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Title: Lancashire

Brief Historical and Descriptive Notes

Author: Leo H. (Leo Hartley) Grindon

Release Date: August 26, 2012 [eBook #40584]

Language: English

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LANCASHIRE
HISTORICAL & DESCRIPTIVE NOTES
BY
LEO H. GRINDON

Lancashire

EMIGRANTS AT LIVERPOOL

LANCASHIRE

BRIEF HISTORICAL AND
DESCRIPTIVE NOTES

BY
LEO H. GRINDON
AUTHOR OF
'THE MANCHESTER FLORA'; 'MANCHESTER BANKS AND BANKERS';
'LIFE, ITS NATURE, VARIETIES, AND PHENOMENA'; ETC.

WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS

London
SEELEY AND CO., LIMITED
Essex Street, Strand
1892

PREFACE

The following Chapters were written for the Portfolio of 1881, in which they appeared month by month. Only a limited space being allowed for them, though liberally enlarged whenever practicable, not one of the many subjects demanding notice could be dealt with at length. While reprinting, a few additional particulars have been introduced; but even with these, in many cases where there should be pages there is only a paragraph. Lancashire is not a county to be disposed of so briefly. The present work makes no pretension to be more than an index to the principal facts of interest which pertain to it, the details, in almost every instance, still awaiting the treatment they so well deserve. If I have succeeded in marking out the foundations for a superstructure to be raised some day by an abler hand, I shall be content. It is for every man to begin something, to the best of his power, that may be useful to his fellow-creatures, though it may not be permitted to him to enjoy the greater pleasure of completing it.

Some of the commendations passed upon Lancashire may seem to come of the partiality of a man for his own county. It may be well for me to say that, although a resident in Manchester for forty years, my native place is Bristol.

LEO GRINDON.

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS