ABSTRACT

First published in 1994. This book is an outstanding product of St Helens, as remarkable in its way as sheetglass and Beechams pills. It is the first full scale nineteenth century history of a small industrial town as distinct from the bigger and better-known cities and as such it deserves to be very widely read and studied.

part 1

Development in the Canal Age

chapter 1|8 pages

Coal and Salt

chapter 2|13 pages

The First English Canal

chapter 3|7 pages

The Early Coal Magnates

The Cases Of Huyton and Sarah Clayton Of Liverpool, 1757–1762

chapter 6|13 pages

Colliery Problems and Practice

chapter 7|15 pages

The Copper Industry

Anglesey and Lancashire 1770–1815.

chapter 10|11 pages

Other Industries

chapter 11|18 pages

Social Life

The Poor of Parr 1730–1815

chapter 12|19 pages

Social Life

An Industrialist and Magistrate 1779–1825

chapter 13

The Beginnings of The Town

part 2

The Age of Peter Greenall

chapter 14|12 pages

The Coming of the Railway

chapter 15|9 pages

The Merseyside Coal Trade 1830–1845

chapter 16|21 pages

The Glass Industry 1830–1845

chapter 18|24 pages

Combination among Masters and Men

chapter 19|20 pages

Colliers, Irish, Glassmakers and Others

chapter 21|8 pages

The New Poor Law

chapter 22

St. Helens in the ‘Forties

part 3|105 pages

The Middle Years 1845-1870

chapter 23|11 pages

The Transport Monopoly 1845–1872

chapter 24|36 pages

Industrial Development, 1845–1870

chapter 25|21 pages

Urban Growth 1845–1870

chapter 26|17 pages

The Improvement Commission

chapter 27|18 pages

Town Life, 1845–1870

part 4

Industrial Progress and the Rise of Respectability, 1870-1900

chapter 28|20 pages

Industrial Development, 1870–1900

chapter 29

Social Conditions 1870–1900