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    • The Coventry and Pyke families, 1915 and 1916
    • Neston’s New Red Cross Hospital
    • World War 1 – War Memorials
    • Thomas Crimes Ashbrook (1877 -1942), railway man, and the Great War
    • The War, late August 1917 and no end in sight.
    • Neston, Early September 1917
    • Neston, Autumn 1917
    • Neston, December 1917.
  • Neston Collieries
    • Coal preparation at the Wirral Colliery, Little Neston, in 1896
    • Neston (Wirral) Colliery
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    • Malt Shovel
    • Chester Arms
    • The Vaults, The Letters, or the Neston Hotel
    • The Brown Horse Inn
    • Chester Arms, Parkgate and William Williams Mortimer
  • Shops
    • Where we used to shop…
    • Where we used to shop 2
    • A Few More Neston Shops
  • Fishing
    • Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners Royal Benevolent Society and the Parkgate fishermen
    • Stormy Weather
    • Parkgate Regattas
    • Jonathan Mellor (1846 – 1931) – Fisherman
    • Growing up in Parkgate- Helen Elizabeth Bushell (1902 – 2002)
  • Memories
    • Memories of my Days on the Marshes
    • Reminiscences of a Train Boy
    • Memories of an Earlier Train Boy, 1930
    • Ness Holt School – Memories
    • Railway Memories
    • Housing
    • A Neston Memory
    • Life on the Mellock Estate in the 1950s and ’60s.
    • Childhood Memories of Little Neston in the 1950s and 60s
    • Memories of Thornton Hough
  • People and Families
    • Thomas Crimes Ashbrook (1877 -1942), railway man, and the Great War
    • Agnes Lois Bulley (1901 – 1995)
    • Vizcachani, the Barber family and Neston’s South American Links
    • Robert Bridson and Son
    • Angelina Jane Bushell
    • Growing up in Parkgate- Helen Elizabeth Bushell (1902 – 2002)
    • Wolton Gray (1836 – 1891) and his family
    • Lady Hamilton’s (very distant) Neston Cousins
    • Edward (Marlow) Jones (1889 – 1966)
    • Jonathan Mellor (1846 – 1931) – Fisherman
    • Commander John Monk, R.N. (1791-1880)
    • William Quay 1778 – 1846
    • George Edward (Ted) Pearson (1915 – 2003)
    • Edwin Rooke (1855 – 1918) a Neston Stationmaster
    • Charles Roscoe of Neston
    • William Ledsham (1880-1951) and the Clontarf Cafe, Parkgate
    • Reverend William Fergusson Barrett and his wife, Margaret Ann Barrett
    • Irish Immigrants in Neston: the Ryans
  • Buildings and Places
    • Hinderton Lodge
    • The Ringway
    • Pykes Weint: it’s an old address, but is it the right one?
    • Staplands Fine Art Workshop
    • Neston’s Mill Street Quarry
    • Rose Gardens, Little Neston
    • Mostyn House – from the beginning
    • The Hostels and HMS Mersey
    • Neston Town Hall – the beginning
    • The Lamp on the Bushell Fountain
    • Ness Myths and a Memorial
    • Leighton Court from Beginning to End
      • The Gardens of Leighton Court
    • Can you help solve a milestones mystery?
    • ‘Headless Cross’ – briefly
    • Timber Dumps
    • Stanney Fields Park
    • ‘The Most Important Field in Neston’
  • Remember, Remember the 5th of November
  • Neston, early 1890
    • Spring 1890, Political Intrigues and a Raging Bull
  • Christmas Past
  • External Links
  • Neston Football – the Early Years
  • Learning the Ropes: Parkgate Rope-Making and the Ropewalk
  • A society just for the men: Neston Victoria Jubilee Lodge of the Order of Ancient Shepherds
  • Charity of Nessie Mathews and John Monk
  • Wedding Celebrations, 1848
  • The Town Hall in WWII
  • Creches in Nineteenth Century Neston
  • Neston and District Hockey Club 1900
  • Defending Neston in the Cold War Years
  • Gallery
  • Tommy, the Council’s Horse
  • Romp and Stomp in the Town Hall Basement? No Chance, said the Council.
  • Football in Neston
  • May Time in Neston
  • The Anglican Smelting, Reduction and Coal Company Ltd
  • Not in our Name: the Slave Ship ‘Neston’
  • The Railway at Parkgate
  • On My Doorstep: a brief history of Wood Lane and Paddock Drive
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HomeTown Heroes

