Bulletins

Bulletin No. 1  (clicking above image opens PDF)

1) The Manor Court of Burton and its Records: A short description of the local court and its surviving records

2) Marl-Pits in Burton: Their origins and some examples on the tithe map Early Printed Maps: Some examples of map makers, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century

3) The Chester High Road: A study of the A540, and some puzzling aspects of other early roads through Wirral

                          First published 1976

Bulletin No. 4  (clicking above image opens PDF)

1) SOCIETY IN THE PORT AND TOWN OF NESTON, 1550-1650 Linda Briggs - The effect on Neston's inhabitants of decline and expansion in agriculture, commerce and trade.

2) FAME IS THE SPUR - MYTH AND THE FAMILY  Grenfells and Grenvilles - Geoffrey Place  

3) WIRRAL  AGRICULTURE  c.1550-1800

J. Phillip Dodd - Changes in farming practice with progress in trade and industry

                         First published April 1983

Bulletin No. 7 (clicking above image opens PDF)

1) Marehall Lane — a problem in dating

    (by Geoffrey Place & Hilary Morris).

2) The Old Mill at Willaston (by Hugh Morris).

First published May 1986

Bulletin No. 2  (clicking above image opens PDF)

1) EARLY VICTORIAN BURTON - THE 1851 CENSUS  Bernard O'Keeffe

2) THE HOSPITAL OF ST. ANDREW, DENHALL  Norman Mawby

3) Letter from Richard Congreve to his brother, 1801

4) A sailor of Burton makes peace with a sailor of Heswall, 1620

5) THE MEDIEVAL PARISH OF NESTON - THE VILLAGES AND THEIR FIELDS Geoffrey Place (intoduction by Paul Booth)

6) THE CHESHIRE PARISH REGISTER TRANSCRIPTION SCHEME  Paul Hair

                          First published 1978

Bulletin No. 5 (clicking above image opens PDF in new window)

1) The Skipper's Yarn: A shipwreck in the Irish Sea in 1898

2) Neston Park: The story of the medieval deer-park that gave Parkgate its name

3) A Flintshire Family: Childhood in a Flintshire miner's home

                      First published April 1984

Bulletin No. 8 (clicking above image opens PDF)

1) The Site of The Old Quay - Janet Miles

2) Walking in Wirral in 1901 - Margaret Cullen

3) The Development of the Lane System in Little Neston Township

                      First Published  May 1987

Bulletin No. 3 (clicking above image opens PDF)

1)  BATY OF BURTON  a Maritime Robin Hood? by Paul Booth

2)  (the long since demolished) WINDLE HILL SCHOOL    by Ina Bushell

3)  GIN FOR HORSES - BUT NO TONIC
by Ron Jones

4)  (a study of) HEDGES IN WILLASTON
by Hilary Morris

5)  CROSSING THE DEE ON FOOT
by Geoffrey Place

First published 1982

Bulletin No. 6 (clicking above image opens PDF)

1) Indigo — Unexpected Local Colour: The manufacture of the natural and synthetic dyes, and the history of the indigo factory in Ellesmere Port.  Hilary Morris

Post script: The indigo dye plant described in Hilary's article eventually ceased production in March 1999, succumbing to a slump in demand and the lower cost of manufacture from competitors in the Far East.

2) Dr Riddock's School at Little Neston: The development of a Presbyterian elementary school by a Scottish academic1) Geoffrey Place

First published Oct. 1985

Bulletin 9 (clicking above image opens PDF)

1) MORE EXCURSIONS IN EDWARDIAN TIMES                      Margaret Cullen

2) MILESTONES FROM THE CHESTER HIGH ROAD             Geoffrey Place

3) FROM SAXONS TO VICTORIANS     (Visiting West Cheshire Churches) Hilary Morris

                     First published in May 1988

Bulletin 13

1) FROM EARLY DAYS IN CHESHIRE WING TO CHAMPION SQUADRON by Bob Munslow 

2) MEMORIES OF THE HOME GUARD IN LITTLE , NESTON, 1940-41  by R. E. Scott, MBE

First Published May 1993

Bulletin 16, first published in 1998. Click on the cover image above to view or download.

It contains four articles:

1) St. Andrew's Hospital and The Denhall Anchorage by Geoffrey Place

2) Wartime Women's Institutes
by Hilary Morris

3) Wildfowling on the Dee Estuary
by Geoffrey Place

4) The Name's Moses (or, Winning Some and Losing Some) by David Morris

Bulletin 19, first published in March 2005 

Bulletin 14

1) REGISTRATION AND RATIONING IN NESTON DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR
by Edward Hilditch

2) FROM ORIGINS TO THE FIRST BOOK
by Ron Jones

3) THE WIRRAL STONE? by David and Hilary Morris                         

                        First Published Oct.1994

Bulletin 17, first published in 1999.  Click on the cover image above to view or download.

It contains four articles:

1) Looking back 25 years by David Morris

2) Samuel Ryley by Geoffrey Place

3) Founding Fathers by David Morris

4) Musings of an Old Lag (tailpiece)

Bulletin 15   (first published in 1997)

1) A HEADLESS CROSS by Geoffrey Place

2) WANTED - TOM CUSH, DANGEROUS VAGRANT! by Hilary Morris

3) ASHFIELD HALL by Geoffrey Place

4) MEMORIES OF NESTON COTTAGE HOSPITAL BY OLWEN WHITEWAY

5) ON A VERY DARK NIGHT by Walter Swain