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DO you have any video footage of days to remember from historic times gone by?
We're keen to expand our coverage of Cheshire's rich heritage on this blog.
If you had a cine camera and took a film of a Royal visit or a big event at your works, we'd love to hear from you.
Likewise, if you shot some film at a street party or your school sports... anything at all that would jog the memories of those who were there.
If you can help, please contact our multi-media editor James Shepherd at our Chester office on 01244 606401.
He will be able to explain how to transmit video together with an explanation of when and where it was taken.
You can also email James at digital@cheshirenews.co.uk
Here is a post from our Expats' Forum in case any readers can help:
I'm trying to locate anyone with information about the Murphy family of Widnes. Do these names mean anything to you :-
James Gerard (Jim) Murphy, Mary Maureen Davies (formerly Murphy), Kathleen McSorley (formerly Murphy), and Winnifred Wood (also formerly Murphy). These are, respectively, my grandfather, my mother, and her sisters. The family address was Milton Avenue, Widnes.
I know that James died in 1943 and is buried in Widnes Cemetery, but have no information about what happened to the rest of the family. Can anyone please help?
I can be reached via email at tonydav65@hotmail.com
I would be grateful for any information
Thank you!
A SOUTH Cheshire rail enthusiast is urging Chronicle readers to lend their support to a ã8m campaign to build a new steam locomotive which was once built in Crewe.
Derek McVety, 70, of Heathfield Road, Audlem, is spreading the word about the LMS Patriot Project Appeal - a campaign to build a Patriot class steam loco which would be used on the present Network Rail system rather than for show.
ALMOST everyone, who at some time or other lived 'under the arches' in Runcorn's Dukesfield, retained memories of their own little adventures among the canalside community.
The rows and rows of terraced houses (all the street names were in some way connected to the Duke of Bridgewater's imprint on the area) were home to several generations of Dukesfielders.
A transport theme runs through this week's Nostalgia slot.
THOSE among us who were around in the 1940s and even the late 1930s will well remember there was wasn't much money about.
A HASLINGTON author is inviting residents to take a third trip with him down memory lane.
David Green, of Lynton Grove, has completed a new book on a pictorial history of the villages of Haslington and Winterley.
TRIBUTES have been paid to a stonemason who helped maintain and look after Chester Cathedral for more than 50 years.
Jim Cadman MBE, of Greenbank Road, Chester, died at the age of 91 on October 29 this year.
He spent the majority of his life looking after Chester Cathedral and its surrounding buildings including the Georgian and listed properties in Abbey Square, properties in Northgate Street and the old King's School.
Jim took over the WH Haswell and Son stonemasons from his father who was the clerk of the works - a position that was later bestowed on him when he left the army after the war.
Peter Hebbelwhite, lay clerk in the cathedral maintenance department, said: "He looked after the whole estate and it was a paradise of buildings to study and maintain for those of us with a love of architecture."
Life through a lens is the focus again of this week's Pioneer Nostalgia section as we look back through the last century in Ellesmere Port.
Ellesmere Port Lions Club fundraising in the town.
George Mallory, the mountaineer famous for his part in the ill-fated 1924 Everest expedition, was born and brought up in the Cheshire village of Mobberley.
George Herbert Leigh-Mallory was born on 18 June 1886 and his father was an affluent clergyman.
He was one of four children (his brother, Trafford Leigh-Mallory, was a World War II Royal Air Force commander) and his aptitude for climbing became evident at an early age. His escapades included climbing on the roof of the parish church and being rescued from a seaside rock when the tide came in.
After attending two preparatory schools in Eastbourne and West Kirby, he won a scholarship to Winchester College at the age of 14. Mallory's interest in climbing was fostered there by the experienced mountaineer Graham Irving. Irving set up the Winchester Ice Club which gave Mallory and his fellow pupils a chance to gain a wide range of experience.
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