Yorkshire CD books

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

The Story of Old Halifax
by T.W. Hanson
and
The History of the Halifax Industrial Society
by M. Blatchford
and
Olde Elland
by Lucy Hamerton & J.W. Clay
and
The Story of Illingworth Church
by G.R. Oakley

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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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:

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

History of the Halifax Industrial Society:

• A transciption of the List of Contents and List of Illustrations
• An Acrobat pdf file containing the Title page, and Preface and first 4 pages of the book.

Olde Elland:

• A transciption of the List of Contents and List of Illustrations
• An Acrobat pdf file containing the First 10 pages of the Introduction

The Story of St. Mary's Illingworth:

• A transcription of the index
• An Acrobat pdf file containing the Title page, and Preface and list of Illustrations.

The above Acrobat files were extracted from the CDrom 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.