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The Bowdon Sheaf - Contents
What is it?
The Bowdon Sheaf is a BOWDON HISTORY SOCIETY publication. It was first published in 1983 and used to be published once a year (but at the time of writing nothing has appeared since 2020). It contains articles of interest about the history and people of the township of Bowdon.
Click on a link below to view a PDF of the publication that interests you. You'll find the text in the "pre-digital" publications (1-48) much easier to read if you download the file and peruse it at your leisure. Alternatively, click on this link to download a pdf containing all the Bowdon Sheaf publications from 1983 onwards (warning: c. 25MB, 563 pages!)
Rural Bowdon: 1 by Ronald Trenbath
Bowdon's Musical Giants: Adolph Brodsky Part 1 by Michael Kennedy
Clay Pipes found in Bowdon by M. J. King
Saxon Coin by Maurice Ridgway
Rural Bowdon: 2 by Ronald Trenbath
Early Motor Cars in Bowdon: 1 by Alec Okell
Bowdon's Musical Giants: Adolph Brodsky Part 2 by Michael Kennedy
Early Cars in Bowdon: 2 by Alec Okell
Rural Bowdon: 3 by Ronald Trenbath
An Early Twentieth Century Bowdonian (Mary Howes Smith) by Myra Kendrick
Bowdon and the Literary World by Myra Kendrick
Edmunds Field: The Origin of a Bowdon Field Name? by Marjorie Cox
Rural Bowdon: 4 by Ronald Trenbath
W. Harrison Ainsworth: A Victorian Novelist's Portrayal of Bowdon by Myra Kendrick
Early Days of the Women's Movement in Bowdon by Dorothy Shelston
Rural Bowdon: 5 by Ronald Trenbath
Juliana Ewing's Bowdon Years by Myra Kendrick
A Bowdon Aviation Pioneer (Benjamin Graham Wood) by John Chartres
Watling Street, Bowdon by Ronald Trenbath
Cattle Droving in Bowdon by Max Chester
Victorian Visitors to Dunham Park by Myra Kendrick
An Open Air Service in Dunham Park
Watling Street (continued) by Ronald Trenbath
Denzell by Valerie Trenbath
Denzell (continued) by Valerie Trenbath
Denzell Owners and Occupiers by Marjorie Cox
Local Salt Workings in the Seventeenth Century by Hazel Pryor
Travelling Through Bowdon in 1689 by Celia Fiennes
Thomas Walton, Gent, by Ronald Trenbath
Randolph Caldecott, Artist, Lived Here by Myra Kendrick
Recording the Past by Ronald Trenbath
Local Memories by Harold Bonson
A Visit to Bowdon in 1790 by John Byng
The Gaskells and Moss Farm by Myra Kendrick
A Local Eighteenth Century Remedy
Moss Farm by Alice Walker
Bowdon's Eminent Victorians: 1. William Neild by Marjorie Cox
Richard Wroe, Vicar of Bowdon 1681 - 1690 by Maurice Ridgway
John Hunt at the Griffin
Early Days at Moss Farm (continued) by Alice Walker
Alison Uttley, A Downs Resident by Myra Kendrick
Neighbouring Towns 1791
Henry Booth and the Glorious Revolution by Marjorie Cox
Richard Wroe, Vicar of Bowdon 1681 - 1690 (concluded) by Maurice Ridgway
A Murder Hunt at Moss Farm by Alice Walker
Memories of Adolf Brodsky by Ronald Gow
James Thomas Law by Maurice Ridgway
J. M. D. Meiklejohn: An Educational Pioneer by Myra Kendrick
Extracts from the Will of James Watmough Vicar of Bowdon 1647 - 1660 by Marjorie Cox
The Stamford Arms and The Griffin by John Chartres
Bowdon in the 17th Century: The 1654 Church Lands Survey by Peter Kemp
James Mudd and Joseph Sidebotham: Bowdon Photographers by Jenny Wetton
The Roundabout Club by Marjorie Cox
Bowdon Grammar School 1764 by Joan Leach
Byron Cooper by Maurice Ridgway
Hunting Towers by Ronald Trenbath
Bowdon's Rebellious Bell Ringers by Joan Leach
Fields, Tenants and Roads by Peter Kemp
The Wartime History of Dunham House by John Chartres
Bowdon in the 17th Century: Moss Farm by Peter Kemp
The Australian Connection by Henry Ward
Memories of Dunham House by Ronald Trenbath
Francis Tilney Stonex, Vicar of Bowdon, 1919 - 1920 by Norman T. Stonex
Bowdon in the 17th Century: Evidence about Fields Found in a 1636 Bible by Peter Kemp
