The Illustrated Official Guide And Tourist S Hand Book To The North Eastern Railway And Its Branches

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 edition. Excerpt: ...Hudson, Esq., tha "railway king," who at the time was Lord Mayor of York. Holy Trinity Church is on the road from Darlington to Staindrop, and was erected in 1837. The Catholic Church in Paradise Lane was built in the Gothic style, from designs by Ignatius Bonomi, in 1827, and is presided over by the Bight Bev. W. Hogarth, D.D., titular bishop of Hexham. There are also chapels for Baptists, Friends, Congregationalists, and three bodies of Methodists. In its educational institutions Darlington is highly favoured. It contains a Grammar School founded by Queen Elizabeth, two National Schools, three British Schools, a Catholic School, and a Female School of Industry. Besides the Grammar School, Darlington contains about twenty public charities, including a Bluecoat School, au Apprentices' Fund and numerous Alms Houses Among the other principal manufacturing and commercial establishments at Darlington are those of Messrs. Henry Pease and Co., who, besides two extensive wool warehouses, have three mills. The first, the Low Mill, is near the old church. Here the first operations are performed on the wool--washing, carding, and combing. The second or Priestg-ate Mill stands in the locality whose name it bears. Here the wool undergoes a variety of processes until it is ready for sale as yarn, or Tor the third or Northgate Mill, where the weaving processes are carried on. The principal goods manufactured by Messrs. Pease and Co. are Coburg's, for the production of which they are celebrated. The firm was established above 120 years ago, and gives employment to 800 men, women, and children. The Stockton and Darlington Eailway Company's Carriage and Waggon Works provide employment for a large number of persons, and the premises are about to...

Excerpt from The Illustrated Official Guide and Tourist's Hand Book to the North Eastern Railway and Its Branches: From Knottingley, Leeds, and Hull, on the South, to Berwick and Kelso on the North, With Notices of the Various Objects of Interest on Either Side of the Lines and in the Towns En-Route About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.