TAMESIDE BIBLIOGRAPHY

Compiled by the staff of: Tameside Local Studies & Archives Centre, Central Library, Old Street, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, Lancashire, OL6 7SG.

1992 (amended 1996/7 & 2006)

NOTES

1) Most of the items in the following bibliography are available for reference in the Local Studies & Archives Centre, Ashton-Under-Lyne.

2) It should not be assumed that, because a topic is not covered in the bibliography, nothing exists on it. If you have a query for which no material is listed, please contact the Local Studies Library.

3) The bibliography will be updated periodically.

ABBREVIATIONS

GMAU Greater Manchester Archaeological Unit

THSLC Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire

TLCAS Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society

TAMS Transactions of the Ancient Monuments Society

CONTENTS

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BIBLIOGRAPHIES 6

GENERAL HISTORIES 8

AGRICULTURE 10

ANTI-CORN LAW LEAGUE 11

ARCHAEOLOGY see: PREHISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 70

ARCHITECTURE 12

ART AND ARTISTS 14

AUTOBIOGRAPHIES 15

AVIATION 20

BIOGRAPHIES 21

BLACK AND ASIAN HISTORY 22

BLANKETEERS 23

CANALS 24

CHARTISM 25

CIVIL WAR 28

COTTON FAMINE 29

COTTON INDUSTRY see: INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION 39

CUSTOMS & TRADITIONS 31

DARK AGES - MEDIEVAL SETTLEMENT - THE TUDORS 33

EDUCATION 35

GEOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY 37

HATTING 38

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF COTTON 39

LAW AND ORDER 45

LEISURE 48 CONTENTS (continued)

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LOCAL INDUSTRIES (excluding cotton and hatting) 52

LOCAL WRITERS AND THE DIALECT 55

LUDDITES 57

MANCHESTER REGIMENT 58

MAPS 60

MARKETS AND FAIRS 62

MOFFAT, MARY see: RELIGION 77

MURPHY RIOTS 63

NATURAL HISTORY 64

OWEN, WILFRED see: MANCHESTER REGIMENT 58

PETERLOO 66

PLACE NAMES 67

PLUG RIOTS 68

POOR LAW AND POVERTY 69

PREHISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 70

PUBLIC HEALTH 71

PUBS AND BREWERIES 73

RAILWAYS 74

RELIGION:-

GENERAL 76

ANGLICANS 78

BAPTISTS 80

CHRISTIAN ISRAELITES 81

CONGREGATIONALISTS 83

METHODISTS 84 CONTENTS (continued)

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RELIGION (continued):-

MORAVIANS 85

PRESBYTERIANS 86

QUAKERS 86

ROMAN CATHOLICS 87

UNITARIANS 88

ROAD TRANSPORT 89

ROMANS 90

STEPHENS, J. R. see: CHARTISM 25

TOWN HISTORIES 92

TRADE UNIONISM AND THE LABOUR MOVEMENT 97

WOMEN'S HISTORY 100

WORLD WARS (the Home Front) 106 BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Bibliography of North West England Cotton. A select bibliography on cotton in North West England. 1998.

Bibliography of North West England Manchester Theatres. 1994

Bibliography of North West England Military history in the North West. 1994

Cooke, J. H. Bibliotheca Cestriensis ..... (1904)

Joint Committee on the Lancashire Bibliography: 1. Lancashire Directories, 1684-1957. 1968

Joint Committee on the Lancashire Bibliography: 2. Lancashire Acts of Parliament, 1266-1957. 1969

Joint Committee on the Lancashire Bibliography: 3. Lancashire Business Histories. 1971

Joint Committee on the Lancashire Bibliography: 4. Lancashire Family Histories. 1972

Joint Committee on the Lancashire Bibliography: 5. Registers, Monumental Inscriptions, Names, Wills. 1973

Joint Committee on the Lancashire Bibliography: 6. Historical Periods: Pre-Roman, Roman, Pre-Norman. 1973

Joint Committee on the Lancashire Bibliography: 7. Historical Periods: Norman, Plantagenet, Lancaster and York. 1974

Joint Committee on the Lancashire Bibliography: 8. Historical Periods: Stuart. 1976

Joint Committee on the Lancashire Bibliography: 9. Historical Periods: Hanoverian. 1979

Joint Committee on the Lancashire Bibliography: 10. Transport History - Railways. 1981

Lancashire Bibliography: 11. The Manchester Ship Canal. 1985

Lancashire Bibliography: 13. Textiles. Part 1: Reference Materials. 1992

Manchester Centre for Marxist Education. Labour History of Manchester and Salford: a bibliography. 1977

Regan, A. A Guide to the literature concerning Joseph Rayner Stephens of Ashton. 1972

Rose, E. A. A Handlist of Methodist local histories of Greater Manchester, 1827-1970. 1970

BIBLIOGRAPHIES (continued)

Tameside Metropolitan Borough: Leisure Services Department. Guide to Tameside Archive Service. 1970. 2nd edition 1994

Tameside Metropolitan Borough. Tameside Bibliography. 1992 (amended 1996/7 & 2007)

Wilson, R. A List of local history books and maps on Dukinfield. 1962

GENERAL HISTORIES

Aikin, J. Description of the country from thirty to forty miles around Manchester. 1795. reprinted 1968

Bagley, J. J. A History of Lancashire. 6th ed. 1976

Baines, E. History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster. 4 vols. 1836

Baines, E. Lancashire and Cheshire. Past and present. 2 vols. 1868-69

Crosby, A. History of Cheshire. 1996

Earwaker, J. P. East Cheshire. 2 vols. 1877-80

Freeman, T. W. Lancashire, Cheshire and the Isle of Man. 1966

Higham, N. J. The Origins of Cheshire. 1993

Historical Atlas of Cheshire; edited by D. Sylvester and G. Nulty. 1958

Kenyon, D. Origins of Lancashire. 1991

Marshall, J. D. Lancashire. 1974

Middle Ages in the North West. edited by T. Scott and P. Starkey. 1995

Millward, R. Lancashire: an illustrated essay on the history of the landscape. 1955

Nevell, M. Tameside Before 1066. 1992

Nevell, M. Tameside 1066 - 1700. 1991

Nevell, M. Tameside 1700 - 1930. 1993

Nevell, M. People who made Tameside. 1994

Nevell, M. The Buildings of Tameside. 1996

Nevell, M. The lands and lordships of Tameside. 1998

Nevell, M. Tameside in transition. 1999

Nevell, M. Archaeology of twentieth century Tameside. 2004

Ormerod, G. History of the County Palatine and City of Chester. 3 vols. 2nd ed. 1882

Philips, C. B. & Smith, J. H. Lancashire and Cheshire from A.D. 1540. 1994

GENERAL HISTORIES (continued)

Sylvester, D. A History of Cheshire. 1971

Victoria County History of Cheshire; edited by B. E. Harris. Vols I, II & III. 1990, 1979, 1980

Victoria County History of Lancashire; edited by W. Farrer and J. Brownbill. 8 vols. 1906-14

Walton, J. K. Lancashire. A social history, 1558-1939. 1987

Wilkins-Jones, C. Tameside: an outline history of those parts of Lancashire and Cheshire now in Tameside Metropolitan Borough. 1978

AGRICULTURE

Allan, R. ‘The delight I experience out of doors: Crichton Porteous, writer of the North-West’. In: TLCAS. Vol. 99. 2003. pp.91-110

Brooks, M. The craft of a dry stone waller. In: Folk Life. Vol. 15. 1977. pp.96-106

Green, J. J. Agriculture in Lancashire. In: Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. Vol. 90. 1929. pp.42-55

Hall, B. R. & Folland, C. J. Soils of Lancashire. 1970 (A volume in the Soil Survey of Great Britain series)

Holt, J. General view of the agriculture of the county of Lancashire. first published 1795. New ed. 1969

Land utilisation survey map. Manchester area. Scale 2.5 inches to 1 mile. 1961-7

Marshall, W. The Review and abstract policy of the county reports to the Board of Agriculture. Vol. 1: Northern Department. First published 1808. New ed. 1968 Includes the abstract of the Lancashire County Report.

Matthews, S. The Cheshire estates of John Tollemache of Peckforton, 1861-1872. In: THSLC. Vol. 154. 2005. pp.117-136

Mercer, W. B. A Survey of the agriculture of Cheshire. 1963

Nevell, M. Tameside 1066 -1700. 1991

Porteous, C. Farmers’ creed. 1938. “Hill End Farm” is Low End Farm, Hattersley.

Porteous, C. Teamsman. 1939. Set partly at Low End Farm, Hattersley

Porteous, C. The death in the fields. 1956. Novel set at Low End Farm, Hattersley

Raistrick, A. The Pennine walls. 1969

Tindall, A. 'Denton Hall Farm' In: Bucton Castle, Mossley. 1980

University of Manchester Archaeological Unit. Home Farm, Hillend, Mottram. A building survey of a 17th century free hold farmhouse. 1998

University of Manchester Archaeological Unit. Pre-industrial farming at Werneth Low. 1999

ANTI-CORN LAW LEAGUE

Brown, L. The Chartists and the Anti-Corn Law League. In: Chartist Studies. edited by A. Briggs. 1959. pp.342-372

Fairlie, S. S. The nineteenth century Corn Law reconsidered. In: Economic History Review. Vol. 18. No. 3. 3 December 1965. pp.562-575

Kemp, B. Reflections on the repeal of the Corn Laws. In: Victorian Studies. March 1962. pp.189-204

Kitson-Clark, G. Hunger and politics in 1842. In: Modern History. December 1953. Vol. 25. No. 4. pp.355-374

Lawson-Tancred, M. The Anti-League and the Corn Law crisis of 1846. In: The Historical Journal. 1960. Vol. 3. No. 2. pp.162-183

McCord, N. The Anti-Corn Law League, 1838-1846. 2nd ed. 1968

Pickering, P. A. & Tyrell, A. The people’s bread. A history of the Anti-Corn Law League. 2000

Prentice, A. History of the Anti-Corn Law League. 2 vols. first published 1853. New ed. 1968

Turner, M. J. Reform and respectability. The making of a middle class liberalism in early nineteenth century Manchester. Chetham Society. Vol. 40. 3rd series. 1995

ARCHITECTURE

Archer, J. H. C. Edgar Wood: a notable Manchester architect. TLCAS. 1963-64. Vol. 73-74. pp.153-186 Middleton-born architect who, with J. H. Sellers, designed Fairfield Avenue and the Broadway at Fairfield, Droylsden.

Ashton Old Hall; a medieval fortified manor house in Tameside. University of Manchester Archaeological Unit. 1996

Bryant, V. A. & Bryant, S. A. Excavations at Denton Hall. In: Greater Manchester Archaeological Journal 1985. 1985. pp.55-68

Fishponds Yard, Dukinfield: excavation report. GMAU. 1992

Fleetwood-Hesketh, P. Murray's Lancashire architectural guide. A gazetteer. 1955

Gifford & Partners. Denton Hall Farm, Windmill Lane, Denton, Greater Manchester. Archaeological evaluation report. 1998

Greater Manchester County Council: Planning Department. Stayley Hall Report. 1976

Hodge Cottage, Broadbottom. An architectural survey. GMAU. 1992

Kenyon, W. & Sons. Newton Hall, Hyde. Illustrated brochure. c.1970

Mansions of England and Wales. 2 vols. Chapter on Hollingworth Hall in vol. II. 1850

Marsden, T. L. Newton Hall, Hyde, Cheshire: a cruck frame c. A.D. 1380. TAMS. Vol. 18, 1971

Moran, C. Planning and control of refurbishment projects. BSc dissertation. 1998 (includes the refurbishment of Ashton Library)

Moss, F. The fifth book of pilgrimages to old homes. 1910. pp.88-110, Clayton Hall

Moss, F. The sixth book of pilgrimages to old homes. 1913. pp.103-117, Hyde Hall, Denton

Nevell, M. The Buildings of Tameside. 1996

Nevell, M. Denton and Dukinfield Halls. 2002

Pevsner, N. Cheshire. 1971 Succinct descriptions of the more important buildings, arranged alphabetically by name of town

ARCHITECTURE (continued)

Pevsner, N. South Lancashire. 1969

Philips, N. G. Views of the old halls of Lancashire and Cheshire. 1893 Chapter on Clayton Hall with an engraving by J. Stewart dated 1822

Richards, R. Old Cheshire churches. 1947 Detailed description of St. Michael's, Mottram

Rybacek, A. Homes fit for heroes in inter-war Ashton. Did they stop a revolution? 1995

Rybacek, A. A north-west town's experience of inter-war council housing: Ashton-u-Lyne, a case study. Dissertation. 1993

Stafford, K. Architectural cast-iron work with particular reference to Ashton-u-Lyne and its library. Typescript. 1977

Stott, F. R. 1885 - Hyde Town Hall. In: Looking Back At Hyde. edited by Alice Lock. 1985

Stott, F. R. Town hall buildings of Tameside. M. A. Thesis. 1983

Tameside M. B. C. Ashton Central Library, Old Street, Ashton. Refurbishment of Grade II listed building. 1997

Taylor, H. Old halls in Lancashire and Cheshire. 1884 Chapter on Denton Hall

See also "Town Histories" for specific buildings. The Victoria History of the County of Lancashire contains much information on churches. St. Michael's, Ashton, is particularly well covered.

ART AND ARTISTS

Andrews, A. The life of L. S. Lowry. 1977.

Blackshaw, I. An examination of the major influences on the life and work of Harry Rutherford. Thesis. 1990.

Bradley, H. And Miss Carter wore pink: scenes from an Edwardian childhood. 1971. (Helen Bradley was born 1900 in Lees)

Bradley, H. ‘In the beginning’ said Great-Aunt Jane. 1974

Bradley, H. Miss Carter came too. 1973

Davies, P. A northern school. 1989

Howard, M. Lowry: a visionary artist. 2000

Kenyon, Sir. G. Harry Rutherford – an appreciation. In: Living Memories of Hyde. 1990

Kimpton, J. Art of the community. A study of local life based on and around Ashton-u-Lyne market ground. 2007

L. S. Lowry, R. A. 1887-1976. 1976

Laurence Stephen Lowry, 1887-1976: a catalogue of the Salford Collection. 1977

Leber, M. and Sandling, J. L. S. Lowry. 1987

Levy, M. editor Drawings of L. S. Lowry. 1963

Levy, M. editor Drawings of L. S. Lowry: public and private. 1976

Sanderson, P. R. B. Raymond Ray-Jones, RE, ARCA, 1886-1942. 1992

Wills, H. Sheffield artists 1840-1940. 1996 (Stanley Royle, 46-48)

AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

Aitken, W. Writings of a nineteenth century working man. First published 1869. 1996

Aitken, W. Journey up the Mississippi River from its mouth to Nauvoo, the City of the Latter Day Saints. 1845

Amelang, J. S. Vox populi: popular autobiographies in early modern history. In: Urban History. Vol. 20, part 1. 1993. pp.30-42

Andrews, B. Don't fret my lad. An Ashton boyhood. 1987. Working class life in Ashton, 1910's and 1920's

Bamford, S. Passages in the life of a radical. First published 1844. new ed. 1967. Covers the years 1816 to 1821. A Manchester radical

Barrie, A. It’s not a rehearsal. 2002

Beaverbrook, Lord Men and power, 1917-1918. 1956. Beaverbrook was M. P. for Ashton for a short period

Bertenshaw, M. Sunrise to sunset. 1980, reprinted 1991 Working class childhood in Manchester. Authoress in her 70's in 1980

Bohrnstedt, J. C. While father is away. Civil War letters of William H Bradbury. 2003

Bolton, W. Recollections of a police officer relating to dogs, with useful hints as to their treatment ...... 1993. Typescript of book published 1878

Booth, T. Labour of love. 1997

Booth, T. What’s left? 2002

Bowman, W. M. Autobiographical notes. Typescript, 1972 Author of England in Ashton-u-Lyne etc., born 1900, died 1980

Bradbury, J. Travels in the interior of America. 1817 Member of the Liverpool Philosophical Society who was born in Stalybridge and was a noted botanist and explorer in America.

Bradley, J. Reminiscences in the life of Joshua Bradley. 1904 A biography of a Hyde man, subtitled "from little piecer to manager", born 1817, died 1898

Brierley, B. Home memories and recollections of a life. 1886 Dialect poet

Brooke, J. The Dukinfield I knew, 1906-1930. 1987 Working class life in Dukinfield

AUTOBIOGRAPHIES (continued)

Brooks, J. B. Lancashire bred. Parts I and II. 1940's(?) Covers the years 1875-1940's. Life story of a north Lancashire working class boy who became a Methodist minister, stationed in Stalybridge

Brooks, L. Memories of Kingston. In: Looking Back At Hyde. edited by Alice Lock. 1986. Working class life in Hyde in the 1920's Bruckshaw, H. Diaries of Private Horace Bruckshaw, Royal Marine Light Infantry, 1915-16. 1979. Hyde man who fought at Gallipoli

Burgess, J. A potential poet, autobiography and verse. 1927 Burgess was born in 1853, he lived in Droylsden and was a cotton worker, journalist, Labour activist and poet

Campbell, G. Tap dancing’s out then. 2nd ed. 2002

Chadwick, W. Reminiscences of a Chief Constable. First published 1900. 1974 Born in Mottram in1822, Chief Constable of Stalybridge, died 1902

Chadwick, W. Reminiscences of Mottram. First published 186(?). 1972

Challenor-Chadwick, A. A foot in front. 1985 Anecdotes relating to the restaurant business

Clarke, H. Confessions of a morphomaniac, or "a modern De Quincey". (c.1900) Son of a Hyde solicitor, grandson of Captain Clarke, deals with his addiction to morphia in the 1890's

Dagnah, M. H. Castle Hall revisited. Stalybridge in the nineteen-thirties. 1995

Entwistle, P. M. What’s in a life? 1998

Farish, W. Autobiography of William Farish. The struggles of a handloom weaver. First published 1889. 1996

Flowers, D. My Dukinfield childhood. 1992

Garnett, J. Diary of James Garnett of Low Moor, Clitheroe. Edited by Owen Ashmore. (1850's and 1860's). THSLC. 1969 Vol. 121 and 1972 Vol. 123. A mill owner's life

Garside, J. Diary, June 1844-December 1848. Photocopy of an article in a U.S. journal. 198(?) Dukinfield grocer who emigrated to the U.S. in August 1847 and became a banker in Nebraska

Grime, J. Ashton faces and Ashton places fifty years ago. 1922 Mainly descriptions of Ashton shops, shopkeepers and buildings

AUTOBIOGRAPHIES (continued)

Grundy, A. G. My fifty years in transport. 1944 Grundy was the manager of the S.H.M.D., 1929-1944

Hague, E. Castle Hall in the good old, bad old days. Typescript. 1985

Hague, E. Streets away from Paradise. Reminiscences of a Stalybridge lad. 1987 Stalybridge in the 1920's and 1930's

Hindley, H. Life in the tent, or travels in the desert and Syria in 1850. 1850(?) Daughter of Charles Hindley, the M.P. for Ashton

Hindley, H. Ten days in Jerusalem. (1850?)

