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  1. Bacup RE-UNION Bacup Mount Pleasant Boys' School. Re-Union of Old Boys and Teachers March 27th 1897. Commemoration of Mr Mottram's 25 Year Services as Head Master. Small folded card with printing as above, plus verse from 'Old Lang's Syne', opening to show a portrait of Mottram. 1897. £4.00

  2. Blackburn THE PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1875. Whereas the Town Council of the Borough... have applied to the Local Government Board for sanction to borrow money for purposes of Street Improvement... Notice is given that Col. C.H. Luard, Inspector appointed to hold the said Inquiry, will attend... at the Town Hall... Poster, the word 'Blackburn' in large heavy type-face, size 18" x 11". 1899. £8.00

  3. Emmott (Alfred), Liberal M.P. LETTER to Col. Montgomery, dated Spring Bank, Oldham, 17th Jan. '06. 1p., sm. 8vo, plus blank conjoint leaf. Thanks him for his congratulations and says he hopes 'we have killed the Chamberlain quackery'. 1906. £8.00
    Emmott was M.P. for Oldham, and Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons.


  4. Forest of Rossendale SURRENDER in the Court of the Manor of Accrington, of four cottages in Carr Terrace, in Hall Carr, late in the occupation of Alice Rushton, to Rev. Ezra Holliday. On vellum, size 23" x 27"... together with... SURRENDER of a plot of land at Oakley Rawtenstall, John Woodcock to Joseph Grimshaw. On vellum, size 23" x 27", engraved plan 5" x 5" in text, showing buildings, adjacent owners, roads. 2 items. 1898 and 1907. £14.00

    LARGE SCALE HAND-COLOURED MAP

  5. Hennett (G) A MAP OF THE COUNTY PALATINE OF LANCASTER, Divided into Hundreds and Parishes, From an Actual Survey made in the Years 1828 & 1829. Large engraved map, hand-coloured in hundreds, with an engraved inset view of the New Custom House, Liverpool. Scale three-quarters of an inch to 1 mile. Overall engraved surface approx. 63" x 43", plus margins, on single sheet, dissected and mounted on linen, folding to roy 8vo. Marbled endpapers, paper slightly rubbed at edges. Green silk edging tape, which is coming away at top corners. Contained within a full calf box, in the form of a book, slightly rubbed at corners, red leather label on spine. A clean copy. Published by Henry Teesdale and Co, 302 Holborn, May 1, 1830. £380.00

  6. Laycock THEE AN' ME by Samuel Laycock. Price one Penny. Poem in 8 verses, printed on one side of an 8vo sheet, with decorative border, Gothic-style type face for title. John Macleod, Printer, Stalybridge. n.d. 1850? £12.00
    Poem with an egalitarian message, pointing out differences in the life of a rich man and the speaker, written in Lancashire dialect. 'But deawn i' th' grave, what spoils o' the' sport/No ray o' leet an shine/An th' worms below can hardly sort/Thy pampered clay fro'mine.'


  7. Liverpool BILL of D.A. Weaver, 135 Dale Street, Wholesale and Retail Grocer and Paper Dealer. Small bill with printed heading made out for 10 reams of 'Cap'. Stab hole. 1847. £5.00

  8. Liverpool BOUGHT OF WILLIAM BREWER Canal Coal Dealer, 14 Richmond Row. Small printed bill for coal, size 4" x 4«", manuscript inserts. Receipted as paid. Stab hole in blank area, traces of fold. 1849. £5.00

  9. Liverpool GANLY, SONS & CO. Cattle, Sheep, Wool, Grain, Auction and General Agricultural Mart. Letter to John Nolan, on headed paper, telling him to send his cattle only if they are finished 'as thin cattle are selling very badly'. 1p., 8vo., on conjoint leaf is printed a page of services offered by Ganly. 1889. £6.00

  10. Manchester LEASE FOR A YEAR of a parcel of land at the upper end of Market Street Lane, bounded by Spear Street and Oldham Street, George Duckwoth to Richard Meadowcroft. On vellum, size 15" x 21", wax seal. 1793. £14.00
    In the 1786 deed the land is described as bounded by a street 'intended to be called Oldham Street'.


