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Liverpool Road Station Society Biography Biography
The Liverpool Road Station Society was founded with the objective of encouraging and promoting public interest in the preservation and restoration of Liverpool Road Railway Station, together with its outbuildings, in the City of Manchester, as a place of historical interest. As well as wanting to preserve the site, the Society set about making plans to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the inauguration of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, which was marked in September 1980. To fulfil this, the society's activities focused on increasing awareness of the history of the site, and fundraising for its refurbishment. The Liverpool Road Station Society formally wound down and transferred its assets to the Friends of the Greater Manchester Museum of Science and Industry in 1983, when the station itself became part of the museum site.

Scope and Content
Early records related to the formation and membership of the society. Documents include early Memorandum and Articles of Association for the society, Minutes of Meetings and details of membership records. The collection also includes historical research undertaken by the society and includes a small number of photographic prints of the site at various dates, including one of draught horse in the lower yard.
Extent
2 boxes, 2 bundles and 1 roll of posters
Physical description
Fair
Language
English
Archival history
Archive found in the Station Master's House, Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester in 1996.
Level of description
TOP
Repository name
Science and Industry Museum
Subject
Historical societies
Railway stations
Conditions governing access
Open access.
Conditions governing Reproduction
Copies may be supplied in accordance with current copyright legislation and Science Museum Group terms and conditions.