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Lancashire: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes
Lancashire: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes
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Lancashire: Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes by Leo H. Grindon, author of ‘The Manchester Flora’; ‘Manchester Banks and Bankers’; ‘Life, Its Nature, Varieties, and Phenomena’; etc.; with Many Illustrations
1892
CONTENTS
Preface
Chapter 1. Leading Characteristics of the County
Chapter 2. Liverpool
Chapter 3. The Cotton District and the Manufacture of Cotton
Chapter 4. Manchester
Chapter 5. Miscellaneous Industrial Occupations
Chapter 6. Peculiarities of Character, Dialect, and Pastimes
Chapter 7. The Inland Scenery South of Lancaster
Chapter 8. The Seashore and the Lake District
Chapter 9. The Ancient Castles and Monastic Buildings
Chapter 10. The Old Churches and the Old Halls
Chapter 11. The Old Halls (_Continued_)
Chapter 12. The Natural History and the Fossils
Preface
The following Chapters were written for the _Portfolio_ of 1881, in which they appeared month by month. Only a limited space being allowed for them, though liberally enlarged whenever practicable, not one of the many subjects demanding notice could be dealt with at length. While reprinting, a few additional particulars have been introduced; but even with these, in many cases where there should be pages there is only a paragraph. Lancashire is not a county to be disposed of so briefly. The present work makes no pretension to be more than an index to the principal facts of interest which pertain to it, the details, in almost every instance, still awaiting the treatment they so well deserve. If I have succeeded in marking out the foundations for a superstructure to be raised some day by an abler hand, I shall be content. It is for every man to begin something, to the best of his power, that may be useful to his fellow-creatures, though it may not be permitted to him to enjoy the greater pleasure of completing it.
Some of the commendations passed upon Lancashire may seem to come of the partiality of a man for his own county. It may be well for me to say that, although a resident in Manchester for forty years, my native place is Bristol.
LEO GRINDON.
1892
CONTENTS
Preface
Chapter 1. Leading Characteristics of the County
Chapter 2. Liverpool
Chapter 3. The Cotton District and the Manufacture of Cotton
Chapter 4. Manchester
Chapter 5. Miscellaneous Industrial Occupations
Chapter 6. Peculiarities of Character, Dialect, and Pastimes
Chapter 7. The Inland Scenery South of Lancaster
Chapter 8. The Seashore and the Lake District
Chapter 9. The Ancient Castles and Monastic Buildings
Chapter 10. The Old Churches and the Old Halls
Chapter 11. The Old Halls (_Continued_)
Chapter 12. The Natural History and the Fossils
Preface
The following Chapters were written for the _Portfolio_ of 1881, in which they appeared month by month. Only a limited space being allowed for them, though liberally enlarged whenever practicable, not one of the many subjects demanding notice could be dealt with at length. While reprinting, a few additional particulars have been introduced; but even with these, in many cases where there should be pages there is only a paragraph. Lancashire is not a county to be disposed of so briefly. The present work makes no pretension to be more than an index to the principal facts of interest which pertain to it, the details, in almost every instance, still awaiting the treatment they so well deserve. If I have succeeded in marking out the foundations for a superstructure to be raised some day by an abler hand, I shall be content. It is for every man to begin something, to the best of his power, that may be useful to his fellow-creatures, though it may not be permitted to him to enjoy the greater pleasure of completing it.
Some of the commendations passed upon Lancashire may seem to come of the partiality of a man for his own county. It may be well for me to say that, although a resident in Manchester for forty years, my native place is Bristol.
LEO GRINDON.