolvent debtors .Dusty. £40 1836 Agreement between John Alwood BEAVER, Messrs KAY, BARLOW & ASTON for John Watson BARTON & Hy BARTON to buy land in Blackstock, Chorlton on Medlock. 3 handwritten pages. Signed by BEAVER £15 1838 Attornment of the occupants of 18 houses in Ancoats Vale rented from Wm Barlow, drysalter Single sheet bearing signatures of agreement to pay rent £15 1840 Last will & testament of John BARLOW Handwritten on paper 48pp Signed by John & James BARLOW £30 1841 Assignment of the estate of John Burdett MARTIN naming Nicholas MARTIN & Bernard MARTIN. Two large vellum sheets. S&S by John Burdett MARTIN , with a schedule naming creditors £30 1847 Indenture between Thomas BRODERICK of Macclesfield , William HOPES of Westmorland & Henry PERKES relating to a messuage or tenement at Newton. Two large sheets of vellum. Handwritten. S&S by 3 parties. £20 1849 Mortgage of premises (The Pinfold) in to secure £160 + interest between Frederic WiLDE & Wm BARLOW’ 2 sheets, S&S. Stained. £20 1850 Agreement for the sale of premises in Openshaw. Geo & Wm BARLOW\ TO Joseph (or Joshua?) BECK 3pp Handwritten on paper Signed by BARLOW & BECK £15 1851 Bond between Corporation & the Manchester& Salford Waterworks Co for £500,000. 7pp. Sealed. Includes many names of mortgage holders £20 1852 Lease of Thistle Brewery, Sudell St for 7yrs. Robert LITTLE, blacksmith to Richard MALLINSON of Chorlton and John FRATER,common brewers Single large sheet of vellum S&S by the 3 parties. £30 1853 Signed agreement between Messrs KAY, BARLOW, & Francis NORBURY, builder for land at Blackstock 3pp. Dusty £15 1853 Agreement between Messrs KAY, BARLOW & ASTON AND Francis NORBURY, builder re land at Blackstock. 3pp on paper. BeRS 4 SIGNATURES £15 1853 Handwritten invoice from solicitors Kay, Barlow & Aston for items involving (inter alia) plaing ads in the Manchester papers for building land at Blackstock 2pp £10 1854 Agreement between Francis NORBURY & Marcus Brown WESTHEAD for the occupation of a house & premises High St Chorlton on Medlock Handwritten on paper 2pp Signed by both parties £15 1854 Headed invoice of Joseph WILDE, Upholsterer/Cabinetmaker , Grosvenor St, Chorlton on Medlock £5 1854 Handwritten statement from Wm SLATER, attorney writing to Francis NORBURY,builder of Ardwick, Craig Francis NORBURY re land in Ardwick 2pp handwritten. Signed by SLATER, £10 1854 Handwritten invoice on plain paper from Francis NORBURY, builder of Ancoats to Mr Wm MORRALL plumber for work on 8 houses in Rd £5 80

