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The Manchester and Glasgow Road, Volume 2 (of 2) / This Way to Gretna Green

Chapter 4: LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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A linear travelogue traces the old highway between Manchester and Glasgow, combining route-by-route description with historical notes, antiquarian lore, and practical mileage. It records urban and rural landscapes, coaching inns, bridges, churches, castles, and industrial features, and recalls mail-coach and stagecoach traditions alongside local anecdotes and place-name stories. Plates, maps, and sketches illustrate landmarks while brief essays on architecture, road-building, and social customs contextualize the passage. The result blends vivid scene-setting and topographical detail with historical research to portray the road's character and evolving role in regional life.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

SEPARATE PLATES

Waiting to Change (After J. F. Herring)

Frontispiece
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The Building of Mancunium (From the fresco by Ford Madox Brown)

7

Manchester Cathedral, from Deansgate

17

Manchester Town Hall

61

Hall-i’-th’-Wood

79

Preston: Town Hall, Harris Public Library, and Sessions House

99

Lancaster

109

Lancaster Sands (After J. M. W. Turner, R.A.)

127

Eamont Bridge

177

Carlisle

207

Solway Moss (After J. M. W. Turner, R.A.)

215

A False Alarm on the Road: ’Tis only the Mail!” (After C. B. Newhouse)

223

One Mile from Gretna: The Governor in Sight, with a Screw Loose” (After C. B. Newhouse)

231

The Dumfries Coach (After C. B. Newhouse)

255

The Glasgow Mail (After James Pollard)

275
ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT

The Hall, Chetham’s School

13

Miserere Seat, Manchester Cathedral: The Pedlar and the Monkeys

19

The “Bull’s Head,” Salford

25

The “Sun” Inn, Poet’s Corner

65

The “Old Man and Scythe”

71

Town Hall, Bolton

74

Firwood: Birthplace of Crompton

76

Rivington Pike

85

Rivington Pike from the Road

87

Darwen Bridge and Walton-le-Dale

89

“Teetotal”

102

Garstang

105

“A fair mark, my Lord”

113

Javelin-Man

114

Lancaster Castle

115

Map of the “Over-Sands” Route

121

Carnforth

133

The Buckstone

135

The Market Cross and Pillory, Burton-in-Kendal

136

The “Duke of Cumberland” Inn, and Farleton Knott

137

Kendal Castle, and the Road into Kendal

138

Castle Dairy

145

Boroughbridge, Shap Fell

153

Sign of the “Greyhound,” Shap

155

Shap Abbey

156

Clifton

161

Sepulchral Slab of Udard de Broham

166

Brougham Castle

168

Countess Pillar

169

Yanwath Hall

170

Askham Hall

172

King Arthur’s Drinking Cup

174

The Giant’s Grave

184

Old Doorway, Penrith

186

Thiefside

188

East End, Carlisle Cathedral

195

St. Alban’s Row

203

Map of Old and New Roads from Carlisle to Gretna Green

211

Arthuret Church

213

The Road past Solway Moss

217

Filial Affection (After Rowlandson)

221

Sark Bar

227

The Deaf Post-Boy (After Cruikshank)

233

Gretna Hall in the Old Days

241

The Old Smithy, Gretna Green

247

Gretna Green

251

Ecclefechan: Showing Birthplace of Thomas Carlyle

265

Old Tablet at Ecclefechan

267

Broken Bridge

285

“Brig o’ Clyde”

289

Hamilton Palace

292

Bothwell Bridge

295

Trongate

305

The Arms of Glasgow

309

Glasgow Cathedral and the Necropolis

311

The Oldest House in Glasgow

317

“Dixon’s Blazes”

321