The Hassall Family and the Acid Works by Joan Barton Among the photographs chosen for !”Whitchurch Remembered” is one of a print of the town from the south-west, made in 1824. This shows a large building at the foot of the slope down from Newtown to the Canal which could not be identified. It …
Category: History
Mar 21
Tale of a Missing Donkey
On the 2nd August, 1879, Superintendent Haines of Whitchurch received a complaint from Mrs T Ward of Ash Lane that a donkey had been stolen from their meadow. The Supt. at once dispatched Sgt. Thomas of the Whitchurch force to make enquiries. The Sgt. then set out in pursuit of the thief, and for six …
Nov 28
Whitchurch Phone Book 1921
Whitchurch Phonebook 1921 This is all the numbers listed in the Whitchurch Area section of the 1921 Phone book.
Aug 28
French Prisoners
French Prisoners of War in Whitchurch by Joan Barton The mention in the January Newsletter of the Whitchurch man who fought in the Peninsular War brings to mind these other soldiers who fought in the Napoleonic Wars ads also lie buried in St. Alkmund’s Churchyard. But these men “lie forever in a foreign field” …