Holland, J. Before Richmond Park. In: Victorian Ashton. edited by S. A. Harrop and E. A. Rose. 1974 John Holland was an Ashton Councillor who died in 1974

Holland, J. Travel stories. Typescript. 1963

Hopwood, H. Talking about old Ashton. In: Looking Back At Ashton. edited by A. Lock. 1997

Hulme, W. Autobiography. Typescript. William Hulme left Dukinfield in 1852 to go to sea

King, D. E. I wish I'd asked my grandad. Boyhood memories of Heyrod. 1994

Lovett, W. The life and times of William Lovett. First published 1826. 1984

Marland, J. Memories of Park Bridge. 1996

Memories ... personal histories of eight local pensioners. 1989

Mitchell, H. The hard way up. 1968. reprinted 1977 Born 1871, died 1956. Labour activist and suffragette; lived in Glossop, Bolton, Ashton and North Manchester

Moffat, R. and Moffat, M. Apprenticeship at Kuruman, 1820-28. 1951 Robert was a missionary in Africa, Mary was born in Dukinfield

Moffat, R. Matabele journals of Robert Moffat, 1829-60. 2 vols. 1945

O'Neil, J. Diary of John Ward of Clitheroe, weaver, 1860-64. edited by R. Sharpe France. In: THSLC. 1953. Vol. 105. pp.137-186

O'Neil, J. Life in East Lancashire, 1856-60, a newly discovered diary of John O'Neil (Ward), weaver of Clitheroe. by Mary Brigg. In: THSLC. 1968. Vol. 120. pp.87-134

AUTOBIOGRAPHIES (continued)

Pollitt, H. Serving my time. 1950 General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, 1929-1956. Born in Droylsden

Pollitt, P. Wanderings in the Holy Land, 1897-1900. (1901?) Peter Pollitt was born in Fairfield

Potter, B. Journal of Beatrix Potter, 1881-1897. First published 1966. 1979 Dukinfield and Stalybridge associations

Pritchard, F. East Manchester remembered. 1989

Roberts, R. Classic slum. 1971 Working class life in Edwardian Salford, based on author's memories

Rogers, J. G. An autobiography. 1903 Congregationalist minister at Ashton, 1851-65

Rowbottom, W. "The most dismal times". William Rowbottom's diary, part 1: 1787-1799. 1996

Russell, R. Go on, I’m listening. 1983

Russell, R. While you’re here, doctor. 1985

Selbourne, H. A doctor’s life. 1989

Shaw, J. Ashton-u-Lyne. In: The worst of times. edited by Nigel Gray. 1985

Shaw, J. Down Memory Lane. Recollections of Stalybridge. 1988 Working class life in Stalybridge, 1920's and 30's

Shaw, T. Memorabilia. J. H. Smith & E. A. Rose. ‘The memorabilia of Thomas Shaw of Ashton-u-Lyne. In: TLCAS. Vol. 95. 1999. pp.85-112

Siddelley, H. The moors above, the mills below. Stalybridge memories. 1994

Siddelley, H. Talking about old Stalybridge. In: Looking Back At Stalybridge. edited by Alice Lock. 1989

Smethurst, T. Reminiscences of a Bolton and Stalybridge policeman, 1888-1922. 1983

Staff, K. My story - wrinkles and all. 1997

Watkin, A. Diaries of Absalom Watkin. A Manchester man, 1787-1861. 1993

AUTOBIOGRAPHIES (continued)

Watson, L. Autobiography. (uncompleted) Typescript. c.1969(?) Watson was born in 1868 and died in 1944. A trade unionist and Labour Party worker in Ashton

Wilde, F. The clatter of clogs in the early morning. (1982)

Wilde, F. Music in the streets. (1983)

Wilde, F. When I was down beside the sea. (1984)

AVIATION

Aspin, C. Dizzy heights: the story of Lancashire’s first flying men. 1988

Collier, R. Dark Peak wrecks. 1979

Collier, R. Dark Peak aircraft wrecks: 1. New edition 1990

Collier, R. Dark Peak aircraft wrecks (Book 2). 1982

Cunningham, P. Peakland air crashes: the south. 2005

Earl, D. W. Hell on high ground: a guide to aircraft hill crash sites in the UK and Ireland. 1995

Earl, D. W. Hell on high ground volume 2: World War II crash sites. 1999

Earl, D. W. Their final mission: 8 stories of B-17 bomber crashes on high ground. 1994

Fielding, C. E. Pioneering years: 1918 to 1961. 1982

Holmes, H. (comp) Avro in archive photographs. 1996

Holmes, H. Avro 748. 2000

Jones, A. Mottram air crash. 2003

Manchester Airport: a fully illustrated handbook and souvenir of an international airport. (c.1964)

Taylor, J. W. R. Fairey Aviation in archive photographs. 1997

BIOGRAPHIES

Brown, J. Memoir of Robert Blincoe. 1977 (originally published 1832)

Crutchley, G. W. John Mackintosh, a biography. 1921

Gibbons, V. H. Jack Judge: the Tipperary man. 1998

Mahon, J. Harry Pollitt. 1976

Middles, M. Red Mick. The biography of Mick Hucknall of Simply Red. 1993

Mulvagh, J. Vivienne Westwood. An unfashionable life. 1998

Sidebotham, R. Thomas Middleton: the Hyde historian. (190?)

Squires, A. The Greys, a long and noble line: a biography of the family of Lady Jane Grey. 2002

BLACK AND ASIAN HISTORY

Bangladeshi cook book

Hoque, N. etc. Here to stay. 2006

Hum Log. Stories of Oldham’s Asian Communities. 1997

Vasili, P. Colouring over the white line. The history of Black footballers in Britain. 2000

Vasili, P. The first Black footballer, Arthur Wharton 1865-1930. An absence of memory. 1998

BLANKETEERS

It is believed that the only person on the Blanketeers March to make it to London and present a petition to the Prince Regent may have been from Stalybridge (if indeed anyone completed the journey). This man may have been named Abel Couldwell or Jonathan Cowgill.

Darvall, F. O. Popular disturbances and public order in Regency England. First published 1934. 1969. pp.162-3

Gregg, P. A social and economic history of Britain. 1973. pp.90-91

Hammond, J. L. and Hammond, B. The skilled labourer. First published 1919. 1979. pp.280-285

Hill, S. Bygone Stalybridge. First published 1907. Reprinted 1987. pp.148-151

Marlow, J. The Peterloo Massacre. 1969. pp.58-61

Read, D. Peterloo: the 'Massacre' and its background. First published 1958. 1973. pp.98-101

Reid, R. The Peterloo Massacre. 1989. pp.53-69

Thompson, E. P. The making of the English working classes. First published 1963. 1968. pp.712-713

CANALS

Body, A. H. Canals and waterways. 1975 Short introduction aimed at school children

British Waterways Board. Nicholson's guide to the waterways: North West. 1972

Civic Trust for the North West. Canal search north west. 1991

Gibson, K. Pennine dreams. 2002

Hadfield, C. Canals of North West England. 2 vols. 1970 Chapters on the Huddersfield, Ashton and Peak Forest Canals

Hanson, H. The canal boatmen. 1975

Hanson, H. Canal people. 1978

Huddersfield Canal Society. Fill't to't top wi' rubble? 1979 Includes a short history of the canal based on the minutes of the Company

Huddersfield Canal Society. Huddersfield Canal's towpath guide. 1981

Huddersfield Canal Society. Huddersfield Narrow Canal, a unique waterway. 1971

Huddersfield Canal Society. Through Stalybridge by boat. 1977

Keaveney, E. and Brown, D. L. The Ashton Canal. 1974

Lamb, B. The Peak Forest Canal: breaches in the canal banks, 1797-1976. In: Journal of the Railway & Canal Historical Society. Vol. 33. Pt. 5. No. 176. July 2000. pp.320-330.

Nevell, M. Portland Basin and the archaeology of the canal warehouse. 2001

Owen, D. Canals to Manchester. 1978

Peak Forest Canal Society. The Cheshire canal ring. rev. ed. 1966

Schofield, R. Benjamin Outram and the construction of the Ashton Canal. In: Lancashire Local Historian. No.7. 1992

Towpath Action Group. Trouble on the towpath. The Ashton Canal. 1991

CHARTISM

Aitken, W. Writings of a nineteenth century working man. First published 1869. 1996

Anthology of Chartist poetry. edited by Peter Scheckner. 1989

An authentic report of Doctor Peter Murray McDouall at Liverpool on Monday, August 28th, 1848. Transcript of McDouall's trial for sedition. The charge was brought as a result of speeches he had made at Ashton in July 1848

Bamford, S. Passages in the life of a radical. First published 1844. 1967

Belchem, J. Popular radicalism in 19th century Britain. 1996

Chartist experience: studies in working class radicalism and culture 1830-60. edited by James Epstein and Dorothy Thompson. 1985

Chartist Movement. A new annotated bibliography. edited by Owen Ashmore, Robert Fyson and Stephen Roberts. 1995

Davies, H. A shot in the dark. In: Victorian Ashton. edited by S. A. Harrop and E. A. Rose. 1974. Describes the Chartist disturbances in Ashton in 1848

Dinwiddy, J. R. Radicalism and reform in Britain, 1780-1850. 1992

Duty of discontent: essays for Dorothy Thompson. edited by Owen Ashmore, Robert Fyson and Stephen Roberts. 1995

The early Chartists. edited by D. Thompson. 1971 Contains transcripts of the prosecution cases against two Ashton Chartists: Timothy Higgins and William Cox

Epstein, J. Lion of freedom. 1984 Biography of Feargus O'Connor

Epstein, J. A. Radical expression. Political language, ritual and symbolism in England 1790-1850. 1994

Gammage, R. C. History of the Chartist Movement, 1837-1854. first published 1894. 1969 Includes a character sketch of McDouall

Hall, R. G. Work, class and politics in Ashton-u-Lyne, 1830-1860. PhD. Thesis. 1991

Higham, R. Stella, the factory master's daughter, or: Conrad the Chartist; a story of the local history of Hyde and neighbourhood. 1890

Huxhorn, S. United we stand, divided we fall! Chartist celebrations in Ashton-u-Lyne in the 1840's. Typescript. 1981 CHARTISM (continued)

Jenkins, M. General Strike of 1842. 1980

Jones, D. Chartism and the Chartists. 1975 Contains a report, probably from the Northern Star, of a Chartist meeting at Ashton to celebrate the birthday of Henry Hunt

Longden, C. Popular radicalism in Ashton, Stalybridge and Hyde, 1828-1842. Dissertation. 1994

Pickering, P. A. Chartism and the Chartists in Manchester and Salford. 1995

Pickering, P. A. & Roberts, S. Pills, pamphlets and politics: the career of Peter Murray McDouall. In: Manchester Region History Review. Vol. XI. 1997 pp.34-43.

Royle, E. Chartism. 1986 A useful introduction

Saville, J. 1848. The British State and the Chartist Movement. 1987

Schwarzkopf, J. Women in the Chartist Movement. 1991

Shirley, M. H. Chartists after Chartism: ‘Reynolds Newspaper and mid-Victorian political reform. In: Splendidly Victorian. Essays in nineteenth and twentieth century British History in honour of Walter L. Arnstein. 2001

Stafford, J. Songs comic and sentimental. 1840

Taylor, C. M. An examination of Chartist activity in Stalybridge, Ashton-u-Lyne and Hyde, 1838-1848. B. A. thesis. 1992

Thomis, M. I. and Grimmett, J. Women in protest, 1800-1850. 1982

Thompson, D. Chartists. 1984

Thompson, D. Outsiders. Class, gender and nation. 1993

Trial of Feargus O'Connor esq., and fifty-eight other Chartists on a charge of seditious conspiracy. 1843 The accused included William Aitken, William Woodruffe and Albert Woolfenden of Ashton, John Leech and George Candelet of Hyde and Richard Pilling and Thomas Mahon of Stalybridge

Trial of Peter Murray McDouall, surgeon, Lancashire, and member of the National Convention for Ashton-u-Lyne, in the Crown Court of the City of Chester, on Friday 16th August, 1839. McDouall was tried for sedition over a speech he delivered at Hyde in April 1839

Ward, J. Chartism. 1973 CHARTISM (continued)

JOSEPH RAYNER STEPHENS

Axon, W. E. A. Joseph Rayner Stephens. In: Cheshire Gleanings. 1884. pp.108-113.

Edwards, M. S. Joseph Rayner Stephens, 1805-1879. 1968

Edwards, M. S. Purge this realm. Life of Joseph Rayner Stephens. 1994

Goddard, H. Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner. 1956 Goddard arrested J. R. Stephens in 1838

Holyoake, G. J. Life of Joseph Rayner Stephens. 1881

Kemnitz, T. M. and Jacques, F. J. R. Stephens and the Chartist Movement. In: International Review of Social History. Vol. 19. 1974. pp.211-227

Lyon, E. G. Politicians in the pulpit; Christian radicalism in Britain from the fall of the Bastille to the disintegration of Chartism. 1999.

Regan, A. A guide to the literature concerning Joseph Rayner Stephens of Ashton. 1972

Smith, J. H. & Rose, E. A. Memorabilia of Thomas Shaw of Ashton-u-Lyne. In: TLCAS. Vol.95. 1999. pp.88-112

Spence, N. A. Joseph Rayner Stephens - he hath done what he could. In: Looking Back at. Stalybridge. edited by Alice Lock. 1989

Stephens, J. R. Ashton Chronicle. March 1848 - October 1849

Stephens, J. R. The political pulpit. 1839

Stephens, J. R. Stephens' monthly magazine. January - October 1840

Trial of Joseph Rayner Stephens .... held at Chester .... August 15th 1839. 1839

Ward, J. T. Revolutionary Tory: the life of Joseph Rayner Stephens of Ashton-u-Lyne (1805- 1879). In: TLCAS. Vol. LXVIII. 1958

See also: PLUG RIOTS

CIVIL WAR

Blackwood, B. G. Lancashire gentry and the great rebellion, 1640-1660. Chetham Society. 1978

Broxap, E. The great Civil War in Lancashire, 1642-51. 2nd ed. 1973 New introduction and revised bibliography by R. N. Dore

Dore, R. N. Civil war in Cheshire. In: Cheshire History. No. 31. Spring 1993. pp.20-25

Dore, R. N. The civil wars in Cheshire. 1966

Dore, R. N. The great Civil War (1642-6) in the Manchester area. 1972 The only general account of the Civil War locally

Dore, R. N. 1642: the coming of the Civil War to Cheshire: conflicting actions and impressions. In: TLCAS. Vol. 87. 1991. pp.39-63

Earwaker, J. P. East Cheshire. 2 vols. 1877-80. See pp.13-14 in volume 2 for a biography of Colonel Robert Duckenfield and pp.150-152 for a transcript of some documents relating to Hollingworth during the Civil War.

Gaunt, P. Parliamentary war effort in Cheshire. In: Cheshire History. No. 32. Autumn 1993. pp.6-15

Middleton, T. History of Hyde and its neighbourhood. 1932 See pp.32-42

Morrill, J. S. Cheshire Grand Jury 1625-1659. A social and administrative study. 1976

Morrill, J. S. Cheshire 1630-1660. County government and society during the English Revolution. 1974

Nevell, M. Tameside 1066-1700. 1991 Chapter 6

Oliver Heywood's Life of John Angier of Denton: together with Angier's diary and extracts from his 'An helpe to better hearts'; also Samuel Angier's diary edited by E. Axon. Chetham Society. Vol. 97 (new series). 1937

Roots, I. The Civil War: suggestions for further reading. In: Cheshire History. No. 32. Autumn 1993. p.15

Roots, I. A context for the Civil War. In: Cheshire History. No. 31. Spring 1993. pp.17-20

Wardale, H. Cromwell in Lancashire. In: TLCAS. Vol. 48. 1932. pp.76-94 Dispels one or two legends as to where Cromwell visited and where he slept.

COTTON FAMINE

Arnold, A. History of the cotton famine. 1864 Covers the period 1861 to 1863

Aspland, A. Distress in Dukinfield. Letter to the Editor of the Christian Reformer. 1863

Atkinson, B. The cotton famine in Hyde. In: Looking Back At Hyde. edited by Alice Lock. 1986

Barley, T. Myths of slave power. Confederate slavery, Lancashire workers and the Alabama. 1992

Brady, E. A. Reconsideration of the Lancashire cotton famine. In: Agricultural History. July 1963. pp.156-162

Broadbridge, S. The Lancashire cotton 'famine' 1861-1865. In: The Luddites and other essays. edited by L, M, Munby. 1971

Ellison, M. Support for the secession: Lancashire and the American Civil War. 1972

Evans, C. Unemployment and the making of the feminine during the Lancashire cotton famine. In: Women's work and the family economy in historical perspective. edited by Pat Hudson and W. R. Lee. 1990

Farnie, D. A. The cotton famine and the loss of national pre-eminence. In: The English cotton industry and the world market, 1815-1896. 1979

Fletcher, A. Poverty and the Lancashire Cotton Famine 1861-4. In: Open History. No. 75, July 2000. pp.12-14.

Henderson, W. O. The Lancashire cotton famine. 2nd ed. 1969

Jones, W. H. The muffled peal. A sermon in the parish church of Mottram in Longdendale... November 8 1863, being the Sunday after the funeral of William Cubbitt, Esq., M.P., late Lord Mayor of London. (Cubbitt set up the Mansion House Relief Fund)

Kay Shuttleworth, J. Manual of suggestions for the guidance of Local Relief Committees in the cotton districts suggested by the experience of 1862-63. and The industrial and social development of south east Lancashire: their bearing upon the cotton famine; their causes and probable future. Both in: Thoughts and suggestions on certain social problems contained chiefly in addresses to meetings of workmen in Lancashire. 1873. reprinted 1973

Lees, L. H. The solidarities of strangers. The English Poor laws and the people 1700-1948. 1998 Chapter 7.

