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Hale Lives 1600-1760
by Jill Groves. Hale people, their politics, religion, alehouses and leisure, crime and violence, agriculture, housing, food, clothes and luxuries as shown in wills and probate inventories...
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Hale Wills, Part 1, 1600-1640
Wills and Inventories from a North-east Cheshire township, with background history, notes to wills; Hale people, farming, housing, food, occupations, dress and luxuries 1600-1640...
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Hale Wills, Part 2, 1641-1680
Wills and Inventories from a North-east Cheshire township, with background history, notes to wills; Hale people, farming, housing, food, occupations, dress and luxuries 1641-1680...
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Hale Wills, Part 4, 1721-1760
Wills and Inventories from a North-east Cheshire township, with background history, notes to wills; Hale people, farming, housing, food, occupations, dress and luxuries 1721-1760...
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Hale Wills: Part3 1681-1720
Wills and Inventories from a North-east Cheshire township, with background history, notes to wills; Hale people, farming, housing, food, occupations, dress and luxuries 1681-1720...
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Monumental Inscriptions of Brooklands Cemetery, Sale (Old Part).
The Monumental Inscriptions of Brooklands Cemetery, Sale (Old Part). Edited by John Newhill, published by Ashton and Sale History Society. Brooklands Cemetery opened in 1862, the first public cemetery south of the Mersey, and popular with people from Manchester....
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News From Victorian Newhaven by Stanley Bernard. Publisher Paths Publishing
Although Newhaven is a quiet town today, in the mid-to-late nineteenth century it was to home the some crimes that made national news. From runaway wives to fraud to brutal murders, Victorian Newhaven had it all....
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Newtown (Cally) Altrincham by David Miller
The railway arrived in Altrincham in 1849. The railway workers needed housing, so Newtown was built on Hale Moss on the south-eastern edge of the town between what is now Lloyds Street and Oxford Road. It was soon nicknamed 'Cally'. There are many versions of why it was called this....
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Occasional Paper 47: Air Raid Precautions in Altrincham, 1936 to 1942 by David Eastwood
This Occasional Paper is based on forty boxes papers recently found in the cellars of the Stamford Estate Office in Altrincham. These papers, which have now been conserved, were concerned with the organisation of Air Raid Precautions in Altrincham. Both Roger, 10th Earl of Stamford, and his agent Mr Robert Rosbotham were very much involved with the organisation of ARP Wardens in Altrincham. It is ...
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Occasional Paper 55 - Portrait of a Georgian Marriage
The life and times of Henrietta Cavendish Bentinck, 5th Countess of Stamford and Warrington, and her family by Ann Nosowska and Kath Rigby ...
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Occasional Paper 56 - A Pauper Lunatic in Macclesfield Asylum: The Terrifying Experience of Alice Petschler by Joanna M Williams
This is the story of an articulate Victorian businesswoman, Alice Petschler of Altrincham and Manchester, and her family, and her frightening experience of Parkside Asylum, Macclesfield in the 1870s. Her story was made public by her friends and led to a campaign to change the law of lunacy. In 1873 the Lunacy Commission issued a damning report on the actions of Altrincham Board of Guardians. There...
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Occasional Paper 64 - Memorable Altrincham Shops
By David Miller. Memories and histories of Altrincham shops from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Do you remember buying cakes from Ankers or the latest records from White and Swales?...
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ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY YEARS OF HEALTH CARE: The Story of Altrincham General Hospital. Part 2: From the Beginning of the National Health Service in 1948 to 2015
By David Eastwood (with additional material by Jill Groves)...
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Open History 125, Summer 2013
Newhaven, Sussex, 1837-1887; Hertfordshire's Medical 'Guinea Pigs'; A Yorkshire teacher-training college in the Swinging 60s; What the Open University degree can do for you; report on conference at Farncombe Estate, Worcestershire; Visit to the Gladstone Pottery 16 March 2013...
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Open History 154
Life for Female Prisoners in Brixton Prison 1858-1869: Part 1; The Rise, Fall and Subsequent Resurgence of Cinemas as a Form of Entertainment; The RUR Cup: What’s in a Name?; Was the Period 1945-1989 Really the Age of Protest? Defending Liberty: Anti-Socialist groups in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain; The Shifting and Accommodating Nature of Magic and Superstition Before and After Christ...
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Retribution: The Cheshire Royalists who suffered under the Commonwealth, 1646-1660
by David Eastwood. Alphabetical list of Cheshire Royalists, great and small, and their dealings with the Committee for Compounding...
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Ringway Baptisms 1750-1837
transcribed and edited by Peter Hughes. St. Mary's, Ringway, Cheshire. Baptisms mostly from Hale, but many from neighbouring parishes....
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The Changing Landscape of Bowdon, Cheshire by Don Bayliss and David Miller
A study of Bowdon through land use, its unusual multiple openfield system and the importance of the church in the area's history and development...
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The Impact of Civil War on a Community: Northenden and Etchells in Cheshire 1642-1660
By Jill Groves. A study from the bottom-up of how the English Civil Wars affected the lives of ordinary people. Includes a chapter on the family histories of the people involved. The enlarged edownload version (revised 5th edition, March 2021) includes an appendix listing the tenants of Northenden and Etchells in the 1640s and the 1650s, plus additional information on some of the people involved (...
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Timperley Lives, Part 1, 1600-1640
Timperley people, their politics, their families, crime and violence in Timperley, how poor people were treated in Timperley, agriculture in the Mini-Ice Age, convertible husbandry, the importance of the commons, the famine of the 1620s in the North-west, housing, Riddings Hall, food, clothes, luxuries, fuel and transport as shown in wills and probate inventories from 1600 to 1640 and Dunham Masse...
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Timperley Lives, Part 2, 1641-1680 by Jill Groves
Timperley people, Timperley and the English Civil Wars, their families, agriculture, goose husbandry in North-east Cheshire 1600-1760, market gardening, housing, building the new Timperley Hall, food, clothes and luxuries as shown in wills, probate inventories and other contemporary documents, 1641-1680...
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Timperley Lives, Part 3, 1681-1720 by Jill Groves
Timperley people, their politics, their families, agriculture, the rise of the ‘professional farmer’ and the dairy industry, housing, Fir Tree Farm, food, cider production, clothes and luxuries...
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Timperley Lives, Part 4 1721-1760
Timperley people, their politics, their families, the Timperley Land ‘Fire Sales’ of the 1750s and 1760s, agriculture, housing, food, clothes and luxuries...
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Town in Crisis: Altrincham in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
The 1852 Board of Health Maps and Other Evidence. Altrincham in the 1850s was the subject of a Board of Health Report by Robert Rawlinson. Like a lot of old market towns in the mid-nineteenth century, Altrincham had grown quickly in population, but didn't have the infrastructure to cope. It had cellar-dwellings, single toilets for whole streets and dung heaps in the streets....
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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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