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A Victorian Railway Journey from Plymouth to Padstow
In the late 19th century, Cornwall was a popular tourist destination. The Great Western Railway brought visitors to places in Devon and Cornwall that had previously been remote and difficult to access and the growing prosperity of the middle classes meant that people had more leisure time and disposable income to devote to travel and holidays. Detailed guide books were available to help visitors make the most of their stay, often with sections on history, geology, climate, folklore, hotels and places of interest, in fact, just about everything they could want or need to know. This 38 page booklet combines text from 'Black's Guide to Cornwall', published in 1898, with photographs owned by the...
The Way We Were: Rotherham and the Surrounding Area
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Rotherham was overshadowed by its larger neighbour, Sheffield, in terms of industrial output and its ability to attract visitors. Indeed, in the Victorian travel guide that provides the text for this booklet, Rotherham is only given three pages compared to Sheffield's twelve, and even then the author was rather disparaging. However, the photographs of the town and surrounding area (including Mexborough, Swinton and Whiston) give a much more positive view and show a modern, bustling town and delightful, rural villages. This 38 page booklet spans one hundred years. The map shows the road and railway network serving Rotherham in the 1840s. The visitors' guide to Rotherham and the history and general description of Yorkshire are reproduced from a tourist guide book called 'Black's Guide to Yorkshire', published in 1888. The forty photographs, owned by the Keasbury-Gordon Photograph Archive, were mostly taken between 1900 and 1940.The text and the photographs complement each other and enable us to travel back in time to visit this often-overlooked part of Yorkshire. I hope you enjoy the journey.Andrew Gill
The Law Reports
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The Law Reports
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Victorian Rossendale Walks
Lancashire's Rossendale Valley comprises several Victorian mill towns, the largest of which is Rawtenstall. In 1888, Marshall Mather, a Methodist Minister; acclaimed author; historian; philosopher and would-be environmentalist, published a book of walks called 'Rambles Round Rossendale'. He commented on life in the cotton mills; streams and rivers blackened by industrial waste; the local inhabitants, good and bad, and the legends and history of the area. Since it was published, housing developments have climbed the valleys' lower slopes but we can still walk on wild moorland, wander through mossy cloughs and admire distant views that Marshall would have known. Did he leave sufficient clues f...
Do Community Colleges Respond to Local Needs?
Describes community colleges as institutions with several missions: supplying courses to students interested in transferring to a university college, providing occupational training adapted to local labour market needs as well as adult basic education and workforce development. Using the 1996 cohort of first-time freshmen, discusses results of educational research into the questions to which extent the colleges meet the education and training needs of immigrants and whether the attainment responds to changing skill demands of the local economy.
