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GEORGIAN AND VICTORIAN CARLISLE: LIFE, SOCIETY AND INDUSTRY

by Sydney Towill

Published by Carnegie Publishing Ltd.. 1st. 1996

Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper. Analyses the industrial and historical development of Carlisle through the most important period of its development. Deep yellow cloth boards, black title to spine. B/w illustrations.

Yellow pictorial dustwrapper is faded to spine and scuffed to rear panel. Includes a relevant newspaper clipping.

ISBN: 1859360394
Stock no. 1825440

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Contents

  • Introduction
  • 1 Early Transport Development
  • 2 The Growth of the Factory System in Carlisle
  • 3 Booming Carlisle and an Alternative Economy
  • 4 The Urban Scene. Nineteenth-Century Carlisle
  • 5 Disease and mortality: Water and Sewerage
  • 6 Law and Order
  • 7 The Coming of the Railways
  • 8 The Mature Victorian City
  • Postscript
  • Appendices
  • 1 Technology of the Cotton Industry
  • 2 Cotton Manufacturers 1794-1847
  • 3 Lanthwaite Cotton Mill Inventory of Equipment December 1808
  • 4 Professions, Traders and Domestic Manufacturers in Carlisle
  • 5 Parliamentary Legislation to restrict use of Child Labour in Factories
  • 6 The Dukery of Carlisle
  • 7 Carlisle Occupations Census Returns 1861-1901
  • 8 Parliamentary and Municipal Representation
  • 9 The Dixons - Cotton Entrepreneurs
  • 10 The Nuclear Power Industry in Cumbria
  • Graphs
  • 1 Growth of Population in Carlisle, 1761-1861
  • 2 Cotton Industry of the United Kingdom, 1800-1845
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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