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ART AND ARTISTSAndrews, 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. 1974Bradley, H. Miss Carter came too. 1973Davies, P. A northern school. 1989Howard, M. Lowry: a visionary artist. 2000Kenyon, Sir. G. Harry Rutherford – an appreciation. In: Living Memories of Hyde. 1990Kimpton, J. Art of the community. A study of local life based on and around Ashton-u-Lynemarket ground. 2007L. S. Lowry, R. A. 1887-1976. 1976Laurence Stephen Lowry, 1887-1976: a catalogue of the Salford Collection. 1977Leber, M. and Sandling, J. L. S. Lowry. 1987Levy, M. editor Drawings of L. S. Lowry. 1963Levy, M. editor Drawings of L. S. Lowry: public and private. 1976Sanderson, P. R. B. Raymond Ray-Jones, RE, ARCA, 1886-1942. 1992Wills, H. Sheffield artists 1840-1940. 1996(Stanley Royle, 46-48)

AUTOBIOGRAPHIESAitken, W. Writings of a nineteenth century working man. First published 1869. 1996Aitken, W. Journey up the Mississippi River from its mouth to Nauvoo, the City of the LatterDay Saints. 1845Amelang, J. S. Vox populi: popular autobiographies in early modern history. In: Urban History.Vol. 20, part 1. 1993. pp.30-42Andrews, B. Don't fret my lad. An Ashton boyhood. 1987. Working class life in Ashton,1910's and 1920'sBamford, S. Passages in the life of a radical. First published 1844. new ed. 1967.Covers the years 1816 to 1821. A Manchester radicalBarrie, A. It’s not a rehearsal. 2002Beaverbrook, Lord Men and power, 1917-1918. 1956.Beaverbrook was M. P. for Ashton for a short periodBertenshaw, M. Sunrise to sunset. 1980, reprinted 1991Working class childhood in Manchester. Authoress in her 70's in 1980Bohrnstedt, J. C. While father is away. Civil War letters of William H Bradbury. 2003Bolton, W. Recollections of a police officer relating to dogs, with useful hints as to theirtreatment . 1993. Typescript of book published 1878Booth, T. Labour of love. 1997Booth, T. What’s left? 2002Bowman, W. M. Autobiographical notes. Typescript, 1972Author of England in Ashton-u-Lyne etc., born 1900, died 1980Bradbury, J. Travels in the interior of America. 1817Member of the Liverpool Philosophical Society who was born in Stalybridge and was anoted botanist and explorer in America.Bradley, J. Reminiscences in the life of Joshua Bradley. 1904A biography of a Hyde man, subtitled "from little piecer to manager", born 1817, died 1898Brierley, B. Home memories and recollections of a life. 1886Dialect poetBrooke, J. The Dukinfield I knew, 1906-1930. 1987Working 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 whobecame a Methodist minister, stationed in StalybridgeBrooks, L. Memories of Kingston. In: Looking Back At Hyde. edited by Alice Lock. 1986.Working class life in Hyde in the 1920'sBruckshaw, H. Diaries of Private Horace Bruckshaw, Royal Marine Light Infantry, 1915-16.1979. Hyde man who fought at GallipoliBurgess, J. A potential poet, autobiography and verse. 1927Burgess was born in 1853, he lived in Droylsden and was a cotton worker, journalist,Labour activist and poetCampbell, G.Tap dancing’s out then. 2nd ed. 2002Chadwick, W. Reminiscences of a Chief Constable. First published 1900. 1974Born in Mottram in1822, Chief Constable of Stalybridge, died 1902Chadwick, W. Reminiscences of Mottram. First published 186(?). 1972Challenor-Chadwick, A. A foot in front. 1985Anecdotes relating to the restaurant businessClarke, 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 tomorphia in the 1890'sDagnah, M. H. Castle Hall revisited. Stalybridge in the nineteen-thirties. 1995Entwistle, P. M. What’s in a life? 1998Farish, W. Autobiography of William Farish. The struggles of a handloom weaver.First published 1889. 1996Flowers, D. My Dukinfield childhood. 1992Garnett, J. Diary of James Garnett of Low Moor, Clitheroe. Edited by Owen Ashmore. (1850'sand 1860's). THSLC. 1969 Vol. 121 and 1972 Vol. 123. A mill owner's lifeGarside, 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 inNebraskaGrime, J. Ashton faces and Ashton places fifty years ago. 1922Mainly descriptions of Ashton shops, shopkeepers and buildings

