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# Neston Past

A History of Neston, Cheshire

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- [Parkgate](https://www.nestonpast.com/parkgate/) - Postcard published by William Ledsham of the Clontarf Café in Parkgate. He and his wife, Florence had a café/general store in the 1920s and 30s. He was born in Chester in 1881 and was originally a tailor
- [Neston Parish Church](https://www.nestonpast.com/neston-parish-church/) - The postcard is dated 7th July 1913. The message was " Visited this church with Mr R. Howick who played the organ for me". It is addressed to Miss M Phizackerley, Chester. It was unposted and with an incomplete address so possibly it was her memento of the occasion. Richard George Howick, originally from Chester,
- [St Winefride's Church, Burton Road](https://www.nestonpast.com/st-winefrides-church-burton-road/) - Built in 1841 as a school, the building was converted to use as a church in 1843 when it was opened for worship on the feast of St Winefride.
- [Ryley's Castle Parkgate](https://www.nestonpast.com/7484-2/) - The home of actor Samuel Ryley (c1756 - 1837)
- [Four eras of a Neston High Street house](https://www.nestonpast.com/four-eras-of-a-neston-high-street-house/) - Susan Chambers This house was built around 1800 and was being used as a public house called the Nag’s Head by 1808 when the licensee was Mary Quay - there was a cow-house and a yard at the back. The pub was a feature of Neston life for nearly a century, but by 1905 the
- [1901. Fire in the High Street](https://www.nestonpast.com/1901-fire-in-the-high-street/) - Susan Chambers. The year 1901 was a bad one for Neston regarding fires - in February Little Neston's Royal Oak was destroyed, and a month later Stringers’ shop in the town centre met the same fate. Stringers was the left one of the two similar High Street houses, Neston House and Church House currently both
- [The Old Quay House](https://www.nestonpast.com/the-old-quay-house/) - Susan Chambers Another look at the Old Quay House as a few people asked about it after a recent post. You’ll find the remains by going to the end of Old Quay Lane and following the foot-path across the field, over the stream right down to the marsh. Just a few bricks on an overgrown

## Pages

- [Home](https://www.nestonpast.com/) - #Neston Past Nestonpast A History of Neston, Cheshire History - #
- [Burton and Neston History Society](https://www.nestonpast.com/burton-and-neston-history-society/)
- [MEN NOT COMMEMORATED ON LOCAL MEMORIALS.](https://www.nestonpast.com/men-not-commemorated-on-local-memorials/)
- [HomeTown Heroes: an A-Z list](https://www.nestonpast.com/hometown-heroes-an-a-z-list/)
- [On My Doorstep: a brief history of Wood Lane and Paddock Drive](https://www.nestonpast.com/on-my-doorstep-a-brief-history-of-wood-lane-and-paddock-drive/)
- [Learning the Ropes: Parkgate Rope-Making and the Ropewalk](https://www.nestonpast.com/learning-the-ropes-parkgate-rope-making-and-the-ropewalk/)
- [Parkgate Regattas](https://www.nestonpast.com/parkgate-regattas/)
- [Irish Immigrants in Neston: the Ryans](https://www.nestonpast.com/irish-immigrants-in-neston-the-ryans/)
- [People and Families](https://www.nestonpast.com/people-and-families/)
- [‘The Most Important Field in Neston’](https://www.nestonpast.com/the-most-important-field-in-neston/)
- [Buildings and Places](https://www.nestonpast.com/buildings-and-places/)
- [Reverend William Fergusson Barrett and his wife, Margaret Ann Barrett](https://www.nestonpast.com/reverend-william-fergusson-barrett-and-his-wife-margaret-ann-barrett/)
- [About](https://www.nestonpast.com/about/)
- [Not in our Name: the Slave Ship 'Neston'](https://www.nestonpast.com/not-in-our-name-the-slave-ship-neston/)
- [Wolton Gray (1836 - 1891) and his family](https://www.nestonpast.com/wolton-gray-1836-1891-and-his-family/)
- [Hinderton Lodge](https://www.nestonpast.com/hinderton-lodge/)
- [William Ledsham (1880-1951) and the Clontarf Cafe, Parkgate](https://www.nestonpast.com/william-ledsham-1880-1951-and-the-clontarf-cafe-parkgate/)
- [Raby Schooling and the School House](https://www.nestonpast.com/raby-schooling-and-the-school-house/)
