Cheshire History volumes 32 to 47
Contents
About Our Contributors
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Made in Frodsham: the story of the ‘Swan’ motorcycle
William R Hawkin
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The Parliamentary War Effort in Cheshire
Peter Gaunt
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The Civil War: suggestions for further reading
Ivan Roots
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Culture and Society in Victorian Cheshire
Roger Swift
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Church Lawton Gate School, 1843-1993
Robert J Farrell
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A brief outline of sources available for the study of Cheshire history in the John Rylands Library
Evelyn Lord
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Shipbuilding at Northwich: part three
Trevor Jones
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The supposed Arms of Jordan de Macclesfield
David K Maxfield
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Book Reviews
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Contents
About Our Contributors
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Knights Grange: Six Centuries of History
Anthony Bostock
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The Landscape of Oxton Township, 1795-1877: part one
Douglas Varley
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A Demographic Study of Two Adjoining Parishes in the Eighteenth Century
Ernest E Mullineux
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The Eastgate, Chester, and Its Clock
Bernard Wall
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Wildboarclough: the economy of a hill parish
Peter Warburton
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Book Reviews
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Contents
About Our Contributors
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Chester Ragged Schools 1852-70
Roger E Swift
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The Heraldic Screens of Middlewich
Anthony Bostock
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The Landscape of Oxton Township 1795-1877: part two
Douglas Varley
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The Architect of the Chester Infirmary of 1761
Christopher P Lewis
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Sources available for Cheshire studies at the County Record Office, Chester
Caroline Williams
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Public Transport in Poynton, 1939-45
Ronald Simpson
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Some Drawings of R H Watt
David Hill
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Inquisitions Post Mortem
Paul Booth
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Book Reviews
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Early Estate Development in Cheshire
Keith J Matthews
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Macclesfield Castle Mound and Manor House
R E Birkett
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Barthomley Church and the Civil War
Dr Peter Gaunt
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Richard Alport’s School in Malpas: Philanthropy or Self-Interest?
David Hayns
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Sources for the Study of Elementary Education in Victorian Cheshire: Tabulated Reports by HMI
Dr Roger Swift
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The Forms of Corruption Prevalent in Macclesfield & Chester at the General Election of 1 April 1880
Susan Lee
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Harold Rathbone and the Della Robbia Pottery: Entrepreneurship and Late Victorian Ceramic Art
Esther Lambert
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The First Battalion 22nd (The Cheshire Regiment) and the Reasons for the Military Disaster at Mons
Ronald J Barr
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Major Richard ‘Tug’ Wilson, MBE, of the Royal Signals, and the Burma Campaign
Robert Stones
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Documents for Schools: The Letter-Books of Sir William Brereton
Maggie Jackson & Dr Peter Gaunt
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News
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Book Reviews
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Saint Plegmund: Cheshire’s Archbishop of Canterbury
Keith J Matthews
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Some Cheshire Follies
Peter Warburton
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A Scandal in Victorian Tarvin
Richard Todd
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‘A Broken and Contrite Heart, O God, Thou Wilt Not Despise’: The Moral Reform of Prisoners in Nineteenth Century Chester
Chris Simpson
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‘A Poor School’: The Problems of a Rural Voluntary Aided School in its First Quarter Century: Guilden Sutton Church of England Elementary School, 1882-1907
Jackie Turton
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Documents: School Records
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An Edwardian Traveller in Iberia
John Hopkins
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Work in Progress: The Use of a Computer in Local History Research
John Whittle
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Book Reviews
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A Prehistoric Pine Woodland at Lindow Moss, near Wilmslow
Jonathan Lageard, Frank Chambers & Leri Roberts
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Maiden Castle, Bickerton: research and repair of a hillfort
Jeremy Milln & Joan Taylor
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A Bull’s Head Escutcheon from Brereton
Stephen Penney
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The Origins of Over and Darnhall
Tony Bostock
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A Survey of Pulford Castle
Susan Reynolds & Graeme White
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William Prynne’s Reception at Chester in 1637
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The Landscape and Townscape of Tarporley from the Restoration to Victoria
David Peate
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The Evolution of a Listed Building in Wilmslow: the Wilmslow Meeting House
Marguerita Oughton
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Poor Law on the Wirral: the Guardians’ Version
Lorie Charlesworth
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Improvements in the Living Conditions of Chester’s Working Class between 1840 and 1890
Amanda Hulme
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Obituaries: R N Dore, William Hawkin, Nesta Law
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Book Reviews
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The Celtic Name of the River Weaver
Andrew Breeze
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Bare Ruined Choirs and Beyond (the end of monastic Cheshire)
J P Marmion
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Explaining the Mystery of a Monumental Myth
(Vale Royal Abbey)
J Brian Curzon
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Cheshire’s Oldest Map?
