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78 Vintage and Rare books on Genealogy, Social and General History of Liverpool on one DVD

2011-11-20T06:02:00.000Z

78 Vintage and Rare books on Genealogy, Social

and General History of Liverpool on one DVD

£5.99 plus £1 p&p for UK

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These fantastic Vintage and Rare books comprise of books on Genealogy, Social History and General History and range in publication date between 1766 and 1920. The Books on the DVD are in the public domain and therefore no copyright rules have been breached. There may be some imperfections due to ageing, deletions of added notes, pen markings and some missing pages as they have been scanned from original books.

The Books are all in PDF format therefore you will require Adobe reader which you can download free on your computer from www adobe.com.

The Books are on a DVD-R and will not be readable with some CD-ROM Drives and Operating Systems prior to Windows XP. However a full refund will be given if DVD is returned within 30 Days.

The Books contain several vintage illustrations some of which are included here.

The following books are in number order. The PDF file book descriptions on the DVD have the equivalent numbers for ease of reference.

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1 "A burning and a shining light”: being the memoir of the Rev. Thomas Spencer, of Liverpool, 1856. By Thomas Raffles.
2 A Companion to the Liverpool Museum. By William Bullock.
3 A compendious and impartial account of the Election at Liverpool 1806.
4 A general and descriptive history of the ancient and present state, of the town of Liverpool : comprising, a review of its government, police, antiquities, and modern improvements; the progressive increase of street, square, public buildings, and inhabitants, together with a circumstantial account of the true causes of its extensive African trade,1796. By James Wallace.
5 A history of Liverpool 1907. By Ramsay Muir.
6 A History of Municipal Government in Liverpool: From the Earliest Times to the Municipal Reform 1906. By Ramsay Muir.
7 A strange but true history of a Dam fine piece of work, which took place in what is styled a Court of Justice at Liverpool etc. By Samuel Mack.
8 A. Green & Co.'s Directory for Liverpool and Birkenhead 1870.
9 An account of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway : comprising a history of the parliamentary proceedings preparatory to the passing of the act, a description of the railway in an excursion from Liverpool to Manchester, and a popular illustration of the mechanical principles applicable to railways, also an abstract of the expenditure from the commencement of the undertaking with observations on the same 1830. By Henry Booth.
10 An authentic narrative of the shipwreck and sufferings of Mrs. Eliza Bradley, the wife of Capt. James Bradley of Liverpool, commander of the ship Sally which was wrecked on the coast of Barbary, in June 1818, 1820. By Eliza Bradley.
11 An essay towards the history of Liverpool 1774. By William Enfield.
12 An inventory of the plate, register books, and other moveables in the two parish churches of Liverpool, St. Peter's and St. Nicholas', 1893; with a transcript of the earliest register, 1660-1672; together with a catalogue of the ancient library in St. Peter's church and some extracts from the vestry records, 1893. By Henry Peet.
13 Annals of the Liverpool Stage, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, 1908. By R J Broadbent.
14 Bygone Liverpool 1913. By Ramsay Muir.
15 Cholera; a Report on the late visitation in Liverpool read before the Medical Society Oct 20^th 1853.
16 Description of the Rail Road from Liverpool to Manchester by P Moreau Engineer together with a history of the Rail Roads and matters connected therewith by A Notre, 1833.
17 Essay on the Liverpool Spa Water, 1773. By Thomas Houlston.
18 Essays to the men of Liverpool, 1860. By Hugh Stowell Brown.
19 Freeling's Grand Junction railway companion to Liverpool, Manchester. 1838. By Arthur Fielding.
20 Historical Record of the King's Liverpool Regiment of Foot, 1883. By Richard Cannon.
21 History of the Commerce and town of Liverpool and of the rise of manufacturing industry in the adjoining counties, 1859. By Thomas Baines.
22 History of the Liverpool privateers and letters of marque with an account of the Liverpool slave trade 1897. By Gomer Williams.
23 John Drayton; being a history of the early life and development of a Liverpool engineer Vol 1, 1851. By Margaret Oliphant.
24 John Drayton; being a history of the early life and development of a Liverpool engineer Vol 2, 1851. By Margaret Oliphant.
25 John Manesty, the Liverpool merchant Vol 1 & 2 1844. By William Maginn.
26 List of emigrants to America from Liverpool, 1697-1707, 1913.
27 List of shareholders in the Manchester and Liverpool District Banking Company, June 1, 1833: established April 30, 1829, under the authority of an act of Parliament, passed in the seventh year of Geo. IV, 1833.
28 Liverpool 1907. By Dickson Scott.
29 Liverpool a few years since 1885. By James Aspinall.
30 Liverpool addresses on ethics of social work 1911. By John MacCunn.
31 Liverpool as it was during the last quarter of the eighteenth century, 1775 to 1800, 1853. By Richard Brooke.
32 Liverpool Banks & Bankers, 1760-1837: A History of the Circumstances which gave rise to the industry and of the men who founded and developed it.1906. By John Hughes.
