Society Library

Warrington History Society has accumulated many local history books over the years. Below, in alphabetical order, is a list of SOME of the publications available to our members. Many thanks to Carol Andrew for compiling this list and to anyone who has donated a book to us in the past. If you have any books you would to donate please email us at warringtonhistorysociety@gmail.com

Title Subtitle Author or Editor Published ISBN
A Century of Memories A collection of personal stories about Orford Village, its church, its school and its people during the 1900s Peter Warburton 2009
A Family Historian’s Guide to Warrington Library Fourth Edition David Forrest 1998 1 901633 55 1
A Guide to the Anderton Boat Lift David Carden & Neil Parkhouse 2005 978 19 03599 05 1
A History of Bewsey Old Hall The Bewsey Old Hall Conservation Project
A History Of Farnworth Church Its Village and Parish Alan Foster 1981
A History of the County of Lancaster Part 9 Ecclesiastical History William Farrer D.Litt & J. Brownhill M.A. 1908
A History of Warrington (Previously published as Warrington – A Heritage 1943) Harry Boscow 1997 1 874712 24 7
A History of Warrington Alan Crosby 2002 1 86077 222 6
A History of Widnes George E. Diggle / Peter Riley 1994 1 874712 11 5
A History of Winwick (Originally published as Winwick: It’s History and Antiquities) William Beaumont / Peter Riley 1995 1 874712 12 3
A Place of Safety 1897 ~ 1997 Lancaster County Asylum, Winwick. Lancashire’s Last Asylum Ken Lewis 1995 0 9526854 0 X
A Short History of Orford Hall H. Wells 1996 1 901208 00 1
A Step Into The Past (Part 1 of 3) (A Chronicle of Village Life In & Around Longton) 1800s-1900s Jane Riiding Smyth 1995 0 951 981 2 7 7
A Step Into The Past (Part 3 of 3) (A Chronicle of Village Life In & Around Longton) 1800s-1900s Jane Riiding Smyth 1995 0 951 981 2 9 3
A Survey of the County Palatine of Chester Reprinted in Facsimile with an Introduction by J. B. Hartley and P. Laxton P. P. Burdett 1974
Barefoot Days Growing up in Sankey Bridges in the 1930s and 40s and later years. Joan Riley 2001
Bishops’ Transcripts and Marriage Licences, Bonds and Allegations A Guide to their Location and Indexes Compiled by Jeremy Gibson 2001 1 86006 134 6
Bricks and Brickmaking Shire Album 75 Martin Hammond 2001 0 7478 0067 7
Burtonwood Eighth Air Force Base Air Depot Aldon P. Ferguson 1986 0 951 1113 02
Celtic Warrington and Other Mysteries Volume 2 Warrington East to South Mark Olly 1999
Charcoal and Charcoal Burning D. W. Kelley 1986 0 85263 731 4
Cheshire and its Welsh Border Herbert Hughes 1967
Cheshire Waterways David E. Owen 1979 085206 541 8
Chronicles of Warrington Aquarius Publications 1981
Dunham Massey The National Trust 2005 1 84359 061 1
Dunham Massey, Cheshire The National Trust 1991
Early Days in Irlam Village (1896-1914) James Goodier
Ester Price The life story of an apprentice at Quarry Bank Mill Keith Robinson
Eyres’ Press 1756 to 1803 An Embryo University Press P. O’Brien M.D. 1993 1 873888 45 7
Four Bishops of Liverpool 1880 to 1965 1985
From Glazebrook to Hollins Green Kath Fryer 1996 0 95226994 1 9
Ghosts, Mysteries and Legends of Old Warrington (Book 1) “Englands Most Ghost-infested Town” Wally Barnes 1990 0 951 4333 3 4
Give a Dock a Good Name? Ken McCarron & Adrian Jarvis 1992 0 9516129 4 8
Grange Over Sands Area No. 1 in a series of three Guide Books by South Lakeland District Council
Handlist of Genealogical Sources Lancashire County Council 1989
Heysham Village and Churches Marion E. McClintock 1984 Leaflet
Historic Towns of the Merseyside Area A survey of urban settlement to c. 1800 Robert A. Philpott 1988 0 906367 30 1
Holy Trinity Church Warrington 1709-2009
Illustrated Handbook of Vernacular Architecture R. W. Brunskill 1971 0 571 08636 5
Irlam & Cadishead Remembered Marion Beeston 1994 0 901952 26 5
Jeremiah Horrocks and Much Hoole Allan Chapman 1994
Kirkham as I Remembered it Rosamond Fishwick
Lancashire A history of the County Palatine in Early Maps J. J. Bagley & A. G. Hodgkiss 1985 0 907511 67 8
Lancashire 150 Years Ago Cliff Hayes 1991 1 872226 09 4
Lancashire a Social History, 1558-1939 John K Walton 1987 0 7190 1820 X
Liverpool Family Historian Volume 35 December 2013 Number 4 Quarterly Journal of the Liverpool & SW Lancashire Family history Society 2013 ISSN 0 260 759 X
Man’s Imprint on Cheshire Oliver Bott & Rhys Williams 0 904532 011
Memories of an Atherton Pitman Arthur Griffiths 1990 0 905235 12 6
Mersey and Irwell Navigation to Manchester Ship Canal Alfred Hayman 1981
Monastic Britain (North Sheet) A Map of British Monasticism From The   Norman Conquest To The Dissolution of 1539 Ordnance Survey 1955
Notes On Warrington Church As It Was In 1859 Part 1 Secrets of the Chancel and Crypt H. Wells 1999 1 901208 01 X
