Research Sources, References & Bibliography
For Sutton Beauty & Heritage's History Pages

Header image: Header: Burn Lancashire Coal sign was at the Sutton Manor pit from 1934.
It was removed at the start of WWII as it could be seen by enemy planes.

References, Bibliography & Research Sources For
Sutton Beauty & Heritage's History Pages
  • F.W. Free, Our Heritage in Sutton & Bold  (Free / Rhodes, 1979)
  • T.C. Barker & J.R. Harris, A Merseyside Town in the Industrial Revolution, St.Helens 1750-1900 (Frank Cass, 1954, reprint 1993)
  • C.H.A. Townley & J.A. Peden, Industrial Railways of St.Helens, Widnes and Warrington  (Industrial Railway Society, 1999)
  • Bob Pixton, Widnes and St.Helens Railways  (The Chalford Publishing Company, 1996)
  • Geoff Simm & Ian Winstanley, Mining Memories  (St.Helens Metropolitan Borough Council, 1990)
  • E.K. Stretch, St.Helens Tramways  (St.Helens Corporation, 1968)
  • T.B. Maund & M.J. Ashton, Local Transport in St.Helens: 1879-1974  (Venture, 1995)
  • Bickford, Smith & Co. Ltd., Bickford, Smith & Co. Limited 1831 - 1931  (The Trevithick Society, 2006 reprint from 1931 original)
  • Charles Forman, Industrial Town - Self Portrait of St Helens in the 1920s (London & Devon, Cameron & Tayleur, 1978)
  • John Spear, Report on the Continued Prevalence of Fever in the Borough of St.Helens  (Local Government Board, 1885)
  • Dorothy Hughes, Costeth House Estate - Lancashire Local Historian Vol.16 [pp.25-40]  (Lancashire Local History Federation, 2003)
  • Mary Presland, St.Helens - A Pictorial History  (Phillimore, 1995)
  • Janice Murray, Windows on the Past  (St.Helens Metropolitan Borough Council, 1985)
  • Chadwick, Sutton, Sherdley Hall & The Hughes Family  (University of Liverpool, 1992)
  • Sutton Manor Magazine No.5  (British Coal, February 1990)
  • H.C. Caistor (Ed), 1868 - 1968, Centenary of Granting of Charter of Incorporation to St.Helens (St.Helens Borough Council, 1968)
  • Geoff Sandford, St.Helens Trolleybuses  (Regent Transport Publications, 2004)
  • Ron Welding, Sam Welding - Sutton Harrier Parr Excellence  (self-pub. 2002)
  • Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales  (1872)
  • St.Helens Local History & Archives Library (Use of microfilm & microfiche BMD records and local newspapers)
  • St.Helens Newspaper & Advertiser, St.Helens Lantern, St.Helens Star, St.Helens Reporter, Liverpool Daily Post, Liverpool Mercury.
  • Sutton Historic Society - Sutton Ramblings (various editions)
  • Frazer Nairn's Sutton Manor Colliery Collection; Mel Moran's Sutton Manor Colliery Collection; Frank Jones' Rev. Vallancey Research.
  • Contributions gratefully received from Ian H. Campbell, Myles I. Earle, Kathleen Fehrman, Martin Gauckwin, Paul Jones, Sue Mason, Geoffrey Moore, Lynne Phelan, Barbara Shelton, Cllr. Brian Spencer, Ken Whittaker, Frank Williams.
  • Web sources: Disused Stations in the UK, Old Maps, Alan Turnbull Secret Bases 4, The Parish Tram - A View of Portreath, Busey Family Organization, Eltonhead, Townships: Sutton, A History of the County of Lancaster: Volume 3 (1907), pp. 354-362, Ancestry, Stirnet, Times Archive Online, 62nd Regiment - George Vallancey, National Archives.