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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 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 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 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 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 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 13 - Local Artist Edith le Breton
A short biography of Altrincham artist Edith le Breton (Edith Jackson)who lived from 1912 to 1993. She painted local scenes in Altrincham and Salford where she was born....
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Altrincham History Society Occasional Paper 15.
Tour of Altrincham. A walk around the history of Altrincham, Cheshire. Out-of-print. Now edownload only....
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Altrincham History Society Occasional Paper 16: The Duke, His Canal, The Countess and her Lands by David Eastwood
How the Duke of Bridgewater dealt with the major landowners through whose lands his Bridgewater Canal passed. Based on papers in the Dunham Massey Archive from the 1750s to the 1770s....
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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 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 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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