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Lancashire Characters and Places

Lancashire Characters and Places

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Number of Chapters: 14

Length: 4 hours and 20 minutes

Language: English

An eclectic collection of essays on late 19th-century Lancashire culture and life, including essays on the poets John Critchley Prince and Edwin Waugh. Thomas Newbigging was born in Glasgow and died in Knutsford, Chesshire, living in between in Rossendale, Pernambuco, and Manchester. A gas manager by profession and writer-historian by inclination, his two major works were the Handbook for Gas Engineers and Managers (1889) and the History of the Forest of Rossendale (1893). (Summary by Phil Benson)

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01 - John Critchley Prince (Phil Benson)
02 - The last of the ale-tasters (Phil Benson)
03 - Edwin Waugh (Phil Benson)
04 - The Gull Moss (Phil Benson)
05 - Lancashire factory doffers (Phil Benson)
06 - James Leach the Lancashire composer (Phil Benson)
07 - Rossendale past and present (Phil Benson)
08 - The Lakes of Dean (Phil Benson)
09 - Afield with the geologists (Phil Benson)
10 - Old John's Sunday dinner (Phil Benson)
11 - An ambrosial noon (Phil Benson)
12 - The Irwell (Phil Benson)
13 - Rough Lee (Phil Benson)
14 - Some Lancashire characters and incidents (Phil Benson)
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