BrH1816-A

Bromley House Library 1816 to 1916

Sources

Printed material
Internet material
Archive material in Bromley House

Sources - Printed material
Author(s)	Date	Title	Publication information
Douglas A. Bateman		A meridian line in a subscription library, Nottingham.	British Sundial Society Bulletin. 11(ii) 55-61.
Ken Brand	2003	Thomas Chambers Hine - architect of Victorian Nottingham.	Nottingham Civic Society. [ISBN: 1 9024 4308 X]
Cornelius Browne	1882	Lives of the Nottinghamshire worthies and of celebrated and remarkable men of the county from the Norman conquest to A.D. 1882.	London: H. Sotheran & Co.
J. Potter Briscoe	1901	Nottinghamshire at the opening ot the twentieth century – contemporary biographies – with a glance at the past.	W.T. Pike, Brighton.
Burke	1999	Peerage and Baronetage	ed. Charles Mosley. 106th edition. 2 vols. Burke’s Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, Crans, Switzerland. [ISBN: 2 9400 8502 1]
Rosalys T. Coope & Jane Y. Corbett (editors)	1991	Bromley House 1752-1991: four essays celebrating the 175th anniversary of the foundation of the Nottingham Subscription Library.	Nottingham Subscription Library [ISBN: 0 9517 4990 0 and 0 9517 4991 9]
Madeline Cox	2005	Robert Goodacre: popular astronomy lecturer.	Nottinghamshire Historian, 74, (Spring), 11-13.
Geoffrey Forster, Alice Hamilton, Peter Hoare & Elaine Robinson	2001	A Very Good Public Library - Early Years of the Leeds Library.	Allenholme Press for the History of the Book Trade in the North. [ISBN: 1 8733 8309 6]
Geoffrey Forster	2001	Introduction.	In: Forster, G. et al (2001)
Terry Fry	1991	A portrait of Ichabod Wright from his diaries.	Nottinghamshire Historian, 46 (Spring), 23-29.
Terry Fry	2003	Henrietta Carey - an artistic social worker.	Nottinghamshire Historian, 70 (Spring), 8-10.
Josiah Gilbert ed.	1874	Autobiography and other memorials of Mrs Gilbert (formerly Anne Taylor)	2 vols. Henry S. King, London.
Henry C. Hall	1953	Artists and sculptors of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. 1750 - 1950.
Alice Hamilton	2001	The Leeds Foreign Circulating Library c.1779-1814.	In: Forster, G. et al (2001)
Pauline F. Heathcote	1991	The photographic studio.	In: Coope & Corbett (1991)
Bernard Heathcote	2005	Viewing the Lifeless Body: a Coroner and his Inquests held in Nottinghamshire Public Houses during the Nineteenth century 1828-1866.	Nottinghamshire County Council [ISBN: 0 9027 5151 4]
Adrian Henstock (editor)	1980	The Diary of Abigail Gawthern of Nottingham 1751-1810.	Thoroton Society Record Series XXXIII (1978 & 1979) ISBN: 0 902 71906 8.
Peter Hoare	1991	Nottingham Subscription Library: its organisation, its collections and its management over 175 years	In: Coope & Corbett (1991)
Neville Hoskins	1991	The best built house in town	In: Coope & Corbett (1991)
Neville Hoskins	2005	George Fowler of Basford Hall.	Nottinghamshire Historian, 75, (Spring), 11.
Mary Howitt	1889	Mary Howitt - an autobiography. edited by her daughter Margaret Howitt.	2 vols. William Isbister Ltd., Covent Garden.
Richard Iliffe & Wilfred Baguley	1976		Victorian Nottingham. Vol. 16.
Frank H. Jacob	1951	A history of the General Hospital near Nottingham open to the sick and lame poor of any county	John Wright & Son, Bristol; Simpkin Marshall Ltd, London
Dorothy Johnston	1992	A history of the Dukes of Newcastle - forebears and distinguished family members in The Newcastles of Clumber. A pictorial and documentary history of an important Nottinghamshire family.	University of Nottingham.
J.A.S.L. Leighton-Boyce	1958	Smiths the Bankers 1658-1958.	National Provincial Bank.
Stephan Mastoris	1991	‘Grumbly House’: aspects of the administrative and social history of the Library	In: Coope & Corbett (1991)
Stephan Mastoris & Peter Hoare (editors)	1990	The Monuments of Saint Peter’s Church Nottingham.	St Peter’s History Group and St Peter’s Parochial Church Council.
Robert Mellors	1914; reprinted 1998	Old Nottingham Suburbs: Then and Now.	1998 reprinting City of Nottingham Leisure and Community Services, Libraries and Information Services Division.
Robert Mellors	1924; reprinted 1969	Men of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire.	S.R. Publishers Ltd., Wakefield.
Geoffrey Oldfield	1980	The Carringtons and the Smiths.	Nottinghamshire Historian, 24, (Spring) 10-12.
Geoffrey Oldfield	1981	Count Ubaldo Marioni and Nottingham.	Nottinghamshire Historian, 26, (Spring), 11-15.
Nikolaus Pevsner & Elizabeth Williamson	1979	The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire.	2nd edn. Penguin Books. [ISBN 0 1407 1002 7]
W.P.W. Phillimore	1910	County Pedigrees: Nottinghamshire. Vol. 1.	Phillimore & Co., London.
Daniel Pool	1997	Dickens’ fur coat and Charlotte’s unanswered letters.	Harper Collins [ISBN: 0 0601 8365 9]
Pamela Priestland	1989	Radcliffe-on-Trent 1837 to 1920. A study of a village during an era of change.	Ashbracken [ISBN: 1 8723 5600 1]
Pamela Priestland	2000	A thousand years of Shelford and Newton.	Shelford and Newton Parish Council
Elaine Robinson	2001	The Leeds Library in 1817.	In: Forster, G. et al (2001)
John Russell	1916	A History of the Nottingham Subscription Library more generally known as Bromley House Library.	Derry & Sons Ltd., Nottingham.
Joan E. Taylor	1988)	Bromley House and the Nottingham Subscription Library	An unpublished draft version) [Bromley House: Cc 02765: case 2: box 14]
J.W. Willis-Bond & William Page	1906; reprinted 1971	The Victoria County History of the Counties of England: Worcestershire.	University of London Institute of Historical Research.