Notes On Warrington Church As It Was In 1859 Part 2 Mysteries of the Bottler Chapel H. Wells 1999 1 901208 02 8
Old Garden Tools Shire Album 41 Kay N. Sanecki 1979 0 85263 869 8
Ordnance Survey Maps a descriptive manual J. B. Hartley 1975
Padgate, Latchford & Thelwall Memorials Graham C. Normanshell 1999
Pals — a town of Archaeology and tourism Hugo Ball (translator) 1979 84 85406 02 8
Peter Stubs and the Lancashire Hand Tool Industry E. Surrey Dane 1973 0 85427 037 X
Portrait of – Warrington Jen Darling 1989 1 85058 207 6
Postwar Warrington in Photographs by Jack Gregory 1990 0 904532 26 7
Proceedings of the Lancashire Justices of the Peace at the Sheriff’s Table During Assizes Week, 1578-1694 Volume 121 B. W. Quintrell, M.A., Ph.D. 1981
Profiles of Warrington Worthies (New edition with introduction and appendix by H. Wells) James Kendrick 1996 1 901208 21 4
Railway Rambles on the Cheshire Lines C. T. Goode 1987 1 870313 01 1
Roman Warrington Excavations at Wilderspool 1966-9 and 1976 John Hinchliffe, John H. and Frances Williams et al 1992 0 904740 02 1
Royal Air Force Burtonwood Fifty Years in Photographs Aldon P Ferguson 1989 0 951111 31 0
Runcorn Town Hall A History and Description
Saint John’s Primary School, Hindley Green Centenary 1879 – 1979
Seventeen Stations to Dingle The Liverpool Overhead Railway Remembered John W. Gaham 1982 0 905466 54 3
Sufflok Epitaphs & Inscriptions Taken from Suffolk Church Monuments & Tombstones 0 948134 55 0
Suffolk’s Churches Great and Small Richard Tilbrook (photography), Roy Tricker & George Pipe 1998 0 7117 1069 4
The Archeology of Warrington’s Past Shelagh Grealey 1974 0 9500777 3 9
The Archive Photographs Series – Kirkby and Knowsley Compiled by Michael Griffiths 1995 0 7524 0349 4
The Archive Photographs Series – Widnes Compiled by Anne Hall and the Widnes Historical Society 1995 0 7524 0117 3
The Battle of Arpley Meadows One Foggy Night in November 1941 Wally Barnes
The Crosfield’s Mansion and Walled Kitchen Garden at Walton Lea (1864 – present) John Lea
The Earldom and County Palatine of Chester Geoffrey Barraclough 1953
The Farmers & The Rest Rixton in the nineteenth century Kath Fryer 1995 0 9526994 0 0
The Gregs of Styal Mary B. Rose 1978
The Handy Book of Parish Law W.A. Holdsworth 1872 1 898714 13 4
The Hartlebury Children’s Tutor A collection of lessons taken from Victorian educational educational books
The History of Bruche Hall William Beaumont / H. Wells 1997
The History of the House of Orford William Beaumont / H. Wells 1997 1 901208 22 2
The History of Walton Hall Gardens Jen Darling 1997
The John Gershom Parkington Memorial Collection of Time Measurement Instruments
The Letter Books of Sir William Brereton Volume One January 31st — May 29th 1645 R. N. Dore, M.A., F.R.Hist.S. 1984 0 902593 13 7
The Local Historian Journal of the British Association for Local History Volume 44 No 3 2014 0 024558 5
The Lyon Family of Appleton Hall and Stretton Parish Church Clare Furneaux 1996
The Northwich Flood in 1946 Prize-winning memories of local people
The PLP Story Leslie Povey 1999 0 9525337 1 5
The Rise of the English Town 1650-1850 Christopher Chalklin 2001 0 521 66737 2
The Victorian Chemist and Druggist Shire Album 80 W. A. Jackson 1981 0 85263 583 4
The Way We Were Wigan Pier
Township Pack No 34 – Burtonwood Cheshire County Council
Township Pack No108 – Hale (near Widnes) Cheshire County Council 0 906759 08 0
Township Pack No124 – Penketh Cheshire County Council 0 904532 39 9
Tudor Women Queens and Commoners Alison Plowden 1979 0 297 77549 9
Victorian Society Annual 1989 1989
Victorian Society Annual 1990 1990
Victorian Society Annual 1992 1992
Warrington Borough Transport 1902-2002 100 years of service to the community Ron Phillips 2002
Warrington Bridges 1285-1985 G. A. Carter FLA, Dip LH 1985 0 904532 17 8
Warrington Official Street Plan
Warrington Parish Church H. Wells 1997 1 901208 12 5
Warrington Parish Church — A brief history of the Organs R. N. Birbeck 2006
Warrington Rural District Lancashire Official Handbook 1953
Warrington Trams & Buses A History of Municipal Transport in Warrington John P. Robinson 1987 0 9045 3224 0
Warrington, Ancient and Modern A History of the Town and Neighbourhood Austin M. Crowe 1994 0 904533 31 3
Warrington’s Poor and the Workhouse 1725-1851 David Forrest 2001
Waterways and Railways to Warrington Peter Norton 1974 901461 08 3
Weston Park (A guide book) 1987 0 85101 258 2
What Became of the Quarry Bank Mill Apprentices? The Origins, Childhood and Adult Lives of 200 Cotton Workers Keith Robinson 0 946414 13 0
Widnes and St Helens Railways The Archive Photographs Series Compiled by Bob Pixton 1996 0 7524 0751 1
Woodworking Tools Shire Album 50 Philip Walker 1980 0 85263 501 X
Working Lives of Warrington From Old Photographs Janice Hayes 2011 978 1 4456 0526 5