Looking Back at Wilmslow, Handforth, Styal & Alderley

Garratt, Morris

ISBN 10: 0946361053 / ISBN 13: 9780946361052

Published by Willow Publishing, Altrincham, Cheshire, 1983

About this Item

No inscriptions or marks. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 44pp. This book is a wonderful trip down memory lane with old well-captioned photographs depicting the townships in and around Wilmslow in Cheshire. We do not use stock photos, the picture displayed is of the actual book for sale. Every one of our books is in stock in the UK ready for immediate delivery. Size: 8.25 x 11.75 inches.

Seller Inventory # 019960

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Looking Back at Wilmslow, Handforth, Styal & Alderley
• Publisher: Willow Publishing, Altrincham, Cheshire
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0946361053
• ISBN 13: 9780946361052
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good (+)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Social History
  • Local history

About this title

Synopsis

Much about the local Iron Age history of Wilmslow was uncovered with the discovery of Lindow Man, in Lindow Moss. Preserved in the peat bogs for 2000 years, Lindow Man is one of the most important Iron Age finds in the country. Despite a campaign to keep Lindow Man in the area, he was transferred to the British Museum and is a central feature of the Iron Age exhibition. Lindow Man returned to Manchester Museum in April 2008 for a year-long exhibition. The oldest building in Handforth is Handforth Hall, a typically Tudor-styled black and white timber building built by Sir Urian Brereton in 1562. It was originally named Honford Hall after the de Honford's. Sir Urian was escheator of Cheshire, one of the privy grooms to King Henry and knighted in 1544 at Leith during an attack on Edinburgh. Sir Urian Brereton died at Handforth Hall on 19 March 1577 and is thought to be buried in a chapel at St Mary's Church, Cheadle. In the south chapel are three recumbent effigies. Two are in alabaster and are thought to represent members of the Hondford (or Handford) family, Sir John, who died in 1461 and his son, also named John. The third is in sandstone and represents Sir Thomas Brereton who died in 1673.[7] The most famous resident of Handforth is Sir Urian's great grandson, the Parliamentary General, Sir William Bereton, who fought in the Civil War. During the Second World War Handforth, along with Cheadle Hulme, was home to large parts of RAF Handforth. This was a maintenance unit, classed as a 'Universal stores' depot and had the official Royal Air Force name, "RAF Handforth No 61 M.U. (Maintenance unit)". The depot opened in 1939 and closed in 1958–59 and covered large areas of land in both Handforth and neighbouring Cheadle Hulme.