Accrington INVENTORY of 'Printing Machines, Calenders, Mangles, Winces, Steam Engines... and other machines fixtures articles and things now in and upon certain buildings and premises situate at Broad Oak near Accrington... in the occupation of Frederick Grafton as tenant to Messieurs Hargreaves Brothers and Company. 1856. Signed by Thomas Whittaker and James Parke, Appraisers. 309 pages in manuscript, including Index, in a neat hand throughout, 4to, cloth boards, morocco spine, spine split, front inner hinge broken. Marbled endpapers. Loosely inserted is 'Inventory of Valuation of Machinery, Pipes &c in Bell Shop and Long Shop. 15th April 1867.' 9p, sewn in wraps. 1856 and 1867. £110.00
¶ Gives detailed description of machines, with measurements, etc. Includes Machine Room, Cooling Room, Gearing, Laboratory, Pattern Cloth Room, Block Print Shop, Bleaching Place, Soaping Place, Worsted Bleaching Place, Boiler House to Madder Dye House, etc.

Accrington (Manor of) SURRENDER of a messuage, barn and other buildings, and various named closes of land in Oakenheadwood within the Forest of Rossendale to Mary Brandwood of Haslingden, Widow. At the Halmot Court of Henry Duke of Buccleuch. Vellum, size 20" x 24", signed by Steward, two blue paper tax stamps. 1806. £16.00
¶ Mentions Robert Kay, late of Bury, Shuttlemaker, and Richard Ramsbottom late of Quarlton, yeoman, both deceased.

Appley Bridge, Holland Lees ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Sheet LXXV.13. Scale 25" to 1 mile, size 25" x 37", plus margins. Edition of 1928. £15.00
¶ Shows Linoleum Works, Quarry, Brick and Tile Works, Glue Works.

Ashton in Makerfield BASTIAN MINE Arch Lane Colliery. Manuscript on paper backed with linen, in ink and colours, size 24" x 28", scale 32 yds to an inch. Shows railway, Carters Fold Farm, Charity Farm, Section of Mine bottom right scale «" = 1ft, showing layers of fireclay, coal, etc. 1940's. £30.00
¶ Workings shown in 6 colours, marked with dates from 1942 - 1948.

Bacon's PLAN OF MANCHESTER Size approx 12«" x 18", single fold at centre, printed in 3 colours. Scale 5" to 1 mile. Street index printed down sides. c1885. £20.00

Baxendale & Co., Manchester PRICE LIST for Skates. Four pages, 4to, printed on pale blue paper, illustrating different types of ice skate, together with fittings. c1910. £20.00
¶ 'Figure Skaters will find the 'Beezer' follows the ankle more readily and is as silent as a wooden skate...'

Blackburn THE ELECTRIC LIGHTING ACT, 1882. Whereas the Town Council of the Borough... have applied to the Local Government Board for sanction to borrow money for purposes of Electrical Lighting... Notice is given that Arnold Taylor, 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". 1894. £12.00

Blackburn WILFUL DAMAGE TO LAMPS Warning. Any person wilfully Breaking or Damaging any Lamp within the Borough is liable to a fine of £5... 10/- Reward to any person giving information... Lewis Beard, Town Clerk. Poster, printed in large type-face, size 11" x 18", traces of vertical folds, a few small edge tears. Town Hall, Blackburn. n.d. c1900. £15.00

Blackburn, Borough of BURNING OF BRICKS of Coke. Bye-Laws for the Prevention & Suppression of Nuisances arising from the Burning of Bricks... Within the Borough of Blackburn... A copy of the foregoing Bye-Laws was fixed on the Town Hall... Poster setting out the restrictions on burning any 'clay, marl' or other sub-soil for making bricks, tiles, pipes, etc., unles in a closed over with a chimney at least 25 yards high. Coal was not to be burnt for coke or cinders without a chimney 20 yards high. Size 18" x 11". February 1885. £15.00