COTTON FAMINE (continued)

Lock, A. The role of local clergy and ministers in the Stalybridge riots of 1863. In: Looking Back At Stalybridge. edited by Alice Lock. 1989

Longmate, N. The hungry mills; the story of the Lancashire cotton famine, 1861-5. 1978 popular account

McCready, H. W. The cotton famine in Lancashire. In: THSLC. Vol. 106. 1954. pp.127- 133

Oddy, D. J. Urban famine in 19th century Britain. The effect of the Lancashire cotton famine on working class diet and health. In: Economic History Review. Vol. 36. 1983. pp.68-86

Peers, P. M. The cotton famine in Ashton-u-Lyne, 1861-5. Manchester College of Education thesis. 1970 The author has drawn heavily on the files of the Ashton Reporter.

Purcell, G. Stone upon stone and church management in the present day by a country clergyman. 1874. Several chapters on the cotton famine in Longdendale.

Rose, M. E. Rochdale man and the Stalybridge riot; the relief and control of the unemployed during the Lancashire cotton famine. In: Social control in 19th century Britain. edited by A. P. Donajgrodzki. 1977

Shaw, G. Silent mills. Typescript. 1993

Shapely, P. Urban charity, class relations and social cohesion: charitable responses to the cotton famine. In: Urban History. 28 (1). 2001. pp.46-64

Smith, J. H. & Rose, E. A. The memorabilia of Thomas Shaw. In: TLCAS. Vol. 95. 1999. pp.85-112

Watts, J. The facts of the cotton famine. 1866 Watts was a member of the Central Relief Committee which met in Manchester under the chairmanship of Lord Derby

Waugh, E. Home life of the Lancashire factory folk during the cotton famine. 1867 The book was a result of a series of articles Waugh wrote for the Manchester Examiner and Times in 1862

CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS

Axon, W. E. A. Black Knight of Ashton. 188-

Bamford, S. Early days. 1849. Section on the Black Knight. pp.138-143

Bowman, W. M. Riding the Black Lad. In: England in Ashton-under-Lyne. 1960. pp.282-289

Buckland, T. Hollo! Here we are again. Godley Hill Morris Dancers: a study in longevity. In: Traditional dance. Vol. 2. 1983. pp.37-59

Burton, A. Rush bearing. 1891

Chadwick, W. Reminiscences of Mottram. reprinted 1972. Description of Mottram Wakes. pp.4-6

Cliffe, S. Shadows: a Northern investigation of the unknown. 1993 pp.66-7 - Dukinfield Old Hall Chapel

Fielding, J. Rural historical gleanings in South Lancashire. 1852. Section on Black Knight, pp.228-233

Graham, J. Lancashire and Cheshire morris dances. 1911

Harland, J. and Wilkinson, T. T. Lancashire folk-lore. 1972 first published 1882

Helm, A. The rushcart and north-western morris. In: Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society. Vol. 7. 1954. pp.172-179

Hole, C. Traditions and customs of Cheshire. first published 1937. 1970

Howarth, K. Ghosts, traditions and legends of old Lancashire. 1993. pp.76-79 the Black Knight

Howison, D. and Bentley, B. The north-west morris: a general survey of the traditional morris dance of the north west of England. 1960

Lancashire morris dance. edited by Maud Karpeles. (n.d.)

Middleton, T. Legends of Longdendale. first published 1907. reprinted 1970

Nevell, M. Folklore of Tameside. The Ashton and Longdendale Lordships. 1998

Pilling, J. The Lancashire clog dance. 1967

Quarmby, W. Then and now; or, Ye Chronicles of Ashlynne. A romance founded on the story of the Black Knight. 1868 CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS (continued)

Roby, J. Traditions of Lancashire. 2 vols. 1867

Williams, D. L. and Williams, P. M. The Knight rides out. The myth and legend of Ashton-under- Lyne’s Black Knight and the rise and fall of the popular Black Knight pageants. 1998

DARK AGES - MEDIEVAL SETTLEMENT - THE TUDORS

Beck, J. Tudor Cheshire. 1969

Bu'lock, J. D. The lost kingdom of Teyrnllwg. In: TLCAS. Vol. 66. 1956. pp.38-50

Bu'lock, J. D. Pre-conquest Cheshire. 1972

Dodgson, J. M. The English arrival in Cheshire. In: THSLC. Vol. 119. 1967. pp.1-37

The Domesday geography of Northern England. edited by H. C. Darby and I. S. Maxwell. 1962

Driver, J. T. Cheshire in the Middle Ages. 1971

Gardner, W. Ancient earthworks. In: Victorian County History of Lancashire. Vol. 2. 1908. pp.507-555 Includes Bucton Castle and Nico Ditch

Harland, J. Three Lancashire documents of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Chetham Society. Vol. 74. 1868 Transcript of the custom roll and rental of the manor of Ashton, 1422

Hewitt, H. J. Medieval Cheshire: an economic and social history of Cheshire in the reigns of the three Edwards. 1929

Hewitt, H. J. Cheshire under the three Edwards. 1967

Higham, N. J. The origins of Cheshire. 1993

Kenyon, D. The origins of Lancashire. 1991

A literal extension and translation of the portion of the Domesday Book relating to Cheshire and Lancashire .... 1863 with an introduction and notes by W. Beaumont

Lowe, N. The Lancashire textile industry in the sixteenth century. 1972 mostly based on probate inventories

Nevell, M. Tameside 1066-1700. 1991

Nevell, M. Lands and lordships in Tameside. Tameside in transition 1348-1462. 1998

Ordnance Survey. Map of Britain before the Norman Conquest. 1973

Ordnance Survey. Map of Britain in the Dark Ages. 2nd ed. 1974

Shaw, R. C. Two fifteenth century kinsmen. John Shaw of Dukinfield, mercer, and William Shaw of Heath Carnock, surgeon. In: THSLC. Vol. 110. 1958. pp.15-20

DARK AGES - MEDIEVAL SETTLEMENT - THE TUDORS (continued)

Sylvester, D. Cheshire in the Dark Ages. In: THSLC. Vol. 114. 1962. pp.1-22

Tait, J. Medieval Manchester and the beginnings of Lancashire. 1904

University of Manchester Archaeological Unit. Buckton Castle 1998. Tameside MBC. An historical background, photographic records and survey of results. 1999

Wainwright, F. T. The Anglian settlement of Lancashire. In: THSLC. Vol. 93. 1941. pp.1-44

Wainwright, F. T. North-west Mercia, 871-924. In: THSLC. Vol. 94. 1942. pp.3-55

Wainwright, F. T. The Scandinavians in Lancashire. In: TLCAS. Vol. 58. 1945-6. pp.71-116

Young, J. Denton and Haughton in Tudor and Stuart times. In: Looking Back At Denton. edited by Alice Lock. 1985

EDUCATION

Allport, V. Schools in Denton and Haughton in the 19th century. Thesis. 1991

Ashton, S. D. A survey of educational development in the borough of Ashton with special reference to Albion Schools and to the period 1840-1938. B. A. Thesis. 1939

Bason, B. Audenshaw School 1932-1996. 2006

Benson, J. A. Dukinfield Libraries, 1833-1973. 2nd ed. 2003

Betts, R. S. Jonathan Schofield of Stalybridge and compulsory elementary education. In: Looking Back At Stalybridge. edited by Alice Lock. 1989

Cronin, J. St. Anne's School, Haughton, Denton, 1888-1988. 1988

Daughtrey, S. J. Reorganisation of secondary education in Tameside. The constitutional and legal relationship between the Department of Education and Science and the local education authority. 2 vols. 1978 A thesis which describes the comprehensive education dispute of 1976

Hague-Smith, C. History of a school – Broadbottom Primary School. A changed school in a changed population. Thesis. 1968

Hammond, B. Education in Hyde, 1700-1944. Thesis. 1967-68

Harrop, S. A. Community involvement in education in north east Cheshire in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In: TLCAS. Vol. 80. 1980. pp.1-21

Harrop, S. A. The place of education in the genesis of the Industrial Revolution with special reference to Stalybridge, Dukinfield and Hyde. Thesis. 1976

Harrop, S. A. Why was Stalybridge first? The cultural background to the town's industrial growth. In: Looking Back At Stalybridge. edited by Alice Lock. 1989

Kay Shuttleworth, J. Thoughts and suggestions on certain social problems contained chiefly in addresses to meetings of workingmen in Lancashire. 1873. reprinted 1973

Kelly, T. History of adult education in Great Britain. 1992

Lancashire Education Committee. Commemorative brochure to mark one hundred years of educational progress in Ashton, Audenshaw, Denton, Droylsden and Mossley, 1870-1970. 1970

Living Memories of Hyde. Hyde schoolday memories. 1992

McCallum, M. History of education in Stalybridge in the 19th century. Dissertation. 1974.

Rees, R. Schooldays in Mottram parish. 1996 EDUCATION (continued)

Robson, D. Some aspects of education in Cheshire in the eighteenth century. 1966 Several references to Mottram Grammar School

St. Paul's C. of E. Primary School Stalybridge. The best days of your life? The history of St. Paul's C. of E. Primary School, Stalybridge, 1841-1991. 1991

Schooldays in Mottram Parish. edited by A. J. Rees. 1996

Stephens W. B. and Unwin, R. W. Materials for the local and regional study of schooling, 1700-1900. 1987

Tylecote, M. The mechanics' institutes of Lancashire and Yorkshire before 1851. 1957 Covers Ashton and Dukinfield, Hyde and Stalybridge Mechanics' Institutes

Wain, G. A history of Hyde Grammar School. 1982

Usually, the early history of individual schools can only be written by using the records of the schools themselves - e.g. log books, which generally date from the 1840's

GEOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY

Clay, C. Geological sketches and observations on vegetable fossil remains collected in the parish of Ashton-under-Lyne. 1839

Cooper, E. H. North western England C.S.E. geography. 1972

Draper, A. L. and Walters, G. F. Geology in the Tame Valley. 1978

Edwards, W. and Trotter, F. M. The Pennines and adjacent areas. 1954

Greater Manchester Council. Minerals local plan. Draft written statement. 1985

Grundy, J. H. The geology of Ashton-under-Lyne. 1909

Robinson, G. Ashton-u-Lyne, 1945-1960. Thesis. 1960

Scott, D. A geographical study of the development of Ashton-under-Lyne. Typescript. 1952

Tonks, L. H. The geology of Manchester and the south-east Lancashire coalfield. 1931

HATTING INDUSTRY

Booker, J. History of the ancient chapel of Denton .... 1855

Caffrey, H. Hatting in Denton. 1976 (also reprinted in Looking Back At Denton. edited by Alice Lock. 1985)

Carter, P. Beware of foul made hats. In: Working Class Movement Library Bulletin. No. 6. 1996. pp.17-26

Giles, P. The felt-hatting industry c.1560-1850 with particular reference to Lancashire and Cheshire. In: TLCAS. Vol. 69. 1959. pp.104-132

Hellowell, F. The felt hatting industry with special reference to its rise in Denton, Lancashire. Typescript. 1966

Holding, T. Archaeological survey of the hatting industry in Denton. Typescript. 1987

“J. A. B.” Rabbit’s tale. J. Moores & Sons, Ltd.

“L. L.” Talking through your hat. J. Moores & Sons, Ltd

Middleton, T. History of Denton and Haughton. 1936

Smith, D. M. The hatting industry in Denton, Lancashire. In: Industrial Archaeology. Vol. 3. February 1966. pp.1-7

Smith, J. H. 'Gentlemen Hatters' in England 1500-1860. In: Manchester Genealogist. Vol. 33. No. 1. 1977. pp.17-25

Smith, J. H. The hatters. c.1970 How the hatting workers organised themselves into trade unions

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COTTON INDUSTRY

Abendstern, M., Hallett, C. and Wade. L. Flouting the law: women and the hazards of cleaning moving machinery in the cotton industry, 1930-1970. In: Oral History. Vol. 33. No. 2. Autumn 2005. pp.69-78

Armitage, G. The Lancashire cotton trade from the great inventions to the great disasters. 1951

Arrowsmith, P. Broad Mills, Broadbottom. A 19th century cotton mill site in the Etherow Valley. In: Archaeology North West. The Bulletin of the CBA North West. No. 4. Autumn/Winter 1992. pp.23-27

Ashmore, O. The industrial archaeology of Ashton. In: Victorian Ashton. edited by S. A. Harrop and E. A. Rose. 1974. pp.86-108

Ashmore, O. The industrial archaeology of Lancashire. 1969 Contains a gazetteer of some of the more important industrial sites

Ashmore, O. The industrial archaeology of North West England. 1982

Ashmore, O. and Bolton, T. Hugh Mason and the Oxford Mills and Community, Ashton-under-Lyne. In: TLCAS. Vol. 78. 1975. pp.38-50

Baines, E. History of the cotton manufacture in Great Britain. first published 1835. new ed. 1966, bibliographical introduction by W. H. Chaloner.

Bann, J. E. The changing distribution of the cotton industry in Hyde. B. A. Thesis. 1976

Barfoot, J. R. The progress of cotton. first published c.1840. new ed. 1973 Some good engravings of the various processes in the cotton industry

Bolin-Hart, P. Work family and the State: child labour and the organization of production in the British cotton industry, 1780-1920. 1989

Bowker, B. Lancashire under the hammer.

Bowker, D. The cotton industry and the Ashton Weavers Association. In: Looking Back at Ashton. Edited by A. Lock. 1997

Bradley, J. Reminiscences in the life of Joshua Bradley. first published 1904. reprinted 1974. Biography of the man who rose from very humble beginnings to become general manager of Boston Mills, Hyde

Broadbottom Archaeological Project. In: GMAU Report 1986-87. 1987. pp.41-44. Hodge Print Works

Brown, J. Memoir of Robert Blincoe .... first published 1832. 1977 Worked in mills in Stalybridge, including Leech's INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION etc. (continued)

Bythell, D. The handloom weavers: a study in the English cotton industry during the Industrial Revolution. 1969

Chapman, S. D. The cotton industry in the Industrial Revolution. 2nd ed. 1987

Chapman, S. J. The Lancashire cotton industry. 1904

Chatterji, B. Trade, tariffs and Empire. Lancashire and British policy in India, 1919-1939. 1992

Cliffe, K. The Fletcher family of Ashton. Typescript. 1990

Collier, F. The family economy of the working classes in the cotton industry. 1964

Daniels, W. G. The early English cotton industry. 1920

Dodd, W. The factory system illustrated in a series of letters to the Right Hon. Lord Ashley. First published 1842. Reprinted 1968. pp.159-167 Ashton, Stalybridge, Dukinfield – descriptions of the effects of accidents in the mills.

Dupree, M. Fighting against fate: the cotton industry and the Government during the 1930's. In: Textile History. Vol. 21. No. 1. Spring 1990. pp.101-117

Easby, J. Manchester and the Manchester people, with a sketch of Bolton, Stockport, Ashton, Rochdale and Oldham and their inhabitants by a Citizen of the World. 1843

Eckersley, T. P. The growth of the cotton industry in Mossley, with special reference to the Mayalls. Thesis. 1991

Engels, F. The condition of the working class in England. translated and edited by W. O. Henderson and W. H. Chaloner. 2nd ed. 1971. Various references to social conditions in Ashton, Stalybridge and district in the 1840's

English, W. The textile industry. 1969 One of the best accounts of how the new machinery introduced into the textile industry worked

Farnie, D. A. and Yonekawa, S. The emergence of the large firm in the cotton spinning industries of the world, 1883-1938. In: Textile History. Vol. 19. No. 2. 1988. pp.171-210 Description of Mayalls of Mossley

Farnie, D. A. The English cotton industry and the world market, 1815-1896. 1979

Faucher, L. Manchester in 1844. first published 1844. new ed. 1969 Includes an interesting description of the Ashton Brothers' factories in Hyde

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION etc. (continued)

Fleischmann, R. K. Conditions of life among the cotton workers of south eastern Lancashire during the Industrial Revolution. Thesis. 1973

Foster, J. Class struggle and the Industrial Revolution. 1974

Fowler, A. Tickling Lancashire's funny bone: the cartoons of Sam Fitton. 1994

Glen, R. Urban workers in the early Industrial Revolution. 1984

Gray, R. The factory question and industrial England, 1830-1860. 1996

The great human exploit. edited by J. H. Smith. 1973 Articles on the woollen industry, cotton, hatting, coal-mining, engineering and the Manchester Ship Canal

Grimshaw, L. The decline of the cotton industry in Great Britain, 1910-1960. Typescript. 1989

Harrop, S. A. Why was Stalybridge first? The cultural background to the town's industrial growth. In: Looking Back at Stalybridge. edited by Alice Lock. 1989

Haynes, I. Cotton in Ashton. 1987

Haynes, I. The cotton mills of Stalybridge. 1990

Haynes, I. Dukinfield cotton mills. 1993

Haynes, I. History of the cotton industry in Droylsden with Audenshaw and Denton. 2004

Haynes, I. Hyde cotton mills. 2002

Haynes, I. Mossley textile mills. 1996

Holland, J. Hugh Mason. In: Victorian Ashton. edited by A. A. Harrop and E. A. Rose. 1974

Hudson, P. The Industrial Revolution. 1992

Hugh Mason. In: The Congregationalist. October 1880. pp.56-60

Industrial Archaeology Review. Vol. XVI. No. 1. Autumn 1993 Textile mills

Jones, S. G. The survival of industrial paternalism in the cotton districts. In: Journal of Regional and Local Studies. Vol. 7. No. 2. Autumn 1987. pp.1-13

Joyce, P. Work, society and politics, the culture of the factory in late Victorian England. 1980 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION etc. (continued)

Kay, J. P. Moral and physical condition of the working classes employed in the cotton manufacture in Manchester. first published 1832. new ed. 1969

Kenworthy, F. The industrial development of Ashton-under-Lyne, 1780-1850. M. A. Thesis. 1929

Kenworthy, F. The industrial development of Mossley. Typescript. 1928

Labour and the poor in England and Wales, 1849-1851. Vol, 1: Lancashire, Cheshire and Yorkshire. edited by J. Ginswick. 1983