AUTOBIOGRAPHIES (continued)Grundy, A. G. My fifty years in transport. 1944Grundy was the manager of the S.H.M.D., 1929-1944Hague, E. Castle Hall in the good old, bad old days. Typescript. 1985Hague, E. Streets away from Paradise. Reminiscences of a Stalybridge lad. 1987Stalybridge in the 1920's and 1930'sHindley, H. Life in the tent, or travels in the desert and Syria in 1850. 1850(?)Daughter of Charles Hindley, the M.P. for AshtonHindley, H. Ten days in Jerusalem. (1850?)Holland, J. Before Richmond Park. In: Victorian Ashton. edited by S. A. Harrop andE. A. Rose. 1974John Holland was an Ashton Councillor who died in 1974Holland, J. Travel stories. Typescript. 1963Hopwood, H. Talking about old Ashton. In: Looking Back At Ashton. edited by A. Lock. 1997Hulme, W. Autobiography. Typescript.William Hulme left Dukinfield in 1852 to go to seaKing, D. E. I wish I'd asked my grandad. Boyhood memories of Heyrod. 1994Lovett, W. The life and times of William Lovett. First published 1826. 1984Marland, J. Memories of Park Bridge. 1996Memories . personal histories of eight local pensioners. 1989Mitchell, H. The hard way up. 1968. reprinted 1977Born 1871, died 1956. Labour activist and suffragette; lived in Glossop, Bolton, Ashton andNorth ManchesterMoffat, R. and Moffat, M. Apprenticeship at Kuruman, 1820-28. 1951Robert was a missionary in Africa, Mary was born in DukinfieldMoffat, R. Matabele journals of Robert Moffat, 1829-60. 2 vols. 1945O'Neil, J. Diary of John Ward of Clitheroe, weaver, 1860-64. edited by R. Sharpe France.In: THSLC. 1953. Vol. 105. pp.137-186O'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. 1950General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, 1929-1956. Born inDroylsdenPollitt, P. Wanderings in the Holy Land, 1897-1900. (1901?)Peter Pollitt was born in FairfieldPotter, B. Journal of Beatrix Potter, 1881-1897. First published 1966. 1979Dukinfield and Stalybridge associationsPritchard, F. East Manchester remembered. 1989Roberts, R. Classic slum. 1971Working class life in Edwardian Salford, based on author's memoriesRogers, J. G. An autobiography. 1903Congregationalist minister at Ashton, 1851-65Rowbottom, W. "The most dismal times". William Rowbottom's diary, part 1: 1787-1799.1996Russell, R. Go on, I’m listening. 1983Russell, R. While you’re here, doctor. 1985Selbourne, H. A doctor’s life. 1989Shaw, J. Ashton-u-Lyne. In: The worst of times. edited by Nigel Gray. 1985Shaw, J. Down Memory Lane. Recollections of Stalybridge. 1988Working class life in Stalybridge, 1920's and 30'sShaw, T. Memorabilia. J. H. Smith & E. A. Rose. ‘The memorabilia of Thomas Shaw ofAshton-u-Lyne. In: TLCAS. Vol. 95. 1999. pp.85-112Siddelley, H. The moors above, the mills below. Stalybridge memories. 1994Siddelley, H. Talking about old Stalybridge. In: Looking Back At Stalybridge.edited by Alice Lock. 1989Smethurst, T. Reminiscences of a Bolton and Stalybridge policeman, 1888-1922. 1983Staff, K. My story - wrinkles and all. 1997Watkin, 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 inAshtonWilde, 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)

AVIATIONAspin, C. Dizzy heights: the story of Lancashire’s first flying men. 1988Collier, R. Dark Peak wrecks. 1979Collier, R. Dark Peak aircraft wrecks: 1. New edition 1990Collier, R. Dark Peak aircraft wrecks (Book 2). 1982Cunningham, P. Peakland air crashes: the south. 2005Earl, D. W. Hell on high ground: a guide to aircraft hill crash sites in the UK and Ireland. 1995Earl, D. W. Hell on high ground volume 2: World War II crash sites. 1999Earl, D. W. Their final mission: 8 stories of B-17 bomber crashes on high ground. 1994Fielding, C. E. Pioneering years: 1918 to 1961. 1982Holmes, H. (comp) Avro in archive photographs. 1996Holmes, H. Avro 748. 2000Jones, A. Mottram air crash. 2003Manchester Airport: a fully illustrated handbook and souvenir of an international airport. (c.1964)Taylor, J. W. R. Fairey Aviation in archive photographs. 1997

BIOGRAPHIESBrown, J. Memoir of Robert Blincoe. 1977 (originally published 1832)Crutchley, G. W. John Mackintosh, a biography. 1921Gibbons, V. H. Jack Judge: the Tipperary man. 1998Mahon, J. Harry Pollitt. 1976Middles, M. Red Mick. The biography of Mick Hucknall of Simply Red. 1993Mulvagh, J. Vivienne Westwood. An unfashionable life. 1998Sidebotham, 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 HISTORYBangladeshi cook bookHoque, N. etc. Here to stay. 2006Hum Log. Stories of Oldham’s Asian Communities. 1997Vasili, P. Colouring over the white line. The history of Black footballers in Britain. 2000Vasili, P. The first Black footballer, Arthur Wharton 1865-1930. An absence of memory. 1998

