Sources of Information
Sources of information used on this website include the following, most of which is available at Preston Records Office and Preston Harris Library and Museum:
- Barrett’s Trade Directories for Preston various dates
- Building control plans from 1850
- Census data and birth, marriage and death certificates
- Exhibition about Avenham in Preston Harris Library
- Ordnance Survey maps. 126” to one mile 1892 Preston
- Polling lists for various dates
- Preston Borough Council sewer maps 1852
- Preston Guardian newspapers. 1862
- Weaver’s Union membership book
- R Cookson. Goosnargh Past and Present. H Oakey Printer. 21 June 1887
- Hardwick. History of the Borough of Preston. 1857
- Lawrence Rawstorne. The New Husbandry. Oakey of Preston. 6 Aug 1848 Penwortham
- Robert Roberts. The Classic Slum. Manchester University Press. 1971
- Mary B Rose (editor). The Lancashire Cotton Industry – A History Since 1700. Lancashire County Books. 1996
- Trygve Tholfsen. Working Class Radicalism in Mid-Victorian England. Croom Helm. 1976
- Edward Baines. History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain. Cass & Co. 1966
- Neville Kirk. The Growth of Working Class Reformism in Mid-Victorian England. Croom Helm. 1985
- George Newman. Infant Mortality. Methuen. 1906
- Edwin Waugh. Home Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk During the Cotton Famine. Simpkin, Marshall and Co London. 1867. (Read it on this site)
“ Atticus, Churches and Chapels 1869 (Read it on this site) - Anthony Hewitson. History of Preston AD 705-1883. “Chronicle” office, Preston. 1883
- The Lancashire Family History and Heraldry Society
- David Hunt is a respected local author and much of the information about the mid-1800s comes from his book, The Silent Mills
- Alan Crosby has written histories of Preston, Hutton and Penwortham among others and I have used some of his photos and comments
- John Garlington has done a history of Preston in pictures
- Margaret Burscough has published an interesting History of Lark Hill, Preston, 1797-1989