***** NEW PUBLICATION *****
MOVING MANCHESTER
Aspects of the History of Transport in the City and Region since 1700
Publication Date: January 2005
Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society
Manchester occupies a special place in the history of transport in Britain. During and following the industrial revolution it was associated with a number of the most significant transport innovations. The Bridgewater Canal is widely acknowledged to have been the first modem canal of the industrial age whilst the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, opened in 1830, heralded a transport revolution that redefined industrial society. In 1894 the Manchester Ship Canal transformed an inland city into an international port, reviving the region’s economy. In the twentieth century Barton was the first major municipally-owned and controlled airport in the country. This illustrated volume of fifteen original essays provides new perspectives on the transport system that underpinned the development of Manchester from the eighteenth century through to the twentieth century. The articles provide new insights and findings on well-known aspects of the region’s transport system as well as opening up to neglected parts of the system to historical study. The volume will be welcomed by all those interested in transport history and the history of the North West since the eighteenth century.
Contents
Moving Manchester
Derek Brumhead and Terry Wyke
The Archaeology of Manchester’s Early Waterfronts
Michael Nevell
Origins and early years of the Mersey and Irwell Navigation
David Vale
Coping with road traffic in expanding urban areas: Manchester and its environs during the Industrial Revolution
Geoffrey Timmins
The 1830 Railway Warehouse: An Old Model for a New
Robina McNeil
Bugsworth Basin: Development, Decline and Restoration
Alan Findlow and Martin Whalley
Sir Edward Watkin: Manchester Man and the Cheshire Lines
David Hodgkins
The impact of the railway on late Victorian Manchester
Derek Brumhead
The three John Greenwoods and public transport provision in Greater Manchester
Ted Gray
A Missed Opportunity? Bicycle Manufacturing in Manchester
Nick Clayton
The rise and fall of the Manchester motor industry
David George
Manchester’s Early Airfields
R A Scholefield
Manchester Airport: provincial aerodrome to international gateway
Viv Caruana
Canal Restoration in the North West since the 1970s
John Fletcher
Manchester Transport Museum
George Turnbull
Index