33 Liverpool Chess Club: A Short Sketch of the Club from Its First Meeting, 1893. By J S Edgar.
34 Liverpool cotton telegraph code for the use of buyers, importers, exporters and users of American cotton 1882. By H R Meyer.
35 Liverpool in 1859. By Thomas Baines.
36 Liverpool in King Charles the Second's time 1899. By Edward Moore.
37 Liverpool public libraries. A history of fifty years 1903. By Peter Cowell.
38 Liverpool sketches. By Hugh Shimmin 1862.
39 Liverpool, its commerce, statistics, and institutions; with a history of the Cotton trade 1825. By Henry Smithers.
40 Memoir of Henry Booth of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway and afterwards of the London and North-Western Railway, 1869. By Robert Smiles.
41 Memoirs of the late Captain Hugh Crow of Liverpool: comprising a narrative of his life together with descriptive sketches of the western coast of Africa, particularly of Bonny; the manners and customs of the inhabitants, the productions of the soil, and the trade of the country, 1830. By Hugh Crow.
42 Memorials of Liverpool: Including a History of the Dock Estate 1873 Vol 1. By James A Pickton.
43 Memorials of Liverpool: historical and topographical, including a history of the Dock Estate Vol 2 1875. By James A Picton.
44 Minutes of evidence and proceedings on the Liverpool and Birkenhead dock 1857.
45 Minutes of Evidence on the Birkenhead and Liverpool Dock Bills, Session 1848, 1850. By Thomas Webster.
46 Old Liverpool: written in manuscript 1889. By R Postance.
47 Organization of nursing: an account of the Liverpool Nurses' Training School, its foundation, progress, and operation in hospital, district, and private nursing 1865. By Florence Nightingale.
48 Practical guide in the preparation of town planning schemes, with appendices containing the text of the Act, the procedure regulations, extracts from the Hampstead Garden Suburb Act, 1906, extracts from the Liverpool Corporation (Streets and Buildings) Act, 1908,1911. By E G Bentley.
49 Recollections of a busy life: being the reminiscences of a Liverpool merchant 1840-1910, 1910. By William B Forwood.
50 Recollections of Old Liverpool 1863. By James Stonehouse.
51 Reminiscences of a Liverpool ship owner, 1850-1920, 1920. By William B Forwood.
52 Report of the Health of Liverpool 1872. By W S Trench.
53 Report to the Health committee on the borough of Liverpool on the sewage, paving, cleansing, and other works, under the Sanitary act, from 1856 to 1862 inclusive c1863.
54 Selections from the municipal archives and records of the City of Liverpool Vol 1 1883. By James A Pickton.
55 Selections from the municipal archives and records of the City of Liverpool Vol 2 1886. By James A Pickton.
56 Shipping casualties. (Loss of the steamship "Falaba"). Report of a formal investigation into the circumstances attending the foundering on 28th March of the British steamship "Falaba", of Liverpool, in or near latitude 51 30' N., longitude 6 36' W., whereby loss of life ensued,1915.
57 Smith's Strangers' guide to Liverpool, its environs, and part of Cheshire, for 1843, 1843. By Alexander Brown.
58 Some Account of the Ancient Chapel of Toxteth Park, Liverpool, from the Year 1618 to 1883, and of its Ministers especially Richard Mather the First Minister.1884. By David D Valentine.
59 The Charter, granted to the burgesses of Liverpool, by William III, 1810.
60 The commerce of Liverpool 1854. By Braithwaite Poole.
61 The cotton trade of Great Britain: including a history of the Liverpool cotton market and of the Liverpool Cotton Brokers' Association 1886. By Thomas Ellison.
62 The Export Coal Trade of Liverpool a letter to Thomas Littledale Chairman of the Liverpool Dock Trust. By William Laird.
63 The first year's working of the Liverpool Docks Scheme 1914. By Richard Williams.
64 The greatest of our social evils: prostitution, as it now exists in London, Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dublin 1857. By Gustave A Richelot.
65 The history of Liverpool from the earliest authenticated period down to the present time, illustrated with views of the principal buildings in the town and its vicinity, 1810.
66 The Liverpool Directory, for the Year 1766: Containing an Alphabetical List of the Merchants, tradesmen and principal inhabitants of the town of Liverpool.1766.
67 The No-Popery agitation and the Liverpool Corporation Schools. By C E Trevelyan.
68 The picture of Liverpool, or, stranger's guide 1805.
69 The picture of Liverpool, or, stranger's guide 1835.
70 The place-names of the Liverpool district; or, the history and meaning of the local and river names of South-west Lancashire and of Wirral, 1898. By Henry Harrison.
71 The Royal Picturesque Hand-Book of Liverpool, a manual for resident and visitor with a day at Birkenhead and a series of pleasant excursions in the environs. By H M Addey.
72 The speeches and public addresses of the Right Hon. George Canning during the election in Liverpool: which commenced on Friday the 7th and terminated on Wednesday the 12th of June, 1816. 1816. By George Canning.
73 The squib-book; an impartial account of the Liverpool election, March, 1820.
74 The Stranger in Liverpool, Or, an Historical and Descriptive View of the Town of Liverpool 1812. By Thomas Kaye.
75 The tales of old Liverpool 1886. By John P Eiffe.
76 The University of Liverpool: It’s Present State 1907. By Ramsay Muir.
77 Tracts of the Liverpool Financial reform association, 1851.
78 Women's Industries in Liverpool: An Enquiry into the Economic effects of legislation regulations, 1904. By Ramsay Muir.

