Tracing Your Manchester & Salford Ancestors
Tracing Your Manchester & Salford Ancestors

Author: Sue Wilkes

Publisher: Casemate Publishers

Published: 2017-04-30

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1473856426

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For readers with family ties to Manchester and Salford, and researchers delving into the rich history of these cities, this informative, accessible guide will be essential reading and a fascinating source of reference.Sue Wilkes outlines the social and family history of the region in a series of concise chapters. She discusses the origins of its religious and civic institutions, transport systems and major industries. Important local firms and families are used to illustrate aspects of local heritage, and each section directs the reader towards appropriate resources for their research.No previous knowledge of genealogy is assumed and in-depth reading on particular topics is recommended. The focus is on records relating to Manchester and Salford, including current districts and townships, and sources for religious and ethnic minorities are covered. A directory of the relevant archives, libraries, academic repositories, databases, societies, websites and places to visit, is a key feature of this practical book.

Manchester Ship Canal: Back to the Future for Disused European Waterways
Manchester Ship Canal: Back to the Future for Disused European Waterways

Author: Elkadi, Hisham

Publisher: KIT Scientific Publishing

Published: 2021-12-20

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 3731510847

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This book investigates how urban/rural patterns provide differing conditions for living and working. The project is to read and analyse these urban/rural settlement structures and provide insight into the patterns of living and working that have formed them and possible development of a smart networked metropole that integrate the urban and rural socio-economic and physical infrastructures for the future of disused European waterways.

Transport and the industrial city
Transport and the industrial city

Author: Peter Maw

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2018-02-28

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1526130475

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This book presents the first scholarly study of the contribution of canals to Britain’s industrial revolution. Although the achievements of canal engineers remain central to popular understandings of industrialisation, historians have been surprisingly reticent to analyse the full scope of the connections between canals, transport and the first industrial revolution. Focusing on Manchester, Britain’s major centre of both industrial and transport innovation, it shows that canals were at the heart of the self-styled Cottonopolis. Not only did canals move the key commodities of Manchester’s industrial revolution –coal, corn, and cotton – but canal banks also provided the key sites for the factories that made Manchester the ‘shock city’ of the early Victorian age. This book will become essential reading for historians and students interested in the industrial revolution, transport, and the unique history of Manchester, the world’s first industrial city.

The Ships That Came to Manchester
The Ships That Came to Manchester

Author: Nick Robins

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2015-08-15

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1445651955

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Explore the fascinating history of the vessels of the Manchester Ship Canal.