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    • MEN NOT COMMEMORATED ON LOCAL MEMORIALS.
  • First World War
    • The Great War – Week by Week
    • Christopher Bushell V.C., D.S.O.
    • William [‘Billy’] La Touche Congreve VC, DSO, MC – a Burton Hero
    • William [‘Billy’] La Touche Congreve VC, DSO, MC – Commemoration 20 July 2016
    • The Coventry and Pyke families, 1915 and 1916
    • Alfred Jellicoe (1878 – 1917)
    • Neston’s New Red Cross Hospital
    • World War 1 – War Memorials
    • Thomas Crimes Ashbrook (1877 -1942), railway man, and the Great War
    • The War, late August 1917 and no end in sight.
    • Neston, Early September 1917
    • Neston, Autumn 1917
    • Neston, December 1917.
  • Neston Collieries
    • Coal preparation at the Wirral Colliery, Little Neston, in 1896
    • Neston (Wirral) Colliery
  • The Canals that Almost Came to Neston
  • Neston Female Friendly Society (Ladies Club)
  • Neston Inns
    • Malt Shovel
    • Chester Arms
    • The Vaults, The Letters, or the Neston Hotel
    • The Brown Horse Inn
    • Chester Arms, Parkgate and William Williams Mortimer
  • Shops
    • Where we used to shop…
    • Where we used to shop 2
    • A Few More Neston Shops
  • Fishing
    • Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners Royal Benevolent Society and the Parkgate fishermen
    • Stormy Weather
    • Parkgate Regattas
    • Jonathan Mellor (1846 – 1931) – Fisherman
    • Growing up in Parkgate- Helen Elizabeth Bushell (1902 – 2002)
  • Memories
    • Memories of my Days on the Marshes
    • Reminiscences of a Train Boy
    • Memories of an Earlier Train Boy, 1930
    • Ness Holt School – Memories
    • Railway Memories
    • Housing
    • A Neston Memory
    • Life on the Mellock Estate in the 1950s and ’60s.
    • Childhood Memories of Little Neston in the 1950s and 60s
    • Memories of Thornton Hough
  • People and Families
    • Agnes Lois Bulley (1901 – 1995)
    • William Quay 1778 – 1846
    • Lady Hamilton’s (very distant) Neston Cousins
    • Commander John Monk, R.N. (1791-1880)
    • Wolton Gray (1836 – 1891) and his family
    • Christopher Bushell V.C., D.S.O.
    • Robert Bridson and Son
    • Edwin Rooke (1855 – 1918) a Neston Stationmaster
    • Angelina Jane Bushell
    • Growing up in Parkgate- Helen Elizabeth Bushell (1902 – 2002)
    • Jonathan Mellor (1846 – 1931) – Fisherman
    • William [‘Billy’] La Touche Congreve VC, DSO, MC – a Burton Hero
    • Thomas Crimes Ashbrook (1877 -1942), railway man, and the Great War
    • Vizcachani, the Barber family and Neston’s South American Links
    • Charles Roscoe of Neston
  • Buildings and Places
    • The Lost Buildings of Neston
    • The Ringway
    • Pykes Weint: it’s an old address, but is it the right one?
    • Staplands Fine Art Workshop
    • Neston’s Mill Street Quarry
    • Rose Gardens, Little Neston
    • Mostyn House – from the beginning
    • The Hostels and HMS Mersey
    • Neston Town Hall – the beginning
    • The Lamp on the Bushell Fountain
    • Ness Myths and a Memorial
    • Leighton Court from Beginning to End
      • The Gardens of Leighton Court
    • Can you help solve a milestones mystery?
    • ‘Headless Cross’ – briefly
    • Timber Dumps
  • Remember, Remember the 5th of November
  • Neston, early 1890
    • Spring 1890, Political Intrigues and a Raging Bull
  • Christmas Past
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  • Neston Football – the Early Years
  • Learning the Ropes: Parkgate Rope-Making and the Ropewalk
  • A society just for the men: Neston Victoria Jubilee Lodge of the Order of Ancient Shepherds
  • Charity of Nessie Mathews and John Monk
  • Wedding Celebrations, 1848
  • The Town Hall in WWII
  • Creches in Nineteenth Century Neston
  • Neston and District Hockey Club 1900
  • Defending Neston in the Cold War Years
  • Gallery
  • Tommy, the Council’s Horse
  • Romp and Stomp in the Town Hall Basement? No Chance, said the Council.
  • Football in Neston
  • May Time in Neston
  • The Anglican Smelting, Reduction and Coal Company Ltd
  • Stanney Fields Park
  • Not in our Name: the Slave Ship ‘Neston’
  • HomeTown Heroes: an A-Z list
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HomeTown Heroes