- [Memories](https://www.nestonpast.com/memories/)
- [William [‘Billy’] La Touche Congreve VC, DSO, MC – Commemoration 20 July 2016](https://www.nestonpast.com/william-billy-la-touche-congreve-vc-dso-mc-commemoration-20-july-2016/)
- [George Edward (Ted) Pearson (1915 - 2003)](https://www.nestonpast.com/george-edward-ted-pearson-1915-2003/)
- [Neston Town Hall - the beginning](https://www.nestonpast.com/neston-town-hall-the-beginning/)
- [Edward (Marlow) Jones (1889 - 1966)](https://www.nestonpast.com/edward-marlow-jones-1889-1966/)
- [The Victoria Cross](https://www.nestonpast.com/christopher-bushell-the-victoria-cross/)
- [The Army](https://www.nestonpast.com/christopher-bushell-the-army/)
- [Postscript](https://www.nestonpast.com/christopher-bushell-postscript/)
- [Killed in Action](https://www.nestonpast.com/christopher-bushell-killed-in-action/)
- [Christopher Bushell V.C., D.S.O.](https://www.nestonpast.com/christopher-bushell-v-c-2/)
- [Afterwards](https://www.nestonpast.com/christopher-bushell-afterwards/)
- [William [‘Billy’] La Touche Congreve VC, DSO, MC – a Burton Hero](https://www.nestonpast.com/william-billy-la-touche-congreve-vc-dso-mc-a-burton-hero/) - William [‘Billy’] La Touche Congreve VC, DSO, MC – a Burton Hero by Ian L. Norris [This is an abstract from a more detailed account of Billy Congreve and his family which will, alongside detailed accounts of the other known World War 1 fatalities of Burton and Neston, see HomeTown Heroes pages] In stark contrast
- [The Railway at Parkgate](https://www.nestonpast.com/the-railway-at-parkgate/)
- [First World War](https://www.nestonpast.com/first-world-war/)
- [Ness  Myths and a Memorial](https://www.nestonpast.com/ness-myths-and-a-memorial/)
- [HomeTown Heroes](https://www.nestonpast.com/home-town-heroes/)
- [Men Commemorated at the Parkgate and Neston United Reformed Church](https://www.nestonpast.com/men-commemorated-at-the-parkgate-and-neston-united-reformed-church/)
- [Men Commemorated a St Nicholas, Parish Church, Burton](https://www.nestonpast.com/men-commemorated-a-st-nicholas-parish-church-burton/)
- [Men Commemorated at the Parish Church of St Mary and St Helen, Neston](https://www.nestonpast.com/men-commemorated-at-the-parish-church-of-st-mary-and-st-helen-neston/)
- [A society just for the men:  Neston Victoria Jubilee Lodge of the Order of Ancient Shepherds](https://www.nestonpast.com/a-society-just-for-the-men-neston-victoria-jubilee-lodge-of-the-order-of-ancient-shepherds/)
- [Neston (Wirral) Colliery](https://www.nestonpast.com/neston-wirral-colliery/)
- [Vizcachani, the Barber family and Neston's South American Links](https://www.nestonpast.com/vizcachani-the-barber-family-and-nestons-south-american-links/)
- [Neston Collieries](https://www.nestonpast.com/neston-collieries/)
- [Mostyn House - from the beginning](https://www.nestonpast.com/mostyn-house-its-story/)
- [The Canals that Almost Came to Neston](https://www.nestonpast.com/the-canals-that-almost-came-to-neston/)
- [The Anglican Smelting, Reduction and Coal Company Ltd](https://www.nestonpast.com/anglican-smelting-reduction-and-coal-company-ltd/)
- [John Cliffe - First Surgeon to the Society](https://www.nestonpast.com/john-cliffe-first-surgeon-to-the-society/)
- [Memories of Thornton Hough](https://www.nestonpast.com/memories-of-thornton-hough/)
- [Neston's Mill Street Quarry](https://www.nestonpast.com/6419-2/)
- [Commander John Monk, R.N. (1791-1880)](https://www.nestonpast.com/commander-john-monk-r-n-1791-1880/)
- [Charles Roscoe of Neston](https://www.nestonpast.com/charles-roscoe-of-neston/)
- [The Vaults, The Letters, or the Neston Hotel](https://www.nestonpast.com/the-vaults-the-letters-or-the-neston-hotel/)
- [Neston's New Red Cross Hospital](https://www.nestonpast.com/nestons-new-red-cross-hospital/)
- [Creches in Nineteenth Century Neston](https://www.nestonpast.com/creches-in-nineteenth-century-neston/)
- [Club Day Discord - 1897](https://www.nestonpast.com/club-day-discord-1897/)
- [Neston Female Friendly Society - The First Hundred Years](https://www.nestonpast.com/neston-female-friendly-society/)
