Guide 7

Abel Heywood's Guide Books. Guide to Belle Vue, Manchester.

Manchester : Abey Heywood & Son, 56 & 58 Oldham-st.

London : F. Pitman, 20 Paternoster Row. 1895 Price one Penny.

Advt for Cadbury's Cocoa, either side cover.

Verso cover, News on Sunday ... (p.i-iv), (p.1), p.2-16 (17)

r.rear cover advts.

(p.ii-iv) Adverts, Great Western Railway, Tourist Tickets Distance charges given, Paddington to Chester, 5 hrs. 3 classes (p.ii)

(p.iii) : London, Brighton, & South Coast Railway.

Week-end tickets all year round. Seaside Season Cheap Excursions, Crystal Palace, Paris and the Continent Two Daily Express Services.

(p.1) : Belle Vue Gardens .. no place of public recreation in the North of England ... undergone more regular and interrupted improvement than Belle Vue Gardens ... grounds ... extended ... new lakes ... formed, building ... erected, large additions ... to collections ... in zoological and botany ... art of painter rivalled by that of pyrotechnist ... one of most attractive public resorts in the British Provinces ... in township of Newton and Gorton c.3 mls centre of Manchester ... ample communication by railway ... omnibuses and tramways,

p.2. List of pictures, 1852 to 1894, p3-p.5 descriptions of animals, p.5. detailed lists or catalogues of the cages can be purchased at the entrances to the gardens, or about the grounds, for one penny each. Large Lake: ... boats let at three pence each person per half hour ... near landing stage ... large revolving circle of hobb horses ... roundabout p.6 "Wild Wave" Out Houses and Ferneries, Bear Pits, inter-leaved advt for Buxton Hydropathic, Wm Hargraves, 44 Swan Street, Manchester (tobacconist), Heywood & Sons ... Penny Guide Books (with Map of 2,000 square miles two pence) Amateur Dramatics etc. Catalogue free for one penny stamp, Papers for Holiday Reading, Weekly Budget (Established January 5, 1861) (4 unnumbered pages) p.7: Monkey Houses ... designs by Mr. B. Firth, New Maze, 1d admission, p.8: descriptions of animals & aviary, p.9 : cont. Camel House, p.10: ... A range of new cages outside the Elephant House ... inhabited by the Kangaroo Family ... Music Hall, p.11 : cont/Museum of Natural History p.12: Refreshment Departments: still 2d charge for use, charge lists dropped ... (p.13), p.14-16: Fall of Port Arthur, between p.13 & p.14 advt for Wormals's Old Hen & Chickens, Oldham Street, Manchester. Refined Smoking Concerts Daily. Largest Concert Room in the City ... Two Billiard Tables. Free from Brewer & Spirit Merchant, also Eglinton's ... 7 & 9, Grosvenor Street, London Road, Manchester. Following p.16, advts, Midland Railway First and Third Class Tourist Tickets ... list of stations on M.R. Fares, Special Residential Tickets, Break of Journey, Extension of Tourist Tickets ... see Tourist Programme ... Cheap Week-end Excursion Tickets .... every Friday or Saturday during the season, available for return to Matlock, Buxton, Morecambe, Scarborough, Whitby, Filey, Bridlington .... similar tickets (commencing May 31st) ... Fridays & Saturdays to ..., Peak of Derbyshire Dore & Chinley New Line .... The Dore and Chinley Line recent extension of the Midland Railway into ... the Peak District ... Pic-Nic and Pleasure Parties Party Pleasure Tickets at a Single Fare and a Quarter for the double journey ..... parties of not less than six first class, or ten third class passengers, when travelling distances not less than 30 miles away ... Single fares for a double journey ......

Derby 1895

r.rear cover: London & North Western Railway. West Coast and Royal Mail Route ... from London, Euston Stations to all the chief towns in Scotland, the North of England, Ireland & Wales.

Including, Liverpool, Manchester ... Chester ... Leeds.

Express Train Service:

London (Euston) Chester on 4 hrs.

London (Euston) Liverpool 4½ hrs.

London (Euston) Manchester 4½ hrs.

Sleeping Saloons by ... night trains between London and Liverpool, London and Manchester ... extra charge 5s. for each Berth in addition to the ordinary first class fare.

Dining Saloons: between London and Manchester, London and Liverpool, Table d'Hote Dinners, 3/6 each.

Luncheon, Dinner & other Refreshments served en route, Luncheons 1st Class 2s 6d; 3rd class, 2/- Teas, Pot of Tea, Roll and Butter 6d, Dinner, Table d'Hote, 1st Class 3s 6d; 3rd Class 2s 6d.

Hotel Accomodation: ... Liverpool (North Western Hotel) ....... Preston (Park Hotel): Crewe (Crewe Arms) .....

Hot or Cold Luncheons in baskets ... provided at the principal stations, charge 3s., including Beer or Wine, and 2s 6d without.

Tourist Tickets .... issued during the Season (May 1st to October 31st) from the Company's principal stations to Scotland, The English Lake District ... Buxton, Scarboro's Harrogate, Southport, Blackpool, Morecambe, Isle of Man ......

Pic-nic Parties, Cheap return Tickets .... issued at all principal stations to parties of not less than six 1st Class or ten 2nd or 3rd class passengers, desirous of making ..... Excursions to Places of Interest on the London and North-Western Railway.

Excursions Trains: At very low fares, will be run at intervals during the summer season, to and from London, Liverpool, Manchester, Yorkshire, Chester ... Lancaster, Carlisle and the English Lake District, and other Stations on the London and North Western system, particulars of which to be announced about fourteen days prior to the running of the trains ....

London, Euston, 1895.

Cream covers, red & white & black print. Foxing.