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Ashton and Sale History Society Journal 30
The Black Ewe of Sale Old Hall (the life of Margaret Massey died 1653); a Trafford Park Childhood; Child Emigration from Sale to Canada...
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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 Journal 35
Articles: A Chase Through Hale Ends in Death; Altrincham's Ancient Charter; Altrincham's Seventeenth Century Inns: Part 2: Eaton's Inn 1600-1753 (aka the Old Market Tavern)...
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Altrincham History Society Occasional 17.
Altrincham and Its Buttermarket 1682-1760: A late seventeenth century urban regeneration project. The effect of the Royal Navy's need for cheese on a small market town in Cheshire and its hinterland. It began the start of a small golden age for the market town....
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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 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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Ashton and Sale History Society Journal 32
The Reverend Daniel Baker Murder Victim?; Dr Thomas Worsley; Turf Wars and Dunghill Fights; John Stafford and the Reverend Richard Popplewell Johnson...
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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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'Not Having the Fear of God Before Her Eyes' - Ashton and Sale History Society Occasional Paper 6
The Scandals and Quarrels of the Masseys of Sale, and Their Descendants - Margaret Massey (the black ewe of the family), the quarrel with the Reverend Ralph Stirrop over the Massey family pew in the parish church, Richard Massey and Sir William Brereton’s Duck Decoy, James and Richard Massey in the English Civil Wars, The Reverend Hugh Hobson’s Marriage to Mary Massey, The Last Massey Esquire ...
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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 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 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 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 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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