February 2009 Archives
If you remember your school days as the happiest days of your life, then the Chester History and Heritage Centre would like to see proof.
Elaine Pierce-Jones is mounting an exhibition entitled The Best Days of our Lives at the centre, on Bridge Street Row, from March 30 to May 28.
She said: "I know that people like to see pictures from living memory so I am looking for photographs from about the 1930s onwards.
"As well as class photographs I would love to see more informal shots from school trips or days out or just daily life at school."
A HOOLE resident's quest for information about the history of his house has come up trumps.
Allen Walker lives at 58 Hewitt Street, Hoole, which was known locally as Brown's Dairy.
Ian Palin, of Rawson Road, Blacon, contacted The Chronicle with happy tales of his childhood at the house.
Ian said: "I sold this house to Allen Walker 11 years ago this July.
"My brother John and I were brought up there - John was born in 1958 and I was born in 1963.
"Our parents, Ivy and Percy Palin, bought the house in 1953 for about ã1,200. It had previously been split into two flats, sharing the downstairs bathroom and kitchen.
Deeside has been well known for ice skating since the 1970s.
The first rink doubled up as a concert venue, staging gigs by some of the biggest names in the business from the late 1970s and well into the 1980s.
The Police, Jam and The Clash were just a few of the headline acts to perform at the venue.
A CONTROVERSIAL consultants' report on the future of Mold as a commercial centre recommended moving the historic cattle market to the edge of town.
THE Welsh Office decided not to bunker a proposed nine-hole golf course at Coed Farm, Caerwys.
TREES were planted outside Pantymwyn Village Hall by local people involved in running the building over the years.
THE SPRINCH Boatyard, Rock Park and the old Ragged School will always be remembered as predominant features of Mill Brow, which survives - albeit in a different form - today.
This picture shows how the drainage of the Bridgewater Canal for repairs gave youngsters a chance to search the mud for coal which had fallen from the boats as they were being unloaded from Hazlehursts' soap works.
The people of Mill Brow were a closely knit little community who provided its character and colour, living as they did almost cheek by jowl, in row upon row of terraced houses and little cottages.
Most of those properties, together with its old landmarks, have long gone but fortunately the children of an earlier generation live on.
One such "youngster", Keith Leyland, now 65 and living at Firbank, Elton Village, kindly took the trouble to put pen to paper with his own recollections after reading a piece which appeared here last August and also included a remarkable aerial picture showing the Spring Boatyard and other features, including the old Lescher and Webb Works chimney in Gas Street, from around the turn of the last century.
Incidentally, that photo was provided by Glynn Dyer, of Holmfield Avenue, Runcorn.
Jackson's Lane, running down from Mill Brow to the Bridgewater Canal, housed many old Runcornians and Keith Leyland's family lived in one of a block of three cottages in a third of an acre of land at the bottom of the lane (No 24), facing on to the canal itself.
IAN McKeane, a recognised authority on Ireland and its troubled past, gave Runcorn Historical Society members an insight into The IRA and Liverpool at their February meeting.
A lecturer in Irish studies at Liverpool University, the speaker's specialist knowledge attracts post graduate students from all over the world, sometimes from as far away as Hawaii as well as Spanish and German students taking their MA.
It was Mr McKeane' second visit to the history society following his appearance more than 12 months ago when he dealt with the Irish Potato Famine.
FRESH moves are under way to establish Halton's first dedicated war museum.
Widnes-based war historian Terry Burns has been pleading with councillors and MPs for several years to find him a site to store his impressive collection of military memorabilia.
Terry, who tours schools with items from his collection and gives talks on the subject, wants to establish a permanent display to educate visitors on the borough's proud wartime past.
Now the council and Widnes Historical Society have pledged to help Terry try to secure a heritage grant, and a possible new home for his collection has been found at Kingsway Learning Centre, Widnes.
Terry said: "Derek Twigg MP and Howard Cockroft from Halton Council have been working hard behind the scenes to help put my collection in a museum.
This week's look down the decades takes us to 1964 and Prees Girl Guides.
It has been lent to us by Mrs O Gleave of Prees. Can you remember any of the missing names?
Former Whitchurch policeman David Francis, who now lives in Devon, has sent us this photo of pupils of Tilstock School in about 1947.
His sister Muriel Francis is seated on the front row, third right - perhaps some of the other faces will be familiar to readers.
IT was lovely to see some of the photos of Whitchurch taken in days gone by in your feature "Trip down Memory Lane" in the Herald.
Of particular interest to me and my family is the photograph entitled "Picture house".
It may be of interest to your readers with long memories that the gentleman striding down Mill Street in the photograph is my late grandfather Fred Denman, founder of Denman's of Whitchurch Ltd.
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