- [Angelina Jane Bushell](https://www.nestonpast.com/angelina-jane-bushell/)
- [Neston Female Friendly Society, 125th Anniversary, 1939](https://www.nestonpast.com/neston-female-friendly-society-125th-anniversary-1939/)
- [Neston Female Friendly Society - Founder Members](https://www.nestonpast.com/neston-female-friendly-society-founder-members/) - Members of Neston Female Friendly Society – January 1817 Stella Young There were thirty nine members of the Society when the Rules were signed in 1817. It is not clear which were honorary, apart from the Stewardesses and Lady Patroness, and which benefit members. It has been possible to find some details about some
- [Are you a descendant of Ellen Pyke](https://www.nestonpast.com/are-you-a-descendant-of-ellen-pyke/)
- [Neston Female Friendly Society - 1817 Rules and 1818 amendment](https://www.nestonpast.com/neston-female-friendly-society-1817-rules-and-1818-amendment/)
- [Neston Female Friendly Society (Ladies Club)](https://www.nestonpast.com/neston-female-friendly-society-4/)
- [Neston Female Friendly Society - Secretaries](https://www.nestonpast.com/neston-female-friendly-society-secretaries/)
- [Romp and Stomp in the Town Hall Basement? No Chance, said the Council.](https://www.nestonpast.com/town-hall-basement-to-become-a-popular-60s-venue-no-say-the-council/)
- [1960 - The Year the Beatles Came to Ladies Club](https://www.nestonpast.com/1960-the-year-the-beatles-came-to-ladies-club/)
- [The Hostels and HMS Mersey](https://www.nestonpast.com/the-hostels-and-hms-mersey/)
- [Stanney Fields Park](https://www.nestonpast.com/stanney-fields-park/)
- [May Time in Neston](https://www.nestonpast.com/may-time-in-neston/)
- [Memories of my Days on the Marshes](https://www.nestonpast.com/memories-of-my-days-on-the-marshes/)
- [Ness Holt School - Memories](https://www.nestonpast.com/ness-holt-school-memories/)
- [Childhood Memories of Little Neston in the 1950s and 60s](https://www.nestonpast.com/childhood-memories-of-little-neston-in-the-1950s-and-60s/)
- [Life on the Mellock Estate in the 1950s and '60s.](https://www.nestonpast.com/life-on-the-mellock-estate-in-the-1950s-and-60s/)
- [The Brown Horse Inn](https://www.nestonpast.com/the-brown-horse-inn/)
- [Chester Arms, Parkgate and William Williams Mortimer](https://www.nestonpast.com/chester-arms-parkgate-and-william-williams-mortimer/)
- [Chester Arms](https://www.nestonpast.com/nestons-inns-2/)
- [Tommy, the Council's Horse](https://www.nestonpast.com/tommy-the-councils-horse/)
- [Malt Shovel](https://www.nestonpast.com/nestons-inns/)
- [Charity of Nessie Mathews and John Monk](https://www.nestonpast.com/charity-of-nessie-mathews-and-john-monk/)
- [Pykes Weint: it's an old address, but is it the right one?](https://www.nestonpast.com/pykes-weint-its-an-old-address-but-is-it-the-right-one/)
- [Neston Football - the Early Years](https://www.nestonpast.com/neston-football-the-early-years/)
- [Fishing](https://www.nestonpast.com/fishing/)
- [External Links](https://www.nestonpast.com/external-links/)
- [Agnes Lois Bulley (1901 - 1995)](https://www.nestonpast.com/agnes-lois-bulley-1901-1995/) - Agnes Lois Bulley (1901 - 1995) Stella Young Agnes Lois Bulley was born on 2nd December 1901 in Ness. Her preferred name was her second name, Lois, but to many Neston residents she is remembered simply as ‘Miss Bulley’, born as she was in more formal times. The house in which she was born, Mickwell
- [William Quay 1778 - 1846](https://www.nestonpast.com/william-quay-1778-1846/)
- [Jonathan Mellor (1846 - 1931) - Fisherman](https://www.nestonpast.com/jonathan-mellor-1846-1931-fisherman/)
- [Thomas Crimes Ashbrook (1877 -1942), railway man, and the Great War](https://www.nestonpast.com/thomas-crimes-ashbrook-1877-1942-railway-man-and-the-great-war/)
- [Privacy Policy](https://www.nestonpast.com/privacy-policy/) - Who we are Our website address is: https://www.nestonpast.com. You do not need to log in or register to view pages on this site. Our use of cookies By using this site you agree to our use of cookies. Like many other web sites this site uses cookies to collect statistics about people using the website.
