Description and condition:

Blue boards hardback, dustcover, 8vo, pp ix 186, index, b/w illustrations.

Very good, slight mark to title page, else nice bright clean pages. In very good dustcover.

Contents:

Signed and dedicated by the author on the title page.

Introduction; New Birkdale: the landowners and local authority; Birkdale Park 1848-1874: the birth of a suburb; Birkdale Park 1874-1912: the garden suburb; New Birkdale: the other side of the track; a new town centre for Birkdale; the common: Old Brikdale lives on; Birkdale's battles of the beach; New Birkdale: some conclusions and comparisons.