Lamberty, J. Sexual harassment in the 19th century. In: History Workshop Journal. No. 19. 1985. pp.29-61

Landes, D. The unbound Prometheus. Technological change and industrial development in Western Europe from 1750 to the present. first published 1969. 1993

Lemire, B. Fashion's favourite: the cotton trade and the consumer in Britain, 1660-1800. 1991

Living Memories of Hyde. Hyde mill memories. 1999

McIvor, A. Health and safety in the cotton industry: a literature survey. In: Manchester Region History Review. Vol. IX. 1995. pp.50-57

McKenzie, J. C. The composition and nutritional value of diets in Manchester and Dukinfield, 1841. In: TLCAS. Vol. 72. 1962. pp.123-140

Manchester Statistical Society. Report of a Committee of the Manchester Statistical Society on the condition of the working classes in an extensive manufacturing district in 1834, 1835 and 1836. 1838 Includes Ashton, Dukinfield and Stalybridge

Marcus, S. Engels, Manchester and the working class. 1974

Marshall, J. D. Industrial colonies and the local historian. In: Local Historian. Vol. 23. No. 3. August 1993

Mathias, P. First industrial nation. 1983

Miles, C. Lancashire textiles. A case study of industrial change. 1968

More, C. Understanding the Industrial Revolution. 2000

Neild, W. Comparative statement of income and expenditure of certain families of the working class in Manchester and Dukinfield in the years 1836 and 1841. In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. January 1842. pp.320-335

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION etc. (continued)

Pike, E. R. Human documents of the Industrial Revolution. 1966 First hand evidence on working and living conditions

Reach, A. B. Manchester and the textile districts in 1849. first published in the Morning Chronicle in 1849. new ed. 1972. Chapter on Ashton

Rose, E. A. Hugh Mason (1817-1886) cotton manufacturer. In: Dictionary of business biography. Vol. 4. 1985. pp.176-179

Sandberg, L. G. Lancashire in decline. A study in entrepreneurship, technology and international trade. first published 1974. 1993

Singleton, J. Lancashire on the scrapheap. The cotton industry 1945-1970. 1991

Singleton, J. Lancashire since 1900: recent research in cotton. In: Manchester Region History Review. Vol. IX. 1994. pp.44-49

Smelser, N. J. Social change in the Industrial Revolution. An application of theory to the Lancashire cotton industry, 1770-1840. 1959

Spence, N. Tensions and fissures within the ranks of the cotton lords of Ashton-under-Lyne, 1861-1881. Typescript. 1985

Timmins, G. The last shift. The decline of handloom weaving in nineteenth century Lancashire. 1993

Tippett, L. H. C. Portrait of the Lancashire textile industry. 1969

Trinder, B. The making of the industrial landscape. 1982

University of Manchester Archaeological Unit. Stalybridge town centre regeneration, Longlands Mill, Castle Street. An archaeological assessment. 1999

Ure, A. The cotton manufacture of Great Britain. 2 vols. 1861

Wadsworth, A. P. and Mann, J. de L. The cotton trade and industrial Lancashire. first published 1931. new ed. 1965

Walton, J. K. Proto-industrialisation and the first industrial revolution: the case of Lancashire. In: Regions and industries. edited by Pat Hudson. 1989

Ward, J. T. The factory movement in Lancashire. In: TLCAS. Vol. 75-76. 1965-66. pp.186-210 Sketches the careers of the main figures in the movement, including J. R. Stephens and Charles Hindley

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION etc. (continued)

Ward, J. T. The factory system. 2 vols. 1970 Selections from contemporary accounts

LAW AND ORDER

Ashton-under-Lyne centenary handbook, 1847-1947. edited by G. F. Foster. 1947 History of the borough police force. pp.111-114

Berry, J. My experiences as an executioner. first published 1892. new ed. 1972 Includes an account of the crimes and execution of Mary Ann Britland of Ashton. pp.74-76

Brady, I. Gates of Janus. Serial killing and its analysis by the Moors Murderer Ian Brady. 2001

Bresler, F. Scales of justice. 1973 Includes an account of the Gorse Hall murder. pp.1-9

Burslem, E. Police. In: Stalybridge Corporation centenary souvenir, 1857-1957. 1957 History of the borough police force. pp.128-133

Callan, K. W. Kevin Callan’s story. 1997

Carr, V. M. Did Ashton have the first police dog? In: Manchester Genealogist. Vol. 32. No. 1. 1996. pp.12-15

Chadwick, W. Reminiscences of a chief constable. c.1900 Chadwick was the Chief Constable of Stalybridge for almost forty years

Clarkson, W. The good doctor. Portrait of a serial killer. 2001

Cooper, Benjamin. Trial of John Hulme and John Williams for the murder of Benjamin Cooper at Ashton-under-Lyne on the eleventh day of December 1840.

Doughty, J. Come at once, Annie is dying. 1987 An account of an Oldham poisoning case of 1887

Emsley, C. Crime and society in England, 1750-1900. 1996

Fielding, S. Cheshire murder casebook. 1996 Covers Ivy Wood of Dukinfield, Gorse Hall and Pearl Cowman of Stalybridge

Goodman, J. The stabbing of George Harry Storrs. 1983 The Gorse Hall murder case

Gooderson, P. Terror on the streets of late-Victorian Salford and Manchester The scuttling menace. Manchester Region History Review. Vol. XI. 1997. pp.3-11

Harrison, F. Brady and Hindley: genesis of the Moors Murders. 1986

Hayhurst, A. Cheshire murders. 2006 Includes an account of the murder of George Harry Storrs at Gorse Hall. LAW AND ORDER (continued)

Hewitt, E. J. History of policing in Manchester. 1980

James, R. W. To the best of our skill and knowledge: a short history of the Cheshire Constabulary, 1857-1957. 1957 Short accounts of the former borough police forces of Stalybridge and Hyde

Johnson, P. H. On iniquity: some personal reflections arising out of the Moors Murder trial. 1967

Jones, D. Crime, protest, community and police in 19th century Britain. 1982

McNama, M. Murder most foul. In: Looking Back At Stalybridge. edited by Alice Lock. 1989

Maddock, G. The Apethorn Lane murder and its background. In: Looking Back at Hyde. edited by Alice Lock. 1986

Marchbanks D. Moors murders. 1966

Midwinter, E. C. Law and order in early Victorian Lancashire. 1968

Pearce, C. E. Unsolved murder mysteries. 1924 The Gorse Hall murder, pp.125-134

Peters, C. Harold Shipman, mind set on murder. Why Shipman killed and killed again. The true story. 2006

Prince, M. God’s cop: the biography of James Anderton. 1988

Sewart, A. Murder in Lancashire. A new look at notorious cases. 1988

Sitford, M. Addicted to murder. 2000

Smethurst, T. Reminiscences of a Bolton and Stalybridge policeman, 1888-1922. 1983

Sparrow, G. Satan’s children. 1966

Symons, J. A reasonable doubt. Some criminal cases re-examined. 1960 The Gorse Hall murder, pp.124-133

Topping, P. Topping: the autobiography of the police chief in the Moors Murder case. 1989

The trial of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley: the Moors Murder case. edited and with an introduction by Jonathan Goodman. 1973

LAW AND ORDER (continued)

West, A. For the love of Lesley. 1989 The story of Lesley Anne Downey, one of the Moors Murder victims

Whittle, B. Prescription for murder. The true story of mass murderer Doctor Harold Frederick Shipman. 2000.

Williams, E. Beyond belief. A chronicle of murder and its detection. 1967 The Moors Murder case

Wilson R. Devil’s disciples. 1986

Wilson, R. Return to hell. The continuing story of Moors Murderers Brady and Hindley. 1988

There are several more books on the Moors Murders case, plus the Reporters on microfilm

Some other sources for general law and order information are the Watch Committee minutes and the Chief Constables' annual reports

LEISURE

Adamson Military Band, Dukinfield. Diamond Jubilee, 1888-1948. Outline history of the Band. 1948

Ashton Cricket Club 150 not out. Celebrating 150 years of the Ashton-under-Lyne Cricket, Bowling and Tennis Club, 1857-2007. 2006

Ashton United. Special edition: Ashton United vs. Blackpool Rovers FC. 1992

Bainbridge, C. Brass triumphant. 1980

Bancroft, J. W. Olympic champions in Manchester. 1993 References to Hyde Seals

Booth, C. Sixty musical years. A short history of the Ashton-u-Lyne Operatic Society. 1960

Bowker, D. Libraries, leisure and reading in inter-war Ashton-under-Lyne. In: Journal of Regional and Local Studies. Vol. 8. No. 1. Spring 1988. pp.1-22

Bowker, D. Parks and baths: sports, recreation and municipal government in Ashton-under- Lyne between the wars. In: Sport and the working class in modern Britain. edited by Richard Holt. 1990

Bowker, D. and Jones, S. G. Working class culture in interwar Ashton. In: Looking Back at Ashton. Edited by A. Lock. 1997

Clapson, M. Playing the system. The world of organised street betting in Manchester, Salford and Bolton, c.1880-1939. In: Workers' worlds. Culture and communities in Manchester and Salford 1880-1939. edited by A Davies and S. Fielding. 1992

Cordingley, D. Forty-four years of Ashton cricket. 1901

Cowie, J. A. Leisure and change in the hatting town of Denton, Lancashire, from 1882-1903. B. A. Thesis. 1990

Davies, A. Leisure, gender and poverty. Working class culture in Salford and Manchester 1900-1939. 1992

Davies, A. Leisure in the 'Classic Slum' 1900-1939. In: Workers' worlds. Cultures and communities in Manchester and Salford, 1880-1939. edited by A. Davies and S. Fielding. 1992

Davies, M. Hyde Seal Swimming Club: the team that beat the world. 1995

Dickenson, B. In the audience. In: Oral History. Vol. 11. No. 1. Spring 1983. pp.52-61

Flowery Field Cricket Club. 150th anniversary, 1838-1988. 1988

LEISURE (continued)

Fowler, D. Teenage consumers? Young wage earners and leisure in Manchester, 1919-1939. In: Workers' worlds. Culture and communities in Manchester and Salford, 1880-1939. edited by A. Davies and S. Fielding. 1992

Goddard, M. C. History of the Ashton-u-Lyne and District Table Tennis League. 1993

Gow, J. J. Leisure in Ashton-under-Lyne, 1855. In: Victorian Ashton. edited by S. A. Harrop and E. A. Rose. 1974

Guide Bridge Theatre. Tenth Anniversary. 1982

Gwynne, J. Denton Cricket Club, 1824-1999. 1999

Hill, H. Freedom to roam. 1980

Hodgkinson, J. L. Early Manchester theatre. 1960

Jones, S. G. Lancashire cotton industry and paid holidays in the 1930's. In: THSLC. Vol. 135. 1986. pp.99-115

Jones, S. G. Recreational and cultural provision in Hyde between the wars. In: Looking Back At Hyde. edited by Alice Lock. 1986

Jones, S. G. Sport, politics and the working class. Organised labour and sport in inter-war Britain. 1988

Jones, S. G. The survival of industrial paternalism in the cotton districts. In: Journal of Regional and Local Studies. Vol. 7. No. 2. Autumn 1987. pp.1-13

Jones, S. G. Work, leisure and the political economy of the cotton districts between the wars. In: Textile History. Vol. 18. No. 1. Spring 1987. pp.33-57

Jones, S. G. Workers at play. 1986

Knowlson, J. Red plush and gilt. 1984

Living Memories of Hyde Hyde showtime memories. 2002

Lock, A. History of Stamford Park. Typescript. 1997

Lock, A. Theatres and cinemas of Ashton-u-Lyne. In: Mercia Bioscope. No. 6. Spring 1982

Manu, M. Guides all guides. Early years in the 1st Stalybridge (Holy Trinity) Girl Guide Company. 1996

Mellor, G. J. Picture pioneers: the story of the northern cinema, 1896-1971. 1971

LEISURE (continued)

Middleton, T. The story of Hyde St. George's Rowing Club. 1924

Mitchell, W. R. Life in the Lancashire Mill towns. 1982

Mossley Football Club Centenary season: 100 years of football ... souvenir programme. 2003

Ogden, T. Upper Mossley Whit Friday Brass Band Contest. A general history of the results, 1920-1980. 1981

Oliver, L. 'No hard-brimmed hats or hat-pins please'. Bolton women cotton-workers and the game of rounders, 1911-39. In: Oral History. Vol. 25. No. 1. Spring 1997. pp.40-45

Owen, A. Newscuttings. 1976 Owen was connected with the Stalybridge Old Band

Owen D. History of theatres and cinemas in Tameside. 1985

Pavasovic, M. Mottram Road to Maine Road. A history of football in Hyde. 1985

Rothman, B. The 1932 Kinder trespass. 1982

Ryley, S. W. The itinerant, or Memoirs of an actor. 1880

Schofield, R. A study of leisure activities in the borough of Hyde between 1919 and 1939. Dissertation. 1992

Shaw, G. "Wakes": times in bygone Stalybridge. Typescript. 1993

Shercliff, W. H. Entertainments. 1968 It Happened Round Manchester Series

Siddall, D. Droylsden, F. C. 1892-1952. The first sixty years. 1991

Simpson, P. History of Newtonhurst Cricket Club. 2004

Soroptimist International of Ashton-u-Lyne 1943-1998. A short history. 1998

Spencer, G. N. Ashton-u-Lyne and District Probus Club. A short history 1971-1996. 1996

Stalybridge Celtic. Match day magazine for the F. A. Cup first round proper between Stalybridge Celtic and Frickley Athletic. 1984 Contains a brief history of the Club

Stalybridge, first of Wakes. In: Stalybridge and District Yearbook, 1929. 1929. pp.7-11

Stalybridge Old Band, established 1814. A record of one hundred years. Centenary 1914. 1914 LEISURE (continued)

Taylor, A. R. Brass bands. 1979

Twydell, D. Rejected FC. Vol. 1. 1988

Walton, J. K. The Blackpool landlady revisited. In: Manchester Region History Review. Vol. VIII. 1994. pp.23-31

Walton, J. K. Lancashire Wakes in the 19th century. In: Popular culture and customs in 19th century England. edited by R. D. Storch. 1982

Walvin, J. Leisure and society, 1830-1950. 1978

Ward, A. Denton Links. 2006

Willerton, D. Mottram Cricket Club, 1946-1978. 1978

Williams P. M. and Williams, D. L. Flickering memories: a history of the cinema in Ashton- under-Lyne. 1995

Worrall, F. Lees Street Congregational Church Amateur Musical and Dramatic Society. The first fifty years. 1984

Wrigley, F. Brass bands, Stalybridge and me. 2000

Yates, B. Ashton boxing and boxers. 2006

LOCAL INDUSTRIES (excluding cotton and hatting)

Abrahart, E. N. Clayton Aniline Company, 1876-1976. 1976

Aerialite Story, 1932-1057. Twenty-five years of progress. 1957

Ashmore, O. Industrial Archaeology of North West England. 1982

Ashton, T. S. Iron and steel in the Industrial Revolution. 1968

Bamforth, N. “We’ll dee with eawr hearts up.” Mining disasters in Tameside. 2005

Billings, J. and Copland, D. The Ashton Munitions explosion, 1917. 1992

Caffrey, H. C. Eli Whalley: donkey stone manufacturer. In: Industrial Archaeology . Vol. 15. No. 3. Autumn 1980. pp.225-229

Calico Printers Association. Fifty years of calico printing. A jubilee history of the C.P.A. 1949

Cronin, P. and Yearsley, C. Coal mining in Denton and Haughton. In: Looking Back At Denton. edited by Alice Lock. 1985

Denton Glass excavations: results of the excavations at a unique glass-making site. 1975

Denton Local History Society. Hats off to Wilton Street. 2003

Dictionary of Business Biography. 5 volumes, edited by David J. Jeremy (extracts for Daniel Adamson, Arthur Brooke, John Macintosh, Hugh Mason, etc.) 1984 (and onwards)

Earnshaw, T. Appeal to the public, stating Thomas Earnshaw’s claim to the original invention of the improvement in his timekeepers. 1808 (repr. 1986)

George, A. D. The Manchester motor industry, 1900-1938. 1981

Great Britain. Health and Safety Executive. H. M. Factory Inspectorate. The explosion and fire at Chemstar Ltd., 6th September 1981. 1982

Great Britain. Health and Safety Executive. H. M. Factory Inspectorate. The fire and explosion at Manro Products Ltd., Stalybridge, 11th December 1982. 1983

Green, K. et al. The effects of microelectronic technologies on employment prospects: a case study of Tameside. 1980

Grieves, K. Mobilising manpower: Audenshaw tribunal in the First World War. In: Manchester Region History Review. Vol. III. No. 2. Autumn/Winter 1989/1990. pp.21-30

LOCAL INDUSTRIES etc. (continued)

Grime, J. ("Ashtonian") Ashton faces and Ashton places fifty years ago. 1922. reprinted 1991

Holland, J. Park Bridge: an historical ironworks. In: Man and Metal. Vol. 46. Nos. 6, 7 & 8. June, July & August 1969

Howarth, K. Dark days. Memories of the Lancashire and Cheshire coal mining industry. 1979

John Summers and Sons Ltd. (Centenary) 1851-1951. 1951

Marland, J. Memories of Park Bridge. 1996

Marsh, M. Shopping in Denton in the early years of the twentieth century. In: Looking Back At Denton. edited by Alice Lock. 1985

Memorial to Daniel Adamson. 1935

Nef. U. J. Rise of the British coal industry. 2 vols. 1932. new ed. 1966

Nevell, M. Park Bridge Ironworks and the archaeology of the Wrought Iron Industry in North West England, 1600 to 1900. 2003

Newton, S. Coal mining: Dukinfield's dead industry. Typescript. 1970

Oldham and Son, Ltd. Story of an enterprise, 1865-1948. 1948

Otto Monstead Ltd. Progress: or The romance of a British industry. 1914

Preece, G. Pithead baths and the miners' welfare fund. Aspects of miners' welfare in the Lancashire coalfield, 1911-1947. Thesis. 1988

Read, G. J. Daniel Adamson (1820-1890). In: Dictionary of Business Biography. Vol. 1. 1984. pp.6-12

Redfern's Rubber Works. Our jubilee, 1900-1950. 1950

Redhead, B. and Goodie, S. The Summers of Shotton. 1987

Reekie, J. A. The history of Buckton Vale. Transcription and commentary by Richard Spencer. (c.1997) (Actually a history of the Buckton Vale Printworks)