Blackburn, Borough of DANGER OF HANDLING CARCASES OF ANIMALS INFECTED WITH ANTHRAX Notice to Farmers, Butchers & Others... Poster warning of the danger of skinning or cutting the carcases of animals infected with Anthrax, and ordering that a carcase must be covered in quicklime before destruction. Size 13" x 8". Town Hall, July 1893. £12.00

Blackburn, Turton ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet No. LXXXIX N.E. Scale 1" to 1 mile, size approx. 13" x 15", plus wide margins. Surface slightly dusty. Printed from an Electrotype taken in 1891. £18.00

Blackleyhurst Colliery PLAN OF ORRELL YARD MINE Tarbuck Farm Pit, Blackleyhurst Colliery. Manuscript plan in ink and solid colour, on cartridge paper backed with linen, rolled. Size 34" x 51", scale 3" = 100 yards. Shows buildings and park at Blackley Hurst Hall on right, Garmswood Road, Tarbuck House, mine workings coloured according to date, ranging from 1936 - 1948. Various markings including Approx. Line of Outcrop, Full Dip, etc. With Section of Seam at bottom right, scale «" to 1 foot. 1936-48. £80.00

Carlton LEASE of a messuage in Carlton for a yearly rent of five shillings and eight pence, George Hull the elder to John Silcock of Harthorne, husbandman. On vellum, size 10" x 17", wax seal on tag. Vellum rather thin and rubbed in parts, 1" split at a fold. 1635. £17.00

Clitheroe Junction Railway CAPITAL £150,000 IN 6,000 SHARES of £25 each. Prospectus setting out advantages of proposed Railway, and listing Provisional Committee, with small form for share application at foot of page. 2pp., folio, blank adjoining leaf. 1845. £50.00
¶ 'This Railway is projected for the purpose of connecting the Borough of Clitheroe, and the surrounding district, containing a population of 25,000 inhabitants, taking the Union of Clitheroe alone, with the great system of Railways completed and projected in Lancashire....'

Clitheroe REPORT OF THE PROPOSED MUNICIPAL BOUNDARY AND DIVISION INTO WARDS OF THE BOROUGH. 2pp. with a folding Plan of the borough by R.K. Dawson, coloured in outline. Scale 4" to 1 mile. Folio, disbound, some off-setting on plan. 1837. £22.00

Clitheroe REPORT ON THE BOROUGH OF CLITHEROE: with a Description of the Proposed Boundary. 3pp. with a folding Plan of the borough by R.K. Dawson, coloured in outline, scale 2" to 1 mile. Folio, disbound. 1832. £24.00

Crompton PROBATE of the Will of Edwin Clegg of Croft Head, Crompton, cotton spinner and manufacturer. Vellum, size 15" x 20", printed administration certificate, papered seal. Will dated 1876, probate 1886. £12.00
¶ Mentions his Mills, Factories, Engine Houses, his share in the machinery etc.

Davies (B.R) PLAN OF LIVERPOOL Lithographed plan, size 25" x 17", central fold, scale 6" = 1 mile. 1860. £60.00
¶ From 'The Dispatch Atlas'. Shows buildings, street names, parkland, etc.

Euxton, Ulveston-Walton, Eccleston CAPITAL ESTATES IN LANCASHIRE TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION At Mr. Richardson's, The Royal Oak in Chorley, 16th of November, 1802... being Part of the Property of the late James Longworth in his several Manors of Euxton, Ulveston-Walton, lying between Preston, Wigan and Ormskirk in a populous and manufacturing part of the County. Single sheet, printed on one side only, size 18" x 14", folded, foxing spots. Lists 25 Lots, with tenant, description, measure of land, e.g. 'Lot V. An Estate in the possession of Thomas Lowe, called Doom's-Hall, consisting of a House, Garden, Orchard, Croft and 2 Closes of Land, containing 5 Acres, 3 Roods, 27 Perches. Liverpool: Printed by J. Lang, 13, Fenwick St. 1802. £70.00
¶ Includes Runshaw Hall Estate with Mansion House, close called 'the Old Bowling Green', etc. Names the occupiers of each lot.