The Stories of the Casualties of War of Neston and Burton

1914 – 1921

by

Ian L. Norris

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Neston (Wirral) Colliery

by Phil Pritchard

The Neston Colliery (later known as “The Wirral Colliery”, and then even later as “The Wirral Colliery (1915)”), was situated on the eastern coastline of the Welsh Dee estuary, at the end of Marshlands Road (previously known as Colliery Lane) in Little Neston, Cheshire West, using a site that was made vacant by the demise of the Anglican Smelting Company…read more

Charles Roscoe of Neston – A Remarkable True Tale of Tragedy at Sea and Divided Love

by Anthony Annakin-Smith

There are many interesting gravestones in Neston churchyard but one that is particularly unusual is that of Charles Roscoe – it bears what is probably the most detailed image to mark any grave there. The image, cast from a mould, is of a ship and is still fine in every detail ...read more

Not in our Name: the Slave Ship ‘Neston’

by Anthony Annakin-Smith

Residents of Neston may be surprised to know that, of the many slave ships that sailed from Liverpool when it was at the forefront of the transatlantic slave trade, one was a vessel named after the town...read more

Vizcachani, the Barber family and Neston’s South American Links.

by I. Bushell

Approaching Neston from the A540 down Hinderton Road, on the right-hand side where the road narrows lies a substantial Edwardian family house bearing the name Vizcachani at its gate. An unusual name, given by the house’s first owner John Lionel Barber in 1907...read more

The Anglican Smelting, Reduction and Coal Company 

by  Anthony Annakin-Smith.

The story of the Anglican Smelting, Reduction and Coal Company Ltd. offers an intriguing footnote to Neston’s industrial history and forms an unlikely link between the area and gold deposits 4,500 miles away...read more

Commander John Monk, R.N. (1791-1880)

by Simon Brown

John Monks’s path in life took him across most of the seas of Europe, fighting Napoleon with the Royal Navy and then trading with Mediterranean ports as a merchant captain and ship owner…read more

A Few Memories of Thornton Hough
by Eric Richard Brassey

In 1908 Harry Brassey was born at number 4 Manor Road, Thornton Hough.  He was the youngest of three brothers – Tom, Dick and Harry.  Harry was my Father …read more

Learning the Ropes: Parkgate, Rope-making and The Ropewalk

by Anthony Annakin-Smith

Many people wonder about the origins of The Ropewalk – the long straight footway in Parkgate .This article looks at the history of rope-making in the area and the background to the path…(read more)

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Ryley’s Castle Parkgate

September 11, 2020/in Parkgate /by nestonpastinfo

The home of actor Samuel Ryley (c1756 – 1837)

St Winefride’s Church, Burton Road

October 13, 2019/in Churches /by nestonpastinfo

Built in 1841 as a school, the building was converted to use as a church in 1843 when it was opened for worship on the feast of St Winefride. 

Neston Parish Church

January 14, 2019/in Neston /by nestonpastinfo

The postcard is dated 7th July 1913. The message was ” Visited this church with Mr R. Howick who played the organ for me”. It is addressed to Miss M Phizackerley, Chester. It was unposted and with an incomplete address so possibly it was her memento of the occasion. Richard George Howick, originally from Chester, was the organist at Neston Church for a few years, until 1918 when he left to take up another position (in London?). He was the son of Walter Howick who had a music shop in Chester and was organist at Backford church. Miss Phizackerley was probably Muriel Phizackerley, daughter of George Thompson Phizackerley, District Superintendent of railways. They lived at Fairfield, Kilmorey Park, Chester

Parkgate

October 29, 2018/in Parkgate /by nestonpastinfo

Postcard published by William Ledsham of the Clontarf Café in Parkgate. He and his wife, Florence had a café/general store in the 1920s and 30s. He was born in Chester in 1881 and was originally a tailor

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