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS 1855 Invoices for advertising houses to let in Manchester Advertiser (GALT,GENT & Co) and Manchester Examiner (Alexander IRELAND & Co) £8 1855 Headed invoice from LENS & BASS , timber merchants Pall Mall & Salford £5 1855 Writ issued by Geo SERMON (brickmaker of Gorton) to compel Francis NORBURY of Ardwick Green to attend Civil Court fre an unpaid account. £10 1855 Letter to J BARLOW From Manchester Bankruptcy Court re Francis NORBURY requesting his attendanace £5 1855 Agreement for lease of a house in High St Chorlton on Medlock for £50 p.a. Richard ASPDEN – Robert BLACKBURN. 2pp A printed form with inked details. Signed by BLACKBURN £10 1855 Policy of insurance issued by Royal Ins Co to Alexander KAY, John BARLOW & John P ASTON re 6 dwellings in High St, Chorlton on Medlock. Large printed form with details in ink £20 1866 Mortgage between Upton & Rev Richard CHICHESTER of Prestwich, on an estate , lands, premises in Ardwick, 14pp S&S £20 1868 Township of Chorlton on Medlock invoice for flagging & paving High St. Single sheet 18x9inches handwritten on printed form £10.. 1878 Conveyance of a plot of land at Blackstock . John P. ASTON TO Wm BARLOW Handwritten on paper 11pp £20 1878 Agreement for sale of land in Chorlton on Medlock & of the perpetual yearly rents within mentioned. John P. ASTON & Wm BARLOW Handwritten on paper 8pp Signed by ASTON £15 1878 Further abstract of the title of John Partington ASTON to land in High St, Chorlton on Medlock etc etc, also plots of land sold to Wainwright BELLHOUSE 9pp on paper £20 1878 Conveyance between John P ASTON & Wm BARLOW re plots of land in Blackstock, Chorlton which are listed in a schedule. 8pp on paper £15 1879 A draft, unsigned and undated indenture releasing Wm BARLOW of the will of George MOREWOOD of Bakewell. Handwritten on paper. 5pp, along with another undated and unsigned draft which appoints John Henry ROGERS & Ann McCONNEL as trustees of that will. £20 1896. Sun Insurance Co Policy for 18 houses in Barlow Terrace, Chorlton on Medlock. Names of BARLOW & BRADLEY.Single sheet In an envelope. I suggest it be framed £20 1898 6pp handwritten legal opinion by H Cozens Hardy on 9 questions relating to SHAW JARDINE & Co, cotton spinners, the company’s shares, trustees & directors. £10 (Newton in Makerfield) 1855 Draft of 2 plots of land sold by Thomas LEIGH of Lyme Hall and Wm BARLOW of Manchester. Completed in ink but unsigned AND An agreement between them for granting a lease for 999yrs for building, also completed in ink but unsigned. (2) £20 (Oldham) 1824 Small promissory note for £8 4s 4d from Mary COLLLINSON to repay John BARLOW (?) Witnessed by John RADCLIFFE Stamped £10 (Orrell) 1890 conveyance of land, Wigan Rd; Pemberton Local Board to BARNES vellum inc plan £20 – to HEATON 6pp with plan £10 -do- 1890 duplicate deed of exchange of lands, Worsley Mesnes. 2 large vellum sheets, one a plan. BANKES & BROWN 8 signators , seals £20 --do- 1897 mortgage of the Victoria inn & 2 cottages HEATON to ROBINSON 9pp vellum S&S with 3pp schedule of deeds relative on paper £20 -do- 1897 typed copy conveyance of mines under Victoria Inn. HEATON –BLUNDELL 7pp £10 -do- 1924 abstract of title to Victoria Inn, a shop & cottage HEATON –ROBSON Starts 1796. 3 typed documents, also typed conveyance of mines under the area 1873 schedule of deeds £20 -do- 1933 abstract of title of Victoria inn, Goose green. 7 typed sheets, also collection of related letters & papers re LIVOCK £15 81

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS (Poulton-le-Fylde) 1908 mortgage of interests under will of late Joseph Briggs DICKSON 11pp 3 signatures £10 -do- 1941 Conveyance of ‘Bengomar’, Garstang Rd. BENTLEY to INGHAM 2 sheets S&S along with 1945 conveyance of ‘Lynden’, formerly ‘Bengomar’ INGHAM to RICHARDSON 4pp S&S £10 -do-. 1945 Abstract of the title of Ernest RICHARDSON to ‘Lynden’ (formerly ‘Bengomar’), near Hr Compley Farm. Typed with coloured plan £10 (Preesall) 1953/4 Collection of papers inc valuation ,large plan re tenancy agreement of Hr Lickow Farm. I.C.I to STEPHENSON £20 -do- (5 items) 1910 Assignment of moiety in land & house (‘Rockleigh’, 41 Elletson Terrace) 3pp S&S…. 1915 Mortgage on Rockleigh. WILLIAMS TO THOMPSON S&S 1923 Assigment of mortgage for Rockleigh S&S THOMPSON to WILLIAMS 1923 Mortgage for Rockleigh WILLIAMS to oE S&S 1927 Abstract of the title of Janet WILLIAMS to Rockleigh. 6 typed sheets. Bears Land Registry label 5 items £20 -do- 1963 Typed abstract of the title of Richard HUNT to Fordstone Farm with two 1964 documents with small plans. . GARTSIDE Bros. £15 -do- 1967 Conveyance of 29 Elmwood Ave GARTSIDE BROS to BROWN 6pp with plan. S&S £10 (Preston) I have a separate list of these. Ask for it to be emailed (Prestwich) 1807 Indenture on a large sheet of vellum. Samuel Meadowcroft and John Rutter& George LAMB re land, buildings at Blackford Bridge. S&S by MEADOWCROFT £20 -do- 1805 Lease of land in Prestwich. James RICHARDSON OF Unsworth to John GALLIMORE of Rooden Lane. Large single sheet. S&S by RICHARDSON Some involvement of Lord DERBY .Dusty £20 -do- 1819 Two indentures relating to the bankruptcy of James HERVEY, drysalter of Manchester and John Rutter LAMB OF Unsworth Lodge, Pilkington, calico printer & chapman. S&S by HERVEY and the Commissoners, Richard ASHWORTH, Samuel EDGE & Wm CLAUGHTON (2) £30 -do- 1819 Indenture relating to the bankruptcy of John Rutter LAMB of UnsworthJames HERVEY - assignment of his personal estate. 2 large sheets S&S by John WALKER, Richard ASHWORTH. Samuel EDGE William CLAUGHTON £20 (Rochdale) 1932 mortgage of Pottery Farm, Syke. EVANS. Printed, typed & signed. With other related letters & conveyance £15 -do-. 1933 grant of right or easement ….aqueduct or line of pipes in Wardle. EVANS-Corporation. 13pp + coloured plan with other related letters £15 -do- 1906-9. 7 letters to a Preston solicitor re tenancy of Meadows Farm. Norden (PRICE) £10 (Rossendale) 1840 Draft (unsigned) surrender of premises in Waterfoot 15pp handwrItten on paper. Concerns Eliza & Mary HARGREAVES, Robert Smith, ,Ann SCHOFIELD, Peter ASHWORTH, Edward MELLOR £20 (Samlesbury) Farm leases from B’burn Corporation with seal; a) 1875/78 John SMITH, Smith Fold, Cowells, and Hole Bottom Farms, £20; b) 1875/77 Richard WALMESLEY, Darwenside Farm, £20; c) 1875/77/78 Wm & Margaret THOMPSON, Blue Slate Farm, £30; d) 1875/77 Ellen KNIGHT, Roacher Hall Farm, £20; e) 1876/77 Thomas MASON, Lower Nabs Head Farm, £20; f) 1877 George MASON, Sharples Farm, £10; g) 1877/78 John MASON, Nabs Head Farm, £20 (Southport) 1881 Mortgage of premises in Park Crescent: Wm & John SMETHURST to Lancaster Banking Co 3 sheets S&S £30 82

