An Illustrated History of Old Sutton in St.Helens

Part 58 (of 58) - Research Sources & Bibligraphy

Researched & Written by Stephen Wainwright ©MMXI     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
Research Sources & Bibliography for Sutton Beauty & Heritage Pages:
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, 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)
  • 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)
  • Gordon Suggitt, Lost Railways of Merseyside & Greater Manchester  (Countryside Books, 2004)
  • Bickford, Smith & Co., Bickford, Smith & Co. Limited 1831-1931  (Trevithick Society, 2006, 1931 reprint)
  • Charles Forman, Industrial Town - Self Portrait of St Helens in the 1920s (Cameron & Tayleur, 1978)
  • 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)
  • 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, Account of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway (Frank Cass - reprint of 1830 edition, 1969)
  • Ian Winstanley, Colliery Scrap Book 1 - Accidents and Incidents in St.Helens Collieries (2001)
  • A.W. Skempton & M. Chrimes, Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in GB & Ireland (T. Telford, 2002)
  • Pauline Hurst, A History of St.Helens Hospital Lancashire, (self-pub. 2011)
  • Elva Simpson, Miners and Saints in Sutton - The History of Zion Independent Methodist Chapel (self-pub, undated)
  • Bryan Wilson & Ernie Rimmer, Sutton Oak – Serving St.Helens, article in British Railways Illustrated Vol. 12 (2002)
  • Baines, Gazeteer and Directory of Lancashire (1825)
  • Brickfields Forest Design Plan  (Forestry Commission, 2006)
  • Neville Woodward, Memoirs of a Peripatetic Technologist pp. 9 - 27 (Gullane, 1985)
  • Frank Grayson, H.M. Explosives Factory, Abbotsfield Road, Sutton Oak, 1915 - 53 (self-pub, 2000)
  • Stephen Snelling, VCs of the First World War - Passchendaele (Sutton Publishing, 1998)
  • Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales  (1872) and Slaters Directory of St.Helens (1895)
  • 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)
  • H.C. Caistor (Ed), 1868 - 1968, Centenary of Granting of Charter of Incorporation to St.Helens (St.Helens Borough Council, 1968)
  • C.H.A. Townley & J.A. Peden, Industrial Railways of St.Helens, Widnes & Warrington  (Industrial Railway Society, 1999)
  • St.Helens Local History & Archives Library - Local newspapers (print and microfilm) and electoral registers
  • 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
  • Boxing historian 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; Graham Isherwood collection.
  • Special thanks to former NCB engineer Harry Hickson for much technical advice and input on mining practice etc.
  • Contributions also gratefully received from Dave Almond, Ken Bailey, Ken Baines, Janet Ball, Pauline Ball, Colin Barber, Merrick Baker-Bates, Bill Bate, Ernie Bate, Ian Bate, Stan Bate, Mike Bray (Mersey Forest), Bob Brook, Joan Brough, Robert Brown, Ian H. Campbell, Sheenagh Collins, Gary Conley, Margaret Crosbie, Susan Davies, George Devine, John Dolan, Les Dunning, Myles I. Earle, Herbert Eden, Valerie Evans, Kathleen Fehrman, Martin Gauckwin, David Normington Gerrard, Les Grace, Rev'd David Green, John Grice, Marjorie Hall, Billy Hancock, David Hancock, Roger Harris, Joan Heyes, Mary Heyes, Martin Heys, George Houghton, Richard Houghton, Gareth Hughes, Rory Hughes-Young (Lord St.Helens), John Hunter, Beryl Huyton, Allan Isaacs, Stan Johnson, Ian Jones, Frank Jones, Paul Jones, Susan Jones, Marjorie Kendrick, Enid Kenyon, James Lamb, Dave Latham, Brian Legg, Ray Liptrot, Alan McDermott, Brenda Macdonald, Duncan Macnaughton (Forestry Commission), Andy McEwan, Eric Makin, Sue Mason, Andy Mayer, Anne McCormack, Alan Mercer, Elizabeth Mercer, Jane Mines, Geoffrey Moore, Lis Nicholson, Phil Norris, Paul O'Connor, Arthur Padmore, Ron Padmore, Frank Parry, Lynne Phelan, Alan Pickavance, James Prescott, Alan Pugh, Harry C. Redner, Mike Rennie, Rhydymwyn Valley History Society, Stephen Richardson, Martin Rigby, Mark Riley, John Robertson, Michael Robinson, Andrea Ruddick, Neil Selfridge, Barbara Shelton, Jane Smith, Patrick Smith, Simon Speight, Brian Spencer, Les Standish, Colin Steele, Esther Streete, Fr. Phil Swanson, Adele Stanton, Ivy Swift, David Tait, Bill Thomas, Paul Thomas, Margaret Ward, Janet Watson, Ken Whittaker, Frank Williams, Tom Williams, Dr. Janice Wilson.
  • Web sources include: 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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Stephen Wainwright
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