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Journals and Books on Altrincham history

Altrincham History Society Occasional Paper 18: A Royal Visit to Broadheath

Memories of the visit of George V and Queen Elizabeth to Broadheath Industrial Estate, Altrincham in 1947 to say thank you for the area's effort in the Second World War...

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Altrincham History Society Occasional Paper 19: A Short History of Kearns by Keith Gowing

Kearns was an engineering company based at Broadheath near Altrincham from 1907 to late 1960s. Broadheath was the UK's first industrial park established in 1885, ten years before Trafford Park. Today the site is a retail park....

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Altrincham History Society Occasional Paper 20

Dunham Massey POW camp. Memories of the German POW camp on the edge of Dunham Massey new Park, near Altrincham. Now edownload only...

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Altrincham History Society Occasional Paper 21: Bradbury Central School 1910-1985

The story of Bradbury Central School, its staff and pupils...

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Altrincham History Society Occasional Paper 22. Three Centuries of Public Houses in Altrincham by Hilda Bayliss

A detailed history of 59 pubs, taverns, hotels and temperance bars and their licensees from the 1600s to the 1930s. Includes index of people and places. 72pp...

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Altrincham History Society Occasional Paper 24: Parklands, Dunham Massey and the Families of William and Thomas Berry, Blacking Manufacturers by Steven Dickens

The history of a Victorian villa on the edge of Dunham Massey Hall Park and the families and people who have lived in it from the early 1800s to the 21st century. Now only available as an edownload...

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Altrincham History Society Occasional Paper 26: Altrincham Textile Mills by David Miller

The history of Altrincham mills from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century...

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Altrincham History Society Occasional Paper 27. One Hundred and Seventy Years of Health Care: The Story of Altrincham General Hospital

Part 1: 1850s to the Beginning of the National Health Service. By David Eastwood....

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Altrincham History Society Occasional Paper 28. The Barony Court of Dunham Massey by David Eastwood

Court Leet and View of Frankpledge of the Barony of Dunham Massey 1733–1740 (Transcripts of the records of the Barony Court for Dunham Massey for the years 1733 to 1740)...

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Altrincham History Society Occasional Paper 33

'Mr Mayor Conceits Himself to Have That Power'Abstracts of some documents connected to Altrincham’s Court Leet from the 1620s to 1681 (from the Papers of the Grey Family, Earls of Stamford, John Rylands Library University of Manchester.) Abstracts of some documents connected to Altrincham’s Court Leet from the 1620s to 1681 (from the Papers of the Grey Family, Earls of Stamford, John Rylands L...

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Altrincham History Society Occasional Paper 34, Asquith's War: Altrincham August 1914-May1915

by Colin Graham. This occasional paper looks at the beginning of the First World War through Altrincham's local newspaper, the Altrincham Guardian and analyses the reactions of local people. There is not only the reaction from the Home Front (the fundraising, the enlisting, the arrival of Belgian refugees), but also the letters from local soldiers printed in the newspaper, and later on the obituar...

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Altrincham History Society Occasional Paper 38: The Coalition's War: Altrincham May 1915-December 1916

By Colin Graham. This is the second part of a history of how the Cheshire market town of Altrincham was affected by WW1 and how Altrincham people played their part, whether in the armed services or non-combatant...

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Altrincham History Society Occasional Paper 41: The 10th Earl of Stamford and the Dunham Treasures

The Dunham Massey treasures were a collection of items which had been once owned by the Booths and the Greys of Dunham Massey and had been housed at Dunham Massey Hall. They included the fabulous silver collected by the second Earl of Warrington, and the fine collection of family portraits. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the collection was scattered. This is the story of ...

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Altrincham History Society Occasional Paper 42: Dunham Massey and Altrincham in the 'Lost Years'

Two Townships During the Absence of George Harry, 7th Earl of Stamford 1848-1880...

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Altrincham History Society Occasional Paper 44: Managing Altrincham 1600-1760 by Jill Groves

A study of the workings of a court leet in a small Cheshire market town. From soldiers brawling in the town to children not allowed to play out on a Sunday, from chimney fires to dangerous dogs and pigs in the streets...