S and T Francey's ( could be Francis's) marble works

2011-11-15T16:17:00.000Z

Does anyone know where S and T Francey's ( could be Francis's) marble works was on Brownlow Hill ? It was there in 1790 and still there in 1911.

Any pictures would be great.

Cheers

John

John Hussey

Liverpool's coastline before the construction of Jesse Hartley's docks

2011-11-06T00:36:00.001Z

Dear Sir/Madam,

I have been looking for information on Liverpool's coastline before the construction of Jesse Hartley's docks - in order to study the development and reclamation of land. I have found old, drawn maps but cannot relate them back to the present day streets/urban situation. Do you have any suggestions as to how I can go about finding accurate information about the development of land along Liverpool's coastline?

Thanks very much in advance.

Ting

108a Cazneau Street

2011-10-28T17:58:00.001+01:00

Hello,

I wonder if you can help me. While doing some genealogy I found one of my relatives living at the above address on the 1891 census, but it is a very strange entry. There are 70 men and 3 boys living at this address, but there appears to be no-one in charge (no head) and everyone seems to be of working age with many different jobs represented. It seems too small to be a workhouse. It seems to be more like a working man’s hostel. My relative is a married man away from his family at the time. Any ideas what it was?

I know most of Cazneau St. was demolished to make way for an interchange.

I have tried the Liverpool Records Office, but they cannot help, so I am hoping you can, and if not, can you suggest where I might try next?