Ridgway, M. The Hyde Lane Colliery disaster, Hyde, 1889. A case study on health and safety in the mines during the latter part of the nineteenth century. Thesis. 1988

Squirrel, W. Park Bridge remembered. 2006

Twist, H. Shopping centres in Ashton-under-Lyne. Typescript. 197(3?) LOCAL INDUSTRIES etc. (continued)

University of Manchester Archaeological Unit. Glass House Fold 1999, Tameside MBC. An assessment of methods, timetable and costs for clearance, consolidation and presentation work. 1999

Vose, R. H. Excavations at the 17th century glasshouse near Haughton Green, Denton, near Manchester. In: Post-Medieval Archaeology. Vol. 28. 1994

Vose, R. H. The 17th century Glasshouse at Haughton Green, Denton, near Manchester. Thesis. 1996

William Kenyon and Sons. A century's work, 1866-1966. 1966

Williams, P. M. and Williams, D. L. Extra! Extra! Read all about it! A brief history of the newspapers of Ashton-u-Lyne,1847-1990. 1991

Williams, P. M. and Williams, D. L. Back door to Fleet Street. A history of the newspapers and press of Ashton-under Lyne from 1847 to present day. 1998 (First published as Extra! Extra! Read all about it! 1991)

LOCAL WRITERS AND THE DIALECT

Armitage, J. History of Brazil. 2 vols. 1836

Astley, F. D. German lyric poems. 1828

Astley, F. D. Hints to planters. 1807

Axon, W. E. A. John Critchley Prince and J. C. Prince and K. T. Korner. In: Cheshire Gleanings. 1884

Bartholomew M. In Search of H. V. Morton. 2004

Boardman, B. M. Between heaven and Charing Cross. The life of Francis Thompson. 1988

Brooks, J. Th’ amazin’ stories of th’ bible. 1937 (There are several dialect biblical stories by J. Brooks in stock)

Burgess, J. A potential poet? His autobiography and verse. 1927

CASS, E. F. The Cotton Factory Town, 1885-1937. A family newspaper and the Lancashire cotton Community. Thesis. 1996

Cass, E. Factory fiction in the Cotton Factory Times. In: Manchester Region History Review. Vol. VIII. 1994. pp.32-43

Cass, E. The working class in 19th century Manchester fiction. In: TCLAS. Vol. 91 for 1995. 1997. pp.103-126

Descriptive catalogue of the records relating to John Critchley Prince in the possession of Abel Heywood & Co., publishers. compiled by B. E. Maidment. 1975

Fields, K. H. V. Morton: the life of an enchanted traveller. 2004

Fowler, A. and Wyke, T. Tickling Lancashire's funnybone: the gradely cartoons of Sam Fitton. In: TLCAS. Vol. 89. 1993. pp.1-53

Hill, S. Old Lancashire songs and their singers. 1898 Includes poems by J. C. Prince, Samuel Laycock and others, complete with biographical details

Hollingworth, B. Songs of the people: Lancashire dialect poetry of the Industrial Revolution. 1978

Joyce, P. Visions of the people. Industrial England and the question of class,1848-1914. 1991

King, D. and Raven, J. Another look at Laycock. 1993

LOCAL WRITERS AND THE DIALECT (continued)

Lancashire garland of dialect prose and verse. edited by G. H. Whittaker. 1936 Anthology of dialect writers with short biographies

Lithgow, R. A. D. The life of John Critchley Prince. 1880

Maidment, B. The poorhouse fugitives. Self taught poets and poetry in Victorian Britain. 1987

Maidment, B. E. and Crehan, A. S. J. C. Prince and the death of the factory child. 1978

Middleton, T. Poets, poems and rhymes of east Cheshire. 1908

Shaw, G. Edwin Butterworth. In: TLCAS. Vol. 22. 1904. pp.61-72 A local historian, son of James Butterworth (also a local historian)

Shaw, G. James Butterworth. In: TLCAS. Vol. 26. 1908. pp.124-132 About a local historian

Sidebotham, R. Thomas Middleton, the Hyde historian. 1906

Thomas, T. Lancashire and the cotton mill in late Victorian fiction. In: Manchester Region History Review. Vol. XIII. 1999. pp.44-51

Vicinus, M. The industrial muse. 1974 Discusses J. C. Prince and Samuel Laycock

Whittaker, G. H. The reed-maker poet: John Critchley Prince, 1808-1866. c.1930

Zlotnick, S. "A thousand times I'd be a factory girl". Dialect, domesticity and working class women's poetry in Victorian Britain. In: Victorian Studies. Vol. 35. No. 1. Autumn 1991

The Local Studies Library has a large collection of dialect poems and other works by writers such as Samuel Laycock, John Critchley Prince, Joseph Burgess, James Leigh, etc.

LUDDITES

Atlas of Industrial Protest in Britain, 1750-1990. edited by A. Charlesworth, D. Culbert, A. Randall, H. Southall and C. Wrigley. In: Lancashire Luddism. 1996. pp.42-26

Darvall, F. O. Popular disturbances and public order in Regency England. 1934 Gives the background to the Luddite disturbances, though nothing specifically on this area

Hadfield, G. The family compact: or, The conspiracy of Newton. 1812 Eyewitness account of the Luddite disturbances in Longdendale by the occupier of Mottram Old Hall

Peel, F. The risings of the Luddites, Chartists and Plug Drawers. 4th ed. 1968 Peel was able to interview people (mainly around Huddersfield) who had actually taken part in Luddism

Raynes, F. An appeal to the public containing an account of services rendered during the disturbances in the north of England in the year 1812 .... 1817 Raynes commanded a company of the Stirlingshire Militia, who were drafted in to deal with the Luddite outbreaks

Thomis, M. I. The Luddites. 1970

Tomlinson, V. I. Letters of a Lancashire Luddite transported to Australia. In: TLCAS. Vol. 77. 1967. pp.97-127 Letters of Thomas Holding of Bolton

Ward, A. J. Chapel into church. How Denton Chapel became St. Lawrence's Church. 1973. pp.21-24

MANCHESTER REGIMENT

Andrews, A. W. Orders are orders: a Manchester Pal on the Somme. From the account of Albert William Andrews, of the 19th Manchesters, written in 1917. 1987

Bardsley, H. C. 20th - 23rd Service Battalions in France, Flanders and Italy. typescript. n.d.

Bell, A. C. History of the Manchester Regiment. (1st and 2nd Battalions) 1922-1948. 1954

Bibliography of North West England. Military history in the North West. 1994

Bonner, R. A. The Ardwick Boys went to Malta. 1992

Bonner, R. A. King's Regiment: 8th, 63rd, 96th. For Valour. 1996

Bonner, R. A. (editor) The 12th Battalion the Manchester Regiment, 1914-1919. 1994

Bonner, R. A. Volunteer infantry of Ashton-under-Lyne1859-1971. 2005

Bonner, R. A. The volunteer service companies of the Manchester Regiment in the Boer War of 1899-1902. In: Manchester Genealogist. Vol. 36. No. 2. 2000. pp.93-111

Bonner, R. A. Wilfrith Elstob, VC, DSO, MC. 1998

Campbell, L. C. The Manchesters. A history of the regular, militia, special reserve, territorial and new army battalions since their formation. 1916

Hurst, G. B. With the Manchesters in the East. 1918

Kirby, H. L. and Walsh, R.. R. The four Blackburn V.C.'s. 1986

Lally, M. Recollections of 3 Manchesters in the Great War. 1985

Manchester Regiment: 16th - 19th Battalions' record 1914-1918. 1923

Mitchison, K. W. Cotton town comrades. The story of the Oldham Pals Battalion, 1914-1919. 1993

Morten, J. C. I remain your son Jack. Letters from the First World War. (7th Battalion). 1993

Nash, T. A. H. Diary of an unprofessional soldier. (16th Battalion). 1991

Presenting the Manchester Regiment, 1758-1953. edited by M. Page. 1953

Sassoon, S. Diaries, 1915-1918. 1983

Shepperd, A. The King's Regiment. 1973

Stedman, M. The Manchester Pals. 1994 MANCHESTER REGIMENT (continued)

21st Battalion the Manchester Regiment. A history. 1994

Wade, J. The voluntary principle: recruitment in Manchester and Salford, August 1914 - October 1915. n.d.

Winder, E. Lancashire's part-time soldiers, 1690-1890.

Wylly, H. C. History of the Manchester Regiment (late 63rd and 96th Foot). Vol. I. 1758-1883. 1923

Wylly, H. C. History of the Manchester Regiment (late 63rd and 96th Foot). Vol. II. 1883-1922. 1925

Wylly, H. C. A short history of the Manchester Regiment. 1950

The records of the Manchester Regiment are held at the Tameside Local Studies Library. It should be noted that individual service records are not included. [Discharge papers for the 96th Regiment 1813-1853 (WO97, 1038-1043) are also held on microfilm with a typescript index.]

WILFRED OWEN

Collected poems of Wilfred Owen. 1963

A deep cry. edited by A. Powell. 1993

Hibberd, D. Owen the poet. 1986

Hibberd, D. Wilfred Owen: the year 1917-1918. 1992

Kerr, D. Wilfred Owen's voices. 1993

McPhail, H. Wilfred Owen, poet and soldier. 1993

Williams, M. Wilfred Owen. 1993

MAPS

Burdett, P. P. Map of Cheshire 1777. reprinted in facsimile with an introduction by J. B. Harley and P. Laxton. Scale 1" to 1 mile. 1974

Yates, W. Map of Lancashire 1786. reprinted in facsimile with an introduction by J. B. Harley. Scale 1" to 1 mile. 1968

Stockdale, J. Map of the environs of Mottram-in-Longdendale. Scale c. 1" to 1 mile. 1794

Baines, E. Ashton-u-Lyne, 1824. In: History, Directory and Gazetteer of the County Palatine of Lancaster. Maps, plans and tables. first published 1824. reprinted 1969. Scale ten chains to one and one-sixth inches.

Bryant, A. Map of the County Palatine of Chester. Scale one and one quarter inches to one mile. 1829-31

Dawson, R. Ashton-u-Lyne. In: Plans of the cities and boroughs of England and Wales shewing their boundaries as established by the Boundaries Act. Scale 1 mile to 2". 1831

Ordnance Survey. 1" to 1 mile, 1843. (Covers N. E. Cheshire, S. E. Lancashire and W. Derbyshire.)

Ordnance Survey. 6" to 1 mile, 1848. (Covers S. E. Lancashire.)

Ordnance Survey. 60" to 1 mile, 1852-1894. (Covers Ashton, Stalybridge and Dukinfield.)

Ordnance Survey. 6" to 1 mile, 1872. (Covers N. E. Cheshire.)

Ordnance Survey. 10' to 1 mile, 1872. (Covers parts of Hyde.)

Ordnance Survey. 25" to 1 mile, 1872-1933. (Covers N. E. Cheshire and S. E. Lancashire.)

Ordnance Survey. 6" to 1 mile, 1909. (Covers N. E. Cheshire and S. E. Lancashire.)

Ordnance Survey. 6" to 1 mile, 1950's. (Covers N. E. Cheshire and S. E. Lancashire.)

Ordnance Survey. 25" to 1 mile, 1950-1972. (Covers N. E. Cheshire and S. E. Lancashire.)

Ordnance Survey. 50" to 1 mile, 1960's to 1980's. (Covers N. E. Cheshire and S. E. Lancashire.)

Godfrey Maps - a series of maps reproduced from the 25" to 1 mile Ordnance Survey in reduced format

Ashton-under-Lyne 1916. (printed 2006)

Ashton & Dukinfield 1907. (printed 1994) MAPS (continued)

Audenshaw & Droylsden 1916. (printed 1992)

Denton Town Centre 1918. (printed 1996)

Denton West 1916. (printed 1996)

Denton With Haughton 1904. (printed 1996) [reprinted as: South Denton and Haughton Green]

Droylsden & Medlock Vale 1906. (printed 1993)

Guide Bridge 1918. (printed 1992)

Hadfield & Tintwistle 1907. (printed 1994)

Hurst & North Ashton 1906. (printed 1999)

Hyde 1897. (printed 1993)

Lydgate, Roaches & Quick 1906. (printed 2006)

Mossley South 1906. (printed 2000)

North Reddish & South West Denton 1904. (printed 1994)

Roe Cross 1907. (printed 1994)

Stalybridge 1897. (printed 1992)

Stalybridge & Ashton 1918. (printed 2006)

Copies of the tithe maps and apportionments for: Denton (1844), Dukinfield (1850), Godley (1846), Hattersley (1839), Haughton (1844), Hollingworth (1845), Hyde (1841), Matley (1840), Micklehurst (1847), Mottram (1847), Newton (1847), Quickmere (1847), Stayley (1850) and Werneth (1841).

MARKETS AND FAIRS

Ashton-under-Lyne Centenary Handbook, 1847-1947. edited by G. F. Foster. 1947 Markets, p.99

Hodson, D. Civic identity, custom and commerce: Victorian market halls in the Manchester Region. In: Manchester Regional History Review. Vol. XII. 1998. pp.34-43

Tupling, G. H. An alphabetical list of the markets and fairs of Lancashire recorded before the year 1701. In: TLCAS. Vol. 51. 1936. pp.86-110

Tupling, G. H. Lancashire markets in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In: TLCAS. Vol. 58. 1945-6. pp.1-34 and Vol. 59. 1947. pp.1-34

Westhead, W. A. Mossley market place – a journey through time. 2004

Whitehead, S. Town hall and market. In: Stalybridge Centenary Souvenir, 1857-1957. edited by J. W. March. 1957. pp.99-103

Williams, P. M. and Williams, D. L. To market, to market. The story of Ashton-under-Lyne’s ancient market. 1994

MURPHY RIOTS

Arnstein, W. L. The Murphy Riots: a Victorian dilemma. In: Victorian Studies. Vol. 19. September 1975. pp.51-71

Chadwick, W. Reminiscences of a Chief Constable. first published c.1900. reprinted 1974

Glover, W. History of Ashton-under-Lyne and the surrounding district. 1884 for an account of the riots, see pp.330-342

Hanham, H. J. Elections and party management: politics in the time of Disraeli and Gladstone. 1959

Paz, D. G. Popular anti-Catholicism in mid-Victorian England. 1992

Phillips, P. T. The sectarian spirit: sectarianism, society and politics in Victorian cotton towns. 1982

Richardson, J. E. The sacking of Thomas Street. Typescript. 1983 A dramatised account of the Murphy Riots in Stalybridge

NATURAL HISTORY

Anderson, P. Tame Valley wildlife. 1978

Anker, R. Tinkering with nature. In: Pennine Magazine. Vol. 4. No. 2. December 1982- January 1983 Article about Jethro Tinker

Bell, T. H. Birds of Cheshire. 1962

Birds in Greater Manchester: county report, 1995. 1996

Bradshaw, A. P. Jethro Tinker. A Stalybridge naturalist of the 18th-19th century. 1945

Brill, B. In search of Jethro Tinker. In: Country Fair. Vol. 25. No. 6. December 1963. pp.37-38

Buxton, R. Botanical guide to the flowering plants, ferns, mosses and algae found indigenous within sixteen miles of Manchester .... 1849

Check list of the fauna of Lancashire and Cheshire. edited by A. K. Lawson. 1930

Coward, T. A. and Oldham C. The birds of Cheshire. 1900

Dallman, A. A. and Wood, M. H. A biographical list of deceased Lancashire botanists .... 1909 Includes Jethro Tinker 'our local Linnaeus'

Day, G. O. A list of lepidoptera found in the counties of Cheshire, Flintshire, Denbighshire, Caernarvonshire and Anglesea. 1903

Dennis, N. Jethro Tinker (1788-1871). Field naturalist. In: Naturalist. Vol. 106. 1981. pp.109-111

Dyson, D. The land and fresh water shells of the districts around Manchester. 1850

Grindon, L. H. The Manchester flora: a descriptive list of the plants growing wild within eighteen miles of Manchester. 1859

Holden Clough; the natural history of a small Lancashire valley. 1971

Jackson, J. W. Obituary of C. H. Moore, 1869-1949. In: Journal of Conchology. Vol. 23. No. 3. December 1949. pp.86-87 C. H. Moore was a well-known Stalybridge conchologist

Medlock and Tame Valley Conservation Committee. The plants and animals of the Medlock Valley. 1974

Mitchell, F. S. Birds of Lancashire. 1885 NATURAL HISTORY (continued)

Newton, A. Flora of Cheshire. 1971

Newton, M. E. The briophyte collection of Jethro Tinker (1788-1871). In: Naturalist. Vol. 106. 1981. pp.111-117

Oakes, C. Birds of Lancashire. 1953

Percy, J. Scientists in humble life: the artisan naturalists of South Lancashire. In: Manchester Region History Review. Vol. V. No. 1. Spring/Summer 1991

Secord, A. Corresponding interest: artisan and gentleman in nineteenth century natural history. In: British Journal for the History of Science. No. 27. 1994. pp.383-408

Secord, A. Science in the pub. In: History of Science. Vol. XXXII. 1994. pp.269-315

Smith, G. Memoir of John Bradbury, F.L.S., London. In: Loyal and Ancient Shepherds' Quarterly Magazine. 1856

Smith, S. G. The butterflies and moths found in the counties of Cheshire, Flintshire, Denbighshire, Caernarvonshire, Anglesea and Merionethshire. 1948

Spencer, K. G. The status of birds in Lancashire and distribution. 1973

Taylor, A. Birds of a county palatine. 1913

Travis's flora of South Lancashire. edited by J. P. Savage. 1963

Vertebrate fauna of Cheshire. edited by T. A. Coward. 2 vols. 1910

Warren, J. B. L. (Lord de Tabley) The flora of Cheshire. 1899

Whitehead, J. The district flora as complied by the Ashton-under-Lyne Linnaean Botanical Society, including a list of mosses of the district. 1888

Whitehead, J. Mosses of Ashton-under-Lyne district. 1886

PETERLOO

Epstein, J. Understanding the cap of liberty. Symbolic practice and social conflict in early 19th century England. In: Past and Present. No. 122 February 1989. pp.75-118

Frow, E. Peterloo, 1819. 1969

Hipkin, J. Massacre of Peterloo. A dramatisation of the massacre which occurred in Manchester on August 16th, 1819. 1968

Manchester Region History Review. Vol. III. No. 1. May 1989. Commemorative Peterloo issue