- [Football in Neston](https://www.nestonpast.com/football-in-neston/)
- [Gallery](https://www.nestonpast.com/gallery/)
- [Lady Hamilton's (very distant) Neston Cousins](https://www.nestonpast.com/lady-hamiltons-very-distant-neston-cousins/)
- [Neston, December 1917.](https://www.nestonpast.com/neston-december-1917/)
- [Christmas Past](https://www.nestonpast.com/christmas-past/) - Christmas Past – the festive season in Victorian and Edwardian Neston Neston celebrated Christmas and New Year in all the traditional ways we associate with that time and which are not so very different from today: presents were bought and Christmas food, there were services in church and dances and entertainment in the evening. However the problems of
- [Neston, Late Autumn, 1917](https://www.nestonpast.com/neston-late-autumn-1917/)
- [Neston, Autumn 1917](https://www.nestonpast.com/neston-autumn-1917/)
- [A Neston Memory](https://www.nestonpast.com/a-neston-memory/)
- [Housing](https://www.nestonpast.com/housing/) - Housing by J.B Up to the end of the 1940s Neston was still largely a rural community—many small farms and clusters of cottages in nearby hamlets. As part of a national policy to provide affordable homes for rent, Neston Urban District Council had embarked on a programme of housebuilding, beginning with the Rose Gardens Estate (see Rose
- [Timber Dumps](https://www.nestonpast.com/timber-dumps/)
- [Rose Gardens, Little Neston](https://www.nestonpast.com/rose-gardens-little-neston/)
- [Neston, Early September 1917](https://www.nestonpast.com/neston-early-september-1917/)
- [The War, late August 1917 and no end in sight.](https://www.nestonpast.com/the-war-late-august-1917-and-no-end-in-sight/)
- [Railway Memories](https://www.nestonpast.com/railway-memories/) - Railway Memories By John Reney Smith (1903 – 1978) [The writer, John Reney Smith, wrote his memories of Parkgate station and the lines to Hooton and West Kirby in the 1970s before his death in 1978. He was born in 1903 and attended Mostyn House School then went on to Radley College. His father, also
- [Leighton Court from Beginning to End](https://www.nestonpast.com/4719-2/)
- [Memories of an Earlier Train Boy, 1930](https://www.nestonpast.com/5029-2/)
- [Jonathan Mellor - Chester Courant 10th Oct 1906](https://www.nestonpast.com/jonathan-mellor-chester-courant-10th-oct-1906/) - The Chester Courant and Advertiser for North Wales 10th October 1906 INVASION OF ABERDOVEY. PARKGATE FISHERMEN'S ADVENTURES STIRRING SCENES INTERESTING INTERVIEWS. The comparative failure of the mussel fishery in the Dee estuary this season has caused much disappointment among the local fishermen on the Cheshire side, and has led them to look
- [Edwin Rooke (1855 - 1918) a Neston Stationmaster](https://www.nestonpast.com/edwin-rooke-1855-1918-a-neston-stationmaster/)
- [Coal preparation at the Wirral Colliery, Little Neston, in 1896](https://www.nestonpast.com/coal-preparation-at-the-wirral-colliery-little-neston-in-1896/)
- [Club Day Discord - 1897 Letters](https://www.nestonpast.com/club-day-discord-1897-letters/) - Cheshire Observer - Saturday 05 June 1897 NESTON LADIES' CLUB. TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — It seems funy than an ould woman lik me with one fut in the grav and the other in a red flanel bag cose of rewmatiks shud have to rite to the papers, but nobody els seems to tak
- [Chester Courant and Advertiser 18th November 1903](https://www.nestonpast.com/5621-2/) - Chester Courant and Advertiser 18th November 1903 DEE ESTUARY TRAGEDY. FISHERMAN AND BOAT ENGULPHED. One of the most sensational fatalities that have ever occurred on the Dee Estuary took place on Tuesday. A stiff breeze was blowing in the early morning from the north-north-west, and this increased to such an extent as to make it
- [Chester Courant and Advertiser for North Wales 11th May 1904](https://www.nestonpast.com/chester-courant-and-advertiser-for-north-wales-11th-may-1904/) - Chester Courant and Advertiser for North Wales 11th May 1904 SAD DEE TRAGEDIES. FATE OF FISHERMAN. BODY WASHED ASHORE. On Wednesday morning the dead body of a Parkgate fisherman named Thomas Robinson was found on the bank at Parkgate close to his own home, having been washed ashore after being in the water over six