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Altrincham History Society Occasional Paper 45: The Accidental Earl: William Grey, 9th Earl of Stamford by David Eastwood

How the son of a clergyman became the Earl of Stamford in 1890; the hoops he had to go through to claim the title; his relationships with the widow of the 7th Earl, his uncle the 8th Earl and his South African cousins; his community work; the renovation of Dunham Massey Hall, near Altrincham, Cheshire...

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Altrincham History Society Occasional Paper 46: LLOYD GEORGE’S WAR: Altrincham, 7 December 1916 to 11 November 1918 by Colin Graham

The 3rd volume of 4 on how the small market town of Altrincham and district coped with the pressures of the First World War....

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Altrincham History Society Occasional Paper 48: ‘ENTICING AND ALLURING' Fun and Games for Ordinary People in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Northeast Cheshire 1613-1760

Fun and Games for Ordinary People in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Northeast Cheshire 1613-1760 (Altrincham, Dunham Massey, Hale, Ashton-on-Mersey, Carrington, Partington, Bollington and Agden). All the fun and games (legal and illegal) people would have enjoyed in the Altrincham area in the 17th and 18th centuries: from drinking to card games, brothels, hare coursing and hunting, horse rac...

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Altrincham History Society Occasional Paper 50: Fifth Earl of Stamford and the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815

This is the story of the work of a County Lieutenant organising the various volunteer militia units during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and dealing with all the orders from national government at the same time...

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Altrincham History Society Occasional Paper 51: Petty Crimes and Misdemeanours 1613-1700

From Ashton-on-Mersey to Altrincham (the court system; fighters, drunkards, scolds, rioters, dangerous dogs, poachers, thieves, trespassers, gamblers; the Black Game Act; stocks, cuckstools, pillories; Altrincham’s and Manchester’s dungeons)...

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Altrincham History Society Occasional Paper 52: The 6th Earl of Stamford and Warrington and his Family

by Ann Nosowska and Kath Rigby. This is the story of the 6th Earl of Stamford and Warrington and his five children: Lady Charlotte Law, Lady Maria, George Harry, Lord Groby, Lady Jane Walsh, and the Hon. Henry Booth. There are stories of mental and physical ill-health, elopement, and a long marriage ...

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Altrincham History Society Occasional Paper 53: Harbouring Inmates by Jill Groves

The Treatment of the Poor in the Market Town of Altrincham and the Surrounding Areas (Bowdon, Bollington, Dunham Massey, Ashton-on-Mersey, Ashley, Carrington, Hale, Partington, Sale and Timperley), 1600-1760. From Poor Laws, to Settlement Certificates, to Local Charities and Charity Schools ...

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Altrincham History Society Occasional Paper 59 - World War Two Memories Part 2

Altrincham in WW2 and After; The Altrincham Spitfire; A Few Wartime Notes; Post Office, Primates and Panzers - a pen-friendship between an Altrincham boy and a German boy and what happened to them in WW2; WW2 Postal Egg Box...

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Altrincham History Society Occasional Paper 61: Fashion in North-east Cheshire 1600-1760

FASHION AND DRESS FOR ORDINARY PEOPLE IN ALTRINCHAM, ASHTON-ON-MERSEY, BOWDON, DUNHAM MASSEY, HALE, NORTHENDEN, SALE AND TIMPERLEY1600-1760 - from the New Draperies of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, to bodices, bustles,cassocks, mantuas to partlets, port cannons, stomachers and waistcoats; those who made the cloth, sold the cloth and made the clothes; those who wore the clothes; and how ...

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Altrincham History Society, Occasional Paper 65, Mills in the River Bollin Valley

by David Miller. Ashley Mill; Bollington Mill, Little Bollington; Bowdon Mill; Castle Mill, Ringway; Dunham Mill; Ross Mill, Hale; Quarry Bank Mill, Styal ...

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