Thank you

John Waller jawaller@dccnet.com

Meridian Engineering in Crosby

2011-09-26T21:01:00.002+01:00

My mum has told me recently that one or two of her uncles worked at Meridian Engineering in Crosby in approximately 1965. According to her they were quite high up in the company. Both uncles had the surname of Jones. Does anybody know anything about this company at that time or where I can find any records of this?

Jones' Cafe Great George Street

2011-09-25T20:09:00.003+01:00

Hello,

I am trying to find any information I can about Jones' Cafe which ran in Great George Street from the late 1800s ( I Think) until it was fire bombed in wwII. There is a fleeting reference to it in Pat Omara's Autobiography of a Liverpool Irish Slummy but that is all I have found. any advice on where and how to look would also be greatfully received.

Thankyou

Davis Sanders

Chapel/Church situated in Moss St

2011-09-18T05:54:00.006+01:00

There was a chapel/church, situated in Moss St quite near the junction with London Road/Prescot Street.
It backed onto Epworth Street, where I lived as a child 1948-1957.

We knew it as the old Methodist building, and as kids did shortly after the war we used the place as a playground.

I remember finding Hymn books which were definitely not of the catholic type. I also remember the building and yard being used for the storage of new (50′s) fireplaces.

Frankie Vaughan lived over the road in Devon Street.
Regards
Brian Caulfield.
bacaulfield@bigpond.com

Swedish kings illigitimate son dies in Liverpool Mill Road hospital ? (Hjalmar Högqvist 1839-1874)

2011-09-17T02:29:00.001+01:00

Mill Road hospital

Hello

I would like if you can give some tips about how to find iformation about the old Mill Road Hospital in the 1870ties

The reason is this I am researching the relatives of the Swedish actress Emilie Högqvist 1812-1846

Hjalmar Fransson Högqvist 1840-1874 feb 15 in Mill Road Hospital

Hjalmar was born 1839 in Hamburg as the son of the famous Swedish actress Emilie Högqvist 1812-1846 and the Swedish crown prince Oscar (later king Oscar I) 1799-1859 )

Hjalmar spend his early childhood in Stockholm was after his mothers death in 1846 raised in Hamburg with his brother Max Högqvist 1840-1872 and his half sister Tecla Högvist 1833- (daughter of temile Högqvist and the british diplomat John Arthur douglas Bloomfield.(2nd baron Bloomfield)

In the late 1850thies he came back to Sweden and in the beginning of the 1860thies he settled In a Manour house in the province of Västergötland

In 1863 he married Emile Amalia Hafström 1838- ca 1910 from a wealthy Gothenburg family

They had 2 daughters

Hjalmar apparently squandered his fortune and

Around 1867 the family had to leave the manor and moved to Gothenburg. For a few yesrs Hjalmar worked in the postal services as postal inspector but later he ecame employed by the Wilson line-

A note in the Death records in the churchrecords for the familys home parish in Gothenburg says that Hjalmar Högqvist died 1874 feb 15 at “Mill road Hospital” according to a letter of 1874 march 31 from doctor called Alex Dunbar . There may have been severel Millroad Hospitals in England by that time but since Hjalmar was employed by a shipping line the hospital in Liverpool may be the most likely. If Hjalmar indeed died in a workhouse hospital he seems to have fallen on bad times indeed.

Are there any records ,pictures or information from the hospital about that time wich can give any information about him and the circumstances aurrounding his death ?

Kind regards from

Anna-Karin Schander

Växjö

Sweden

e-mail a-kschander2@netatonce.net

PS Here is a little film I made about Emile Högqvist on You tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il4FJURvjoQ

Postal and Telegraph Censorship Department

2011-09-01T15:09:00.000+01:00

Dear Liverpool History Society,

I have found a certificate of my grandmother from 1945 for the Postal and Telegraph Censorship Department thanking her for her efforts with them. Do you have any info on this? Or can you reccomend any publications or books that would include the subject. I would love to find out exactly what she did. I believe it was based in Aintree.

