Booklets on Littleborough Industrial History and Families
We now publish a series of five booklets which cover:
No1 Whittles Bakery - the Family of Henry Whittles
No 2 Durn and Lydgate Woollen Mills and the Law family including the nationally important Honresfeld Library built up by William Law
No 3 Textiles Mills and a Foundry at Durn developed by the Consterdine and Schofield Families
No 4 Rubber, Rayon, Tanning & Chemicals - Wood-Milne (Rubber), Atlas Artificial Silk Processes and Lancashire Tanning Co all share the same building over the years, Breda Visada at Python Mill and Armour Hess and Ashe Labs
No 5 Early History of Littleborough’s Town Centre and the Coach House Also includes the development of the The Falcon; the conversion of the the station building as the History Centre and Hare Hill House’
The booklets are available at Kelsall’s Bookshop , the Coach House as well as from the History Centre
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Littleborough Viaduct to Summit Tunnel |
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Coop in 20th Century |
Coop Decline & Change |
LANCTAN |
Schofield Iron Woks |
Phoenix Iron Works |
Consterdine textile Mills |
Schofield Textile Mills |
Consterdine and Schofield Booklet |
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Deanhead Chemical Works |
Akzo Chemical Works |
Starring Pottery |
Summit Brickworks |
Tetlows Pottery |
Whittaker Pottery |
Coal Mining Map |
Starring Clay and Coal Mine |
Cleggswood Colliery |
Shackleton - Coal Merchant |
Mining around Hollingworth |
Possible Roman Littleborough |
Blackstone Edge Roman Road |
Littleborough Hoard |
WW2 Anniversaries |
Roll of Honour |
WW2 Heroes |