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Bibliography of Tyldesley
J. Aikin ( London 1795) A Description of the Country from Thirty to Forty miles around Manchester pp. 299-300 ( Interesting 18th century description)
L. Banks (Manchester 1878) Caleb Booth's Clerk (a novel by the author of the 'Manchester Man ' based in and around Tyldesley )
John Buckley (Bolton 1878) A Chronological History of Tyldesley (Factual and earliest history by a son of Tyldesley. Very difficult to get hold of today.)
John Peter Hess (Whitchurch 1989) George Ormerod : Historian of Cheshire ( esp. pp 69-74 which tells of the 'founder' of modern Tyldesley, Thomas Johnson)
J. Jones Jimmy Jones (a collection of dialect poems from this noted dialect poet and former Secretary of Tyldesley and District Historical Society)
J. Jones Jimmy Jones Again
John Lunn (Manchester 1968) A Short History of the Township of Astley
John Lunn (Manchester 1953) A Short History of the Township of Tyldesley
Stan Smith ( Tyldesley 1998) The Welsh Community in Tyldesley 1870-1900
D.J.Sweeney (1996) A Lancashire Triangle: A History of the London and North Western Railways in and Around the South Lancashire Coalfields: Part 1 (An excellent study which includes super photographs of the long gone Tyldesley branch line and Tyldesley Station)
John and Sylvia Tonge (1989) Pictorial Astley Vol 1 & 2 (Very good collections of local photographs which include many of Tyldesley as well as Astley)