Farnworth FARNWORTH CHURCH, LANCASHIRE. S.E. watercolour, titled in bottom margin, in ink and grey tones, showing church surrounded by low wall, small gate in foreground. Ruled border, margins trimmed. Size 6" x 7". c1820. £20.00

General Strike LIVERPOOL EXPRESS BULLETIN May 8th, 1926. Single sheet, broadsheet size, printed on one side only. Folded, hole 1" diameter where folds meet at centre, with loss of some text. 1926. £10.00
¶ 'More Specials Wanted', 'Union Leaders Suspended'.

Harkness, Printer, Preston THE HIGHLAND SOLDIER Tune 'The Rambling Sailor', and The Roving Bachelor. Size 10" x 6". Two poems on one sheet, illustrations at head, one of a soldier beating a drum, and the other a man with a bundle on his back outside a cottage. Number 444 bottom right. c1840. £30.00
¶ 'The Roving Bachelor' tells the story of a man on his way to the scaffold who, offered a reprieve if he married, preferred to be hanged.

Harkness, Printer, Preston VILIKINS AND HIS DINAH and The Lady and Weaver. Two ballads on one sheet, the first with illustration of a couple at head, the other with a sailing ship. Size 9" x 6", slightly clipped at top affecting the very top of one illustration. Number 774 bottom right. c1840. £18.00

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, on four sheets, as issued, each sheet 31" x 23", plus margins, large decorative title, engraved inset view of the New Custom House, Liverpool. Scale three-quarters of an inch to 1 mile. Area of browning on all four sheets, one sheet with piece which has been torn away from margin repaired with paper infilled, another sheet with professionally repaired tear 2" beyond border and along platemark, and some other neatly repaired edge tears. Paper sound, with a good black impression. The sheets have obviously been professionally restored at some time. Published by Henry Teesdale and Co, 302 Holborn, May 1, 1830. £145.00
¶ A cheaper copy than usual.

Hennett (G) A MAP OF THE COUNTY PALATINE OF LANCASTER, Divided into Hundreds and Parishes, From an Accurate Survey Made in the Years 1828 and 1829 by G. Hennet. Large engraved map, dissected and mounted on linen, scale three-quarters of an inch to one mile, fully hand-coloured in hundreds, with deeper shading at boundaries, park-land, railway lines hand-coloured. Large calligraphic title, fine engraved inset view of the New Custom House, Liverpool. Numbers under towns show distance from London, those along the roads the distances from town to town. Overall engraved surface approx. 63" x 43«", plus margins, on single sheet, dissected and mounted on linen, folding to roy 8vo, folding into marbled endpapers, silk edging. Some light discoloration on title and vignette, and some light brownish off-setting in Morecambe Bay. Inserted in calf slipcase in the form of a book. Bookplate of Sir Tonman Moseley, Rolleston Hall, on endpaper. London. Published by Henry Teesdale and Co., 302 Holborn, May 1, 1830. £450.00

Ince, Wigan LOWER YARD MINE SPRINGS COLLIERY Manuscript plan, titled on verso, showing workings in different colours. On thick paper backed with linen, rolled. Scale 5" = 150 yds. Size 38" x 56". Coloured according to date of working, from 1872-1898. Shows outline of buildings, railway, line of main fault etc. c1910. £70.00

Lancashire TWO ORDNANCE SURVEY MAPS Sheet 67 (Garstang, Ribchester), Sheet 59 (Lancaster, High Bentham). Each size 13" x 18", plus margins. 'Outline Series' stamp in right margin. 2 items. 1913. £25.00

Lancaster LANCASTER BY SPEED in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. Manuscript plan so titled, finely drawn in ink, size 5«" x 6«", plus large calligraphic title, overall size 10" x 8". Pasted to grey paper. Initialled C.B. 1819. £30.00
¶ An early copy taken from the inset to Speed's map of the county.

