Showing posts with label Cheadle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cheadle. Show all posts
Thursday, 19 June 2014

Cheadle Militia 1809

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It being the 18 th June and the 199 th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo I came across a reference in a newspaper to the Napole...
Wednesday, 7 May 2014

Saving the Countryside

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I came across a report from 1933 of the opening of the gateway at Hawksmoor nature reserve( near Cheadle) by the Poet Laureate to a kin...
Sunday, 26 January 2014

Battle of the Nile

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The sad  news that the closure of the Portsmouth Dockyards will end 500 years of naval ship building coincides as  a major exhibition on ...
Wednesday, 3 April 2013

Do you remember April 1962?

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Leek's first ever road safety rally was held on the new Cattle Market site. It attracted 59 motorists who undertook rigorous ...

Bare Knuckle fighters of the 19th century

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They bred them tough in the old days. I came across an account from the  Staffordshire Advertiser from August 1813 of a local  boxing ...
Tuesday, 2 April 2013

WH Auden and a visit to Froghall 1925

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“He would have liked the area. It would have had the sort of landscape that he enjoyed” a biographer of the poet Wystan Hugh Auden told...
Wednesday, 6 March 2013

Mary Adela Blagg- Lunar scientist

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Bill Cawley on a Cheadle woman who deserves wider recognition in International Women's Day. The first week of March...
Wednesday, 27 February 2013

Victorians and Food

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Barely a week goes by without items appearing on the adulteration of food. The current controversy over burgers and horse meat being a ...
Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Miners

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One piece of data that caught my eye in the report of the findings of the 2011 UK census was the state of the coal mining industry. The...
Friday, 4 January 2013

On two conflicting religious houses

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t was a colourful sight that would live long in the mind of those who witnessed it that autumn day in 1846. The assembled clergy...