Books About Manchester (2 of 2)

A Bibliography of Manchester Books continued....

"Fred Dibnah -a Much Loved Steeplejack"

"Bramall Hall & the Davenport Family"

"Haigh Hall & the Bradshaigh Family"

"Heaton Hall & the Egerton Family"

"Manchester Then & Now"

"On Another Beat"

"Fred Dibnah - A Much Loved Steeplejack"

Written by the late Fred Dibnah, Sheila Dibnah & Paul Donoghue. Produced by Rallyscene, Clowne, Derbyshire S43 4PT.
Hardback £19.95. ISBN: 1-59971-963-0.

See also: More books about Fred Dibnah.

Books about Manchester by P & D Riley
(Local history publishers) Website: www.pdriley.co.uk

"Bramall Hall & the Davenport Family"
by P&D Riley. £3.00. ISBN: 978 1 874712 51 4.
Today Bramall Hall is owned and maintained by Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council and is a real gem in its crown, attracting thousands of visitors a year. It truly is a magnificent house and one which should be regarded as a major treasure not only of Cheshire but of England as a whole. This fabulous booklet explores its history and will whet ones appetite for a spectacular visit!

"Haigh Hall & the Bradshaigh Family"
by P&D Riley. £3.00. ISBN: 1 874712 48 4.
Close to Wigan town centre in Lancashire lies Haigh Hall, the historic home of the once influential Bradshaigh family. For centuries the family ruled the roost in this part of the North West of England and local people relied on them for their livelihood. This title gives us a fascinating insight into the long history of the hall and the family who played such a vital role in making Wigan an impoirtant town.

"Heaton Hall & the Egerton Family"
by P&D Riley. £3.00. ISBN: 9781874712459.
The history of the Egerton family, with their lofty titles, is a reflection of bygone England and the hall's huge rooms, the servants and gardeners, the influential visitors to the hall - all added to the growing prestige of a family which was already held in high esteem by the hierarchy of this part of England. The family married into other landed gentry, strengthening a bond which, it appeared at the time, to be capable of ruling the nation for a thousand years.

"Manchester Then & Now"
by P&D Riley. £4.99. ISBN: 1 874712 61 1.
The city of Manchester was the centre of a cotton empire that stretched across the world in the Victorian era, and its mills and cotton spinners were unsurpassed for quality. However, as the 20th century wore on, the industry that had kept the city alive disappeared and with it many jobs. This book takes us back to those days with a fine collection of atmospheric photographs which have been complemented with modern photographs of the same view taken a century later. It shows how much Manchester has changed in that century - or in some cases how it's hardly changed at all!

"On Another Beat"
by Dennis Wood. £5.99. ISBN: 187471276X.
Dennis Wood served in the Manchester Police for a quarter of a century between 1950 and 1975, a period, a period which he saw a gradual change form what had been Victorian methods of keeping law and order by walking a local beat, to the situation we have today with police work being carried out by computers and officers in cars and all local contact with the police lost. He entered the police service, as did many of his contempories, following military service with the Scots Guards during and immediately following World War Two. His hilarious true tales are typical of a period thought by many law abiding citizens as being halcyon, and there is no doubt that if Dennis and his former colleagues were in today's police force they wouldn't last a week because of all the regulations and red-tape that now takes the place in very British force of what was once called common sense! This is the sequel to Dennis's best selling first book On The Beat, which was first published in 2005 to great acclaim from police officers all over the world!