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

Liverpool LETTER from G.U. Noel (Sir Gerard Uctred Noel), Downham, Norfolk, Oct. 1st 1903, to Col. Montgomery. 2p., on 8vo notepaper with printed address, enclosing a table of cargoes he has written out 'shewing the cargoes discharged at Liverpool during 1902...' and asking Montgomery to fill it in. He has not filled in this table. 1903. £8.00
¶ 'I am sorry that our President will not go with Chamberlain. I must say that I think the latter is on the right track'. Sir Gerard Uctred Noel, Admiral of the Fleet, one time A.D.C. to Queen Victoria.

Liverpool SUBSCRIPTION DINNER Royal Liverpool Country Hospital for Children. Menu, for the dinner at the Adelphi Hotel, 23rd February, 1911. Size 11« x 4", central horizontal fold. On thin card, printed in brown on green background, with fine view of the hospital and the gardens, with a small girl holding an actual tiny envelope which is pasted on. 1911. £12.00

Liverpool WHOLESALE PRICE LIST Simpson, Roberts & Co., Stanley Street, Liverpool and at Halifax, Canada. 8pp., 4to, pink paper. Lists lobster, pineapples, suet, salmon, tomatoes, sardines etc. with prices for different types. Horizontal fold, small triangle-shaped piece torn from right margins. December 1896. £14.00

Manchester BILL of Samuel Berry, 5 St. Mary's Gate. Bill for '2 Paris hats cleaned & bound' to Mrs Adshead. Size 4" x 8", printed with address and name. Folds. 1842. £3.00

Manchester BILL of Joseph Cookson Ltd., Rope & Twine Manufacturers. 4to, typed letter, with prices of hemp. Fine printed decorative heading with train, ship, coat of arms... together with... The Tarpaulin Brattice Cloth and Linoleum Company Ltd., Northallerton. Good view of works at head. 1906 and 1909. £7.00

Manchester CURATE'S LICENCE granting William Blamire the Perpetual Curacy of St. James Over Darwell within the Diocese of Manchester. Vellum, size 9" x 10", printed with manuscript inserts. Large papered seal of Bishop of Manchester on tag. 1868. £12.00

Manchester FOUR BILLS of Wood & Westheads, Manufacturers of Smallware, Fringes, Umbrellas, Sewing Cottons &c, Plan and Fancy Ribbons, Moleskins... All with printed headings, 2 folio (3p. and 2p), and 2 4to. All made out for drapery items such as satins, braid, tailors twist etc... together with... 3 bills of John & Nathaniel Philips & Co., made out for lace, combs, shirt front, etc., all 1-3p. 4to., plus bill of Milne Cruden & Co., Flax Spinners & Bleachers. All made out to J. Roberts, Alfreton, Draper, and sent through the post with address on verso, postmarks etc. 8 items. 1850's. £12.00

Manchester OBLIGATION BOND binding Richard Thornton of Manchester, Innkeeper, to Joseph Barker, Liquor Merchant, in the sum of £600. 1p., sm. folio, printed with ms inserts, papered seal. Blank conjoint leaf, folds. 1793. £26.00

Manchester SIXTEEN COLOUR POSTCARDS with views of central Manchester. Divided backs, mark 'G.D. & D. L' in star on back, white borders. One with small tear. c1910. £12.00
¶ All the same format - possibly from some kind of pack.