  11. Manchester ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Scale 5 feet to 1 statute mile. Sheet 29. Size 18" x 36", plus margins, dissected and mounted on linen, folding into small 4to marbled wraps. Title in ink on front wrap. Surveyed in 1849 by Capt. Tucker, R.E. Published 1851. £70.00
    Covers an area bounded by The Royal Hotel in the west, Warwick Street in the north, Grammar Street in the east, Shepley Street in the south. Includes many mills, foundries, wharfs, manufactories, public houses, chapels, hospitals etc., all individually named.


  12. Mersey & Irwell Navigation PRINTED NOTICE of consignment of 2 bales of paper To the Proprietors of the Mersey & Irwell Navigation, Duke's Dock... per Flat 'Gregson'. With ms inserts for weight, description. 1853. £12.00

    LANCASHIRE Manuscripts, Maps, Engravings, Ephemera, etc.
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  13. Military 2nd LOYAL NORTH LANCASHIRE REGIMENT two photographs. Each 8" x 11", in thick card mounts, size of mount 13" x 15", corner of one mount broken off. Each shows approx. 50 soldiers, one with caps on, the other with the same men, without caps. Both titled in white 'G.P. Atkinson D.S.0, M.C., Commanding. Staff Sergeants and Sergeants 2nd Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. 5th March 1919'. 1919. £14.00

  14. Preston INVITATION from the Mayor and Mayoress to the Juvenile Ball, 5th January at the Public Hall. Finely printed invitation in blue on thick card, 4«" x 6«", embossed crest, drawing of a young girl. 1897. £12.00

  15. Stalybridge FOUR ENGINEERING DRAWINGS OF MILL STEAM ENGINES Thomas Wainwright, Stalybridge, 1880's. Comprises (i) Elevation of Condensing Engine 38" Cylinder 5'0" Stroke. Scale 3/4 inch one Foot. Fine drawing in ink and light blue and grey wash, with a small amount of yellow, and some lines in light pink, size 24" x 38". Surface lightly dusty. On left is circle 'Centre of 2nd Motion Shaft', and 'Level of Shed Floor'. Shows wheel, pipework etc. in great detail. (ii) 'Elevation of Stone Work for Engines. Cylinders 13" & 26 Diamrs., 5'0" Stroke. Scale 3/4 inch = 1 Foot.' Two Wainwright stamps, one with date 30th March, 1882. In ink, pale blue, pink, buff and grey wash. Size 19" x 39". With measurements throughout, some information written around edge of wheel, on right is marked 'Level of Floor in Top Room', and 'stone on canal side'. 'Hand Holes' marked. On left is marked 'Underside Wood Beam in Bottom Room', and 'Floor Level'. iii) Another similar drawing in black and red ink on stiff paper, size 27" x 38". No scale or title. Surface very dusty. (iv) Another similar drawing, Scale 1" = 1 Foot. In ink only. 24" x 36". A five-inch tear from bottom edge, old repair on verso. Name 'R. Platt' written on back. All drawings have a central vertical fold. 4 items. 1880's. £400.00
    Stalybridge was an early centre of textile manufacture, and at this time there were numerous cotton spinning mills there. Wainwright's advertised in Worrall's 'Cotton Spinners Directory' of 1891 as 'Thomas Wainwright and Sons of Commercial Iron Works, Stalybridge. Engineers, Millwrights, Brass and Iron Founders, Makers of Water Wheels and Steam Engines'.


  16. Strangeways Hall Colliery PEMBERTON TWO FEET MINE Late John Leyland. Manuscript plan on waxed cotton, size 13" x 27", in ink and some colour. Scale 6" = 170 yards. Folds. no date. 1926 or slightly later. £12.00
    Fairly basic plan. Shows workings 1925-6 in different colours.


  17. Temple Lodge Estate TRENCHERBONE MINE Manuscript plan in ink and colours, size 24" X 39", scale 10" = 200yds. 1899-1901. £12.00
    The workings shown cover quite a small area.


  18. Wigan election MINUTES OF THE EVIDENCE Taken before the Select Committee on the Wigan Election Petition; With the Proceedings of the Committee. 70pp., small folio, disbound. Docket title on last leaf. Ordered by The House of Commons, to be Printed 27 April 1846. £15.00
    Verbatim report of the proceedings, with, for example, questioning of landlords who allegedly supplied drink, breakfasts, etc. to potential voters on the morning of the election.

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