Sources: Internet material
Trade directories were accessed through the excellent Historical Directories site operated by the University of Leicester. Its address is www.historicaldirectories.org
Kelly, 1891	Kelly’s Directory of Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Rutland and Nottinghamshire ... Part 3: Nottinghamshire.	Kelly & Co., 51 Great Queen Street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London W.C. (1891)
Kelly, 1904	Kelly’s Directory of Nottinghamshire.	Kelly’s Directories, 182, 183 & 184 High Holborn London, WC. (1904)
Lascelles, 1848	Lascelles & Hagar’s Commercial Directory of the town and county of the Town of Nottingham ...	Nottingham. (1848)
Morris London, 1884	Morris’s Business Directory of London	(1884)
Orange, 1840	The Nottingham Annual Register containing an Almanack .... a new and corrected Directory...	James Orange. Hamilton, Adams &, Co., London; J. Howitt, Nottingham. (1840).
Pigot, 1835	Pigot & Co’s National Commercial Directory .... in the counties of Derbys, Herefordshire, Leicester, Lincoln, Monmouth, Nottingham, ...	J. Pigot & Co., Fleet Street, London. (1835)
Pigot, 1841	Pigot & Co’s Royal National and Commercial Directory and Topography of the counties of York, Leicester & Rutland, Lincoln, Northampton and Nottingham ...	J. Pigot & Co., Fleet Street, London. (1841)
Post Office, 1841	Post Office London Directory [Part 1: Street, Commercial, & Trades Directories).	(1841)
Post Office, 1876	Post Office Directory of Nottinghamshire.	(1876)
Slater, 1847	Slater’s Classified Directories of the following important English towns Birmingham Bristol, Derby, Leicester, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, Sheffield, and West Bromwich....	Isaac Slater, late Pigot & Co., Fountain Street, Manchester and Fleet Street, London (1847)
Sutton, 1815	The Nottingham Directory ....	Sutton & Son. Printed at the Review Office, Nottingham (1815)
White, 1832	History, Gazetteer and Directory of Nottinghamshire and the Town and County of the Town of Nottingham....	William White. Sheffield. (1832)
White, 1885	History, Gazetteer & Directory of Nottinghamshire ...	William White, Hoole’s Chambers, Bank Street, Sheffield. (1885)
Wright, 1858	Wright’s Nottingham Directory.	C.N. Wright, Jun., Maypole Yard, Nottingham. (1858)
Wright, 1862	Wright’s Nottingham and Suburban Directory.	C.N. Wright, Jun., Maypole Yard, Nottingham. (1862)
Wright, 1894-95	Directory of Nottingham and Twelve miles round including ....	C.N. Wright. Published by J. Bell, Carlton Street, Nottingham. 19th edition. (1898-99)
Wright, 1910-11	Wright’s Directory of the City of Nottingham ... 24th edition.	Published by Kelly’s Directories, 182, 183 & 184 High Holborn London, WC. (1910-11)
Wright, 1913-14	Wright’s Directory of Nottingham and Neighbourhood. 25th edition.	Published by Kelly’s Directories, 182, 183 & 184 High Holborn London, WC. (1913-14)
Wright, 1915-16	Wright’s Directory of Nottingham and Neighbourhood. 26th edition.	Published by Kelly’s Directories, 182, 183 & 184 High Holborn London, WC. (1915-16)
Use was also made of:
The Peerage Page.	Complied by Darryl Lundy of 128 Heke Street, Wellington, New Zealand.	www. thepeerage.com
Lord Mayors of Nottingham are at	Listed on the Nottingham learning Portal of the Nottingham City Council.	213.249.155.112/nottm_council_house/default.htm
Members of Parliament	Listed on Lynn Rayment’s Peerage page.	www.angeltowns.com/town/peerage/

Archive material in Bromley House included:
Minute Book - I (1816-22) Minute Book - II (1816-31) Minute Book - III (1831-57) Minute Book -V (1857-75) Minute Book - VI (1875-95) Minute Book - VII (1895-1912) Minute Book - VIII (1912-30) Annual Meetings (1854-1940) Register of Members (1900-66) List of subscribers 1816 Newsroom Subscriptions (1832-34) Interest on Shares (1831-64) Register of Presents Standfast Ledger	Receipts (1911-44) Rent Book (1911- ) Rent Book (1900-09) Suggestions found in Cleaners’ Cupboard Subscriptions Book (1832-42) Subscriptions Book (1843-51) Share Certificate Counterfoils (1900- ) Account Books 1869-85 1886-94 1895 1896-1905 1905-14 1914-25)

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13 January 2009

Neal Priestland