Acknowledgements

by

James E. Walton

 

 

During the preparation of the original book, I had to enlist the help of many people, and in every case I was gratified and encouraged by the enthusiastic and helpful response I received to my enquiries. Without this invaluable assistance my task would have been much more difficult, if not impossible. Although there are too many people involved for me to mention them all by name, I would particularly like to thank the following, and apologise to all those whose names are not mentioned.

• Mr. Earnest Boddy, Mr. Allan Cassley, Mr. James Melville, O.B.E., Mr. Tom Quirk, all of whom helped in various ways.
• The late Mr. Ivan Whitehead, for allowing me ready access to newspapers, documents etc. in the castle.
• Mr. Owen Osmortherley, for photographic assistance.
• The late Miss June nelson, for the load of books.
• Nora Marshall, for many hours spent collecting information.
• Mrs. Margaret Copley and the late Bill Edwards for their reminiscences.
• Mrs. Jan Mathews and Mrs. Christine Martin for assistance with typing.
• Mrs. Sheana Bark for information about the Town Band.
• In particular I would like to thank Brett Harrison, late Archivist-in-Charge, Public Record Office, Barrow, for much valuable assistance, and offer my sincere apologies for the non-inclusion of his excellent written contribution on the Mills of the Ancient Parish of Dalton - a factor only determined by the need to abbreviate my original manuscript. For the same reason I must also tender my sincere thanks and apologies to Harry Kellett, Paul Gibson and Sam Thompson.
• Thanks are also due to Ron Smith, Alan Boultan and other members of the staff of the Reference Library, Barrow, for their kind assistance, and to Jonathan Wignall, whose extensive knowledge of local mining was of immense value.
• Finally, I would like to thank the Barrow-in Furness Borough Council for permission to include extracts from Barrow & District by F. Barnes, Mr Russell Rowlandson for allowing me to quote from William Fisher's diary, and Dr. William Rollinson, of the University of Liverpool, Institute of Extension Studies, for all his help and encouragement.

Acknowledgements for Illustrations  

• Any photograph marked with an asterisk * in the list of photographs and plates is reproduced from either 'Dalton-in-Furness In Old Picture Postcards', or 'Dalton-in-Furness Past & Present', both by James E. Walton. By kind permission of the publishers: The European Library, Zaltbommel, The Netherlands. (publisher@eurobib.nl).
  
  I would also like to thank the following with regard to photographs and illustrations:-

• Cumbria County Council Record Office.
• Barrow Reference Library.
• The late Ivan Whitehead.
• R. J. Hartley.
• Mrs. D. Corbett.
• Dalton Fire Brigade.
• R. J. Foxton.
• Mr. T. Quirk.
• The Ordinance Survey for permission to use one of their maps (Crown Copyright Reserved).
• The Revd. Trevor Park.
• Jonathan Wignall.
• Ernest Boddy.
• The Dalton Guardian.
• Cumbria County Council Record Office for the use of maps.

Acknowledgements for Web Translation

• Many thanks go to Sara Gabriel and Aileen Watson for the copy typing which they undertook.