BLANKETEERSIt is believed that the only person on the Blanketeers March to make it to London and present apetition to the Prince Regent may have been from Stalybridge (if indeed anyone completed thejourney). 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.162-3Gregg, P. A social and economic history of Britain. 1973. pp.90-91Hammond, J. L. and Hammond, B. The skilled labourer. First published 1919. 1979.pp.280-285Hill, S. Bygone Stalybridge. First published 1907. Reprinted 1987. pp.148-151Marlow, J. The Peterloo Massacre. 1969. pp.58-61Read, D. Peterloo: the 'Massacre' and its background. First published 1958. 1973.pp.98-101Reid, R. The Peterloo Massacre. 1989. pp.53-69Thompson, E. P. The making of the English working classes. First published 1963. 1968.pp.712-713

CANALSBody, A. H. Canals and waterways. 1975Short introduction aimed at school childrenBritish Waterways Board. Nicholson's guide to the waterways: North West. 1972Civic Trust for the North West. Canal search north west. 1991Gibson, K. Pennine dreams. 2002Hadfield, C. Canals of North West England. 2 vols. 1970Chapters on the Huddersfield, Ashton and Peak Forest CanalsHanson, H. The canal boatmen. 1975Hanson, H. Canal people. 1978Huddersfield Canal Society. Fill't to't top wi' rubble? 1979Includes a short history of the canal based on the minutes of the CompanyHuddersfield Canal Society. Huddersfield Canal's towpath guide. 1981Huddersfield Canal Society. Huddersfield Narrow Canal, a unique waterway. 1971Huddersfield Canal Society. Through Stalybridge by boat. 1977Keaveney, E. and Brown, D. L. The Ashton Canal. 1974Lamb, B. The Peak Forest Canal: breaches in the canal banks, 1797-1976. In: Journal of theRailway & 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. 2001Owen, D. Canals to Manchester. 1978Peak Forest Canal Society. The Cheshire canal ring. rev. ed. 1966Schofield, R. Benjamin Outram and the construction of the Ashton Canal. In: Lancashire LocalHistorian. No.7. 1992Towpath Action Group. Trouble on the towpath. The Ashton Canal. 1991

CHARTISMAitken, W. Writings of a nineteenth century working man. First published 1869. 1996Anthology of Chartist poetry. edited by Peter Scheckner. 1989An 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 speecheshe had made at Ashton in July 1848Bamford, S. Passages in the life of a radical. First published 1844. 1967Belchem, J. Popular radicalism in 19th century Britain. 1996Chartist experience: studies in working class radicalism and culture 1830-60. edited by JamesEpstein and Dorothy Thompson. 1985Chartist Movement. A new annotated bibliography. edited by Owen Ashmore, Robert Fyson andStephen Roberts. 1995Davies, 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 1848Dinwiddy, J. R. Radicalism and reform in Britain, 1780-1850. 1992Duty of discontent: essays for Dorothy Thompson. edited by Owen Ashmore, Robert Fyson andStephen Roberts. 1995The early Chartists. edited by D. Thompson. 1971Contains transcripts of the prosecution cases against two Ashton Chartists: Timothy Higginsand William CoxEpstein, J. Lion of freedom. 1984Biography of Feargus O'ConnorEpstein, J. A. Radical expression. Political language, ritual and symbolism in England 1790-1850.1994Gammage, R. C. History of the Chartist Movement, 1837-1854. first published 1894. 1969Includes a character sketch of McDouallHall, R. G. Work, class and politics in Ashton-u-Lyne, 1830-1860. PhD. Thesis. 1991Higham, R. Stella, the factory master's daughter, or: Conrad the Chartist; a story of the localhistory of Hyde and neighbourhood. 1890Huxhorn, S. United we stand, divided we fall! Chartist celebrations in Ashton-u-Lyne in the1840's. Typescript. 1981

