Cheshire History volumes 32 to 47

Nº 32 Autumn 1993

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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Nº 33 Spring 1994

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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Nº 34 Autumn 1994

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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Nº 35 1995-96

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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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Nº 36 1996-97

Contents

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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Nº 37 1997-98

Contents

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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Nº 38 1998-99

Contents

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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Nº 39 1999-2000

Contents

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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Nº 40 2000-01

Contents

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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Nº 41 2001-02

Contents

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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Nº 42 2002-03

Contents

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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Nº 43 2003-04

Contents

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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Nº 44 2004-05

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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Nº 45 2005-06

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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Nº 46 2006-07

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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Nº 47 2007-08

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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