Owen Ashmore
Owen Ashmore was a British industrial archaeologist at the University of Manchester who was Secretary and Vice-President of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, Treasurer of the Chetham Society and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
Life
Ashmore was born in Cheshire in 1920, and taught and directed the Local History Diploma in the Extra Mural Department at the University of Manchester. He was a founder Member of the Manchester Industrial Archaeology Society.He was elected membership of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society 1979
He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (FSA). He was a Member of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, elected Council Member, Secretary and Vice-President. He was also a Member of the Chetham Society elected as a Council Member then serving as Treasurer. He died in 1995 aged 75.
Select bibliography
- “The Whalley Abbey bursar's account for 1520”, Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 114.
- , Derbyshire Archaeological Society, Duffield, 1966.
- , Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, Manchester, 1966.Development of power in Britain, London, 1967.A guide to Whalley Abbey, Blackburn 1968.', New York; A.M. Kelley, 1968.
- ', Newton Abbot, 1969.
- , Hugh Mason and the Oxford mills and community, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, Wilmslow, 1975.', University of Manchester, 1975., Workers' Educational Association, Stockport, 1977
- ', Chetham Society, Third Series, 29.