Hello all, Yes, I was thrilled at the prospect of reading this and then started getting a headache after half a page. Fortunately, there's a better way. Google has this book online. If you go to the webpage below, you'll see it. (the tinyurl is the same link as the big one, but shorter) At first, it's about the same as the other version. But, you can do one of two things to improve the situation. Either click on "View plain text" in the upper right. (This makes things a lot more legible, but the conversion seems to scramble a lot of words in the process) or Download (19.5M). The downloaded version is great. It's a pdf so you can blow it up a little to get the type to a more eye friendly size and it's not nearly as blurry as the other online versions. Enjoy. http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=41cJAAAAIAAJ&dq=annals+of+manchester&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=ayU1Q0cOdB&sig=aagmBNNV0bObOYLihHrkk2YgO2I&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA209,M1 http://tinyurl.com/68w7ub Daryl ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sally Haden" <haden.sally@googlemail.com> To: <eng-manchester@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 12:23 AM Subject: [ENG-MAN] Annals of Manchester > Hi folks, > thanks so much to Ruth for the link to the Annals of Manchester. >> >> (http://www.archive.org/stream/annalsofmanchest00axon) >> >> This is the website. You can read the book on line because >> Microsoft has >> digitised it. >> > I have been reading some of it (though it is a bit hard on the eyes - > anyone know how to increase the size?The "Help" doesn't say) and > found some most interesting things. For anyone wanting daily detail, > it's a good online substitute for scouring the newspapers on fiche. > > For instance,there is an extract from Queen Victoria's diary when she > and Prince Albert visited Manchester in 1851 (Page 258) giving lots > of interesting detail. > > I found an account of a big flood in the city in July 1872 (starts > page 333), which makes one feel glad of modern flood defences and > public services. > > Which reminds me, what was the cause of the water damage on the 1851 > census? Was it a large flood, or a simple building flood? > > Sally > in Yorkshire > > > > > > ~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~ > > Except for personal messages, please post replies to the list. > Other people can learn from them! > > ~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~:~ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-MANCHESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message