In the six week Battle of France a large number of Belgian, British and French troops were cut off and surrounded by the German army. Fortunately on 23 May Hitler ordered the advance by the German army to halt as he believed that the Luftwaffe could destroy the remnants of…
In June last year the Memorial Orchard website wrote about the role 95 year old Ernie Nelson of Hartford played in the D-Day landings. http://orchard.weaverham.org.uk/d-day-veteran-ernie-nelson/ In this weeks VE Day Commemorative issue of the Northwich Guardian we learn more of his story. Ernie, who was a wireless telegraphist on HMS…
The topic for History Day 2019 was “What have Cheshire’s gardens ever done for us?” and at the end of October 2019 we created a display with this theme. Once again it was very successful and the estates at Winnington Hall at Winnington; Hefferstone Grange, Weaverham; Oakmere Hall, Cuddington and…
Operation Neptune, often referred to as D-Day, took place 75 years ago, on Tuesday, 6th June. It was preceded by extensive aerial and naval bombardment and marked the start of the Allied invasion of Normandy. It was the largest seaborne invasion in history and the operation began the liberation of German-occupied…
Excerpts have been taken from the letter-bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope, published in 1913. Lady Elizabeth was the sister in law of the Rev Charles Spencer Stanhope, the vicar of Weaverham from 1835 to 1874. On 27 September 1825 the Stockton and Darlington Railway, the first to carry passengers…
The subject for the Cheshire Local History Association History Day on Saturday 3 November 2018, was Historic Crime and Punishment in Cheshire. Once again we prepared a highly praised display on this theme, with illustrations on common punishments such as the crank, shot drill and picking oakum; Knutsford Goal; the…
Following the very successful History Day in Northwich on 4 November 2017, our display for that day has been requested by 4 libraries in the area. Sandiway Library will be having the display from the middle of February to the middle of March, which includes World Book Day on 1…
We had a very well-attended meeting at our meeting on Tuesday, 9 January, which included visitors from The Viking Society. The title of the talk was “DNA and the Vikings” and Professor Stephen Harding of the University of Nottingham told us about the work being undertaken to track where significant populations of…
War Memorials The War Memorials Trust defines a war memorial as ‘any physical object created, erected or installed to commemorate those involved in or affected by a conflict of war’. A war memorial can be anything from a monument or plaque to a tree. It can be a locomotive, a…
Could a Roman road have passed through Weaverham from Sandiway heading towards Warrington? Mr Kirk (footnote 1) in the 1880s certainly thought so. He maintained that in 1876 the remains of a road were found under Weaverham’s church chancel. The road would have run from the area of Cuddington Station,…