CHARTISM (continued)Jenkins, M. General Strike of 1842. 1980Jones, D. Chartism and the Chartists. 1975Contains a report, probably from the Northern Star, of a Chartist meeting at Ashton tocelebrate the birthday of Henry HuntLongden, C. Popular radicalism in Ashton, Stalybridge and Hyde, 1828-1842.1994Dissertation.Pickering, P. A. Chartism and the Chartists in Manchester and Salford. 1995Pickering, P. A. & Roberts, S. Pills, pamphlets and politics: the career of Peter MurrayMcDouall. In: Manchester Region History Review. Vol. XI. 1997 pp.34-43.Royle, E. Chartism. 1986A useful introductionSaville, J. 1848. The British State and the Chartist Movement. 1987Schwarzkopf, J. Women in the Chartist Movement. 1991Shirley, M. H. Chartists after Chartism: ‘Reynolds Newspaper and mid-Victorian political reform.In: Splendidly Victorian. Essays in nineteenth and twentieth century British History inhonour of Walter L. Arnstein. 2001Stafford, J. Songs comic and sentimental. 1840Taylor, C. M. An examination of Chartist activity in Stalybridge, Ashton-u-Lyne and Hyde,1838-1848. B. A. thesis. 1992Thomis, M. I. and Grimmett, J. Women in protest, 1800-1850. 1982Thompson, D. Chartists. 1984Thompson, D. Outsiders. Class, gender and nation. 1993Trial of Feargus O'Connor esq., and fifty-eight other Chartists on a charge of seditious conspiracy.1843The accused included William Aitken, William Woodruffe and Albert Woolfenden ofAshton, John Leech and George Candelet of Hyde and Richard Pilling and ThomasMahon of StalybridgeTrial of Peter Murray McDouall, surgeon, Lancashire, and member of the National Convention forAshton-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 1839Ward, J. Chartism. 1973

CHARTISM (continued)JOSEPH RAYNER STEPHENSAxon, W. E. A. Joseph Rayner Stephens. In: Cheshire Gleanings. 1884. pp.108-113.Edwards, M. S. Joseph Rayner Stephens, 1805-1879. 1968Edwards, M. S. Purge this realm. Life of Joseph Rayner Stephens. 1994Goddard, H. Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner. 1956Goddard arrested J. R. Stephens in 1838Holyoake, G. J. Life of Joseph Rayner Stephens. 1881Kemnitz, T. M. and Jacques, F. J. R. Stephens and the Chartist Movement. In: InternationalReview of Social History. Vol. 19. 1974. pp.211-227Lyon, E. G. Politicians in the pulpit; Christian radicalism in Britain from the fall of the Bastille tothe disintegration of Chartism. 1999.Regan, A. A guide to the literature concerning Joseph Rayner Stephens of Ashton. 1972Smith, J. H. & Rose, E. A. Memorabilia of Thomas Shaw of Ashton-u-Lyne. In: TLCAS. Vol.95.1999. pp.88-112Spence, N. A. Joseph Rayner Stephens - he hath done what he could. In: Looking Back at.Stalybridge. edited by Alice Lock. 1989Stephens, J. R. Ashton Chronicle. March 1848 - October 1849Stephens, J. R. The political pulpit. 1839Stephens, J. R. Stephens' monthly magazine. January - October 1840Trial of Joseph Rayner Stephens . held at Chester . August 15th 1839. 1839Ward, J. T. Revolutionary Tory: the life of Joseph Rayner Stephens of Ashton-u-Lyne (18051879). In: TLCAS. Vol. LXVIII. 1958See also: PLUG RIOTS

CIVIL WARBlackwood, B. G. Lancashire gentry and the great rebellion, 1640-1660. Chetham Society.1978Broxap, E. The great Civil War in Lancashire, 1642-51. 2nd ed. 1973New introduction and revised bibliography by R. N. DoreDore, R. N. Civil war in Cheshire. In: Cheshire History. No. 31. Spring 1993. pp.20-25Dore, R. N. The civil wars in Cheshire. 1966Dore, R. N. The great Civil War (1642-6) in the Manchester area. 1972The only general account of the Civil War locallyDore, R. N. 1642: the coming of the Civil War to Cheshire: conflicting actions and impressions.In: TLCAS. Vol. 87. 1991. pp.39-63Earwaker, J. P. East Cheshire. 2 vols. 1877-80.See pp.13-14 in volume 2 for a biography of Colonel Robert Duckenfield and pp.150-152for a transcript of some documents relating to Hollingworth during the Civil War.Gaunt, P. Parliamentary war effort in Cheshire. In: Cheshire History. No. 32. Autumn1993. pp.6-15Middleton, T. History of Hyde and its neighbourhood. 1932See pp.32-42Morrill, J. S. Cheshire Grand Jury 1625-1659. A social and administrative study. 1976Morrill, J. S. Cheshire 1630-1660. County government and society during the English Revolution.1974Nevell, M. Tameside 1066-1700. 1991Chapter 6Oliver Heywood's Life of John Angier of Denton: together with Angier's diary and extracts fromhis 'An helpe to better hearts'; also Samuel Angier's diary edited by E. Axon. ChethamSociety. Vol. 97 (new series). 1937Roots, I. The Civil War: suggestions for further reading. In: Cheshire History. No

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.