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- ↑ "Death of Mr Robert Isherwood a well known miners' agent", Wigan Observer and District Advertiser, British Newspaper Archive via Findmypast, 6 January 1905, retrieved 26 November 2017(subscription required)
- 1 2 "Mr Robert Isherwood", Leigh Chronicle and Weekly District Advertiser, British Newspaper Archive via Findmypast, 10 April 1903, retrieved 26 November 2017(subscription required)
- ↑ Lunn 1953, p. 126.
- ↑ Tyldesley Urban District, Wigan Council, retrieved 26 November 2017
- ↑ "The late Mr Isherwood J.P.", Wigan Observer and District Advertiser, British Newspaper Archive via Findmypast, 11 January 1905, retrieved 26 November 2017(subscription required)
- ↑ "A Miners' Memorial", Northern Daily Telegraph, British Newspaper Archive via Findmypast, 30 April 1906, retrieved 26 November 2017(subscription required)
Bibliography
- Lunn, John (1953), A Short History of the Township of Tyldesley, Tyldesley Urban District Council