Nantwich Museum Journal – Book

Nantwich Museum produces a journal of research articles which is sent out to members. This compendium edition of journal articles produced between 2016-2020 brings together a fascinating range of local history stories. Articles, by a diversity of authors, focus on the history of Nantwich and feature much unique research not featured elsewhere.

Articles include

• Wesley Knowles – the Shrewbridge Road Signalman who lost both his arms.
• Nantwich Pubs and their Signs.
• Time for Coffee by Museum Research Group.
• Nantwich at Play: Some Social Influences.
• Samuel Jackson and Sons.
• Nantwich Aqueduct – the Most Perfect Workmanship.
• Popular Education in Victorian Times.
• The Three Grammar Schools.
• Local Place Names – A New Appraisal.
• Neutralism in the English Civil War.
• Why and how Nantwich Became a Parliamentary Garrison.
• Landscape with Mills – a Review of Local Mills.
• H. Allan Whatley MA FLA.
• The River Weaver in Nantwich: an Introduction to its Chemistry and Environment.
• Women with Long Knives — Fact or Propaganda!
• The Wilbrahams of Townsend.
• Railway Sign Returns.
• William Andrews Nesfield (1794-1881) – Successively Soldier, Watercolourist and Landscape Designer.
• Cheshire’s Norman Castles.
• Local Portents & Signs in the Seventeenth Century.
• The Struggle for Women’s Suffrage: Nantwich Stories.
• Chalk and Cheese – Trade and Agriculture in the Shropshire/Cheshire Borders During the Canal Era.
• Joseph Priestley, Local Polymath.
• Roman Wyches.
• The Early History of Townwell House, Welsh Row, Nantwich.
• Land Use, Value and Ownership in Nantwich in 1910.
• Ruth E Gilbert (1899-2003).