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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 Journal 38
Articles: Roman and Medieval Impact on the Altrincham Area; Railway Crash in Broadheath (1964); Eaton’s Inn (The Old Market Tavern in Altrincham): Or An Apology for Getting It Wrong; The Manchester & Districts of the Ancient Order of Foresters Investment Association; Terms Found in the Court Leets of the Barony of Dunham Massey 1613-1640...
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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 Journal 39
History of Altrincham from the Stone Age to the Normans; Douglas Marshall Rigby (1891-1918): From artist to soldier; Sorting out the Vawdrey Family Tree...
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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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Ashton and Sale History Society Newsletter No.26
The Beginnings of Ingestre; Barber and Colman; John Derbyshire, an Ashton-on-Mersey Lad in Nelson’s Navy; John Moore (1774-1857) and the Peterloo Massacre ...
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Ashton and Sale History Society Journal 29
Interesting Graves in Brooklands Cemetery, Sale; 'Naughty Upon a Coffer Lid': Ashton and Sale People in the 'Bawdy Court' 1590-1720; Dr Richard Pankhurst (husband of Emmeline); Captain John Moore...
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Altrincham History Society Journal 28
The Stamford Hospital (in Dunham Massey Hall); The Death of Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, KCB, DSO; Masons’ Marks...
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Altrincham History Society Journal 31
An Afternoon in Castlefield; The Life and Work of David Herbert Langton: Author and Antiquarian (1858-1918); Random Jottings: Helen Allingham, Heritage map, Alan Turing, Altrincham Grammar School for Boys, Wonderland Again; Adam Fletcher Fox; James Batchelor, gunmaker, Altrincham; Eating, Clothes and Leisure in Hale 1600-1640...
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Altrincham History Society Journal 36
Burdett’s Map of Altrincham; The Last Butcher in Altrincham; Plague in Manchester; Development of the Lintoype Estate, Broadheath 1896-1932; A Dialogue Between Two History Detectives!; ‘To Serve in the Warrs’; A Tidbit from the Manchester Constables’ Accounts; Altrincham Town Clock and Market Bell 1663-1707...
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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 Journal 40
Cabmen’s Shelters: A little article about an aspect of the local scene that has disappeared completely; Serendity, or Hope?; Memories of WW2: Part 1: Frank Eastwood, My Father; Memories of WW2: Part 2: WW2 Recipes; More Serendity; Untangling the Gordian Knot: The Vawdrey Family (but not as George Ormerod thought it was). Part 2: The Vawdreys of Bowdon and Dunham Massey; Altrincham Court Leet Mee...
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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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Bowdon History Society Sheaf 2020
Vehicle Registrations in Cheshire; High Lawn, Bowdon in Victorian Times; BOwdon's Link with the War Poet Laurence Binyon; The Heald and Hall Families; The Origins and Evolution of East Downs Road; Richmond Road, Bowdon by Ian Bryce...
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Bowdon History Society Sheaf 2019
Thomas and Alice Pitfield; The Seventh and Eighth Earls; The Vicars of Bowdon by David Miller...
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World War Two Memories of Altrincham: Altrincham History Society Occasional Paper 54
edited by David Miller, Memories of World War Two childhoods, Auxiliary Fire Service and Air Raid Wardens and World War Two Food Rations and Recipes...
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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 Journal 41
A Tale of Two Brothers; Edward Nelson (1878-1940) Barrister; Two WW1 Altrincham/Hale Lads Commemorated After One Hundred Years; Alfred Tarbolton (1861-1934), Local Historian; The Vawdrey Family: Part 3: The Ones That George Ormerod Forgot; Glyn Hughes: Poet and Writer Living in Sowerby Bridge; Snickets, Ginnel or Alleyways?: Snickets, Ginnels, Alleyways and Footpaths in Altrincham, Bowdon and Ha...
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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 Journal 26
Charles Frederick Southwell; Private Thomas Hollinworth and the Battle of Egypt; My Four and a Half Years in the Altrincham LDV and Home Guard; Random Jottings; Colin Spofforth Statue for Altrincham; H W Kearns & Co.1945-1967: Peace and the Aftermath, Part 1; Altrincham Railway Stations...
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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 Journal 42
Altrincham Shops I Remember From Yesteryear; Two Views of the Altrincham Area From 1825 and 1830; John O’Jerusalem’s Patch: Another Problem?; Alleged Theft of Wheelbarrows at Altrincham; Spanish Civil War Connection; Timperley Villas and ‘Miss Marple’; Happy Birthday to My Hundred Year Old ‘Fruit Bowl’; John Grange Calveley, Cartoonist, 1943-2021; Women Field Workers ...
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Altrincham History Society Journal 43
Rossmill Farm and Hale Open Field; Plague in Altrincham; Connections: The Reverend Edward Dowling; Down the Rabbit Hole – Again!; North Cheshire Place Names: The origin of place names from Knutsford to the Mersey...
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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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