Jonathan Pepler
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Cheshire Duck Decoys
Derek Nuttall
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The London-Chester Road, Via Hockenhull Platts
K W L Starkie
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Building Chester’s First Workhouse
Chris Lewis
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Events at the Theatre Royal, Chester, 1807-10
Jill Edmonds
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Ambulance Chasing on a Nineteenth Century Cheshire Estate
Keith Giles
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The Macclesfield Theatre Company and Nineteenth Century Silk Manufacturers
Philip A Talbot
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Upton-by-Chester War Memorial
Alex Bruce
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Book Reviews
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Books Received or Noted
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The Browne Family at Upton-by-Chester
Trevor Hughes
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The Booth Uprising in Cheshire, 1659: another look at some of the evidence
Paul Anderton
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Smaller Seventeenth Century Houses in Mid Cheshire
J Brian Curzon
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The Evolution and Development of the Turnpike Road in Cheshire
K W L Starkie
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Venus Observed: from Knutsford to Holme Park
David Gillan
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Documenting Decline: Two Playbills of the 1840sfrom the Theatre Royal, Chester
Jill Edmonds
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An Enigmatic Canon of Chester Cathedral
Allan Fletcher
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The Politics of Sanitary Reform in Early Victorian Macclesfield
Peter McBride
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Enteric Fever in Chester in the 1880s and 1890s
Gerrard Barnes
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A Glimpse of Three Edwardian Schools
Stephen Matthews
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Obituary: Alex Bruce
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Book Reviews
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Books Noted
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Paying For The Invasion
J Brian Curzon
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A Question of Identity: Cheadle Church’s Medieval Effigies
Tony Bostock
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Manipulating the Landscape:Richard Wilson and the Dee Valley
Stephen Matthews
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George Frederick Cooke: A Tragedian at Chester
Jill Edmonds
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Tranmere Township in the Nineteenth Century: An Introduction to the Operation of the Tranmere Vestry
Lowrie Charlesworth
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Population Change in Altrincham in the Early Nineteenth Century
Stephen Matthews
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‘Ready Made’ in Nantwich: John Harding & Son at the Baronia Works
Paul Anderton
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The Nineteenth Century Growth of the Industrial Suburb: Newtown
Dr Derek Brumhead
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The Telephone Comes to Chester
Gerrard Barnes
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Book Reviews
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Draining the Marshes: the Creation of the South Mersey Waterfront
Stephen Matthews
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The Old Manor Houses of Leighton and Thornton
Susan Chambers
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A Malpas Schoolmaster Goes to Court
Gerrard Barnes
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Seventeenth Century Nantwich, Dairy Farming and a Sample Analysis of Probate Inventories
Paul Anderton
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Owners, Occupiers and Others: Seventeenth Century Northwich
Tony Bostock
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The Early Book Trade in Nantwich
Derek Nuttall
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The Patent and the Patent Holders at the Theatre Royal, Chester
Jill Edmonds
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Industrial Conflict, Sectarianism and Electoral Politics: The Dukinfield Miners’ Strike of 1868
Peter McBride
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An End to Isolation: The Cheshire County Lunatic Asylum during World War One
Carol Coles
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A Message from the Chairman
Tony Bostock
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Book Reviews
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The Port of Roman Chester
Dr David Mason
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A Note on the Shad
Dr David Hill
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An Overview of Ancient Stained Glass in Cheshire
Dr Penny Hebgin-Barnes
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Cheshire’s Failed Religious Houses
Stephen Matthews
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Church Building in Cheshire 1780-1860
Dr Rosemary Martin
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An Unfinished Church (Lodley near Sandbach)
Peter Warburton
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George Eaton of The Pole, 1710-1780
(Antrobus, Great Budworth)
Jonathan Pepler
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The Cheshire District History of Parish Government Project: part 1
David Hayns
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Millers and Mayors: the Frost family of Chester
Gerrard Barnes
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Supporting the Medical War Effort – Chester’s War Hospitals
Carol Coles
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Book Reviews
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Notes on Contributors
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Chairman’s Introduction
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Canon Ridgway’s contribution to the study of Cheshire’s ancient glass
Penny Hebgin-Barnes
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Canon Maurice Ridgway’s editorship of ‘The Cheshire Sheaf’
John Whittle
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Chester’s amphitheatre after Rome: a centre of Christian worship?
