Trains on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Targa Florio After being elected to parliament

After being elected to parliament in the 1802 election

The irony is that middle and upper-class concerns about the moral failings of the working class tended to focus much more strongly on the dire effects of alcohol than almost anything else during this period

The plight of Britain's growing army of needlewoman had long been a matter of public concern

Opening of the New Coal Exchange

Trains on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway Targa Florio After being elected to parliamentTrains on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, 1832 1833. A train of wagons (top) and a train of cattle, sheep and pigs (bottom), on the world's first intercity railway, that opened on 15 September 1830. From Coloured view of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. (London, 1832 1833).