ISBN: 0300 105835
A comprehensive guide to the buildings of South-East Lancashire. The heart is the great industrial city of Manchester, with its proud municpal buildings and pioneering
mills and industrial structures, offset by some of Britain's most innovative new architecture. Full accounts are given of the suburbs in all their variety, and of the separate
City of Salford to the west. North and East of this metropolis are the industrial towns of Bolton, Bury, Rochdale and Oldham, each with its own tradition of civic buildings
and crop of talented local architects. Around and between are the high moorland hills and steep Pennine valleys, with constantly surprising juxtapositions of rural,
vernacular and industrial buildings. Also distinctive are the little-known late medieval churches and timber-framed country houses, their settings now often green again after
the retreat of heavy industry.