Marlow, J. Peterloo Massacre. 1969

Peterloo Massacre, containing a faithful narrative of the events which preceded, accompanied and followed the fatal 16th August 1819 .... including the proceedings which took place at the Inquest at Oldham. 2nd ed. 1819

Philips, F. Exposure of the calumnies circulated by the enemies of social order and reiterated by their abettors against the Magistrates and Yeomen Cavalry of Manchester and Salford. 1819

Political women, 1800-1850. edited by R. Frow and E. Frow. 1989 Includes a chapter on the Peterloo Massacre

Read, D. Peterloo. The "massacre" and its background. 1973

Reid, R. The Peterloo Massacre. 1989

Stafford, J. Songs comic and sentimental. 1840

Walmsley, R. Peterloo. The case reopened. 1969

See also: BLANKETEERS

PLACE NAMES

Barnes, G. The place names of Cheshire. Ph.D. Thesis. 3 vols. 1960

Dodgson, J. M. The place names of Cheshire. 4 vols. 1970-1972

Ekwall, E. The place-names of Lancashire. 1922

Gelling, M. Signposts to the past. Place names and the history of England. 1988

Mills, D. The place-names of Lancashire. 1976

Sephton, J. A handbook of Lancashire place-names. 1913

Wilkins-Jones, C. Tameside: an outline history of those parts of Lancashire and Cheshire now in Tameside Metropolitan Borough. 1978 Gives a brief outline of the origin of the names of Tameside's towns

Wyld, H. C. and Hirst, T. O. The place-names of Lancashire: their origin and history. 1911

PLUG RIOTS

Atlas of Industrial Protest in Britain, 1750-1990. edited by A. Charlesworth, D. Culbert, A. Randall, H. Southall and C. Wrigley. In: Lancashire Luddism. 1996. pp.42-26

Jenkins, M. The General Strike of 1842. 1980

Mather, F. C. The General Strike of 1842: a study in leadership, organisation and the threat of revolution during the Plug Plot disturbances. In: Popular protest and public order. edited by J. Stevenson and R. Quinault. 1974. pp.115-141

Rose, A. G. The Plug Riots of 1842 in Lancashire and Cheshire. In: TLCAS. Vol. 67. 1957. pp.75-112

Smith, J. H. and Rose, E. A. Memorabilia of Thomas Shaw of Ashton-u-Lyne. In: TLCAS. Vol. 95. 1999. pp.85-112

See also: CHARTISM

POOR LAW AND POVERTY

Ashton-under-Lyne poorhouse and union workhouse census returns 1841-1901 . Compiled by Ros Rafnson. 2002

Bowman, W. M. The root of local rating - the poor laws. In: England in Ashton-under-Lyne. 1960. pp.505-534

Cole, J. Down Poorhouse Lane. The diary of a Rochdale workhouse. 1984

Crowther, M. A. The workhouse system, 1834-1929. 1981

Fraser, D. Evolution of the British Welfare State. A history of social policy since the Industrial Revolution. first published 1973. 1984

Jarratt, S. The operation of the old poor law in Denton and Chorlton on Medlock, 1780-1800. Thesis. 1972

Knott, J. Popular opposition to the 1834 Poor Law. 1986

Midwinter, E. C. Social administration in Lancashire, 1830-1860. 1969. pp.7-62

Rose, M. E. The anti-poor law movement in the north of England. In: Northern History. Vol. 1. 1966. pp.70-92

Rose, M. E. The English poor law, 1780-1930. 1971 Transcripts from the relevant documentary sources

Rose, M. E. The relief of poverty, 1834-1914. 1986

Treble, J. H. Urban poverty in Britain, 1830-1914. 1979

Vincent, D. Secrecy and the city, 1870-1939. In: Urban History. Vol. 22. Part 3. December 1995. pp.341-359

Worsnip, V. Cotton factory or workhouse: Poor Law assisted migration from Buckinghamshire to Northern England 1835-37. Family and community history. Journal of the Family & Community History Research Society. Vol. 3. No. 1. May 2000. pp.33-48 Includes references of workers sent to Stalybridge

Some records of the Ashton Poor Law Union (including the Guardians Minutes), which covered most of what is now Tameside, are at the Lancashire Record Office, Preston, but records of inmates do not seem to have survived. The records of the Stockport Union, which included the townships of Hyde and Werneth, were pulped during the Second World War. PREHISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY

Booth, K. and Cronin, J. Buckton Castle - a survey of the evidence. In: Greater Manchester Archaeological Journal. Vol. 3. 1987-88. pp.61-66

Broadbottom archaeological project. GMAU. Unit report 1986-1987. pp.41-44

Bu'Lock, J. D. The Bronze Age in the north west. In: TLCAS. Vol. 71. 1961. pp.1-42

Davies, J. A polished discoidal flint knife from Slatepit Moor, Lancashire. In: TLCAS. Vol. 71. 1961. pp.160-162

Fishponds Yard, Dukinfield - excavation report. GMAU. 1993

Forde-Johnston, J. The Iron Age hill forts of Lancashire and Cheshire. In: TLCAS. Vol. 72. 1962. pp.9-46 Argues that Bucton Castle is not an Iron Age hill fort, but dates from the Dark Ages or Medieval period.

Great Britain. Dept. of National Heritage. County list of scheduled monuments: Greater Manchester. 1992

GMAU. Sites and monuments record. 1991

Hodge Cottage, Broadbottom. An archaeological survey. GMAU. 1993

Jackson, J. W. The prehistoric archaeology of Lancashire and Cheshire. In: TLCAS. Vol. 50. 1934-35. pp.65-106

Nevell, M. A bog body from Ashton Moss. In: Archaeologyu North West. Bulletin if CBA North West. No. 12. (Vol. 2. Part VI) Autumn/Winter 1997. pp.150-154

Nevell, M. Tameside before 1066. 1992

Shone, W. Prehistoric man in Cheshire. 1911

Tindall, A. S. Bucton Castle, Mossley. A report. 1981

Varley, W. J. Cheshire before the Romans. 1964

PUBLIC HEALTH

Ashton-under-Lyne District Infirmary and Children's Hospital: an epitome. 1921

Civic Trust for the North West. The Tame Valley: water pollution. 1977

Coulthart, J. R. A report on the sanitary condition of the town of Ashton-under-Lyne. 1844

Duff, E. J. Life expectancy in Ashton-under-Lyne in the nineteenth century. In: North Cheshire Family Historian. Vol. 6. 1975. pp.12-15

Duff, E. J. and Johnson, J. S. Some social and forensic aspects of exhumation and reinterment of Industrial Revolution remains. In: British Medical Journal. Vol. 1. 1974. pp.563-567. Research on standards of health based on human remains buried at Ashton Parish Church.

Gregory, I. The disabled in the 19th century. In: Local History Magazine. No. 45. July/August 1994. pp.14-15

Harrop, S. A. Nineteenth century housing in Ashton. In: Victorian Ashton. edited by S. A. Harrop and E. A. Rose. 1974. pp.29-48

Midwinter, E. C. Social administration in Lancashire, 1830-1860. 1969 Public health pp.63-120

Lawton, K. W. Ashton-under-Lyne, Stalybridge and Dukinfield (District) Waterworks. A series of four articles.

1. The legislation and work prior to 1907. In: Saddleworth Historical Society Bulletin. Vol. 19. No. 4. 1989

2. The commencement of Chew Reservoir and the contractor's tram road. In: Saddleworth Historical Society Bulletin. Vol. 20. No. 1. 1990

3. The construction of Chew Reservoir, 1907-1914. In: Saddleworth Historical Society Bulletin. Vol. 20. No. 2. 1990

4. The 75 year period 1914-1989. In: Saddleworth Historical Society Bulletin. Vol. 20. No. 3. 1990

Moore, W. J. Dental caries and the British diet. In: Update. Vol. 27. No. 5. 1st September 1983. pp.601-610. Based on human remains buried at Ashton Parish Church.

Pickstone, J. V. Medicine and industrial society. A history of hospital development in Manchester and its region, 1752-1946. 1985 Useful chapter on infectious diseases and hospitals, 1860-1910

Powell, M. Did politics matter? Municipal public health expenditure in the 1930's. In: Urban History. Vol. 22. Part 3. December 1995. pp.360-379 PUBLIC HEALTH (continued)

Ranger, W. Report to the General Board of Health on ..... the sanitary condition of ... Dukinfield .... 1856

Rybaczek, A. Homes fit for heroes in inter-war Ashton. Did they stop a revolution? 1995

Schofield, E. M. Food and cooking of the working class about 1900. 1972

Schofield, E. M. Medical care of the working class about 1900. 1979

Scola, R, Feeding the Victorian city. The food supply of Manchester, 1770-1870. 1992

Smith, F. B. People's health, 1830-1910. first published 1979. 1993

Tameside Metropolitan Borough. Profile 2. 1977 pp.86-103

Urban disease and morality in nineteenth century England. edited by R. Woods and J. Woodward. 1984

Ward, A. J. Chapel into church. How Denton Chapel became St. Lawrence's Church. 1973 pp.128-134

Wilson, J. Public health in Ashton-u-Lyne in the 19th century. typescript. 1992

Wilson, J. F. Lighting the town. A study of management in the North West gas industry, 1805- 1880. 1991

Wohl, A. S. Endangered lives. Public health in Victorian Britain. 1983

Wood, C. M. The geography of pollution: a study of Greater Manchester. 1974 Covers air, land, water and noise pollution

The reports of the Medical Officer of Health for the individual Boroughs are available among the archives Collection from the mid- to late- 1870's onwards and are a major source of public health information.

PUBS AND BREWERIES

Magee, R. Directory of Ashton pubs and their licensees. 1989

Magee, R. Some Mossley pubs and their licensees, 1750-1991. 1991

Magee, R. Springhead and Lees pubs, including Alt, with their licensees 1717-1996. 1996

Magee, R. Stalybridge pubs 1750-1990, and their licensees. 1991

Mass Observation. The pub and the people. A worktown study. 1970

Rhodes, F. History of the pubs of Denton and Haughton. 1983

Sullivan, B. History of the breweries of Stalybridge, Dukinfield and Hyde. 1997

Sullivan, B. Local brew. 1988

Sullivan, B. Local breweries, mineral water manufacturers and pubs. Typescript. 1990

Sullivan, B. R. A. Barrett & Co. Ltd. 1994

Taylor, P. History of the pubs of Hyde and district. 1984

RAILWAYS

Bairstow, M. The Leeds, Huddersfield and Manchester Railway: the Standedge Line. 2nd edition 1990

Bairstow, M. The Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne and Manchester Railway: the Woodhead Line. 1986

Bennett, A. R. Chronicles of Boulton's Siding. 1927 Account of the work of Isaac Watt Boulton who bought and sold second-hand steam locomotives

British Railways. Electrification of the Manchester, Sheffield and Wath lines. 1954 Commemorative brochure

Coleman, T. Railway navvies: a history of the men who made the railways. 1965 Contains an account of the building of the Woodhead Tunnel and of the collapse of the viaduct over the Tame in 1845

Dow, G. The first railway between Manchester and Sheffield. 1945 A history of the Sheffield, Ashton and Manchester Railway

Dow, G. Great Central. 3 vols. 1959-1965 Detailed history of the Sheffield, Ashton and Manchester Railway, with some information on some of the smaller lines - such as the Oldham, Ashton and Guide Bridge

Early history of railways. In: Stalybridge and District Yearbook, 1914. 1914 Useful local railway chronology

Greville, M. D. Chronology of the railways of Cheshire. 1973

Greville, M. D. Chronology of the railways of Lancashire. 1973

Holt, G. O. A regional history of the railways of Great Britain: the North West. 1978 Covers all the local lines in reasonable detail.

Hooper, J. Station survey: Stalybridge. In: British Railways Illustrated. Vol. 1. No. 4. April/May 1992. pp.188-196

Marshall, J. Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. 3 Vols. 1969-1972 Describes the line which ran from Manchester to Ashton Charlestown and Stalybridge via Ashton Moss

A reminiscence of 1845. In: Stalybridge and District Yearbook, 1914. 1914 Collapse of the viaduct at Dukinfield

Stalybridge railway station: In: Stalybridge and District Yearbook, 1914. 1914

Wells, J. Micklehurst loop line. In: Backtrack. Vol. 14. No. 3. March 2000. pp.142-147 RAILWAYS (continued)

Wells, J. Miles Platting to Diggle via Ashton. 1996

RELIGION: GENERAL

Alcock, D. E. Role of the churches within the working class communities of Ashton-u-Lyne and Stalybridge, 1851-1865. Thesis. 1993

Beever, J. History of Oldham Churches. 1996 Includes Alt and Bardsley

Blundell, F. O. Old Catholic Lancashire. 3 vols. 1925-1941

Garnett, J. and Howe, A. C. Churchmen and cotton masters in Victorian England. In: Business and religion in Britain. edited by David J. Jeremy. 1988

Gay, J. D. The geography of religion in England. 1971

Haigh, C. Reformation and resistance in Tudor Lancashire. 1975

Halley, R. Lancashire: its Puritanism and nonconformity. 1872

Historical sketches of nonconformity in the County Palatine of Chester. 1864

Inglis, K. S. Churches and the working class in Victorian England. 1963

Jeremy, D. J. Capitalists and Christians. Business leaders and the churches in Britain, 1900-1960. 1990

Nightingale, B. Lancashire nonconformity: the churches of Manchester, Oldham and Ashton. 1893 Also describes nonconformity in Denton, Droylsden, Mossley, Stalybridge, Dukinfield and Audenshaw

Lock, A. The role of clergymen and ministers in Ashton, Stalybridge and Dukinfield, 1850-1914. Thesis. 1989

Manchester Statistical Society. Report of a Committee of the Manchester Statistical Society on the condition of the working classes in an extensive manufacturing district in 1834, 1835 and 1836. 1838 Includes tables measuring religious affiliation in Ashton, Dukinfield and Stalybridge

Phillips, P. T. Sectarian spirit: sectarianism, society and politics in Victorian cotton towns. 1982

Richardson, R. C. Puritanism in north-west England. 1972

Rose, E. A. Ashton churches and chapels. In: Victorian Ashton. edited by S. A. Harrop and E. A. Rose. 1974. pp.60-76

Smith, L. Religion and the rise of Labour. Nonconformity and the Independent Labour Movement in Lancashire and the West Riding, 1880-1914. 1993

RELIGION: GENERAL (continued)

Smith, M. Religion in industrial society: Oldham and Saddleworth 1740-1865. 1994

Walk, K. R. Elizabethan recusancy in Cheshire. Chetham Society. Vol. XIX. 1971

Walk, W. R. Religion and society in England, 1790-1850. 1972

The Religious Census of 1851 gives the attendance figures for local churches on one Sunday in 1851

MARY MOFFAT: the Victorian missionary born in Dukinfield

Axon, W. E. A. Dr. Moffat as a Cheshire gardener. In: Cheshire Gleanings. 1884. pp.190-196

Dickson, M. Beloved partner. Mary Moffat of Kuruman. 1974

Ellis, J. J. Robert Moffat. The gardener boy who became the great South African pioneer. (192?)?

Moffat, J. and Moffat E. The Matabele Mission. A selection from the correspondence of John and Emily Moffat, David Livingstone and others, 1858-1878. edited by J. P. R. Wallis. 1945

Moffat, J. S. The lives of Robert and Mary Moffat. 1885

Moffat, R. and Moffat, M. Apprenticeship at Kuruman; being the journals and letters of Robert and Mary Moffat, 1820-1828. 1951

Moffat, R. The Matabele journals of Robert Moffat,1829-1860. 2 vols. edited by J. P. R. Wallis. 1945

Moffat, R. Missionary labours and scenes in Southern Africa. 1842

Moffat, R. Visit to Moselekatse, King of the Matabele. In: Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. Vol. 26. 1856. pp.84-109

Murray-Brown, J. Faith and the flag. The opening of Africa. 1977

Northcott, C. Robert Moffat: pioneer in Africa, 1817-1870. 1961

Rivers of water in a dry place. 1892

RELIGION: ANGLICANS

Ashton Parish Church. Bazaar handbook. 1911

Brief historical sketch of Ashton-under-Lyne parish church and tower. 1988

Denby, P. Two into one will go. A history of the parish of St. George, Stalybridge. 1990

Gee Cross Parish Church.. History, 1874-1974. 1974

Hedges, J. A short history of St. Peter's Church, Ashton. 1974

Hurst Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist, 1849-1949: a centenary of consecration. 1949

Jarvis, A. The lion and the raven: a short history of the parish and church of St. Mark, Dukinfield. First published 1964. 1996

Middleton, T. History of Hyde St. George's Church and Schools. 1911

Nevell, M. St Lawrence’s Church and the archaeology of the medieval timber-framed churches of England and Wales. 2005

Nevell, M. The two St Michaels and the archaeology of the medieval parish church in North West England. 2005

Noel, C. An autobiography. 1946 Conrad Noel was a curate at Flowery Field, Hyde

Parish Church of St. Lawrence, Denton, 1531-1981: the first 450 years. 1981

Price, R. Mottram Church. A guide to the parish church of St. Michael and All Angels, Mottram- in-Longdendale. 1985

Price, R. The parish of Mottram-in-Longdendale and its clergy. 1989

Purcell, G. Stone upon stone and church management in the present day. 1874 includes Broadbottom material

Roch, R. S. Brief guide to the parish church of St. Michael and All Angels, Mottram. 1971

Rogan, J. Ashton-under-Lyne parish church history and guide. 1956

Rose, E. A. Anglican arguments, or The Battle of Cocker Hill. In: Looking Back At Stalybridge. edited by Alice Lock. 1989

Saint Anne, Haughton, 1882-1982. edited by Jill Cronin. 1982

Ward, A. J. Chapel into church: how Denton Chapel became St. Lawrence's Church. 1973

RELIGION: ANGLICANS (continued)

Woodfield, R. Conrad Noel. In: For Christ and the people. edited by M. B. Reckitt. 1968

RELIGION: BAPTISTS

Phillips, W. History of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Stalybridge, 1804-1907. 1907

Wakefield Road Baptist Church (Mount Olivet), Stalybridge: a centenary record, 1848-1948. 1948

RELIGION: CHRISTIAN ISRAELITES

Balleine, G. R. Past finding out: the tragic story of Joanna Southcott and her successors. 1956 John Wroe 'Judaizer', pp.83-93

Carlile, R. Journal of Mr. Carlile's tour through the country: Ashton-u-Lyne. In: The Lion. Vol. 1. No. 3. 18th January 1828. pp.78-79 and The Lion. Vol. 1. No. 4. 25th January 1828. pp.97-104

Chadwick, W. Reminiscences of a chief constable. first published 1900. reprinted 1974 A chapter on the Joannas

Dictionary of National Biography. John Wroe. Volume XXI. 1909. pp.1073-1075

A form of service for the afternoon of the day called Sunday as used by the people called Israelites. 1829

Glover, W. History of Ashton-under-Lyne and the surrounding district. 1884 pp.306-316

Green, E. Prophet John Wroe. 2005

Green, E. Wrenthorpe: a history. 1992 Chapter 4 deals with John Wroe

Hardy, D. Alternative communities in nineteenth century England. 1979 pp.131-154

Harrison, J. F. C. The second coming: popular millenarianism, 1780-1850. 1979

Hopkins, J. K. A woman to deliver her people. 1982

Howcroft, A. J. Tales of a Pennine people. 1923 Chapter 6

Hymns to be used in the public meetings of the Society of Christian Israelites. 1900

Jezreel, J. J. Extracts from the Flying Roll. 1879

The life and journal of John Wroe .... 1829 etc.

