An Illustrated History of Old Sutton in St.Helens

Part 41 (of 41) - Bibliography & Research Sources

Researched & Written by S.R.Wainwright ©MMVIIII     Contact Me     Bookmark and Share
Header image: 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 Pages    (This page last updated August 10th, 2010)
Most of the research for this website has come from the owner studying many local newspapers from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. However, other sources have been used including:
  • 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)
  • Frank Bamber, Clog Clatters in Old Sutton (self-pub Sutton Historic Society, 1995)
  • Frank Bamber, Round About The Pits (self-pub Sutton Historic Society, 2000)
  • 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)
  • Sister Dominic Savio, St.Annes Sutton 1850 - 2000  (Passionist self-pub, 2000)
  • Mary Presland, St.Helens - A Pictorial History  (Phillimore, 1995)
  • Janice Murray, Windows on the Past  (St.Helens Metropolitan Borough Council, 1985)
  • Margaret Chadwick, Sutton, Sherdley Hall & The Hughes Family  (University of Liverpool, 1992)
  • J.F., Giblin, The Churches of St.Helens - A Brief Historical & Architectural Note (self-pub. 1996)
  • Sutton Manor Magazine Nos. 5 & 9 (British Coal, February / December 1990)
  • Alan Rowlands - Trautmann The Biography (Breedon Books, 1990)
  • Sutton Manor Its Colliery and Community  (Sutton Manor Primary School, 2007)
  • 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)
  • Edwin Butterworth, A Statistical Sketch of the County Palatine of Lancaster  (1841)
  • Henry Booth, An Account of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (Frank Cass - reprint of the original 1830 edition, 1969)
  • Baines, Gazeteer and Directory of Lancashire (1825)
  • Neville Woodward, Memoirs of a Peripatetic Technologist pp. 9 - 27 (Gullane, 1985)
  • Stephen Snelling, VCs of the First World War - Passchendaele (Sutton Publishing, 1998)
  • Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales  (1872)
  • Slaters Directory of St.Helens (1895)
  • Brickfields Forest Design Plan  (Forestry Commission, 2006)
  • A. W. Skempton & Mike Chrimes, A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland (Thomas Telford, 2002)
  • St.Helens Local History & Archives Library - Use of microfilm and microfiche BMD records, local newspapers and electoral registers (nb. apart from a few photographs contained within newspaper articles, images on this website are not sourced from the archives library. Instead many public domain images and documents have been acquired via on-line auction sites.)
  • Derby Mercury*, The Era*, Leeds Mercury*, Liverpool Daily Post, Liverpool Mercury*, Northern Times, Preston Guardian*, Prescot Reporter**, St.Helens Intelligencer**, St.Helens Lantern**, St.Helens Leader**, St.Helens Newspaper & Advertiser**, St.Helens Reporter (South Lancashire Newspapers)**, St.Helens Star***, St.Helens Weekly News**. (*copyright British Library; **courtesy St.Helens Local History & Archives Library; ***copyright Newsquest)
  • Sutton Historic Society - Sutton Ramblings (various editions) and electronic 'A to Z of Sutton' plus photographic archives of Chris Coffey and Frank Bamber publications identified above
  • Miles Templeton, Research commissioned by this website on boxers Mick Gordon and Wilf Douglas (2009) and Ernie Proudlove (2010)
  • Frank Jones, Rev. Vallancey research (1999)
  • Frazer Nairn's Sutton Manor Colliery photo collection; Mel Moran's Sutton Manor Colliery photo collection; Clive Hanley's Sutton Manor Colliery photo collection.
  • Contributions also gratefully received from Dave Almond, Ken Baines, Colin Barber, Merrick Baker-Bates, Bill Bate, Ian Bate, Mike Bray (Mersey Forest), Bob Brook, Joan Brough, Ian H. Campbell, Gary Conley, Margaret Crosbie, Les Dunning, Myles I. Earle, Valerie Evans, Kathleen Fehrman, Martin Gauckwin, David Normington Gerrard, Marjorie Hall, George Houghton, Roger Harris, Joan Heyes, Gareth Hughes, Rory Hughes-Young (Lord St.Helens), Frank Jones, Paul Jones, Enid Kenyon, James Lamb, Dave Latham, Ray Liptrot, Alan McDermott, Brenda Macdonald, Duncan Macnaughton (Forestry Commission), Eric Makin, Sue Mason, Elizabeth Mercer, Jane Mines, Geoffrey Moore, Lis Nicholson, Phil Norris, Paul O'Connor, Lynne Phelan, Rhydymwyn Valley History Society, Neil Selfridge, Barbara Shelton, Jane Smith, Patrick Smith, Simon Speight, Les Standish, Colin Steele, Cllr. Brian Spencer, Ivy Swift, Bill Thomas, Margaret Ward, Ken Whittaker, Frank Williams.
  • Web sources inc: 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, Find My Past, Stirnet, Times Archive Online, British Library, 62nd Regiment - George Vallancey, National Archives, Railways Archive
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