Keith Matthews
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Scandinavian Settlements in West Cheshire
Dan Robinson
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Very Plenteous in Fish – a survey of fisheries in Wirral
Elizabeth Davey
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A Way Through the Woods (rights of way disputes at Vale Royal)
Tony Bostock
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A Brief Story of the Hardwares of Peel Hall
Tony Bland
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Two Lost Corn Mills in Henbury, Cheshire
Peter Wells & Graham Francis-Smith
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The Egerton Graves
Derek Nuttall
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Early Stuart Coppenhall
Susan Chambers
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A Painted Room at Parkgate
J Brian Curzon
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Letters from Saighton
John Hopkins
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Public Relief, Private Philanthropy and Communal Self-Help: alleviation and avoidance of poverty in the area of Chester District c.1600-1900
David Hayns
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William Henry Webster, 1850-1931
Keith Giles
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Thomas Huxley of Malpas: contractor and congregationalist
Revd. Nigel Lemon
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Warburton Preserved
Peter Warburton
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Book Reviews
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Notes on Contributors
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Contents
Chairman’s Introduction
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Recovery from disaster? – the economy of Cheshire 1066-1086
Stephen Matthews
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Hilbre Island in medieval times: a few legends revisited
Susan Craggs
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By a winding stair – a yeoman family at the Tudor Court
Robert Colley
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A Chester merchant buys leather from the Isle of Man in 1524
Alan Crosby
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Richard Coventry of Mollington
John Hess
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Oulton’s historic park and garden
Tony Bostock
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Samuel Ryley’s cure for the heartache
Jill Edmonds
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The Stringer Family: eighteenth-century Artists
Marjorie Carney
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Joseph Fenna and the Tollemache Estate Survey
Jonathan Pepler
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The Debates on Policing in Cheshire, 1829-56
Ian Morland
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In Ormerod’s Shadow
Peter Warburton
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Book Reviews
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Notes on Contributors
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Contents
Chairman’s Introduction
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‘A Very Ungrateful and Quarrelsome People’ (Warmingham parish)
Susan Chambers
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Thomas Townson: Rector of Malpas, 1752-92
Gerrard Barnes
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Thomas Townson: the Grand Tour as clerical education
Paul Anderton
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Boundary Stones of the Parish of Backford
David Russell
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Chester Theatre Royal: the lost interior
Jill Edmonds
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The Life and Work of Thomas Brassey
Doug Haynes
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Thomas Hazlehurst and his family
Peter I Vardy
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A County under Siege: Foot and Mouth Disease in Cheshire, 1923-24
Abigail Woods
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The Rural Home Front during World War II
David Hayns
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Book Reviews
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Notes on Contributors
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Contents
Chairman’s Introduction
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Llyfr Thomas Wynn: a sixteenth-century Roll of Arms
Robert Colley
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Wicker in the Willows (Darnhall near Winsford)
Brian Curzon
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The Chester Roodee Iron Foundry and Paper Mill
Michael Malley
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Tabley and other Prosecution Associations in Cheshire, 1829-47
Ian Morland
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The Fleetwood Family and Marton Grange
A S Foster
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Bidston’s Forgotten Dock Scheme
R S Cooper
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Running the Countryside: the Tollemache Estates, 1860-72
Stephen Matthews
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A Blackcountryman at Bache Hall
Nigel Lemon
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The Fenians in Chester in 1867
R Durdey
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New Research on the Round Tower, Sandiway
Jason Wood
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Obituaries
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Book Reviews
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Notes on Contributors
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Contents
Chairman’s Introduction
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Saltmaking at Higher and Lower Dirtwich
George Twigg
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The Travels and Trials of a sixteenth-century Wirral recusant
Clare Johnson
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Backford’s Memorial Boards: were they painted by a Randle Holme?
John P Hess
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Hidden behind an oaken door? The last years of an ejected minister: George Mainwaring of Malpas
David Hayns
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An eighteenth-century Cheshire Carrier: Twiss of Alsager
James Sutton
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Mapping the Past. Tithes and their value in detecting the past
Tony Bostock
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John Tollemache and his castle (Peckforton)
Ronald Durdey
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The railways of Newton, New Mills
Derek Brumhead
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The Neston Collieries – birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in Wirral and West Cheshire 1750-1850
Anthony Annakin-Smith
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‘Six females have been engaged as an experiment...’ The Role of Women in Birkenhead Corporation Transport, 1915 to 1969. The Struggle for Equality in the Workplace in Microcosm
W Mark Lloyd
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Book Reviews
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Notes on Contributors
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