Life and prophecies of Joanna Southcott from her infancy to the present time .... 1815

Rogers, J. Mr. Wroe's virgins. 1991 A novel based on the story of the Christian Israelites

Rogers, R. G. Sixth trumpeter: the story of Jezreel and his tower. 1963

Seymour, A. The Express, Nos. 1 and 2. 1909 RELIGION: CHRISTIAN ISRAELITES (continued)

Smith, J. H. & Rose, E. A. Memorabilia of Thomas Shaw of Ashton-u-Lyne. In: TLCAS. Vol.95. 1999. pp.88-112

Southcott, J. Strange effects of faith: with remarkable prophecies of things which are to come. 1801

Stafford, J. Songs comic and sentimental. 1840 Contains poems on Christian Israelites, pp.22-24

Thompson, E. P. The making of the English working class. 1968. pp.420-428

Tobin, P. The Southcottians in England, 1783-1895. Thesis. 1978 Includes a chapter on John Wroe

Wroe, J. Extracts from the teachings of John Wroe, Prophet-Missionary, 1853-1854. 196-

Wroe, J. Sermons selected from the Scriptures ... being a guide to the people surnamed Israelites to preach the everlasting Gospel. 1846

A collection of material from the Christian Israelite Press is held in the Archives, reference number: NCI/1

RELIGION: CONGREGATIONALISM

Abney Congregational Church, Mossley. Story of Abney, 1854-1954. 1954 Congregationalism in Mossley

Albion Congregational Church, Ashton-u-Lyne, 1800-1950. 1950

Aspland, R. B. History of the old nonconformity in Dukinfield. 1845

Binfield, J. C. G. The dynamic of grandeur: Albion Church, Ashton-under-Lyne. In: TLCAS. Vol. 85. 1988. pp.173-192

Congregationalism in Dukinfield: centenary memorial volume, 1805-1905. 1906

Garside, F. Historical sketch of Crescent Road Congregational Church and the Furnace Hill School, Dukinfield. 1892 . Glynne, S. R. Notes on churches of Cheshire. Chetham Society. Vol. 32, New Series. 1894. p.112. Dukinfield Chapel (Old Hall)

Half a century of Independency in Ashton-under-Lyne. 1867

Howard, M. S. Hurst Nook Church, 1871-1991. Typescript. 1993

Johns, D. S. and McCulloch, A. The congregational church, Stalybridge, 1831-1931. 1931

Mills, W. H. Grey pastures. 1924 Fictionalised account of life in congregational circles in Ashton in the 1880s

Rogers, J. G. An autobiography. 1903 Rogers was a minister at Albion Church

Stalybridge Congregational Church. History of the Congregational Church, Stalybridge. 1977

Theobald, B. G. Union Street Congregational Church, Hyde. Centenary memorial volume, 1814- 1914. 1915

Whitehead, M. Social reformers of Albion. 2005

RELIGION: METHODISM

Graham, J. Methodist New Connexion, Ashton-under-Lyne: the story of our early days. 1887

Hempton, D. Methodism and politics in British society, 1750-1850. 1984

Katharine Street Methodist Church, Ashton. A century of Christian service, 1845-1945. souvenir handbook. 1945.

The Methodist Sunday School, Stamford Street, Ashton-under-Lyne, 1786-1986. 1986

Mossley United Methodist Church, Wyre Street Sunday School Souvenir, 1823-1923. 1923

Our heritage, 1799-1949: the story of the Methodist Church, Stamford Street, Ashton. 1949

Our heritage, 1849-1949: the Methodist Church and Sunday School, Booth Street, Stalybridge. 1949

Rose, E. A. Methodism in Ashton-under-Lyne, 1740-1914. 2 vols. 1968

Rose, E. A. Methodism in Cheshire to 1800. In: TLCAS. Vol. 78. 1975. pp.22-38

Rose, E. A. Methodism in Droylsden. 1963

Rose, E. A. Methodism in Dukinfield. 1978

Rose, E. A. Methodism in Mottram-in-Longdendale. In: Journal of the Lancashire and Cheshire Branch of the Wesley Historical Society. Journal No. 20. Vol. 2. No. 10. August 1974. pp.185-189

Rose, E. A. Methodism in South Lancashire to 1800. In: TLCAS. Vol.81. 1982. pp.67-91

Rose, E. A. Story of Mossley Methodism. 1969

Rosemount Primitive Methodist Church, Newton, Hyde, 1876-1926, Souvenir. An historical narrative. The Church of today. Guide to the Jubilee Floral Bazaar, Easter 1926 and Programme of Jubilee Services, July 1926. 1926.

Sheard, M. Primitive Methodism in the Manchester area, 1820-1830. 1974

Taylor, H. W. One hundred years of progress: a concise history of the Methodist Church (ex-Primitives), Stalybridge, 1834-1934. 1934

RELIGION: MORAVIANS

Aikin, J. Description of the country from thirty to forty miles around Manchester. 1795. pp.232-233

Higson, J. Historical and descriptive ... notices of Droylsden .... first published 1859. reprinted 1973

Langton, E. History of the Moravian Church. 1956

McQuillan, T. Two hundred year of Christian witness: a brief account of the story of the Moravian Church in Dukinfield. 1950

Mellows, F. H. History of the Fairfield Moravian Church. 1978. The Reverend Mellows was a minister at Fairfield

Mellow, F. H. Two hundred years of church service. Sketches of some notable church servants of Fairfield Congregation, 1795-1985. 1985(?)

Speake, R. and Witty, F. R. A history of Droylsden. 1953

Titterington, E. E. Historical sketch of the Moravian Church in Dukinfield. 1910

RELIGION: PRESBYTERIANS

Arrowsmith, A. John Angier: the "Angel on Horseback". In: Looking Back At Denton. edited by Alice Lock, 1985

Oliver Heywood's 'Life of John Angier of Denton': together with Angier's diary and extracts from his 'An helpe to better hearts'; also Samuel Angier's diary. edited by E. Axon. Chetham Society. Vol. 37 (new series). 1937

RELIGION: QUAKERS

Nightingale, B. Early stages of the Quaker Movement in Lancashire. 1921 Describes George Fox's visit to Dukinfield

RELIGION: ROMAN CATHOLICS

Atkinson, M. The Irish in Tameside in 1851. Typescript. 1995

Cassidy, J. St. Ann's Catholic Church, Burlington Street, Ashton, 1846-1978. 1978

Fielding, S. Class and ethnicity. Irish Catholics in England, 1880-1939. 1993

Hamer, E. Elizabeth Prout, 1820-1864. A religious life for industrial England. 1994. Biography of a nun who worked in Ashton in the 1850's and 1860's

Holy Family Sisters one hundred years in Stalybridge: 1883-1983. 1983

The hundred years: a chronological sketch of St. Peter's Catholic Church, Stalybridge, 1839-1946. 1946

Marshall, B. St. Paul’s Catholic Church, Hyde, 1848-1998: a history of the parish. 1998

Osgood, D. Irish in Ashton-under-Lyne. In: THSLC. Vol. 149.

150th Anniversary. St. Peter's, Stalybridge. 1839-1989. 1989

Whitehead, M. Trials of Mother Clare. 2005

RELIGION: UNITARIANISM

Andreas, A. R. In Memoriam: Henry Enfield Dowson. 1925

Churm, F. North Cheshire Unitarian Sunday School Union. Something attempted. A history of the Union, 1863-1963. 1963

Doel, D. C. Old Chapel and the Unitarian story. 1994

East Cheshire Union of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches. Richly poured ... a history of the Union, 1859-1959. 1959

Gordon, A. Historical account of Dukinfield Old Chapel and its School. 1896

Hickey, J. E. History of the Old Chapel Sunday School, Dukinfield, 1800-1950. 1950

Hickey, J. E. A short history of the Dukinfield Old Chapel. 1940

Hyde Chapel, Gee Cross. Bicentenary souvenir, 1708-1908. 1908

Hyde Chapel Sunday School. Foundation Day Service, 20th October, 1985. 1985 Contains a brief history

Lock, A. Henry Enfield Dowson. In: Looking Back At Hyde. edited by Alice Lock. 1986

Middleton, T. A history of Hyde Chapel. 1908

Old Chapel School Hall Opening. Saturday 11th April 1987. 1987 Contains a brief history of Dukinfield Old Chapel Sunday School

Petts, G. W. Origin and rise of the Hyde Road Christian Church, Mottram-in-Longdendale. 1954

Reed, C. E. Christian Church, Mossley. Centenary, 1841-1941. A brief historical sketch. 1941

Stalybridge Unitarian Sunday School. The growing of the seed. The story of Unitarianism in Stalybridge, 1862-1962. 1962

Taylor, H. S. Dukinfield Old Chapel Sunday School, centenary souvenir. 1900

Unitarian Church and Sunday School, Stalybridge. Souvenir of the Grand Bazaar. 1900 Includes a history of the church.

Wilton Street Chapel, Denton. A short history, 1875-1936. 1936

ROAD TRANSPORT

Ashton-under-Lyne Corporation Passenger Transport. Fifty years of municipal passenger transport, 1902-1952. 1952

Ashton-under-Lyne Corporation Passenger Transport. 1902-1969 commemorative brochure. 1969

Bett, W. H. The tramways of South East Lancashire. 1967 Includes an account of the SHMD, with maps of the routes and technical data on the trams

Greater Manchester transport review. edited by W. G. S. Hyde. 1978 Contains chapters on Ashton Corporation Transport and the SHMD Joint Transport Board

Grundy, A. G. My fifty years in transport. 1944 Autobiography of the transport manager of the SHMD

Heywood, K. C. Transport and electricity. In: Stalybridge Centenary Souvenir, 1857-1957. 1957. pp. 107-112

Hyde, W. G. S. History of public transport in Ashton-under-Lyne. 1980

Hyde, W. G. S. and Ogden, E. Stalybridge, Hyde , Mossley and Dukinfield Tramways and Electricity Board. British bus, tram and trolley-bus systems. No. 12. 1990

Packhorses, turnpikes and coaches. Stalybridge District Yearbook, 1914. 1914

Stalybridge, Hyde , Mossley and Dukinfield Tramways and Electricity Board. Souvenir of the opening of the scheme. 1904

Tameside Metropolitan Borough. Profile 2. 1977 Section on transport

Tupling, G. H. The Turnpike Trusts of Lancashire. In: Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society. Vol. 94. 1952-1953. pp.39-62

ROMANS

Garlick, T. The Romans in Cheshire. 1973

Garlick, T. Roman Derbyshire. 1975. Contains a useful bibliography

Hartley, B. R. Some problems of the Roman military occupation of the north of England. In: Northern History. Vol. 1. 1966. pp.7-20

Jones, G, D. B. Roman Manchester. 1974 The historical setting, pp.1-9

Jones, G. D. B. The Romans in the north west. In: Northern History. Vol. 3. 1968. pp.1-26

Jones, G. D. B. and Wild, J. P. The Deansgate dig: Roman Manchester. Interim report of the 1972 excavations. 1973

Margary, I. D. Roman roads in Britain. 1973 Chapter on Roman roads in the Manchester area

Melandra Castle: being the report of the Manchester and District Branch of the Classical Association for 1905. edited by R. S. Conway. 1906

Nevell, M. Romano-British enclosure on Werneth Low, Tameside. In: Archaeology North West. The Bulletin of CBA North West. No. 4. Autumn/Winter 1992. pp.19-22

Nevell, M. Tameside before 1066. 1992

Ordnance Survey. Map of Roman Britain. 3rd ed. 1956

Petch, J. A. The Roman occupation of Lancashire and Cheshire. In: TLCAS. Vol. 69. 1959. pp.1-14

Redhead, N. Castleshaw evaluation stage 2. Further evaluations of extra-mural activity at an upland Roman military site. In: Saddleworth Historical Society Bulletin. Vol. 27. No. 1. Spring 1997. pp.1-31.

Richmond, I. Roman and native in north Britain. 1958

Thompson, F. H. Roman Cheshire. 1965

Thompson, F. H. The Roman fort at Castleshaw, Yorkshire: excavations 1957-1964. In: TLCAS. Vol. 77. 1967. pp.1-18

Ward, A. M. Melandra, Roman Fort: an illustrated guide. rev. ed. 1968

Watkin, W. T. Roman Cheshire. first published 1886. new ed. 1974 ROMANS (continued)

Watkin, W. T. Roman Lancashire. first published 1883. new ed. 1969

Wild, J. P. The Romans in the north west: Melandra fort and settlement as it might have been. 1973 The best short account with drawings of how the fort might have looked

TOWN HISTORIES

Andrews, B. Don't fret, my lad. An Ashton boyhood. 1987

Ashton-under-Lyne. Its story through the ages. edited by George Foster. 1947 (Ashton Centenary Handbook)

Batty, A. My life in the 1930s. 1995

Bone, J. History of Broadbottom. 1987

Booker, J. A. History of the ancient chapel of Denton. 1855

Bowman, W. M. England in Ashton-under-Lyne. 1960

Bowman, W. M. 5000 acres of old Ashton. first published 1950. reprinted 1990 History of Limehurst R.D.C.

Brooke, J. The Dukinfield I knew, 1906-1930. 1987

Butterworth, E. An historical account of the towns of Ashton-under-Lyne Stalybridge and Dukinfield. 1842 Includes a short account of Audenshaw

Butterworth, J. History and description of the town and parish of Ashton-under-Lyne. 1823 Includes Audenshaw and Dukinfield

Butterworth, J. History and description of the towns and parishes of Stockport, Ashton-under- Lyne, Mottram-in-Longdendale and Glossop .... 1827 Includes Hyde and Dukinfield, which were in Stockport parish

Buxton, M. Longdendale Valley. (Images of England series) 2004

Carney, M. Memories of Glossopdale and Longdendale. 2002

Chadwick, W. Reminiscences of Mottram. first published c.1865. reprinted 1972

Claydon, G. Down on th’ valley. 1997

Cronin, J. Droylsden and Audenshaw in archive photographs. 1997

Cronin, J. Droylsden and Audenshaw Voices. 1999

Cronin, J. Haughton in 1851. Thesis. 1982

Dagnah, M. Castle Hall revisited. Stalybridge in the nineteen-thirties. 1995

Denton Local History Society. Kingswater: the story of Debdale Vale. 1991

TOWN HISTORIES (continued)

Denton Local History Society Denton and Haughton in archive photographs. 1997

Denton Local History Society Denton then and now. 1999

Denton Local History Society Denton Voices. 1998

Denton Local History Society “Hats Off” to Wilton Street. 2003

Flowers, D. My Dukinfield childhood. 1992

Glover, W. History of Ashton-under-Lyne .... 1884

Greenman, G. Longdendale, the travellers’ valley. 1998

(Grimes, J) Ashton faces and places [reprint] 1991

Hague, E. Streets away from Paradise. Reminiscences of a Stalybridge lad. 1987

Hey, J. Higher Hurst. The growth and development of an industrial community in Lancashire in the nineteenth century. Thesis. 1979

Heap, J. Those lazy hazy crazy days. 2003

Hickey, J. E. Dukinfield past and present. first published 1926. reprinted 1992

Higson, J. Historical and descriptive notices of Droylsden. first published 1859. reprinted 1975

Hill, S. Bygone Ashton. 1999 (first published 1909 in the Ashton Reporter)

Hill, S. Bygone Stalybridge. first published 1907. reprinted 1987

Hoare, L. Memories of a Mossley childhood. 2003

Holt, A. Story of Mossley. first published 1926. new edition 1974

Johnson, B. Longdendale and Glossopdale in archive photographs. 1996

King, D. E. I wish I'd asked my grandad. Boyhood memories of Heyrod. 1994

Knott, M. Hattersley, the old and the new. 1994

Lever, H. Flowery Field. 2002

Living memories of Hyde. edited by W. Cullen, N. Haynes, A. Lock and H. Plevin. 1990

Living Memories of Hyde. Quizzing memories of Hyde.1992 TOWN HISTORIES (continued)

Lock, A. Ashton and Mossley in archive photographs. 1995

Looking Back at Denton. edited by Alice Lock. 1985

Looking Back at Hyde. edited by Alice Lock. 1986

Looking Back at Stalybridge. edited by Alice Lock. 1989

Lord, E. The anatomy of a small region: defining Longdendale. In: Journal of Regional and Local Studies. Vol. 13. No. 2. Winter 1993. pp.51-63

Marland, J. Memories of Park Bridge. 1996

Meredith, C. As I remember. 1997

Middleton, T. Annals of Hyde and district. first published 1899. reprinted 1973

Middleton, T. History of Denton and Haughton. 1936

Middleton, T. History of Hyde and its neighbourhood. 1932

Middleton, T. Hyde a bygone era. 2001

Middleton, T. Old Godley. first published 1900. reprinted 1971

Mossley centenary festival. 1985

Nevell, M. (Tameside history volume 1) Tameside before 1066. 1992

Nevell, M. (Tameside history volume 2) Tameside 1066-1700. 1991

Nevell, M. (Tameside history volume 3) Tameside 1700-1930. 1993

Nevell, M. (Tameside history volume 4) People who made Tameside. 1994

Nevell, M. (Tameside history volume 5) Buildings of Tameside. 1996

Nevell, M. (Tameside history volume 6) The lands and lordships. 1998

Nevell, M. (Tameside history volume 8) Tameside in transition. 1999

Nevell, M. (Tameside history volume 9) Archaeology of Twentieth century Tameside. 2004

Nevell, M. Carrbrook: a textile village and its valley. 2006

Parry, W. A. History of Hurst and neighbourhood. 1908

TOWN HISTORIES (continued)

Pavasovic, M. No mean city. A history of Dukinfield. 1984

Powell, J. Longdendale in retrospect. 1977 A pictorial history

Pritchard, F. East Manchester remembered. 1989 Memories of Droylsden, Daisy Nook, Audenshaw and Fairfield included

Raven, J. and Rose, E. A. Stalybridge in archive photographs. 1998

Raven, J. and Rose, E. A. A Stalybridge quiz. 1995

Reece, R. People of Stalybridge. 2000

Riley, M. A view of round ‘ere. (1989?)

