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  • Learning the Ropes: Parkgate Rope-Making and the Ropewalk
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  • 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
    • 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
  • External Links
  • Neston Football – the Early Years
  • 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’
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St Winefride's Church, Burton Road

October 13, 2019
Built in 1841 as a school, the building was converted to use…

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