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Blackburn, Burnley, Clitheroe & Accrington Directory 1868
The book is 259 pages long and the file size is 26MB
Cost £2 to download PDF file
It covers the following areas: Accrington Aighton Altham Alston-with-Hothersall Bacup Bailey Balderstone Barley-cum-Wheatley Barrowford Baxenden Blackburn Bowland-with-Leagram Briercliffe-with-Extwisle Brierfield Burnley Chaigley Chatburn Church Clayton-le-Dale Clayton-le-Moors Clitheroe Cliviger Colne Crawshawbooth Dilworth Dinckley Downham Dunnockshaw Dutton Eccleshill Foulridge Goldshaw Booth Goodshaw Great Harwood Green Howorth Hapton Haslingden Helmshore Henheads Heyhouses Higham-with-West Close Booth Huncoat Hurst Green Ighton Hill Park Knowle Green Little Harwood Livesey Lower Darwen Lumb Marsden Mearley Mellor Little Mitton Mitton Parish Nelson Newchurch Old Laund Booth Osbaldeston Oswaldtwistle Over Darwen Padiham Pendleton Pleasington Ramsgrave Rawtenstall Read Reedley Hallows Ribchester Rishton Rossendale Rough Lee Booth Sabden Bridge Salisbury Samlesbury Simonstone Stacksteads Stonyhusrt College Tockholes Trawden Forest Tunstead Twiston Waterbarn Waterfoot Whalley Abbey Wheatley Carr Wilpshire Wiswell Worston Worsthorne-with-Hurstwood Yate Pickup Bank
The last page in this directory was page 844 which meant that there were some districts missing (a publishing error). I have scanned the missing districts from a Directory dated 1855. The missing districts were Bacup, Wolfendon & New Church etc.
Accrington History 628 to 1924 - Chronological Notes.
The book is 80 pages long and the file size is 4MB
Cost £1.50 to download PDF file
Accrington Mechanics Institute 1845 to 1895
The book is 47 pages long and the file size is 1.5MB
Cost £1.50 to download PDF file
The book contains:
50 years ago 1845; Getting to work 1845 to 1859; In the Peel Institution 1859 to 1878; Completing 50 years 1878 to 1895; New Departures 1895; List of Officers; 50th Annual Report 1895; Officers; Honorary Members; Ordinary Members; Lady Members; Youths.
Accrington Men of Mark
The book is 88 pages long and the file size is 5MB
Cost £1.50 to download PDF file
Accrington's Men of Mark contains:
Men of Mark; Chairmen of Accrington Local Board; Mayors of Accrington 1878 to 1923; List of Magistrates, Accrington Borough; Parliamentary Representation
Many of the sketches in this book are summaries of Biographies which appeared in the "Accrington Observer and Times."
The District of which Accrington is the Centre gave the nation many families who figured conspicuously in Lancashire History centuries ago - the Walmsleys of Dunkenhalgh, the Cunliffes of Hollins and Sparth, the Lonsdales and the Rileys of High Riley, the Rishtons of Antley and Dunnyshop, the Bannasters and Wroe-Waltons of Altham, and others.
Accrington owes much of its pre-eminence as an industrial centre to the Peels of Peel Fold and Accrington, to the Taylors and Forts of Oakenshaw, to the Hargreaveses of Broad Oak, and , at a later period, to the Bulloughs of Globe Works. The Peels were among the pioneers in the calico-printing industry, which they developed in a remarkable degree; the Forts continued the work at Oakenshaw founded by the Peels; the Hargreaveses, after separation from Oakenshaw, were in a great measure responsible for the growth of Accrington in the early part of last century, and the Bulloughs were equally successful in the sister branch of the textile industry, in the making of machinery first for cotton weaving and subsequently cotton spinning.
Associated with these great firms were men who rose to fame. John Mercer, the illustrious chemist, was part and parcel of the Oakenshaw Works. Frederick Steiner, founder of the prosperous Turkey-red Dye Works at Church, commenced his remarkable career at Broad Oak, and the Lightfoots were also closely identified with the Hargreaveses.