The Stories of the Casualties of War of Neston and Burton

1914 – 1921

by

Ian L. Norris

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Meetings

NB. Meetings will now be held at Parkgate and Neston United Reformed Church, Moorside Lane, CH64 4UZ from October to May on the second Thursday of the month, starting at 8pm.

Non members are welcome to attend as guests, free of charge on the first visit.

For information on how to join   Click here

Next Meeting 

The Royden Shipbuilding Family : a talk by Mike Royden

8pm (doors open 7.30)  on Thursday 12th December

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On My Doorstep: a brief history of Wood Lane and Paddock Drive by Morag Youd

Wood Lane extends from the junction of Park Street and Leighton Road in Neston, crossing Earle Drive and continuing till it meets Boathouse Lane...read more

Irish Immigrants in Neston: the Ryans by Carl Ashton

Over the years many Irish immigrants made their way to Neston and I’d like to tell you about two of them – Rose Fergus and William Ryan read more

‘The Most Important Field in Neston’ by Anthony Annakin-Smith

A small field near the Wirral Way near Church Lane exemplifies many of the changes to Neston’s landscape over the centuries making it a very significant aspect of our local heritage...read more

The Reverend William Fergusson Barrett (1845-1892) and his wife Margaret (1846-1925) by A. G. Barrett

William Fergusson Barrett was born in Liverpool on 7th April 1845 the son of William Fergusson Barrett and his wife Jane …read more.

William Nelson Ledsham (1880 – 1951) and the Clontarf Cafe, Parkgate by Peter Thatcher

William Nelson Ledsham was my wife’s grandfather. He was born on the 8th January 1880 at Heath, Great Boughton…read more

George Edward (Ted) Pearson (1915 – 2003)

George Edward Pearson was born 11thJuly 1915 in Neston, the son of George Pearson and his wife Susie (nee Chrimes). As a member of the Territorials he was mobilised at the start of the war and was serving as a Sergeant in the Royal Army Service Corps when he was sent to  ….read more

Edward ‘Marlow’ Jones (1889 – 1966) by Ann Jones Billings

I’m so enjoying Neston Past, I wonder if I am in the unique position of being the daughter of a Little Neston miner born in 1889, at Number 3 New Street, and still in control of most of my faculties at 75...read more

The Railway at Parkgate: a brief history by Alan Passmore

It is now well over 60 years since the last passenger train steamed through Parkgate, and recollections of the time when trains chuffed between Hooton and West Kirby are now a distant memory for those Nestonians who once travelled on this route. The first railway on the Wirral peninsula was the Chester & Birkenhead, constructed between the city of Chester and the then quite infant town of Birkenhead (for Liverpool); it was opened to traffic in September 1840 with its first terminus at Grange Lane, extended in October 1844 to a riverside station at Monks Ferry...

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Four eras of a Neston High Street house

April 23, 2023
Susan Chambers This house was built around 1800 and was being…
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1901. Fire in the High Street

April 11, 2023
Susan Chambers. The year 1901 was a bad one for Neston regarding…
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The Old Quay House

March 16, 2023
Susan Chambers Another look at the Old Quay House as a few…
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Ryley’s Castle Parkgate

September 11, 2020
The home of actor Samuel Ryley (c1756 - 1837)  
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St Winefride’s Church, Burton Road

October 13, 2019
Built in 1841 as a school, the building was converted to use…
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Neston Parish Church

January 14, 2019
The postcard is dated 7th July 1913. The message was " Visited…
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