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. £8.00

Mersey Volunteer Division, R.E., Submarine Miners SMOKING CONCERT January 8th, 1894. Programme, printed one side only of 8vo sheet, embossed and pale green border, embossed badge at head. Lists songs and sketches, no indication of where the concert was held. 1894. £10.00

Mersey Volunteer Division, R.E., Submarine Miners SMOKING CONCERT January 8th, 1894. Programme, printed on thick paper, pale green floral border, blue badge of the association at the top. Broom Keating & Co., Printers, 1894. £6.00

LANCASHIRE Manuscripts, Maps, Engravings, Ephemera, etc. For a further selection and to receive my latest catalogue please email :- lesley@localhistory.co.uk

Much Hoole TO BREEDERS OF DRAUGHT HORSES That Promising Colt 'Magnum Bonum' Rising 6 years old, the property of Mr. John Nightingale, Much Hoole, offered to serve Mares £1.5s.0d each Mare, and 5s the Groom.... Card printed on one side only, with description of colt, and his pedigree, and precise details of his route from Tuesday to Saturday. Size 7" x 5", small piece of paper stuck to verso. Ambler & Son, Printers, Preston. 1881. £14.00

Much Hoole TO BREEDERS OF WAGGON HORSES Farmer's Delight, the property of Mr. R. Hunt at £1 10s each Mare... Card printed on one side only, with description of horse, and his pedigree and prizes won, and precise details of his route over one week. Size 7" x 5", small piece of paper stuck to verso. Date in ink at bottom. Ambler & Son, Printers, Preston. 1881. £16.00

Oxton CATALOGUE of the Antique & Modern Household Appointments.... of 'Oxton Lawn'.... To be Sold.... 2nd, 4rd, 4th June, 1913. 24pp, 8vo., wraps. 1913. £8.00

Preston, Wigan, Bury ORDNANCE SURVEY MAP Sheet LXXXIX Scale 1" to 1 mile. Size 24" x 30", linen-backed, folding to large 4to, marbled endpapers. Boundaries and estuary hand-coloured. Line of North West Central Railway east of Preston added in ink. Two or three light foxing spots. 1872-5. £32.00

Ribbleton, Grimsargh Preston VALUABLE DWELLING-HOUSES AND BUILDING LAND At RIBBLETON AND GRIMSARGH. A Dwelling-House in Maudland Bank and A Dwelling-House and Shop in Lune Street, PRESTON. To be Offered for Sale by Auction by Messrs. Jabez B. Jones & Sons at their Salerooms, 131 Church Street, Preston on Thursday, 17th day of November, 1921. Large coloured folding plan, 4pp, original printed wraps slightly dusty. W. Brown, Printer, Preston: 1921. £20.00

Robinson (T) and Son, Rochdale CATALOGUE ILLUSTRE des Machines - Outils a Travailler Le Bois. 1892. 6ieme Serie. 117 pages, in French, decorative stiff wraps in red, green and gold, showing gold medals gained etc., back wrap with woodcut view of the works. Profusely illustrated, with description and tables of dimensions etc. 1892. £75.00
¶ Shows machines for planing, sawing, polishing, cutting mouldings etc.

Rochdale DEED OF PURCHASE of dwelling house, stable, garden in Yorkshire Street in Rochdale, in the occupation of John Scholfield and others, and a close of land formerly called Middlemort Roads near the market town of Rochdale, John Leech to Richard Hampson. On paper, size 19" x 22". 1723. Later copy. Paper watermarked 1794. £20.00

Rochdale NUMBER AND NAMES OF ALL THE LOCKS upon the line of the Rochdale Canal from the Junction of the Calder and Hebble Navigation to Manchester showing the length and breadth of each Lock and the distance from each other. Manuscript on large sheet size 40" x 26", listing approx. 90 locks with 20 columns for measurements such as 'Breadth of the Head', 'Breadth of the Bottom Bar' 'Distance from Sowerby' etc. Laid down on conservation paper, some loss of paper at top and left edges, area approx. 3" long torn from bottom left corner, with loss of the list numbers of the last few locks. A few rust spots. c1840. £140.00

Salford PLAN OF SHUTTLE MINE Agecroft Colliery. 1889. Manuscript plan, scale 1" = 5 chains, on thick paper backed with linen, size 22" x 21". In ink and colours. Shows River Trent, canal, roads, railway, Agecroft Print Works, and underground workings shaded in five different colours. 1889. £28.00
¶ Agecroft Colliery was re-opened briefly in the 1950's.