- [Chester Courant and Advertiser, 2nd September 1903](https://www.nestonpast.com/chester-courant-and-advertiser-2nd-september-1903/) - Chester Courant and Advertiser 2nd September 1903 PARKGATE. LOSS OF A TRAWLER. Thomas Matthews, a well-known Parkgate fisherman, left Parkgate by the noon tide on Mondav upon a trawling expedition, which unfortunateiy for him, has resulted in the total loss of his fine trawling boat, her sails, nets, and other gear. He was accompanied by
- [Neston Creche - Cheshire Observer - Saturday 15 November 1890](https://www.nestonpast.com/neston-creche-cheshire-observer-saturday-15-november-1890/)
- [Cheshire Observer - Saturday 04 June 1892](https://www.nestonpast.com/cheshire-observer-saturday-04-june-1892/) - Cheshire Observer - Saturday 04 June 1892 A RARE VISITOR AT PARKGATE AND HIS RECEPTION. A sturgeon, over eight feet long, got into , difficulties through making too close an inspection of the Cheshire shore of the Dee Estuary on Saturday morning, and was eventually left high and dry on the sandbanks off Parkgate by
- [Fatal accident to traction engine 1899](https://www.nestonpast.com/fatal-accident-to-traction-engine-1899/) - Newspaper accounts of an accident involving one of Joseph Gray's traction engines in July 1899 in which the driver, William Cartmell was killed. Cheshire Observer - Saturday 15 July 1899 TERRIBLE TRACTION ENGINE ACCIDENT. SAUGHALL MAN KILLED It is our painful duty to chronicle a sad accident, attended with loss of life. Between three and
- [Defending Neston in the Cold War Years](https://www.nestonpast.com/6114-2/)
- [Neston Female Friendly Society - Fiftieth Anniversary](https://www.nestonpast.com/neston-female-friendly-society-fiftieth-anniversary/)
- [Easter 1917](https://www.nestonpast.com/easter-1917/)
- [Robert Bridson and Son](https://www.nestonpast.com/robert-bridson-and-son/)
- [Neston and District Hockey Club 1900](https://www.nestonpast.com/neston-and-district-hockey-club-1900/)
- [Jonathan Mellor - Cheshire Observer 14th March 1903](https://www.nestonpast.com/jonathan-mellor-cheshire-observer-14th-march-1803/) - Cheshire Observer 14th March 1903 FUNERAL OF MRS. J. MELLOR. The funeral took place at Neston Parish Church, on Monday afternoon, off Mrs. Jonathan Mellor, of Chester-road. Deceased, who was fifty years of age, was very highly respected and there was a large attendance of relatives and friends at the interment, among those present being
- [The Lyon family - George Gleave memories of them. Cheshire Observer - Saturday 09 June, 1900](https://www.nestonpast.com/the-lyon-family-george-gleave-memories-of-them-cheshire-observer-saturday-09-june-1900/)
- [The Town Hall in WWII](https://www.nestonpast.com/the-town-hall-in-wwii/)
- [Neston Inns ](https://www.nestonpast.com/neston-inns/)
- [World War 1 - War Memorials](https://www.nestonpast.com/world-war-1-war-memorials/)
- [Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners Royal Benevolent Society and the Parkgate fishermen](https://www.nestonpast.com/shipwrecked-fishermen-and-mariners-royal-benevolent-society-and-the-parkgate-fishermen/)
- [Cheshire Observer - Saturday 24 November 1888](https://www.nestonpast.com/cheshire-observer-saturday-24-november-1888/) - Cheshire Observer - Saturday 24 November 1888 THE SHIPWRECKED FISHERMEN AND MARINERS' SOCIETY AND THE DEE FISHERMEN. AN IMPORTANT QUESTION. On Saturday evening a representative gathering of fishermen, residents, and gentlemen interested in -the welfare of the families engaged in the Parkgate fishing industries was held in the Parkgate National Schoolroom, to consider a memorandum
- [William Quay - article 1899](https://www.nestonpast.com/william-quay-article-1899/) - Cheshire Observer - Saturday 16 September 1899 A NESTONIAN'S REMINISCENCES. [By Mr George Gleave.] Seventy or eighty years have elapsed since the building yard of Mr. Quay occupied a prominent space at the northern corner of Raby-lane, Neston. The boundary of this yard was in close proximity to that penal enclosure well-known as the Pinfold,
