Yorkshire CD books

Old and rare Yorkshire books on CDrom or as pdf file downloads

"History of Bradford"
by John James
and
"Old Bingley"
by Harry Speight

CD ROM and download version
produced by Yorkshire CD books ©

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For sample pages, please see the links to the Acrobat (pdf) files given below.

The data on this CD rom/ downloadable pdf is computer searchable.

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The books on this CDrom will be of interest to anyone researching their ancestors in the Bradford and Bingley areas.

Navigation of this book on the CD rom is enhanced by the use of "Active Links" on the index and contents pages, and the whole of both of the books are machine searchable.

"Continuations to the History of Bradford" is a somewhat mis-leading title to the book and would have been more aptly titled "An updated History of Bradford", as it seems to cover all the information in the previous "History of Bradford" from some 25 years previous, but additionally has information not included in the previous book, and of course the information from the 25 years between the publications. There is neither contents nor index to this book, and so in order to assist those who would like to know a bit more about the contents of the book, the folowing are available here on-line:

• "Bookmarks" from the CD (below).
• An Acrobat pdf file containing the Title page and the Preface

Old Bingley, by the well known Yorkshire historian, Harry Speight is a History of the parish of Bingley and some of the surrounding places, starting at "Primeval Bingley", through the Ice Age, Manorial history etc., up to the 1890s when the book was published. There are numerous illustrations, both line drawings and photographs.

In order to give you a better idea of the information in the book the following items are available on line:

• A transcription of the Index
• An Acrobat pdf file containing the Title page, Preface and list of Contents

The above Acrobat files were extracted from the CDrom and show 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.

The History of Bradford, "Bookmarks" from the Acrobat file on the CDrom:

• Preface
• Introduction
• Ante-Norman period
• Bradford under the Lacies
• Bradford under the Plantagenets
• Bradford under the Crown
• Bradford during the Civil war
• Bradford in modern times
• The Parish Church
• The Dissenters
  • Presbyterians
  • Independents
  • Baptists
  • Wesleyan Methodists
  • Quakers
  • Roman Catholics
• Literary & Scientific Institutions
  • Bradford Library
  • Grammar Schools
  • Church Literary Institute
  • Mechanics Institutes
• Charities & Charitable Institutions
  • Infirmary
  • Eye & ear Infirmary
  • Provident Societies
  • Tradesmens Benevolent Instn.
  • Female Eductional Institute
  • Ragged schools
  • Workhouse
• Woollen & Worsted manufacture
• Topographical survey
  • Eccleshill
  • Manningham
  • Shipley
  • Heaton
  • Allerton cum Wilsden
  • Haworth
  • Thornton
  • Clayton
  • Horton
  • North Bierley
  • Bowling
• Biographical notices
  • Colonel Wm. Sykes FRS MP
  • Samuel Hailstone
  • The Brontes
  • Thomas Rawson Taylor
  • Joshua Walker MD
  • Thomas Sharp
• Statistics
• Pedigrees
  • Sharp of Little Horton
  • Horton of Chadderton
  • Stansfield
  • Rookes of Royds Hall
  • Smyth of Miryshaw
  • Sykes of Driglington
  • Lister of Manningham
  • Wickham of Low Moor House
  • Hailstone of Horton Hall
  • Dixon of Heaton Royds
  • Field of Heaton
  • Rawson of Bradford
  • Richardson of Bierley
• Appendix
• People 90years and over
• List of Bradford Plants
• Section of Low Moor seams