Seacombe PROSPECTUS for a Smelting and Lead Company, at the Seacombe Works, Liverpool. Capital £20,000 in 200 Shares of £100 each. 2pp., folio, blank conjoint leaf. Top corners worn, a few small edge tears repaired with document tape, traces of folds. c1850. £38.00
¶ The works contain 'three furnaces saturated with lead, four refineries for separating the silver... the machinery consists of a crushing mill, a complete apparatus for drawing lead pipes... a rolling mill... steam engine of 30 horses power...' Emphasises savings to be made by bringing the ores by sea, mentioning ores from Scotland, Cumberland, South Wales, Cornwall, Devon.

Spotland, Rochdale LEASE OF POSSESSION of Miln House in Spotland with Cottage, Water Corn Mill and one Kiln, a messuage called Horsecroft, another called Holling Hill, and three messuages in Rochdale called the Queen's Head, in Yorkshire Street, James Hey the elder to James Hey the younger. 3p., folio, folded, contemporary copy. 1760. £22.00

Springs Colliery, Ince LOWER YARD MINE Manuscript plan in ink and solid colour. Size 35" x 58". Scale 10" = 300 yds. 1871-1897. £70.00
¶ Shows fault lines, and large blocks of many different colours, labelled with dates.

Strangeways Hall Colliery TWO MANUSCRIPT PLANS 'Strangeways Hall Colliery. Haigh Yard Mine, Leylands Exors. Estate.' On waxed cotton, in ink and colours, scale 30 yds. to an inch. One size 23" x 25", showing coal got between 1912 and 1915, coloured according to year, with key in top corner, the other size 25" x 33", showing top coal. 'Office Copy' in red in top margin. c1915. £20.00

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.

Tyldesley GAS WORKS Two manuscript plans in ink on waxed cotton. One titled 'Tyldesley U.D.C. Levels of Gas Works & District', size 35" x 23", with plan of gas works showing railway, engine house, retort house, purifying house etc., and table of point nos., the other size 20" x 27" showing 'Mine Workings under Sewers' in sections. n.d. c1950? £14.00

Ulverstone CERTIFICATE FOR LEGAL FISHING WEIR Special Commissioners for English Fisheries. Owner William Cavendish Duke of Devonshire. River Leven. Vellum document, folio, folded with docket title, the first page printed with manuscript inserts, and on the adjoining leaf a printed plan, scale 3 chains = 1", showing the river with islands, weir, Lowood Inn, Corning House, site of Gunpowder Works etc. Signed by three Commissioners. 1869. £45.00
¶ The weir is described as 'a fishing weir for catching salmon'.

Wigan area BLAKEY HURST COLLIERY King Seam. Manuscript plan, in ink and colours on cartridge paper backed with linen. Size 40" x 27", scale 1/2500. With section of seam. n.d. c1910 £40.00
¶ Shows very detailed workings around Weathercock Farm, Garswood Road, Seneley Green Farm, Arch Lane Farm, shaded in pink.

Wigan coalfield HAIGH YARD MINE Late Leyland's Estate. Two manuscript plans in ink and colour on waxed cotton, shaded according to date of workings, one titled 'Strangeways Hall Colliery. Haigh Yard Mine', the other 'Haigh Yard Mine. Top Coal'. Scale 30yds. to an inch. The first map has a key to the colouring, showing workings 1909-1915, and measures 24" x 28", the second is slightly larger. c1912. £30.00

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. £25.00
¶ 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.

Wigan REPORT OF THE PROPOSED MUNICIPAL BOUNDARY OF THE BOROUGH 5pp. with 2 hand coloured plans, on one sheet by R.K. Dawson, scale 4" to 1 mile and 1" to 1 mile. Folio, disbound. 1837. £24.00

Wigan YARD MINE Chequers Estate. Manuscript plan on waxed cotton, in ink and two colours, showing workings, buildings. Rather creased, folded. c1880. £16.00
¶ Covers area around Dorning Street.