Robinson, R. B. Longdendale: historical and descriptive sketches of the two parishes of Mottram and Glossop. 1863

Searle, D. Historical notes of Mossley. n. d.

Sharpe, N. T. Land of the Etherow. 2000

Shaw, G. Echoes and episodes of Stalybridge. 1992

Shaw, J. Down Memory Lane. 1988

Siddelley, H. The moors above, the mills below. Stalybridge memories. 1994

Slack, L. Three jumps to the cupboard door. 2002

Sole, B. Hyde in archive photographs. 1995

Sole, B. Hyde the second selection. 1998

Southall, D. Voices of Ashton. 2000

Southall, D. Voices of Dukinfield and Stalybridge. 2003

Speake, R, and Witty, F. R. A history of Droylsden. 1953

Squirrel, W. Park Bridge remembered. 2006

Stalybridge and District Yearbooks, 1903 – 1917, 1924 – 1936. 1903-1936

Stalybridge, Cheshire. Centenary souvenir, 1857-1957. edited by John March. 1957

TOWN HISTORIES (continued)

Stalybridge scrapbook. edited by E. A. Rose. 1985

Taylor, P. Hyde the third selection. 2002

Taylor, T. A. Look again at Longdendale. edited by W. Johnson. 2006

Victorian Ashton. edited by S. A. Harrop and E. A. Rose. 1974

Ward, A. J. Chapel into church: how Denton Chapel became St. Lawrence's Church. 1973

WEA class Carrbrook, a peep into the past. 2004

WEA class Charlestown: Ashton-under-Lyne’s lost hamlet. 2004

WEA class Illustrated account of the rural district of Hartshead and Broadcarr. 2004

Whittaker, K. Saltway to motorway: an overview of Audenshaw’s history. 2000

Wilkins-Jones, C. Tameside: an outline history of those parts of Lancashire and Cheshire now in Tameside Metropolitan Borough. 1978

Young, J. Some aspects of the history of Denton and Haughton, Lancashire, prior to the eighteenth century. Thesis. 1982

TRADE UNIONISM AND THE LABOUR MOVEMENT

Aitken, W. Writings of a nineteenth century working man. first published 1869. 1996

Belchem, J. Industrialisation and the working class. 1990

Bowker, D. Ashton weavers in the age of labour unrest, 1910-20. Thesis. 1983

Bowker, D. The cotton industry and the Ashton Weavers Association. In: Looking Back At Ashton. edited by Alice Lock. 1997

Bruton, P. Women in cotton trade unions, A case study: Ashton Weavers 1919-1939. Thesis. 1990

Bullen, A. The Lancashire Weavers Union. 1984

Carter, S. The I. L. P. in Ashton-under-Lyne, 1893-1900. In: North West Group for the Study of Labour History Bulletin. No. 4. 1977. pp.63-85

Challinor, R. The Lancashire and Cheshire miners. 1972

Challinor, R. and Ripley, B. The Miners' Association: a trade union in the age of the Chartists. 1968

Clegg, H. A. History of British Trade Unions since 1889. Volume II, 1911-1933. first published 1985. 1987

Cotton, N. Popular movements in Ashton-under-Lyne and Stalybridge before 1832. Thesis. 1977

Currents of radicalism. Popular radicalism, organised labour and party politics in Britain, 1850-1914. 1991

Foulger, W. A woman's place is in her union. North West Labour History. No. 17. 1992/3. pp.113-119

Fowler, A. Lancashire and new Liberalism. In: North West Group for the Study of Labour History Bulletin. No. 4. 1977. pp.36-58 Describes the position of Liberalism in Hyde in relation to P. F. Clarke's Lancashire and the new Liberalism (1971)

Fowler, A. Trade unions and technical change. The Automatic Loom Strike, 1908. In: Looking Back at Hyde. edited by Alice Lock. 1986

Frow, E. and Frow, R. Engineering struggles. Episodes in the story of the Shop Stewards' Movement. 1982

Frow, E. and Frow R. The International Working Men's Association and the Working Class Movement in Manchester, 1865-1885. 1979 TRADE UNIONISM AND THE LABOUR MOVEMENT (continued)

Greater Manchester men who fought in Spain. 1983

Hall, A. A. Social control and the working class challenge in Ashton-under-Lyne, 1886-1914. Thesis. 1975

Hall, R. G. Work, class and politics in Ashton-under-Lyne, 1830-1860. Ph.D. Thesis. 1991

Hemsworth K. The Ashton-under-Lyne parliamentary by-election of 1928 – reflecting national trends. In: Looking Back at Ashton. edited by Alice Lock. 1997

Hyde and District Operative Cotton Spinners' Association. Historical Sketch. Seventy-five years record .... 1928

Joyce, P. Visions of the people. Industrial England and the question of class, 1848-1914. 1991

Kirby, R. G. and Musson, A. E. The voice of the people. 1975

Kirk, N. Change, continuity and class. Labour in British Society 1850-1920. 1998

Kirk, N. The growth of working class reformism in Mid-Victorian England. 1985

Lock, A. Robert W. Cummings, the “Communist” vicar of Hurst. In: Looking Back At Ashton. edited by A. Lock. 1997

McKibbin, R. Ideologies of class. Social relations in Britain, 1880-1950. 1994

McNama, M. Ashton in the General Strike. In: Looking Back at Ashton. edited by A. Lock. 1997

McNama, M. A study of local responses to the means test and unemployment in Ashton-under- Lyne, 1931-34. Thesis. 1983

Maddock, G. The Apethorn Lane murder and its background. In: Looking Back at Hyde. edited by Alice Lock. 1986

Manchester Studies Unit. Trade Union records of Greater Manchester and surrounds. A guide to their location. 1985

Mitchell, H. The hard way up. 1968. reprinted 1977

Musson, A. E. Trade union and social history. 1974

Pavasovic, M. Ashton-u-Lyne and the birth of Fascism. In: Looking Back at Ashton. edited by A. Lock. 1997

Robinson, S. To the persons working in the Dukinfield Old Mill. Letter 2 - Letter 9. 1854. Letters from a Dukinfield mill owner to his employees at time of dispute in the cotton trade. TRADE UNIONISM AND THE LABOUR MOVEMENT (continued)

Savage, M. and Miles, A. Remaking of the British working class, 1840-1940. 1994

Smith, J. H. The hatters. c.1970

Spencer, R. The Carrbrook Printworks Strike, Stalybridge 1895. In: Manchester Genealogist. Vol. 33. No. 1. 1997. pp.42-45

Steinberg, M. W. Fighting words. Working class formation, collective action and discourse in early nineteenth century England. 1999

Thompson, E. P. Making of the English working class. 1963. reprinted 1978

Watson, L. Autobiography. Typescript. 194(?)

White, J. L. Limits of trade union militancy. The Lancashire textile workers, 1910-1914. 1978

WOMEN'S HISTORY

Anderson, M. Family structure in nineteenth century Lancashire. 1971

Banks, J, A. Feminism and family planning in Victorian England. first published 1964. reprinted 1993

Berg, M. What difference did women's work make to the Industrial Revolution? In: History Workshop. Issue 35. Spring 1993. pp.22-44

British feminism in the twentieth century. edited by H. L. Smith 1990

Bruton, P. Women in cotton trade unions. A case study: Ashton weavers, 1919-1939. Thesis. 1990

Burman, R. The Jewish woman as breadwinner: the changing value of women's work in a Manchester immigrant community. In: Oral History. Vol. 10. No. 2. Autumn 1982. pp.27-39

Caine, B. English feminism, 1780-1980. 1997

Caine, B. Victorian feminists. 1993

Collette, C. For Labour and for women: the Women's Labour League, 1906-1918. 1989

Collier, F. Family economy of the working classes in the cotton industry, 1784-1833. 1964

Davidoff, L. and Hall, C. Family fortunes. Men and women of the English middle class, 1780-1850. 1987

Davies, A. Leisure, gender and poverty. Working class culture in Salford and Manchester, 1900-1937. 1992

Dyhouse, C. Feminism and the family in England, 1880-1939. 1989

Foulger, W. A woman's place is in her union. North West Labour History. No. 17. 1992/3. pp.113-119

Gittins, D. Women's work and family size between the wars. In: Oral History. Vol. 5. No. 2. Autumn 1977. pp.84-100 Includes some Lancashire material

Harrison, B. Prudent revolutionaries. Portraits of British feminists between the wars. 1987.

Hill, B. Women, work and the census: a problem for historians of women. In: History Workshop. Issue 35. Spring 1993. pp.78-94

Hollis, P. Ladies elect: women in English local government, 1865-1914. 1987 Includes material on Ada Summers of Stalybridge WOMEN'S HISTORY (continued)

Holton, S. S. Feminism and democracy. Women's suffrage and reform politics in Britain, 1900- 1918. 1986

Hughes, A. A culture transformed? Women's lives in Wythenshawe in the 1930's. In: Workers' worlds: cultures and communities in Manchester and Salford, 1880-1939. edited by A. Davies and S. Fielding. 1992

Hurrah for a life in the factory: experiences of life in the Lancashire cotton towns before the First World War. 1980(?) Teaching pack for use in junior and secondary schools and colleges

Kent, S. K. Sex and suffrage in Britain, 1860-1914. 1990

Lambert, J. Sexual harassment in the nineteenth century English cotton industry. In: History Workshop. Issue 19. Spring 1985. pp.29-61

Langhamer, C. Manchester women and their leisure: changing experiences from youth to married adulthood, 1920-1960. In: Manchester Region History Review. Vol. XIII. 1999. pp.32-42

Levine, P. Feminist lives in Victorian England. Private roles and public commitment. 1990

Levine, P. Victorian feminism, 1850-1900. 1987

Lewis, G. Eva Gore Booth and Esther Roper. A biography. 1988

Lewis, J. Women in England, 1870-1950: sexual divisions and social change. 1984

Liddington, J. Working class women in the North West II. In: Oral History. Vol. 5. No. 2. Autumn 1977. pp.31-45

Liddington, J. and Norris, J. One hand tied behind us. 1978 Women's fight for the vote in Lancashire

McKay, J. Married women and work in nineteenth century Lancashire: the evidence of the 1851 and 1861 census reports. In: Local Population Studies. No. 61. Autumn 1998. pp.25-37

North West Labour History. Journal of the North West Labour History Group. No. 12. 1987 Whole issue devoted to women's history

Pancott, D. A woman's place. 1985 Calendar for 1985 illustrated by scenes of Tameside women at work

Perkin, J. Victorian women. 1993

Pinchbeck, I. Women workers and the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850. first published 1930. reprinted 1969 WOMEN'S HISTORY (continued)

Political women 1800-1850. edited by Ruth and Edmund Frow. 1989

Prochaska, F. K. Women and philanthropy in nineteenth century England. 1980

Reece, R. People of Stalybridge. 2000

Roberts, E. A woman's place. An oral history of working class women, 1890-1940. 1984

Roberts, E. Women and families. An oral history, 1940-1970. 1995

Roberts, E. The working class extended family. In: Oral History. Vol. 12. No. 1. Spring 1984. pp.48-55

Roberts, E. Working class women in the north west. In: Oral History. Vol. 5. No. 2. Autumn 1977. pp.7-30

Schofield, E. M. Food and the working class about 1900. 1972

Schwartzkopf, J. Women in the Chartist movement. 1991

Taylor, B. Eve and the new Jerusalem: socialism and feminism in the nineteenth century. 1983

Tebbutt, M. Making ends meet: pawnbroking and working class credit. 1983 Contains material about the role of women in the management of working class family finances

Tebbutt, M. Women's talk? Gossip and 'Women's words' in working class communities, 1880- 1939. In: Workers' worlds: cultures and communities in Manchester and Salford, 1880- 1939. edited by A. Davies and S. Fielding. 1992

Tebbutt, M. Women's talk. A social history of 'gossip' in working class neighbourhoods, 1880- 1960. 1995

Tebbutt, M. 'You couldn't help but know: public and private space in the lives of working class women, 1918-39. In: Manchester Region History Review. Vol. VI. 1992. pp.72-79

Thomis, M. I. Women in protest, 1800-1850. 1982

Walkowitz, J. R. Prostitution and Victorian society. Women, class and the state. first published 1980. reprinted 1995

Weeks, J. Sex, politics and society. The regulation of sexuality since 1800. first published 1981. reprinted 1994

WOMEN'S HISTORY (continued)

Wilde, S. Girls in the office. The feminisation of clerical work, 1890-1939. B. A. Dissertation. 1995

Wohl, A. S. The Victorian family. 1977

Women and the Labour Movement. In: North West Labour History Society Bulletin. Vol. 7. 1980-81

Women's Suffrage collection from Manchester Central Library. Parts 1 and 2. A listing and guide to the microfilm collection. 1995

Women's work and the family economy in historical perspective. edited by P. Hudson and W. R. Lee. 1990

Women’s work: the English experience 1650-1914. edited by Pamela Sharpe. 1998

Zlotnick, S. 'A thousand times I'd be a factory girl: dialect, domesticity and working-class women's poetry in Victorian Britain'. In: Victorian Studies. Vol. 35. No. 1. Autumn 1991

WOMEN'S HISTORY: BIOGRAPHIES AND AUTOBIOGRAPHIES

Bedford, J. Margaret Ashton: Manchester’s first lady. In: Manchester Region History Review. Vol. XII. 1998. pp.3-7

Bertenshaw, M. Sunrise to sunset. first published 1980. reprinted 1991 Working class childhood in Manchester

Bowman, W. M. Autobiographical notes. Typescript. 1972. Mrs. Bowman was the author of England In Ashton-under-Lyne

Brooks, L. Memories of Kingston. In: Looking Back At Hyde. edited by Alice Lock. 1986

Chorley, K. Manchester made them. 1950. Pre- First World War middle class family life

Dagnah, M. H. Castle Hall revisited. Stalybridge in the nineteen-thirties. 1995

Davies, C. S. North-country bred: a working class family chronicle. 1963

Davies, S. The young Ellen Wilkinson. 1965 M. P. for Jarrow in the 1930's, born in Manchester

Dickson, M. Beloved partner: Mary Moffat of Kuruman. 1974 Mary Moffat was born in Dukinfield and married a missionary in Africa

Flowers, D. My Dukinfield childhood. 1992

Hackney, M. Hannah Maria Mitchell. In: Lancashire History Quarterly. Vol. 5. June 2001. pp.37-38

Hindley, H. Life in the tent, or: Travels in the desert and Syria in 1850. 1850(?) Written by the daughter of Charles Hindley, Ashton's M.P. in the 1830's and 1840's

Hindley, H. Ten days in Jerusalem. (1850?)

Johnson, W. Hannah Mitchell. 2006

Johnson, W. Writings of Hannah Mitchell. 2005

Lees, H. The Lees family of Hazelhurst and Park Bridge. Typescript. 1952 Hannah Lees & Sons Ltd. was a long-established ironworks in Park Bridge, Ashton

Liddington, J. The life and times of a respectable rebel. 1984 Biography of Selina Cooper, a Nelson cotton worker who became involved in the women's suffrage campaign

Mitchell, H. The hard way up. first published 1968. reprinted 1977 Hannah Mitchell was a active suffragette and member of the Labour Party in Ashton WOMEN'S HISTORY etc (continued)

Moffat, J. S. The lives of Robert and Mary Moffat. 1885

Penn, M. Manchester fourteen miles. 1979 Fictionalised account of childhood in Hollins Green, c.1909

Shaw, J. Down Memory Lane. 1988

Siddelley, H. The moors above, the mills below. Stalybridge memories. 1994

Siddelley, H. Talking about old Stalybridge. In: Looking Back At Stalybridge. edited by Alice Lock. 1989

Slater, L. "Think on" said Mam. Life in Bradford, Manchester 1911-1919. 1984

Vernon, B. D. Ellen Wilkinson. 1982

Weeton, E. Miss Weeton's diary of a governess. Vol. I 1807-1811 and Vol. II 1811-1825. 1969

For further material on Mary and Robert Moffat, see section 34

There is a series of working class autobiographies relating to Manchester and Salford, published by Neil Richardson

For background information about family life and the position of women in the north west, it can be worthwhile to read Victorian novelists such as Elizabeth Gaskell, Mrs. Linnaeus Banks, Frances Trollope, etc.

WORLD WARS: THE HOME FRONT

Ashton Probus Club. The home front 1939-1945. 2005

Atkinson, B. The home front. Life in Ashton during World War II. 1995

Billings J. and Copland, D. The Ashton munitions explosion, 1917. 1992

Booth, K. A. Missing men of Stalybridge. 2006

Booth, K. A. Grit in the heart. 2007 (Millbrook in the war years, 1914-1920)

Grieves, K. Mobilising manpower. Audenshaw tribunal in the First World War. In: Manchester Region History Review. Vol. III. No. 2. Autumn/Winter 1989. pp.21-29

Hyde in wartime. Soldiers', sailors' and civilians' deeds. compiled by Randal Sidebotham. 1916

Living Memories of Hyde. Wartime memories. 1996

Makepeace, C. Manchester as it was, Vol. IV. War and its aftermath. 1977

Mitchinson, K. W. Saddleworth 1914-1919. The experience of a Pennine community during the Great War. 1995

Our blitz. Red sky over Manchester. first published 1945. reprinted 1994

Parsons, B. The mystery reveals devastation: Ashton, June 1917. In: Funeral Service Journal. Vol. 122. No. 6. June 2007. pp.108-113

Pavasovic, M. Dukinfield 39-45. 2004

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