Cheshire History

Nos 39 - 44: £1.50

No  45 & 46: £2.50

plus p&p £1.50 for up to 3 volumes, £2.50 for any number exceeding three to the UK

£3.25 for up to 3 volumes, £3.75 for any number exceeding three elsewhere

 

No 39: 1999 -2000

The Browne family at Upton by Chester (Trevor Hughes)

The Booth Uprising in Cheshire, 1659 (Paul Anderton)

Smaller Seventeenth Century Houses in Mid Cheshire (J Brian Curzon)

The Evolution and Development of the Turnpike Road in Cheshire (K W L Starkie)

Venus Observed: From Knutsford to Holme Park (David Gillan)

Documenting Decline: Two Playbills of the 1840s from the Theatre Royal, Chester (Jill Edmonds)

An Enigmatic Canon of Chester Cathedral (Allan Fletcher)

The Politics of Sanitary Reform in Early Victorian Macclesfield (Peter McBride)

Enteric Fever in Chester in the 1880s and 1890s (Gerrard Barnes)

A Glimpse of Three Edwardian Schools (Stephen Matthews)

 

No 40: 2000-2001

Paying for the Invasion (J Brian Curzon)

A Question of Identity: Cheadle Church’s medieval Effigies (Tony Bostock)

Manipulating the Landscape: Richard Wilson and the Dee Valley (Stephen Matthews)

George Frederick Cooke: A Tragedian at Chester (Jill Edmonds)

Tranmere Township in the Nineteenth Century: An Introduction to the Operation of the Tranmere Vestry (Lowrie Charlesworth)

Population Change in Altrincham in the Early Nineteenth Century (Stephen Matthews)

‘Ready-Made’ in Nantwich: John Harding & Son at the Baronia Works (Paul Anderton)

The Nineteenth Century Growth of an Industrial Suburb: Newtown (Dr Derek Brumhead)

The Telephone Comes to Chester (Gerrard Barnes)

 

No 41: 2001-2002

Draining the Marshes: The Creation of the South Mersey Waterfront (Stephen Matthews)

The Old Manor Houses of Leighton and Thornton (Susan Chambers)

A Malpas Schoolmaster Goes to Court (Gerrard Barnes)

Seventeenth Century Nantwich, Dairy Farming and a Sample Analysis of Probate Inventories (Paul Anderton)

Owners, Occupiers and Others: Seventeenth Century Northwich (Tony Bostock)

The Early Book Trade in Nantwich (Derek Nuttall)

The Patent and the Patent Holders at the Theatre Royal, Chester (Jill Edmonds)

Industrial Conflict, Sectarianism and Electoral Politics: The Dukinfield Miners' Strike of 1868 (Peter McBride)

An End to Isolation: The Cheshire County Lunatic Asylum during World War One (Carol Coles)

 

No 42: 2002-2003

The Port of Roman Chester (Dr David Mason)

A Note on the Shad (Dr David Hill)

An Overview of Ancient Stained Glass in Cheshire (Dr Penny Hebgin-Barnes)

Cheshire’s Failed Religious Houses (Stephen Matthews)

Church Building in Cheshire 1780-1860 (Dr Rosemary Martin)

An Unfinished Church (Peter Warburton)

George Eaton of The Pole (1710-1780) (Jonathan Pepler)

The Chester District History of Parish Government Project: Part 1 (David Hayns)

Millers and Mayors: the Frost family of Chester (Gerrard Barnes)

Supporting the Medical War Effort — Chester’s War Hospitals (Carol Coles)

 

No 43: 2003-2004

Canon Ridgway’s contribution to the study of Cheshire’s ancient glass (Penny Hebgin-Barnes)

Canon Maurice Ridgway’s editorship of The Cheshire Sheaf (John Whittle)

Chester’s amphitheatre after Rome: a centre of Christian worship? (Keith Matthews)

Scandinavian settlement in west Cheshire (Dan Robinson)

Very plenteous in fish - a survey of fisheries in Wirral (Elizabeth Davey)

A way through the woods (Tony Bostock)

A brief story of the Hardwares of Peel Hall (Tony Bland)

Two lost corn mills in Henbury, Cheshire (Peter Wells & Graham Francis-Smith)

The Egerton Graves (Derek Nuttall)

Early Stuart Coppenhall (Susan Chambers)

A painted room at Parkgate (J. Brian Curzon)

Letters from Saighton (John Hopkins)

Public Relief, private philanthropy and communal self-help: alleviation and avoidance of poverty in the area of Chester District c.1600-1900 (David Hayns)

William Henry Webster, 1850-1931 (Keith Giles)

Thomas Huxley of Malpas: contractor and Congregationalist (Revd. Nigel Lemon)

Warburton preserved (Peter Warburton)

 

No 44: 2004-2005

Recovery from disaster? - the economy of Cheshire 1066 – 1086 (Stephen Matthews)

Hilbre Island in medieval times: a few legends revisited (Susan Craggs)

By a winding stair - a yeoman family at the Tudor Court (Robert Colley)

A Chester merchant buys leather from the Isle of Man in 1524 (Alan Crosby)

Richard Coventry of Mollington (John Hess)

Oulton’s historic park and garden (Tony Bostock)

Samuel Ryley’s cure for the heartache (Jill Edmonds)

The Stringer Family: eighteenth-century Artists (Marjorie Carney)

Joseph Fenna and the Tollemache Estate Survey (Jonathan Pepler)

The Debates on Policing in Cheshire, 1829 – 56 (Ian Morland)

In Ormerod’s shadow (Peter Warburton)

as well as book reviews and an annual report on the Association’s activities.

 

No 45: 2005-2006

‘A very ungrateful and quarrelsome people’ (Susan Chambers)

Thomas Townson, Rector of Malpas, 1752-92 (Gerrard Barnes)

Thomas Townson: the Grand Tour as clerical education (Paul Anderton)

Boundary Stones of the Parish of Backford (David Russell)

Chester Theatre Royal, the lost interior (Jill Edmonds)

The life and work of Thomas Brassey (Doug Haynes)

Thomas Hazlehurst and his family (Peter I Vardy)

A county under siege: foot and mouth disease in Cheshire, 1923-24 (Dr Abigail Woods)

The Rural Home Front during World War Il (David Hayns)

Plus seven book reviews.

 

No 46: 2006-2007

Llyfer Thomas Wynn: a sixteenth century Roll of Arms. (Robert Colley)

Bidston’s forgotten Dock Scheme (Robert Cooper)

Wicker in the Willows, (J. Brian Curzon,)

The Fenians in Chester in 1867: prelude, fiasco and aftermath (Ronald Durdey)
The Fleetwood family and Marton Grange:an unlikely tercentenary tribute (Tony Foster)

A blackcountryman at Bache Hall (Nigel Lemon)

The Chester Roodee Iron Foundry and Paper Mill (Mike Malley)

Running the Countryside (Stephen Matthews)

Tabley and other Prosecution Associations in Cheshire 1829-47 (Ian Morland)


New research
on the Round Tower, Sandiway (Jason Wood)
plus nine book reviews.

 

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