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.

T.C. Barker (Author), Professor J R Harris (Author)

INTRODUCTION TO THE THIRD IMPRESSION, SOURCES OF UNPUBLISHED AND MANUSCRIPT MATERIAL, PART ONE DEVELOPMENT IN THE CANAL AGE PART Two THE AGE OF PETER GREENALL 1830-1845 PART THREE THE MIDDLE YEARS 1845-1870 PART FOUR INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS AND THE RISE OF RESPECTABILITY, 1870-1900