For Further Reading: The Public Parks Movement
Primary Sources
Botannical Gardens, Old Trafford, 1890. Manchester Art Gallery, Europe.
Rest Harrow by Emily Gertrude Thomson, 1881. Horsfall Museum Collection, Manchester Art Gallery, Europe.
Study of an Ash Tree in Summer by James Hey Davies. 1883. Horsfall Museum Collections Manchester Art Gallery, Europe.
T.C. Horsfall, “The Study of Beauty, and Art in Large Towns. Two papers by T.C. Horsfall, with an Introduction by John Ruskin, D.C.L., LL.D., Honorary Student of Christ Church, and Honorary fellow of Corpus-Christi College.” London: Macmillan and Co., 1883.Price Sixpence.
Wordsworth, William. “Lines Written in Early Spring.” Ancoats Recreation: Thirty-Second Year. Annual Spring Flower Festival of the Brotherhood. 1909. Print
Secondary Sources
Culpin, Ewart G. The Garden City Movement Up-to-date. London: Garden Cities and Town Planning Association, 1913. Print.
Harrison, Michael. "Art and Philanthropy: T.C. Horsfall and The Manchester Art Museum." City, Class, and Culture: Studies of Social Policy and Cultural Production in Victorian Manchester. By Alan J. Kidd and Kenneth Roberts. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1985. N. pag. Print.
Hylton, Stuart (2003). A History of Manchester. Chichester: Phillimore & Company.
Jordan, Harriet. "Public Parks, 1885-1914." Garden History 22.1 (1994): 85-113. JSTOR. Web. 14 Mar. 2016.
Kidd, Alan J. (1993). Manchester. Town and City Histories. Keele: Ryburn.
"Manchester's parks and open spaces". Manchester City Council. 2005. Retrieved 23 November 2007.
Meacham, Standish. Regaining Paradise: Englishness and the Early Garden City Movement. New Haven: Yale UP, 1999. Print.
Meller, Helen Elizabeth. Patrick Geddes: Social Evolutionist and City Planner. London: Routledge, 1990. Print. Reynolds, Josephine P. "Thomas Coglan Horsfall and the Town Planning Movement in England." Town Planning Review 23.1 (1952): 52-60. Web. 14 Mar. 2016.
Nicholls, Robert (2004), Curiosities of Greater Manchester, Sutton Publishing.