Collection: Local Studies-Lending

This book charts the building of 1 Angel Square, the remarkable new head office for The Co-operative Group in Manchester's new NOMA district. Combining text and photographs to illustrate the building from commission to completion, Len Grant has interviewed the whole project team - clients, archit...

Manchester is far more than a grey provincial city preoccupied with the business of making money. The bales of cotton goods awaiting export have gone from the grand warehouses styled like palaces, and the cotton mills no longer hum with the sound of machinery. Yet the buildings remain in all thei...

Lancashire CCC has a rich and varied history stretching over 150 years. From the great rivalries of the early years of the County Championships, through to the grandeur of the magnificent one-day teams of the 1970s and 80s, this book recalls every aspect of Lancashire's glorious history.

Steam in the North West in the 1960s is captured in full colour.