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Frank Mullineux Award
Rules for the Frank Mullineux Award
Frank Mullineux Award applications
History of Eccles
Sources for the history of Eccles
Eccles Cakes
Eccles Wakes
James Nasmyth
Maps
Waterways
Railways
History of Worsley
Sources for the history of Worsley
Bridgewater Canal
Underground canals
Coal Transportation
Worsley Old Hall
Wardley Hall
The Brick Hall Worsley
Worsley New Hall
Horse bus outside the Bull's Head, Church Street, c1890
Sources for the history of Eccles
The Eccles Local History Collection includes many books, pamphlets, maps, photographs, postcards and other items relating to the area. Copies of the Eccles and Patricroft Journal, Parish Registers and Census records are held on microfilm.
The Collection is housed at
Salford Local History Library
, Salford Museum & Art Gallery, The Crescent, Salford, M5 4WU (Tel. 0161 778 0814; email local.history@scll.co.uk).
Select Bibliography
Johnston, F.R.
Eccles. The growth of a Lancashire town
. (1967)
Rowbotham, D.
A chronological
history of Eccles from 656-1996
(1999)
Swindells, T.
Chapters in the history of Eccles
(1914) (This can be viewed online on the
Mancuniensis
website)
The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster
, VOL.IV, pages 352-376 (1911)
Wickham, H. and the Local History Group of the Third Age
Church Street, Eccles, from village lane to high street
(1992)
Books of photographs
Ashworth, T. and C.Carson
Eccles remembered
(1992)
Baggoley, Martin
Eccles in old photographs
(2003)
Bowes, Peter and Madeleine Patry
Eccles. A collection of old photographs
(1982)
Gray, Ted
Greetings from Eccles 1892-1992
(1992)
See also
Publications
, and recommended reading on selected pages of this website:
Eccles Cakes
;
James Nasmyth
;
Waterways
;
Railways
.
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