Useful sources
Researching the history of Arnold using the local studies collection in Arnold library
If you have a query about Arnold's history, here are the main places to look regarding the holdings of Arnold public library:
- Look on the library catalogue for catalogued items
- Try the locked cabinets for uncatalogued items (use the index to the Local Studies classification system to help)
- Investigate the newspaper cuttings
- Try the ephemera boxes
- Look in the map cabinet
- Use the photo index to help sort through the photos
- There's also an online site for local photographs: Picture the Past
- Check the index to the Thoroton Society Transactions
The main published books about Arnold are:
- Russell and King's "A History of Arnold" (1913)
- Christopher Weir's "From village to town: Arnold 1800-1900 (1986)
- Spick's "The book of Arnold" (1990)
- Negus' "Arnold...in old picture postcards" (two volumes, 1991 and 1993)
- Spick's "Arnold and Bestwood in old photographs" (two volumes, 1991 and 1994)
- Spick's "Arnold" (2000)
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