Author: PARKER, James.
Title: Illustrated Rambles from Hipperholme to Tong, Including the Opening of the Bradford Exhibition by Their Royal Hignesses the Prince and Princess of Wales; Opening of the Cartwright Hall by Lord Masham, and the Lister Family; Life of Dr. Cartwright; Interesting History of the Bradford Trade.
Description: Bradford, Percy Lund, Humphries & Co., The Country Press, September 1904. Hardcover. Grubby marks to covers, tear and fraying to bottom of spine, bottom corners bumped, fraying to corners, internal hinges cracked but holding, otherwise contents good. No dj. B/W illus and photos. Errata page slipped-in. Covers histories of 30 villages including Wibsey, Low Moor, Oakenshaw, Wike, Royd's Hall, Whitechapel, Birkenshaw, Hipperholmes, Bierley, East Bierley, Kirklees, Coley, Drighlington, Tong, Dudley Hill, Bolling Hall, Neville Hall, Rooley Hall, Ripley's Dyeworks and Burnett Field. A fasccinating snapshot into the lives and businesses of English villages at the turn of the 20th century. 522pp.

Keywords: social sociology history england english village villages