Altrincham History Society Publications
How the will of the 7th Earl of Stamford caused problems for his family for the next 70 years.
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by Hazel Pryor and John Hitchens. A hundred years of professional gardeners, 1900-2000
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Lady Haworth and the Bowdon Supply Depot in World War One. Study of the work of volunteer women and men in a small Cheshire town in supplying much needed hospital supplies for the troops in WW1
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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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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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Family Life in Broadheath, 1920s-1930s; Altrincham General Hospital; Sir William Henry Veno; Lord Stamford and the Bombing of Altrincham in December 1940; Maudie Tipping's Third Will
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Social and Economic Change in late Nineteenth Century Bowdon; The Blitz in Altrincham, 1940-41; East Chinnock Church, Somerset; Altrincham in the 1930s; The Otto Gas Engine and the Crossley Brothers; Social Geographical Divisions in Nineteenth Century Altrincham
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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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Ollerbarrow Farm and New Farm, Hale; Altrincham Town Hall's Stanined Glass Coats-of-Arms; Altrincham and Dunham Memorial Cross; Richmond House School, Bowdon; Two Hale Families in the Mid-eighteenth Century
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Special WW1 edition Captain Edward Kinder Bradbury VC: The French Connection; Edward Kinder Bradbury VC: The ‘Affair at Néry’, 1 September 1914; The Princess Mary Christmas 1914 Tin and Other WW1 Memorabilia; The Cinema in Altrincham in August 1914
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Memories of Dunham Camp; Bent's Inn, Altrincham 1640-1713; Timperley Datestone; The Victoria Cross and the George Cross
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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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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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Don Bayliss Obituary; Stamford Rack Rent Dinner 1902; A Timperley Flour Manufacturer in WW1; The History of the Local Landscape; Altrincham’s First Fire Engine
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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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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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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 Meeting…
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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 Hale …
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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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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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Hamo de Mascy; Holt’s Yard, Manor Road, Altrincham; The Origin of Altrincham Township; The Curious Will of John Jenkinson of Riddings Hall, Timperley, 1712
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Chris Hill, 1934-2025; The Frisian Origins of English People; Shelley Rohde, Journalist, Author, TV Present and Biographer of LS Lowry; The English Civil War Petitions Project: Local People’s Stories
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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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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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Tour of Altrincham. A walk around the history of Altrincham, Cheshire. Out-of-print. Now edownload only.
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