Library

The Gill Knock Collection

The items listed below were collected by the late Gill Knock and are on permanent loan from her sons Andrew and David Walker.  Items are available to borrow on request.  If you would like to borrow an item, please contact us.

Willaston Books and Documents

• Willaston's Heritage by E.C. Bryan LI.B

• Willaston - Centre of Wirral by B.J. Prince 1998

• Christ Church Parish News - March 2022

• Christ Church Parish News - April 2022

• Christ Church Parish News - July 1975

• Christ Church Sunday News - 2/10/2022

• Willaston District Community Plan Questionnaire May 2013

• Willaston District Community Plan Summary and Action Plan March 2014

• Various Christmas Cards with photos of the village

• Various Postcards with photos of the village

• Willaston a la carte - Recipes from Europe 1992

• Willaston Survey results (date unknown but there were 388 houses in the village)

• A Walk West of Willaston

• Willaston WW1 Commemorative Walk 

• Willaston Village Walks leaflet 1977

• Explore Signals and Saltmarsh a ride around Willaston and Parkgate leaflet

• Welcome to Willaston leaflet

• Willaston Meadow and Woodland newsletter December 2003

• Willaston Memorial Hall appeal launch leaflet 2003

• Willaston Residents' and Countryside Society AGM invitation 2018

• Various editions of Willaston Matters, newsletter of Willaston Residents' and Countryside Society

• Willaston Business Focus leaflet

• Save Our Tree Appeal Leaflet

• Christ Church Flowers for the Queen's Jubilee leaflet 2022

• Christ Church Flower Festival 2015

• Christ Church Concert for the refubished organ 2000

• Willaston Village Festival 2015 programme

• Willaston Village Festival 2012 programme

• Willaston Millennium Festival 2000 programme

• Willaston Festival 1982 programme

• Willaston Village Festival 1980 programme

• Willaston Village Fayre 1976 programme

• Willaston Heritage Festive 1975 programme

• Sales Brochure for Elizabeth's Cottages

• History of Willaston Mill by J. H. Morris 1988

• Aims of Friends of Hadlow Road Station leaflet

• Wirral Country Park leaflet - Hadlow Road Station

• Willaston Township Pack produced by Cheshire and Chester Archives and Local Studies

• Lest We Forget - Willaston Remembers Its First World War Fallen

• Rural Cheshire - Willaston Neston U.D. 1967

Wirral/Cheshire Books and Documents

• Wirral Circular Trail

• Wirral Country Park Leaflet

• Neston Rock Cutting Junior Nature Trail

• Lees Lane Wirral Country Park leaflet

• Wirral Countryside Newsletter, Autumn 1994

• A Ramble Around Burton

• Walking on Wirral Footpaths, compiled by Max Kirby

• Opening of the Wirral Country Park booklet 1973

• Walk and Cycle - South West Wirral, North West Wirral and North East Wirral

• Walking, Cycling and Riding along the Wirral Way and The Story of the Hooton to West Kirby Railway by Ian and Marilyn Boumphrey

• Yesterday's Wirral - Neston, Parkgate and Heswall by Ian and Marilyn Boumphrey

• Yesterday's Wirral No 8 - Bebington and Mid Wirral Villages (including Willaston) by Ian and Marilyn Boumphrey

• Yesterday's East Wirral by Ian Boumphrey (including Willaston)

• Opening of the Wirral Country Park booklet 1973

• Retired and Living on the Wirral - March 1996

• The Romance of Wirral by A.G. Caton 1949

• Neston at War 1939 - 1945, produced by Burton and Neston History Society

• Neston 1840-1940, produced by Burton and Neston History Society

• A Short History of Neston and Surrounding Villages (including Willaston), produced by Burton and Neston History Society 2018

• Wirral on the Home Front 1939-45 by Ian Boumphrey

• Many Happy Returns by Joan Roake 2000

• A Wirral Childhood by Joan Roake 1993

• A Collection of Poems by Jean Jenkins (sold on behalf of Arrowe Park Sick Childrens Holiday Fund)