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do- 1883 Probate of the will & codicil of Wm FERNLEY (d.1.7.83) 2 large parchment sheets £15 1883 marriage settlement James Wm MARSHALL of Leeds & Miss MORTON 24pp Vellum £20 -do- 1884 Mr & Mrs Charles WALSH’s marriage settlement . New trustees HULSE, DEAKIN, BARRON 3 sheets S&S £20 -do- 1889 mortgage ‘Kingswood’, Birkdale. MITCHELL.,MORTON,WILSON &ELSE 9pp vellum S&S £15 -do- 1901 indenture re lease of land in Fir St 10pp & 2 plans Under will of Charles SCARISBRICK £10 -do-, 1902 conveyance of a rent for 14 Victoria St VEEVERS to BRIERLEY 2pp S&S £20 (Southport/Fleetwood) 1868 marriage settlement Rev Adam WRIGHT & Catherine Priscilla HUNT. Signed also by TOYNE & PORTER single sheet S&S £15 -do- 1880 appointment of trustee of George Dawson HUNT’s will. Involves WRIGHT, DICKSON £15 (Salford) 1828 release of land in Chapel St LIVINGSTON & JOHNSON to BROWNBILL 3 large vellum sheets with small plan Signed by BROWNBILL £20 -do- 1828 release of land in Chapel St LIVINGSTON & JOHNSON to BROWNBILL 3 large vellum sheets with small plan S&S £20 -do- 1828 lease for a year of land in Chapel St LIVINGSTON & JOHNSON to BROWNBILL Single vellum sheets S&S £20 -do- 1850 deed of dissolution of partnership, Alfred NORTON & Co, steel makers. HIGGINS – NORTON 3 sheets S&S £20 -do- 1853 conveyance of a plot of land & messuage in Browning St LIVINGSTON & JOHNSON to BROWNBILL 3 large sheets inc small plan S&S £20 -do- 1861 conveyance Chapel St/Browning St BROWNBILL to ROBINSON 2 large vellums S&S £20 -do- 1866 mortgage : land etc in Browning St ROBINSON to OGDEN, THOMPSON & WILLIAMS 3 large vellum sheets S&S £20 -do- 1869 further charge of property in Chapel St. Single large vellum sheet ROBINSON to OGDEN, THOMPSON & WILLIAMS S&S £20 -do- 1875 conveyance of land etc in Chapel St & Bexley Sq ROBINSON to CLAPHAM & CALLWOOD 2 large vellum sheets S&S £20 -do-, 1875 mortgage : land etc in Chapel St, Bexley Sq & Browning St. CLAPHAM & CALLWOOD to McNALLY & SHELMARDINE 2 large vellum sheets S&S £20SAS -do- 1876 mortgage of land etc in Chapel St 2 large vellum sheets MIDDLEHURST to HOLLIDAY & LONG S&S £15 -do- 1876 conveyance of land in Chapel St CLAPHAM & CALLWOOD to MIDDLEHURST 2 large vellum sheets S&S £20 -do- 1879 conveyance of land etc Chapel St MIDDLEHURST to DIGGLES Single vellum sheet S&S £15 -do- 1938 Contract sale of ‘Belmont House’ 8 Gravel St to an un-named purchase with various letters (Mr MARTIN withdrew) £10 (Thornton-Cleveleys) 1932 mortgage of 2 messuages in Nutter Rd. KNOWLES to Leek & Moorlands Building Soc. £10 -do- 1938 Typed declaration of Robert & Fred PARKINSON rte Fisher’s Fold. -do- 1938 Typed abstract of the title of Joseph Ono BOWDEN & Wm CHADDERTON to land & buildings in Fisher’s Fold. With a 1939 item . Both have plans £10 -do- 1939 Conveyance of land & 72 Devonshire Ave. BOWDEN & CHADDERTON to CHAMBERS . 7 typed sheets. S&S £10 -do- Various years. Folder containing several items re 72 Devonshire Ave 1939-80 £20 83

