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THE early 1900s, when Whitchurch was the epicentre of Cheshire farmhouse cheese production, have been re-created.
Whitchurch's Better Welcome committee and supporters re-enacted a 'cheese run' last month.
This is when cheese sold at the town's huge cheese fair was brought to the canalside and loaded on barges for distribution to towns and cities.
A HISTORIAN is trying to identify this young local girl, pictured at a wartime celebration in south Cheshire.
Neil Rees, who lives in Buckinghamshire, has been carrying out extensive research into the stories of the Czechs who were exiled to the UK during the Second World War.
He has already published a book called The Secret History of the Czech Connection: The Czechoslovak Government in Exile in London and Buckinghamshire.
Mr Rees is now seeking information about the Czech army presence in Cholmondeley Park in 1940 and the Czech state schools at Hinton Hall and Maesfen Hall.
THE new season for Whitchurch History and Archaeology Group starts tonight (Thursday, September 17).
It kicks off with a talk in the Civic Centre at 7.30pm by Tony Lewery of the Waterways Trust entitled The Saturn Project.
He was involved with the restoration of the last Shroppie Fly Boat, Saturn, which is now more than 100 years old, but once plied the Shropshire Union Canal day and night non-stop carrying perishable goods.
The talk coincides with the Waterways Trust weekend held at the Whitchurch arm in Chemistry this weekend, at which Saturn can be seen.
RESEARCHING Shropshire's history has become much easier now the county's Historic Environment Record (HER) has been added to a new national website.
Formerly the Shropshire Sites and Monuments Record, the HER aims to be a record of all the archaeological sites, finds and features, and historic buildings, structures and landscapes in the county, and contains a wealth of supporting material.
Copies of all the HER's main records - including maps, reports, photographs and aerial photographs - are now available on the national 'Heritage Gateway' website - www.heritagegateway.org.uk.
The Shropshire HER records can be searched independently or viewed in conjunction with a range of national Heritage records maintained by English Heritage.
MP OWEN Paterson has visited the refurbished Boathouse and Mere heritage site in Ellesmere.
The North Shropshire representative, with members of the Big Lottery Fund and Shropshire Council, enjoyed a guided tour of the beauty spot to see the publicly funded work carried out there.
This included a visit to the newly revamped Boathouse Restaurant and Tourist Information Centre where Mr Paterson viewed the heritage shop and interactive displays, followed by a walk along the newly restored promenade.
With him was Cllr Stephen Charmley, portfolio holder for culture and leisure services, and local councillor Ann Hartley.
THE war years were a demanding yet rewarding time for a former land girl who has been awarded a medal for her contribution.
Phyllis Barnett, now a resident at Weston House residential home, Whitchurch, has received a Land Army medal for services to her country.
Staff at the home realised she was eligible for the award and applied on her behalf.
Mrs Barnett was born in 1921 at The Grove, Coton, and worked as a housemaid - work which she hated.
When war was declared in 1939 she was called up to work in a munitions factory in Hereford.
After three years she left the factory with TNT poisoning and joined the Land Army in 1942.
THESE are just two of the paintings of Whitchurch in days gone by being auctioned off later this month.
We told last week how Wright Manley auctioneers is selling 16 watercolours by former teacher the late Kathleen Ann Parbutt, of Whitchurch.
Here we can show you two of them: the former Joseph Wright Auctioneers and Valuers in Watergate Street and the Bull's Head and Old Eagles Inn, looking toward Barkhill, Dodington; and the Old Shop in High Street, once a cooperage and now Walker's Bakery.
Some of the others show views of old timbered cottages in Station Road, now demolished, Sir Edward German's birthplace, St Alkmund's Church, The Horse and Jockey and Absolon's Confectioners, now Walker's Bakery, in High Street.
THESE photographs show Arthur Briggs Gill, late of Cottage Farm, Tilstock Road, Whit- church, among his contemporaries during a busy time in his school life in the early 1930s.
In 1932 he took part in the grammar school play Rising Generation, playing the part of the blonde lady sitting on the table.
Hubert Smith, ex-iron foundry director, played the young man in white flannels and blazer.
The composer was born German Edward Jones in Whitchurch in 1862, the second of five children.
He was the elder of two sons of John David Jones, a liquor merchant, brewer, church organist and local preacher, and Betsey (Elizabeth) Cox, a teacher of Bible classes for young women.
He began to study piano and organ with his father at the age of five. At the age of just six, he formed a boys concert band to perform locally, teaching himself the violin, composition, and music arrangement in the process.
He later sang alto in the church choir and participated in family entertainments above his uncle's grocery shop, often playing piano duets with his elder sister Ruth, who died when he was 15.
When he was in his mid teens, German's parents attempted to apprentice him to a shipbuilding firm, as they believed their son had an aptitude for engineering.
This photograph of the Whitchurch Air Raid wardens has been lent to us by Roland Wyatt of Alkington Road.
It shows Whitchurch Air Raid wardens, chief post and deputies and was taken in 1945 immediately before they were disbanded.
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