Collection: Local Studies-Lending

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.

1819. Lancashire. Beneath the streets, the fires of discontent are stoked as hard as the chimneys of the industrial revolution. Come the summer, there'll be a big, mass meeting in Manchester, which Reformers everywhere are praying will establish liberty in the land. But lying in wait are the enem...