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS -do-. 1937 Abstract of the title of WH GARRATT to land 8pp + plan (Bowness/Coniston Ave areas) £10 -do- 1945-76 7 documents relating to 32 Woodland Ave, CHEW,MURTHWAITE, WALKER, ASPDEN, PORTER, SLATER £20 -do- 1961 Abstract of the title of SIMMONS Ltd to land in Victoria Rd 4pp with plan £10 (Warton –Fylde) 1932 Abstract of the title of Edward FENTON to Fletcher’s Farm, bought from John Talbot CLIFTON 4pp along with a 1933 photocopied conveyance of land & 6 houses in Lytham Rd – BOWMAN to DUCKWORTH £10 -do- 1963 conveyance of 307 Lytham Rd, DUCKWORTH-DORAN with photocopy of 1933 document FENTON to BOWMAN £10

LANCASHIRE PATENTS – NAMES INDEX (Bold = more than one item) Correct at 26.4.2020

• Anger…Armitage • Blechynden…Ball.…Benn….Booth.… Baron…Birtwistle… Barker…Brassington…Bamford…Bleasdale… • Crossman…Coulthurst…Cleminson…Cank…Charters • Dow…Duckworth • Edmends • Fish…Ferranti…Fletcher…Foster • Greenwood • Hamer…Helme.…Heys…Holderness…Hollas…Hutchins…Haigh…Hague…Hamilton… Hutchinson • Kerr • Lees…Leece…Lyon…Lonsdale…Lockwood…Leach • Municipal Appliances Ltd • Norris… Norwood • Platt…Pilkington…Preston • Rawkins…Roberts • Simpson….Smith.…Smethurst.…Stott.…Spencer.… Scott-King... Swailes…Simmons • Thompson…Tattersall…Taylor • Williams…Winstanley-Mounsey…Whalley…Wadkin…Wiggins • Zani

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I offer, @ £5 each post free, the following Patent Specifications from Lancashire-based applicants. They are approx A4 size, unbound, having been taken from a book. Some have been stapled for security. They were printed by HMSO for The Patent Office and bear the Patent Office Reference Number, which should be quoted, along with the year, when being ordered. The number of pages (pp) of text is shown, but not the number of accompanying drawings, which all of them have. Most bear a library’s stamp. They will be sent on approval to ensure the customer’s satisfaction before payment is made. I have similar lists for Manchester/Salford, Liverpool, Southport, Bolton & Bury-based applicants, as well as some for Cheshire, Yorkshire, & Sheffield – based applicants.

