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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1
Development in the Canal Age
chapter 3|7 pages
The Early Coal Magnates
The Cases Of Huyton and Sarah Clayton Of Liverpool, 1757–1762
part 2
The Age of Peter Greenall
part 3|105 pages
The Middle Years 1845-1870
part 4
Industrial Progress and the Rise of Respectability, 1870-1900