Yorkshire CD books
Old and rare Yorkshire books as pdf file downloads
The Story of Old Halifax
by T.W. Hanson
andThe History of the Halifax Industrial Society
by M. Blatchford
andOlde Elland
by Lucy Hamerton & J.W. Clay
andThe Story of Illingworth Church
by G.R. Oakley
download version
produced by Yorkshire CD books ©
We have now cleared all of our CDroms and so we now do downloads only.
Note that downloads are set up manually and therefore will not be instant.
Payment can be made either by a PayPal account, or with a Credit Card via PayPal
in your own currency, or by Sterling Cheque drawn on a UK bank.
Please see the ordering and payment information page
for details on methods of payment.
For
sample pages, please see the links to the Acrobat (pdf) files given below.
The data in this downloadable pdf is computer searchable.
Navigation of the books on the CD rom is enhanced by the
use of "Active Links" in the contents pages.
"The Story of Old Halifax"(over 300 pages) was written for older school boys and girls "with the hope that older people will find it of interest" and describes the parish, its location, woods, farms etc. It then goes into detail on the church, houses, halls, the gibbet law, feuds etc. A very well written book and informative book.
"Halifax Industrial Society" (over 200 pages) . Despite its "boring" title, it contains lots of people's names and photographs of people and stores. It gives an insight into how things were done over 100 years ago.
"Old Elland" (over 200 pages) describes exactly that, but also includes a description of the author's home and school etc. It includes information on the church, the clergy and some of the Elland families.
"Illingworth Church" covers the church from its foundation and has one chapter per incumbent with more detail for the later ones. There are also lists of Churchwardens, Lay workers, councillors etc. etc.
In order to give you an idea of the information in the books the following items are available here on line:
The Story of Old Halifax:
History of the Halifax Industrial Society:
Olde Elland:
The Story of St. Mary's Illingworth:
The above Acrobat files were extracted from the main pdf file and shows the quality of the images. You will need at least version 5 of Acrobat to open this file. If you do not have an up to date version please go to the Adobe web-site to obtain a free version of Acrobat Reader.
If you would prefer the real book(s), please contact The Idle Booksellers through their website.
Page last updated at 14.25 on Monday, 25 March 2024, ©2010
(This page will not be updated again unless the information on it is found to be incorrect).
For the latest update date for the site, please see our Home Page.
