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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 in 1841: A Cheshire Market Town in Victorian Times edited by Don Bayliss

This is the reprint of a book first published in 1994 by Altrincham History Society and edited by the late Don Bayliss. It studies Altrincham and its population using the 1841 Census, the 1852 Board of Health Report and other sources....

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Altrincham Lives, Part 1 1600-1640

Altrincham people, their politics, religion, agriculture, housing, food, clothes and luxuries as shown in wills and probate inventories from 1600 to 1640 by Jill Groves...

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Altrincham Lives, Part 2 1641-1680

Altrincham people, their politics, agriculture, housing, food, clothes and luxuries as shown in wills, probate inventories, leases and Altrincham Court Leet records from 1641-1680...

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Altrincham Lives: Part 3, 1681-1720

Altrincham people, their politics, their families, literacy, transport, agriculture, housing, food, clothes and luxuries, Altrincham shops, Altrincham’s economy, inns, early market gardeners as shown in wills, probate inventories, leases and Altrincham Court Leet records from 1681-1720...

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Altrincham Lives: Part 4, 1721-1760

ALTRINCHAM LIVES: PART 4, 1721-1760 Altrincham people, their politics, religion, agriculture, housing, food, clothes, weapons and luxuries, transport, Altrincham’s first workhouse, bakeries, privies, lawyers and Altrincham on the cusp of the Industrial Revolution...

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Altrincham Meth - Altrincham Bank St ; Borough Road ; Broadheath Wes; George St New Connexion ; Oxford Rd Meth Registers

Transcript of Parish Registers Altrincham Meth - Altrincham Bank St Wes bapt 1801-1926, marr 1878-1924; Borough Road Wes bapt 1904-1966; Broadheath Wes; George St New on bapt 1819-1837, 1879-1966; Oxford Rd Meth bapts 1882-1960, marr 1909-1958...

Supplied by: Family History Society of Cheshire, The Product Ref: CHS-D127

Altrincham Town Hall by David Eastwood

Occasional Paper 37: The history of the building of Altrincham Town Hall in the late nineteenth century...

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Altrincham, the AFS, and the Merseyside Blitz, May 1941 by Hazel Pryor

Altrincham's Auxiliary Fire Service and its part in the Merseyside Blitz, May 1941...

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AMID DEVONIA’S ALPS by William Crossing

The book also had the title Wanderings and Adventures on Dartmoor and is by one of the best known and respected writers about Dartmoor. The publication is packed with information and tales about the history of that has been called the “Last Wilderness in England” and an invaluable guide for anyone who has an interest and love of Dartmoor. ...

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An illustrated history of early Buckinghamshire, edited by Michael Farley

Covers the period from the Ice Age to the Tudors and includes mammoths, early prehistoric farmers, Romans, Britons, Saxons, Vikings, Normans and medieval peasants...

Supplied by: Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society Product Ref: BAS-28

An Unlikely Success Story: The Belfast Shipbuilding Industry 1880-1935

Shipbuilding was a most unlikely success story in Belfast and its prosperity was created by a strange mixture of entrepreneurial ability, timing, technical expertise and employment patterns. It was the last of the 'main' industries to develop in Belfast but in terms of wealth-creation and prestige, it was perhaps the greatest of the city's employers. By the start of the twentieth century Bel...

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Ancestor 40 years of FHSC magazine

Includes North and South Cheshire Magazines...

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ANCIENT LANGUAGE and DIALECT OF CORNWALL by Fred W. P. Jago

This book published in 1882 is a work about the Ancient Language and Dialect of Cornwall, with an enlarged Glossary of Cornish Provincial words also a appendix that contains a list of writers on Cornish Dialect and additional information about Dolly Pentreath the last known person who spoke the ancient Cornish as her mother tongue. ...

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ANNALS OF LEEDS and Surrounding District

Interesting events that have occurred in this area, in chronological order, collected from the works of numerous authors, newspapers, &c....

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Archaeological Investigations at Missenden Abbey, 1983-88. By Yvonne Edwards, Jill Hender & Marion Wells. Series No. 58, Part 2 (2018)

The great monastery of Missenden Abbey was founded in 1133, but dissolved by Henry VIII in 1538. Its church and cloister were destroyed, and the remaining buildings changed greatly. This report sums up the finds and discoveries made by archaeologists since 1983, giving insights into the monastic community which once ruled the Misbourne valley. (120 pages with 6 maps and plans, 48 drawings and 2...

Supplied by: Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society Product Ref: BAS-40

Arnos Grove and the Walker Family - Book 1: Isaac Walker the Founder of the Family at Arnos Grove

A 72 page illustrated A4 paperback book written by Ruby Galili, with an introduction, 45 illustrations (16 in colour), a Walker family pedigree chart, references & sources and index. Published in 2008 this is the first part of a planned three-part history of a family of Southgate philanthropists and their grand mansion Arnos Grove....

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