- [William Quay article - 1841](https://www.nestonpast.com/william-quay-article-1841/) - Chester Chronicle - Friday 12 March 1841 Ploughing.—On Monday, the 22nd ult, a great number of people assembled at Leighton-hall farm, in the hundred of Wirral and county of Chester, to witness a ploughing day given to Mr. John Garner, (who is leaving Stand-park farm, under the Earl of Sefton; and going to Leighton-hall farm,
- [The Great War - Week by Week](https://www.nestonpast.com/the-great-war-week-by-week/)
- [Growing up in Parkgate- Helen Elizabeth Bushell (1902 - 2002)](https://www.nestonpast.com/growing-up-in-parkgate/)
- [The Gardens of Leighton Court](https://www.nestonpast.com/the-gardens-of-leighton-court/)
- [Wedding Celebrations, 1848](https://www.nestonpast.com/wedding-celebrations-1848/)
- [Shops](https://www.nestonpast.com/shops/)
- [A Few More Neston Shops](https://www.nestonpast.com/a-few-more-neston-shops-3/)
- [Where we used to shop 2](https://www.nestonpast.com/where-we-used-to-shop-2/)
- [Where we used to shop...](https://www.nestonpast.com/where-we-used-to-shop/)
- [Chester Arms and William Williams Mortimer.](https://www.nestonpast.com/chester-arms-and-william-williams-mortimer/) - Chester Arms and William Williams Mortimer Newspaper articles. Liverpool Mail - Saturday 02 September 1854 We had hoped to have been spared the necessity of referring to the Cheshire Magistrates again. The public journalist has no more delicate or painful duty to perform than that of commenting upon the conduct of judicial officers in
- [Reminiscences of a Train Boy](https://www.nestonpast.com/reminiscences-of-a-train-boy/)
- [Neston Female Friendly Society - 1911 Rules](https://www.nestonpast.com/neston-female-friendly-society-1911-rules/)
- ['Headless Cross' - briefly](https://www.nestonpast.com/headless-cross-briefly/)
- [The Ringway](https://www.nestonpast.com/the-ringway/)
- [The Lamp on the Bushell Fountain](https://www.nestonpast.com/the-lamp-on-the-bushell-fountain/)
- [Staplands Fine Art Workshop](https://www.nestonpast.com/staplands-fine-art-workshop/)
- [Spring 1890, Political Intrigues and a Raging Bull](https://www.nestonpast.com/spring-1890-political-intrigues-and-a-raging-bull/)
- [Neston, early 1890](https://www.nestonpast.com/neston-early-1890/)
- [The Coventry and Pyke families, 1915 and 1916](https://www.nestonpast.com/the-years-of-the-great-war-in-neston-information-from-rob-lamont/)
- [Stormy Weather](https://www.nestonpast.com/stormy-weather/)
- [Lady Patronesses 1814 - 2015](https://www.nestonpast.com/lady-patronesses-1814-2015/)
- [Stormy Weather Newspapers 1](https://www.nestonpast.com/stormy-weather-1808-chester-chronicle-friday-14-october/)
- [Stormy Weather Newspapers 2](https://www.nestonpast.com/stormy-weather-newspapers-2/)
- [The early Vaults - or whatever it was called](https://www.nestonpast.com/the-early-vaults-or-whatever-it-was-called/)
- [Neston Female Friendly Society : Centenary, 1914](https://www.nestonpast.com/neston-female-friendly-society-centenary-1914/)
- [Sarah Pinnington and her descendants](https://www.nestonpast.com/sarah-pinnington-and-her-descendants/)
- [Remember, Remember the 5th of November](https://www.nestonpast.com/remember-remember-the-5th-of-november/)
- [In Memoriam](https://www.nestonpast.com/christopher-bushell-memorials/)
- [Can you help solve a milestones mystery?](https://www.nestonpast.com/milestones/)
- [Coal Preparation - 2](https://www.nestonpast.com/coal-preparation-2/)
- [A Brief History](https://www.nestonpast.com/a-brief-history/) - A Brief History The name ‘Neston’ is almost certainly derived from the Anglo-saxon term Ness-tun, a settlement near a promontory. The earliest evidence of people living in Neston is provided by the collection of Viking-era grave crosses in the Parish Church, indicating a prosperous Christian settlement here at that period, the 10th century, before the

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