December 2009 Archives
Here are a selection of archaeology articles from the Cheshire Memories archives:
Wilfred Grenfell became famous as a doctor and missionary on the Labrador coast and founded the International Grenfell Association, which is still in existence today.
He was born at Mostyn House in Parkgate in 1865 while his father was headmaster at the school. Throughout his childhood he made the most of exploring the Dee Estuary with his siblings. His formal education took place at Marlborough College in Wiltshire, University of Oxford, University of London and the London Hospital. While at medical college he satisfied his love of the outdoors by taking groups of children from the East End on camping trips.
Here is a selection of articles from the Cheshire Memories archives on the region's castles:
This seventh-century saint gave his name to the town of Llangollen, which is Welsh for Collen's enclosure.
A WREATH-LAYING ceremony to commemorate the bicentenary of Liberal statesman William Ewart Gladstone will be taking place exactly 200 years after the date of his birth.
The Deputy Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Councillor Hazel Williams will lead the ceremony at Gladstone's monument in St John's Gardens, Liverpool at noon on Tuesday.
The Sizzling Seventies also took a grip on Ellesmere Port and in this week's Nostalgia there is evidence that a lot was happening in the town during this exciting decade.
TRADITIONALLY, our twin towns have an outstanding record in maintaining a flourishing panoply of amateur football - be it soccer, rugby league or rugby union.
And today, the number of under- nines and teenage teams participating in all three sports provides sufficient evidence that continuity looks guaranteed for many years to come.
It is more than 50 years since I first began reporting on amateur soccer before graduating to coverage of Runcorn Football Club and the concluding years of the great Jack Search era.
STEVE Keogh, 52, a Runcornian 'born and bred', kindly took the trouble to email 19 copies of superb black-and-white photographs which captured the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
An American sailor 'shot' the pictures with a Box Brownie and, amazingly, the photos were found to be still in top condition when they were recently discovered in a foot locker.
My thanks to Steve, whom I'm delighted to say, enjoys reading this column.
AVIATION history began at Broughton 70 years ago with workmen using horse-drawn carts to level the land - no easy task as it was found to be sloping by some seven feet, writes Rob Davies.
It must have been hard to imagine back in 1939 that this place, would one day be the site of a world leader in the manufacture of some of the finest aircraft in the world.
The Chester branch of the Family History Society of Cheshire celebrated its 40th anniversary with a special meeting for members and guests at the Cheshire County Sports Club.
The inaugural meetings of the Family History Society of Cheshire took place in Chester in 1969 so both the society and the Chester branch were celebrating the same anniversary.
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