Thank you for your time

Regards

Katrina Asbury

Hackins Hey off Dale Street

2011-08-29T22:23:00.001+01:00

Hackins Hey

I am trying to trace a Gentlemans Barber Shop that existed in Hackins Hey off Dale Street Liverpool from around 1945 to when the street was redevoloped in the late 60s early 70s. It was on the same side of the road as Ye Hole in Wall pub but about halfway up. The man who ran it was my Grandfather Charles Quick. It was there at a similar time as Rex Makin Solicitors started in the same street. Any info about the shop including its name would be great.

thanks

History of Sayers the Bakers

2011-08-23T02:26:00.000+01:00

Hello,
my parents worked for the Livepool bakers Sayers for many years and I would be very interested in learning something about the history of the business. I would be very grateful if you could please provide any information.

Yours

Ellen Herting

Liverpool Railway Brakeman The first person to ever sue his employers

2011-08-17T21:11:00.000+01:00

Dear Sir/Madam

I am trying to find out about an accident that happened sometime between 1901 and 1911. My Grandfather Ernest Threlfall worked as a Railway Breaksman on the Liverpool railways. He had an accident whilst working and the story is that he lost both legs. He sued the Railway company and apparently was the first person to ever sue his employers.

I would be extremely grateful for any information you may have.

Thank you

Sarah Hill

(I live in Bristol)

Cameron naval telescope South Castle St Liverpool

2011-08-15T10:25:00.001+01:00

CAMERON, J.R. Telescope

Greetings from Australia.

I recently acquired a naval telescope marked as "Cameron" Sth Castle St Liverpool "day or night"

I would be most interested in finding out more about this and the history of it's maker.

I am told the telescope is circa 1850's

Thankyou for any help you can give me on this matter

Cheers Chris Fitzgerald

Bute Street

2011-08-14T23:45:00.000+01:00

Hi Rob,

do you have anything on Bute Street off Netherfield Road?

Looking for info on a cooperage yard and hand cart storage there.

Colin Schofield

St Georges Church and Hall 1856 - 1864

2011-08-14T17:21:00.003+01:00

Good Day

I hope you can advise me where to find any info and photos.

I am currently writing the story about my ggg g/father, Prof Ira Hirst from his UK beginnings to the Port of Natal in South Africa.

He worked for the Liverpool Town Council from 1856 to 1864 but not sure as what but must have been related to his profession as a Music Professor. The Liverpool Mercury classified ads also shows him as choir master, organist and conductor for St George's Church as well a music teacher. He resigned owing to 'bad health' in 1864 and moved his young family to Natal in SA where he pioneered the import of musical instruments and orchestras in Natal. He died at the early age of 49 in SA.

I have hit a wall in trying to find out more info about music in Liverpool at the time and would love to find old photos and records which would include him.

I thank you in advance for any info you can supply me.

Kind regards

Peppa Hirst

Gladstone House

2011-08-14T11:05:00.000+01:00

Hi,

I'm doing a piece of research into John Lennon - does anyone know anything of Gladstone House - It was near to Strawberry Fields and (was in John Lennon's time, living at home in Mather Av) used as a boys reformatory (secured school).

Thank a lot,

Francis

francis kenny franciskenny (AT) hotmail.co.uk

CASSIE or the cast iron shore

2011-08-08T16:21:00.000+01:00

Why is Otterspool Promenade known as CASSIE or the cast iron shore? What company made the iron railings on Otterspool Promenade?

Who received monies from Otterspool Estate when it was sold to Cheshire Lines Railway Co?

THE ASSOCIATION OF SUPERINTENDENTS OF PARKS AND BOTANIC GARDENS ANNUAL CONFERENCE, LIVERPOOL, JULY 1932.

2011-08-05T12:18:00.002+01:00

Hi Rob, wonder if you could help, I have a framed photograph 33 inches long by 9 inches deep......the inscription on it reads....THE ASSOCIATION OF SUPERINTENDENTS OF PARKS AND BOTANIC GARDENS ANNUAL CONFERENCE, LIVERPOOL, JULY 1932......PHOTOGRAPHED AT ARROWE PARK, BIRKENHEAD, BY MEDRINGTON'S LTD. 29a BOLD ST. LIVERPOOL.