• Wirral Reflections, various editions

• Wirral Journal, various editions

• Parkgate and Neston Home Messenger, September 1964 

• Parish of St Mary and St Helen, Neston Centenary Thanksgiving Festal Evensong

• Bag celebrating 100 Years of Cheshire Federation of Women's Institutes

• Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese - Traits and Stories

• Images of Wirral by Kenneth Burnley and Guy Huntington 1991

• Nostalgic Wirral, edited by Pauline Black

• Cheshire Railways in Old Photographs by Mike Hitches

• The Line Beneath the Liners, A hundred years of Mersey Railway sights and sounds by John W. Gahan

• A Portrait of Wirral's Railways by Roger Jermy

• Merseyside and District Railway Stations by Paul Bolger

• Railway Stations of Wirral - Merseyside Railway History Group

• The Hooton to West Kirby Branch Line and the Wirral Way - Merseyside Railway History Group

• Wirral Country Park information sheet - Railways and the Countryside

• The Old Railway - Some Recollections by John Reney-Smith

• Reminiscences of a Train Boy

Other Books and Documents of Interest

• DVD - 1943 - The Time of Your Life

• WW11 - The People's Story by Nigel Fountain

• When I Were a Lad - Snapshots from a time that Health and Safety Forgot by Andrew Davies

• Rations - A Very Peculiar History by David Arscott

• The Domesday Book - England's Heritage, Then and Now by Thomas Hinde

• Steam Railways of Britain by O.S. Nock

• Liverpool to Manchester into the second century by N Fields, A.C. Gilbert and N.R. Knight 1980

• Llandudno Pier Company Concert programme, 1889 season

Press Cuttings - Willaston

• On the Village Trail (brief history of Willaston), Daily Post, December 17, 2001

• Village Remembers War Dead, The Chronicle, October 18, 2018

• Memories of the Red Lion, Target Property Newspaper

• Village thanks caring copper, The Chronicle

• Prince tells pilot school 'well done'

• Image of Ambridge (village used as basis for new play), Daily Post, October 19 1998

• Wake Up Willaston, Cheshire Life, June 1970

• Willaston Wakes Up, Cheshire Life, October 1970

• Wide Awake Willaston, Cheshire Life September 1979

• Beresford Cottage, Willaston, Cheshire Life, March 1962

• Obituary of Dr Ann Hurst, oldest resident of Willaston, 2014

• Various about Willaston village plan

• Willaston makes merry, Daily Post, June 14, 1976

• Sales advertisements for Thorncroft, Mill Lane (various)

• Knock-down price for 'too ornate' wall (Lydiate), Daily Post, May 11, 1999

• Various about Philip Toosey (from Willaston) and the Battle of the River Kwai

• Couple finish charity cycle in blaze of glory

• Various - 1975 Heritage Festival

Press Cuttings - Other

• Lord Nelson's greatest inspiration, Daily Post, June 20, 2005

• Plan for Wirral Way put to the County

• Snags on Wirral Way, The News, July 12, 1968

• Wirral motorway to have large service area, January 22, 1968

• Motorway blow for Bebington

• Route fixed for Western section of M56

• Mersey Naval HQ is looking ship-shape, Liverpool Echo, June 20, 1977

• For sale: Manor house with huge hedge and pillaging poltergeists (Sutton Hall in Little Sutton), Daily Post, 1999

• Railway enthusiasts make historic tour of dock line (Wirral Railway Circle) Ellesmere Port Pioneer, June 26, 1975

• Plane fans fight bid for waste centre (Vauxhalls)

• Rich family history of the Wirral girl romanced by a king, Daily Post, March 1, 2002

• The Manx cat bares its claws, Liverpool Daily News, April 4 1973

• The U-2 incident, Liverpool Daily Post, April 27, 1971

• Various press cuttings and postcard re Michael Benson visiting Japan on a Scout trip, 1971

• The Battle of Chester (planning proposals), 1988, The Daily Telegraph, October 7, 1988

• Dear Sirs, I'm moved to protest about my new postal address, Yours, Mr Angry, Nowhere, Wirral (new postal addresses), Daily Post, April 9, 1999

• Various with plans for the River Dee

• He may have been a lord but he slept in the open air and took cold baths at sunset (Lord Leverhulme)

• What price history? (Thornton Hall)

• Revealed: Wirral woman's secret tryst with prince, Daily Post, February 28, 2002