Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East, Clare Hartwell, Matthew Hyde, Nikolaus Pevsner

Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East, Clare Hartwell, Matthew Hyde, Nikolaus PevsnerNew Hardback This complete guide to the buildings of South East Lancashire features the proud municipal buildings and pioneering mills and transport structures at the heart of the great industrial city of Manchester. The book also offers full accounts of the suburbs, the city of Salford, and the industrial towns of Bolton, Bury, Rochdale, and Oldham, each with its own tradition of civic buildings and its own crop of talented local architects. A

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