Publications

Various Videos and Reminiscences

http://www.manchester-forum.co.uk/index.php/topic,8213.0.html

GMP Neighbourhood Policing Newsletter

npt-newletter-1609

Proposal – A Language Monument in Platt Fields Park

Original Monument in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Language Monument 1

Monument in London

Language Monument 2

Language Monument 3

Language Monument 4

Monument in Oldham:

Language Monument 5

Draft Appraisal – Victoria Park Conservation Area

Volume 1 – Sections 1 – 15: Draft – vol I Victoria Park Conservation Area Appraisal 2015pmreva
Volume 2 – Sections 16 – 20: Draft – vol II Victoria Park Conservation Area Appraisal 2015pmreva

Imagine Rusholme!

Imagine Rusholme! Summit 1 Storybook: Imagine Rusholme! Summit 1 Story Book G
Imagine Rusholme! Summit 2 Storybook: Imagine Rusholme! Summit 2 Story Book G
Imagine Rusholme! Newsletter: Imagine Rusholme! Newsletter – August 2013

Local Newsletters

Please Recycle Right: Please Recycle Right 151005
Denison, Schuster and Hadfield News: DSH Newsletter 1510
Conyngham News: C Newsletter 1510

Local History Books and Leaflets (in order of date published)

Sep 1833, A Discourse against Drunkenness, Charles Beswick, Sep 1833, eBook available for download as a .pdf on the Rusholme & Victoria Park Archive
1845, Report of the Proceedings at the Laying of the First Stone of St James’s Church, Birch, eBook available for download as a .pdf on the Rusholme & Victoria Park Archive
1846, Centenary Souvenir, Holy Trinity Church, Platt Lane, T Darlington, eBook available for download as a .pdf on the Rusholme & Victoria Park Archive
1852, An Unpaid Servant of the State (the story of Thomas Wright, the prison reformer), possibly written by Elizabeth Gaskell, eBook available for download as a .pdf on the Rusholme & Victoria Park Archive. Also, 1880 references to Thomas Wright in Duty, with illustrations of Courage, Patience & Endurance, Samuel Smiles, eBook available for download as a .pdf on the Rusholme & Victoria Park Archive
Oct 1863, The Bells of Birch, J Huxstep and A L Mosley, eBook available for download as a .pdf on the Rusholme & Victoria Park Archive
1888, Fallowfield, ‘Sketches of Fallowfield and the surrounding Manors, Past & Present’, Mrs W C Williamson, eBook available for download as a .pdf on the Rusholme & Victoria Park Archive
1892, Memorials of Mr Thomas Lowe of Rusholme, Rev Edward Strutt, eBook available for download as a .pdf on the Rusholme & Victoria Park Archive
Mar 1905, Rusholme Past and Present, Being a Gossipy Talk of Men and Things, William Royle, eBook available for download as a .pdf on the Rusholme & Victoria Park Archive
1910, The History of Birch-in-Rusholme, John Shaw Buckley, eBook available for download as a .pdf on the Rusholme & Victoria Park Archive
Jul 1937, Victoria Park, Manchester, A Short Account, Earnest Bosdin-Leech, and published by the Victoria Park Trust in commemoration of centenary of the opening of the park on July 31st 1837, eBook available for download as a .pdf on the Rusholme & Victoria Park Archive
1949/50, Rusholme & District Amateur Football League Official Handbook, Eighteenth Season, L E Walker Esq., eBook available for download as a .pdf on the Rusholme & Victoria Park Archive
Dec 1976, Victoria Park, Manchester: A Nineteenth-century Suburb in Its Social and Administrative Context (Chetham Society), Maurice Spiers, Manchester University Press – no longer available. Some second hand copies available on, eg, Amazon
Feb 1985, Looking Back at Rusholme and Fallowfield, Peter Helm and Gay Sussex, Willow Publishing, Timperley – no longer available. Some second hand copies available on, eg Amazon
Nov 2006, Rusholme and Victoria Park, Jill Cronin: http://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/index.php/general-history-books/victorians/rusholme-and-victoria-park.html
2009, Victoria Park, Manchester, A Short Account, being a reprint of a work of Earnest Bosdin-Leech issued in 1937 with additional material by Fr. Ian Gomersall, available to purchase for £2 from St Chrysostom’s Church, 4A Anson Road, Victoria Park, Manchester M14 5BG, 0161 225 2550. Also available from the same source: Victoria Park: a brief historical guide; by Victoria Park Local History Group at St Chrysostom’s Church.