1893 18311 Alfred BLECHYNDEN, Barrow in Furness…tubular steam boilers 4pp 1904 1537 Sykes BENN, Haslingden…air pumps/condensers for steam engines 3pp 4643 Thomas, Ralph & Wm LEES, Hollinwood…wood working machine 2pp 6140 Benjamin HELME, Rhodes…incandescent gas burners 3pp 6175 Tom CROSSMAN, Oldham…feeding of grain to machines (in brewing) 2pp 6210 Peter PILKINGTON Ltd, Dowry Iron Works, Bamber Bridge…compressed air installations 5pp 7415 George LEECE, Barrow…clothes line holder 2pp 8755 Asa LEES & Co, Oldham…spinning/doubling frames 4pp 8756 -do-…3pp 10517 George Albert BOOTH, Phoenix Ironworks, Preston…register grates 1pp 112289 Thomas EDMENDS, Royton…incubators 3pp 13516 Wm Edward TAYLOR, Blackpool…a mechanical ear used for the suspension of overhead trolley wire 2pp 17460 Willie HEYS, Rawtenstall…chimneys or cylinders for incandescent gas burners 2pp 17631 Wm Harold HOLDERNESS, Ulverston…coin freed apparatus for delivering newspapers etc 6pp 25420 James STOTT, Oldham…gas governors 2pp 1905 3642 Lord BARON, Frederick Thomas BIRTWISTLE & Wm Henry SPENCER,. Blackpool…sand valve for trains,motor cars etc 2pp 4927 Wm Henry HOLLAS, Blackpool…fish & chip ranges 1pp 7174 Thomas EDMENDS, Royton…water tanks of incubators 2pp 11657 Thomas Wm Stainer HUTCHINS, Blackpool…gas producer 3pp 12984 Thomas Dains WILIAMS & Wm GREENWOOD, Oldham…flukers for spinning/twisting machines 2pp 16687 William WINSTANLEY-MOUNSEY, Blackpool…boxes for matches, cigarettes etc 1pp 20047 John Staples RAWKINS, Penwortham & Wm SIMPSON, Preston…pressers for trousers 2pp 22555 Herbert BRASSINGTON, Morecambe…ventilators 3pp 23721 WB HAIGH & Co.Oldham…wood mortice machines 2pp 25569 -do-…mortising machines 5pp 26200 Percy BAMFORD, Willow Bank Mill, Oldham…spinning/doubling machinery 2pp 26646 Henry LYON, Preston…refrigerating apparatus 5pp 27245 Wm HAMILTON & FERRANTI Ltd, Hollinwood…counting trains for meters 4pp 85

BOB DOBSON – LANCASHIRE LISTS 1906 672 Arthur Ralph FISH, Penwortham…weaving of weft-pile fabrics 2pp 26033 Joseph Fitzalan SIMPSON, Fulwood…magnetic brakes for vehicles on rails 3pp 1908 1680 Thomas BLEASDALE & James Edward ROBERTS, Preston…spring buffer for looms 2912 Robert Ridley CLEMINSON, Barrow in Furness…safety appliance for coupling railway vehicles 6pp 3818 Thomas & Eadauf FLETCHER, upholsterers ,Preston…sofas & couches 2pp 7856 Annie PRESTON, Talbot Sq, Blackpool…protecting the points of crochet hooks etc 3pp 9111 Charles WHALLEY, builders merchant, Blackpool…mixing machines 6pp 15163 Frederick Wm LONSDALE, steeplejack & James LANG, Preston…locking railway carriage doors 2pp 16547 Joseph Wm WADKIN & Thomas SCOTT-KING, Preston…wood-cutting appliances 5pp 21563 Wm NORRIS , Blackpool & Thomas SCOTT-KING…percussion tools operated by expansible fluid 5pp 21791 Hubert Sleigh THOMPSON, Werneth, Oldham…gas mantles/ incandescent lights 4pp 24031 Joseph & James Yates FOSTER, Wm Sanders DOW & James Ernest SMITH, Preston /Longton…rotary printing machines 3pp 26736 John Edward ANGER, Strand Rd, Preston…railway, tramway vehicles 5pp 1909 1900 John SWAILES & Sons Ltd, Moorhey, Oldham…paper tubes/bobbins 3pp 11101 Richard BROWN, Preston…punching holes in belting 2pp 14191 Harry HAGUE, Blackpool…covering for water closet seats 2pp 21342 Wm ARMITAGE, Acre, Haslingden…preventing tampering with valves 3pp 21503 Tom TAYLOR( TAYLOR & Co), Waterfoot…machine driving belting 4pp 28954 John Edward ANGER, Strand Rd ,Preston…springs for road vehicles 5pp 1910 11212 Wm LEACH, Rawtenstall…variable-expansion pulleys 3pp 20320 Joseph & James Yates FOSTER, Wm Saunders DOW & Ernest James SMITH, Preston/Longton…matrix drying presses 2pp 20887 Richard H SIMMONS, teacher, Wigan…chalk cleaner for blackboards 3pp 1920 140283 Percy NORWOOD, Preston…machines for coating nuts with chocolate 7pp 1957 771367 MUNICIPAL APLIANCES Co Ltd., Bamber Bridge…heated tanks for bitumen 4pp

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