Collection: Local Studies-Lending

This work recalls an era when a train journey was an adventure and when the steam locomotive was a source of awe and fascination. It includes a comprehensive history of Britain's railways from the groundbreaking years of the 1900s to the end of steam in the 1960s.

Yorkshire Cotton tells the story of how cotton mills brought industry to the Yorkshire Dales, employment for children and a rival to the wool textile industry. This text will be of value to economic and local historians.

Subject: From Vol. 107 of "Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society," Session 1964-65