Manchester As It Was; or notices of the institutions, manufactures, commerce, railways, etc, of the metropolis of manufactures
Details:
- Author(s) Unknown
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1839
- Pages 244pp; illus
- Publisher Love & Barton
- Place Published Manchester
Topics:
Countries:
Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
- Visit British Library's website
Groups:
Notes:
Reprinted 1971. Rather patchy account covering railways [pp168-78]; 'Commercial and other buildings' [pp191-9] including Manchester Corn Exchange, Chamber of Commerce, Savings Bank; 'Warehouses, mechanics, etc' [pp200-21] providing short accounts of 'warehouses', 'cotton mills', 'smallware mills', 'steam engine making and engineering' [largely a short account of the works of William Fairbairn], 'locomotive engine and tool makers' [mostly the works of Nasmyths, Gaskell & Co of Patricroft]