White Lancaster

A History
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-80399-569-4
Verlag: Phillimore & Co Ltd
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 186 Seiten

Reihe: Phillimore Editions

Lancaster, the county town of Lancashire, stands at the lowest bridging point of the River Lune. A chartered borough since 1193 and a city since 1937, it has had a long and turbulent history. Since the Roman army first saw the strategic possibilities of a low hill by the river it has housed garrisons and acted as a fortress. Its position on the main west-coast road to and from Scotland has on numerous occasions led to the passage of hostile armies. As county town and seat of the Assizes it has seen all the principal criminal cases for Lancashire tried in its magnificent Castle over the last eight centuries. Next to the Castle in a typical juxtaposition of Church and State stands the Priory church with its own history running back some twelve or thirteen centuries. In this book, based wherever possible on original sources, such as the rich resources of the borough records or the local newspapers, the author takes a thematic approach. In ten chapters he examines themes such as 'House and Home', 'Working for a Living' and 'Where do you come from?', the last of which is a study of all the people who over the centuries have come from other countries to live in Lancaster.

ANDREW WHITE was Head of Lancaster City Museums for the past 18 years, following a dozen years in the museum services of Middlesborough and Lincoln. He has an MA in Classics from Lancaster University and a PhD in Archaeology from Nottingham University. He is a Fellow of the Museums Association and of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Married, with three grown-up children, he lives in the Lune valley. In his spare time he writes, lectures and broadcasts on local history. He is the author of several books on Roman archaeology and on Georgian and Victorian architecture, as well as works on more general local history and many articles in journals. Previous books published under the Phillimore imprint include Lancaster: A Pictorial History and A History of Whitby.

Autoren/Hrsg.

White, Andrew

Leseproben

‘Engraving of Lancaster from the south east by W. Westall, 1829’.

1      The North East Prospect of Lancaster, 1728

2      Roman altars from Burrow-in-Lonsdale and Folly Farm

2a    Tombstone of Insus

3      Drawing of the tombstone of Lucius Julius Apollinaris

4      Drawing of Roman bronze forceps

5      Anglo-Saxon Cross with a Latin inscription

6      Anglo-Saxon Cross with an inscription in Anglian runes

7      Grave of Sambo at Sunderland Point

8      Grave of John Dixon

9      Painting of ship being built at Brockbanks yard

10    Cartoon of German band from magazine

11    Mosque in Fenton Street

12    Advertisement for Luneside Engineering, Halton, 1964

13    Fragment of the Wery Wall

14    Reconstruction of Roman Lancaster from the Moor

15    The Roman fort and distribution map of Roman finds

16    Marsh Enclosure, 1796

17    Location of main fields

18    Villas on the Greaves, from Harrison & Hall’s map of 1877

19    Anchor Lane under excavation, 1999

20    Aerial photo of Castle Hill, .1973

21    Reconstruction of the Dominican Friary

22    A typical yard: Ross Yard off Cheapside

23    Excavation of 65 Church Street in 1973-4

24    Reconstruction of Sir Robert de Holand’s 1314 house

25    Detail of 1684 map – Great Bonifont Hall and Stewp Hall

26    Three of four pairs of re-used oak crucks found at Mitchell’s Brewery

27    View of Stonewell in 1810 by Gideon Yates

28    View of the Market Place .1770

29    Seventeenth-century stone houses in Church Street

30    Drawing of Church Street with old houses surviving

31    Reed and plaster wall at 11 Chapel Street

32    Reconstruction of the building of St George’s Quay in 1751

33    Plan of lots for leasing in Dalton Square

34    Detail from Clark’s map of 1807

35    The Albert Terrace, East Road, seen from St Peter’s spire, .1890

36    St George’s Quay terrace

37    Plan of area around Town Hall .1910

38    Moorlands estate, seen .1900 from the spire of St Peter’s

39    Council Houses, Denny Avenue, Ryelands, .1932-3

40    Scale Hall developments, 1930s

41    Pre-fabs at Ashton Road

42    1960s high-rise at Skerton

43    Speed’s map of 1610

44    Map of 1684

45    Detail of Market Place from 1684 map

46    Map of 1778 by Stephen Mackreth

47    Binns’ map of 1821

48    Cartouche to Harrison & Hall’s map of 1877

49    Detail of Freehold Estate from Harrison & Hall 1877

50    Detail of the Military Barracks from Harrison & Hall 1877

51    John Lawson’s farthing token

52    Portrait of William Stout

53    Clay tobacco pipe with John Holland’s mark

54    Robert Gillow in the Freemen’s Rolls

55    Portrait of Dodshon Foster by William Tate

56    Handbill for Richard Dilworth, tallow-chandler

57    Centre of Moor Hospital

58    Handbill for Jane Noon

59    Watercolour of ‘Lancaster from the East’

60    Houses at Golgotha

61    A Victorian washerwoman, from magazine

62    Thornfield, Ashton Road

63    The 1993 boundary walk

64    Theatre bill, 1772

65    The Circus comes to town in the 1890s

66    Pencil sketch of Mr Green’s balloon attempt, 1832

67    Racecourse on the Marsh, from Yates’ map of Lancashire, 1786

68    Handbill for a ‘long main’ of cocks

69    Detail of Mackreth’s map showing the bowling green at the

70    Portrait of S. Dawson, cycling pioneer

71    Williamson Park Cycling Club, .1895

72    Scene from the Pageant, 1913

73    Roman roads in Lunesdale

74    Reconstruction of Cockersand Abbey by David Vale

75    Road map by Ogilby, 1698

76    Detail of coal cart and horses from a Wray estate map of 1773

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78    Oversands travellers

79    Fowler Hill toll bar

80    Handbill for coaches running from the

81    The old

82    Drawing of the locomotive

83    Local cartoon of .1842

84    Reconstruction of Penny Street station by David Vale

85    Battery bus in Market Square during the First World War

86    Single-deck Lancaster Corporation buses at Scotforth Square

87    The M6 motorway under construction, .1959

88    Charter of 1193 and wrapper

89    Detail of Church Street from 1684 map

90    Fred Kirk Shaw’s pageant painting of Bonnie Prince Charlie

91    Reconstruction of a seventh-century chieftain’s house and church

92    Hubert Austin’s plan of discoveries in the Priory church, 1911

93    Reconstruction of the Priory in the twelfth century

94    Reconstruction of the Priory church in the late fifteenth century

95    Plan of the Priory church in 1819

96    Engraving of the Priory church looking east as it was in the 1840s

97    The medieval choirstalls

98    Engraving of the Priory church looking east in about 1864

99    Engraving of the Priory church after 1864

100  ‘Empty Stalls or The Mare and the Manger’ by Emily Sharpe

101  St Joseph’s Catholic church, Skerton

102  Reconstruction of Castle in Norman times by David Vale

103  Plan of Castle prior to 1788, with the names of towers. P. Lee

104  Interior of the Well Tower, showing a window seat

105  The great Gatehouse of the Castle

106  Vertue’s engraving after the 1562 drawing of Lancaster Castle

107  Watercolour by Thomas Hearne showing the rear of the Castle

108  Watercolour by Robert Freebairn showing the Shire Hall

109  Drawing by J.S. Slinger showing the lock-ups in the old Town Hall

110  The High Sheriff and javelin men ready to meet the Judge at the Castle

111  Title page of Potts’ ‘Wonderfull Discoverie’

112  Engraving of life in the debtors’ prison by Edward Slack, .1836

113  ‘The Castle and Arrival of Prisoners’

114  Hanging Corner

115  Portrait of Rev. J. Rowley in 1856, aged...