Historical articles
08/12/2022 An interesting black and white print of the old Star Inn and Scales and Sons Boot Manufacturers by local artist Mr. A. Daffern welcomes the Christmas season in for this year. Last year its coloured counterpart and others that have adorned Christmas cards showing village life at this time…
In 2022, Her Majesty the Queen becomes the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee after 70 years of service. The village has celebrated previous jubilees over the years, in different ways. They provide useful landmarks of the particular times in which they happened. An early reference is to…
Bradshaw House as you see it now on Lawton Street, Congleton, was built in 1820 and is a grade II listed Georgian-fronted property. Bradshaw House, Congleton by David Weston, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons The name, however, derives from an occupant of a previous house on the site which…
Operation Neptune, often referred to as D-Day, took place 80 years ago, on Tuesday, 6 June 1944. 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…
(and impeccable handwriting). 29/09/2022 One of the more recognisable buildings that has been featured before is the Barrymore Institute. It is not one of the listed buildings in the village but that doesn’t mean it has not played a major part in the history of Weaverham. An earlier article on…
Postscript: A Glance at History in the Making? In 2022, Her Majesty the Queen becomes the first British Monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee after 70 years of service. The village celebrated previous jubilees over the years, in different ways. They provided useful landmarks of the particular times in which…
Below is the account of Weaverham resident and Falklands veteran Tom Navin who served in 1982 as a combat medic as part of The Red and Green Life Machine. ‘I passed out from basic training in March 1982 aged 18 qualifying as a Combat Medic and posted to 16 Fd…
Helsby had its balloon pioneer but Weaverham also has had its occasional brush with aeronauts of one sort or another, mostly in wartime but not entirely. The best known and featured elsewhere on the website is the bombing of Nook Farm in November 1940. Images courtesy of Weaverham History Society…
In 1874 Weaverham made the National newspaper headlines. Doctor Frazer, the medical officer for the area, reported that, “Since August 1874 scarlet fever has spread in this Township until it has become epidemic. Until the 9th. of November there had been 165 cases in Weaverham and 241 in the local…
VICTORY OVER JAPAN DAY Although war in Europe ended in May 1945, the war in the Far East continued for several months until shortly after the dropping of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in the wake of which, on 15th August 1945 Imperial Japan surrendered. This effectively ended the Second…