There are approx 300 people on the photograph.....and obviously the war started 7 years later, so I presume some of the people may have died in the war, and others since then, but I would like to give it to the association , but haven't got a clue where to start, there is a building in the back ground and I would imagine that is still standing. Can you give us a starter......I am hoping to come over to the wirral in a couple of weeks time and it would be lovely if I could bring it with me to pass on to someone.

Thanks Denise

Towson street

2011-08-04T15:29:00.001+01:00

Hi – I realise you are not a family history site but – my Grandfather (William (Walter) Collings was born at 136 Towson street, Everton (1899). His father was a fireman at the flour mills.

I tried the Liverpool City Online archives but they seem to be off line.

I wondered if anyone knew the sort of housing in Towson street at that time – I had thought terraced houses but I suppose it could be tenement.

I’ve seen mention of online photos of Towson Street – but not managed to find any!

Be grateful if you could point me in the right direction.

Best wishes Ann Osborne

Lift Bridge at Litherland over the Leeds & Liverpool Canal

2011-08-02T14:23:00.000+01:00

As someone who grew up in Litherland I was interested in finding information on this bridge and wondered if you could point me in the right direction. L & L canal has revealed nothing (maybe I’m looking in the wrong place).

Any help will be appreciated.

Best Wishes,

Anthea Jones

Gladys Aylward's Chinese Gospel Mission

2011-07-29T01:06:00.000+01:00


20 Nelson Street

Gladys Aylward

Rob,for years I have been trying to bring about a plaque @ 20 Nelson Street to commemorate the opening there of Gladys Aylward's Chinese Gospel Mission in 1958.

I think I have found one of the Chinese adopted by Gladys;he is pastor of a Chinese church in Ambler,Pennsylvania.

I am keen to know of English and Chinese individuals,organisations and pub- lications likely to be interested in this subject.Can you help?.Freddo

Family History Research for Braithwaite Poole

2011-07-21T20:45:00.005+01:00

Kensington Lodge Fairield

Hello

I am researching my ancestor Braithwaite Poole who was listed as a Railway Manager on the 1851 census and lived in Prescott Rd, West Derby. I was wanting to find out more about him (I live in Australia). I have found on the internet some books authored by a Braithwaite Poole written about Liverpool and it's commerce. I wanted to confirm if this is the same person or not. Do you have any suggestions as to who I can contact about him?

Regards
Amanda Joyce

The Liver Sketching Club

2011-07-20T01:24:00.003+01:00

I am writing the history of The Liver Sketching Club which has been active in Liverpool since 1872.

If anyone has information about the club or its members, I would be very interested - but my question is:

The club moved into the city centre from Everton in the late 1870s and occupied premises on the top floor of a fruit warehouse in Williamson Street, Liverpoool until it moved to Clayton Square in 1880.

Does anyone know of the existence of a fruit merchant's business in Williamson Street around 1879 to enable me to identify the address?

I would be pleased to acknowledge anyone who provides information in the final draft.

My email address is davidartshe(AT)yahoo.co.uk

Many thanks.

Cranes Theatre The Neptune

2011-07-19T12:43:00.003+01:00

Many years ago I appeared in the play “The Man Who Came To Dinner” which was performed in a Theatre over Crane’s Piano Shop in Liverpool. Does the Theatre still exist please?

Kind regards.

Bill Bennett

Shaw St Synagogue

2011-07-19T11:59:00.002+01:00

Shaw Street Synagogue

Kellys Directoy 1900

Sir ,
All information I can find relating to the "Shaw Street" synagogue tell of the building's origin as a Wesleyan chapel. This has me puzzled for I am unable to find a Wesleyan chapel in Shaw street just prior to 1908, when the chapel was supposedly converted to a synagogue. The only record I can find of a Wesleyan chapel in the close vicinity is in Moss Street, the southerly continuation of Shaw Street, where an early Georgian style building existed in the 19th century.

Can anyone help me locate this building, was it Shaw Street or Moss Street??

Grekko