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ANSWERS to readers' questions sometimes elude me but fortunately there is usually someone out there who can help out.
Such was the case when Paul Snelson, now 54, asked me if I could tell him when the original Grange Infants School opened.
A CHESTER society, founded in 1884, is still going strong 125 years later.
Chester Philharmonic Orchestra, founded by John C Bridge back in the 19th century, began life as Chester Orchestral Society.
CHESTER Civic Trust is going for gold in 2010.
The trust, which was founded on January 7, 1960, celebrates its golden jubilee this year.
Here is a selection of Mold articles from the Cheshire Memories archive:
Flintshire Memories: Ysgol Glanrafon, Mold football team featured in Nostalgia article
Flintshire Memories: Mystery football photos left in Mold Newsagents
Mold Memories: Mold and District Civic Society held an open doors weekend
Thomas Wilson acted as Anglican Bishop of Sodor and Man in the seventeenth century, which was reputedly the poorest bishopric in Europe at the time. Despite this circumstance, he went on to found a free school in his home village of Burton on the Wirral.
Wilson was born in Burton in 1663 and his family had lived in the area for many generations. He attended the King's School in Chester and went to Dublin to study medicine at Trinity College. On returning from Ireland in 1687, he acted as curate to his uncle Richard Sherlock at Newchurch Kenyon, near Warrington.
AN ANCIENT relic of St Winefride could go out on display from its resting place in Holywell to Gwytherin, Conwy, where the venerated abbess was originally buried.
The piece of finger bone is kept in a shrine at St Winefride's Well, which pilgrims from across the world visit to pray and take to the water in the belief it can cure their ills.
A LITTLE piece of history could be brought back to Flintshire if campaigners have their way.
History and shipping enthusiasts want a s sponsor to pave the way for the RH Carr, one of the last steam ships to be built in Flintshire, to return to the county from Guyana, South America.
Reader's request from Expats' forum:
Can anybody help. Trying to find a branch of my family, Ruth Maureen Edwards born 1923 in Nantwich, married Kenneth C Brett in Nantwich 1953. If anybody can help please contact me, email
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A COMMANDO'S daughter from Widnes has identified a war ravaged village pictured in photographs found in an old tin as a Norwegian port raided by her father and other British forces in 1941.
Ann Jones, of Kilsby Drive, now hopes the photographs' owners, Alan and Elaine Leather, of Ditton, can help to unravel the riddle surrounding her father's death and burial.
Lance Sergeant Harold Povey was among the first commandos who fought house to house in a raid on Vaagso on December 27, 1941.
Operation Archery was the first joint amphibious raid carried out by the Navy, RAF and Army, during which Lance Sgt Povey died.
ONE man who looks back with great fondness on life in Runcorn's Dukesfield in the late 1950s and early 60s is Rob Ellison who, as a boy, lived at the bottom of Blantyre Street.
Rob enjoyed reading the piece written by Lew Darlington, which appeared here earlier this month, and kindly sent me his own recollections of life 'under the arches'.
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