An Archaeological Find in Bowdon in Queen Anne's Reign by Marjorie Cox
Dick Turpin's Local Alibi by Harrison Ainsworth
The Evolution of a Settlement by Geoffrey Barker
Obituary to a Bowdon Curate (Rev. Gifford)
Sale of Church Furniture (1761)
A Hungarian Refugee: Louis Kossuth in Manchester and Bowdon by Marjorie Cox
Early Threshing Machines in Bowdon by Ronald Trenbath)
Rose Hill School by Myra Kendrick
Gerard Manley Hopkins' Bowdon Friend by Marjorie Cox
Fourteenth Century Feuds in Bowdon by Maurice Ridgeway
Marriage and Divorce in Early 19th Century Bowdon
Bowdon in the 16th and 17th Centuries: The Booths and The Tippings - Landed Gentry and Yeoman Retainers, Part 1 by Peter Kemp
The Design Model for Bowdon Wesleyan Church by Tim Knox
Highway Robberies at Bowdon by Maurice Ridgway)
Ronald Gow - Pioneer in the Use and Making of Educational Films by Douglas Rendell
Bowdon in the 16th and 17th Centuries: The Booths and The Tippings - Landed Gentry and Yeoman Retainers, Part 2 by Peter Kemp
Bowdon in the 16th and 17th Centuries: The Booths and The Tippings - Landed Gentry and Yeoman Retainers, Part 3 by Peter Kemp
The Adshead Family and Bowdon by Prue Wallis Myers and Myra Kendrick
Bowdon Urban District Council
Care of the Underprivileged in the Late 19th Century
Windyridge, Church Brow, Bowdon by Maurice Ridgway
The Dunham Massey Estate by Ronald Trenbath
Bowdon in the 16th and 17th Centuries: The Booths and the Tippings - Landed Gentry and Yeomen Retainers, Part 4 by Peter Kemp
Bowdon Hall in 1817: A Newly Discovered Description by Marjorie Cox
Bowdon in the 16th and 17th Centuries: The Booths and The Tippings - Landed Gentry and Yeomen Retainers, Part 5 by Peter Kemp
Thirty-eight Years Vicar of Bowdon (Canon Arthur Gore DD) by Myra Kendrick
Body Snatchers of Bowdon by Maurice Ridgway
Brief Notes
Bowdon in the 16th and 17th Centuries: The Booths and The Tippings - Landed Gentry and Yeomen Retainers, Part 6 by Peter Kemp
Samuel Okell 1838 - 1932: A Bowdon Resident from notes by Alec Okell
The Tenant of Bowdon Hall and the 'Great Cordial Elixir' by Marjorie Cox
Peel Causeway: A Populous Place
Bowdon Church Silver by Maurice Ridgway
Timperley Tom: Local Highway Man
William Wood of Bowdon: 'the chimney boys' friend' by Marjorie Cox
Flight Lieutenant John Andrew Edward DFC 1914 - 1944 by Myra Kendrick
The Bowdon literary and Scientific Club
Archaeological Survey of Dunham Massey
The Dunham Massey Sconces
Bowdon Parish Church Tower
Smithy Green by Ronald Trenbath
Ale-house Keepers in 17th Century Bowdon by Peter Kemp
Primaeval Bowdon by A. T. Longbarn
Victorian Sundays in Bowdon
Chester News Sheet
Scouting at Dunham Park from information by T. Hilliker
The late Dr John Wilkinson
Francis Crossley of Bowdon: the St Francis of Ancoats by Chris Hill
Bowdon or Bowden by Marjorie Cox
The 6th Earl of Stamford and the Polish Exile by Marjorie Cox
Mr Royce in Bowdon by Ronald Trenbath
The Millennium
A Glimpse of Culcheth Hall School in 1908 by Stephen Matthews
George Arthur Pickard of Race Hill, Chester Road by Tom Pickard
The Altrincham and District War Hospital Supply Depot by Douglas Rendell
Meadowlands by Ronald Trenbath
Thomas Pitfield 1903 – 1999
Mrs Frank Crossley by Chris Hill
B. for Bowdon
The Dunham Massey Gloves by Ronald Trenbath
The Ringers' Orders by Chris Hill
A Cheshire Tale 'Through the Looking Glass and what Alice Found there' by Myra Kendrick
Dunham Oaks by Marjorie Dorber
A Moated Site in Bowdon: New Light on the Old Vicarage by Marjorie Cox
Description of the Manor of Dunham Massey from the Manorial Extent of 1410-11 by James Haworth
Seventeenth Century Burial Laws by Beryl Chartres
Publication of Marriage Banns during the Commonwealth Period by Beryl Chartres
Bucklow Hundred and the Cattle Plague 1865-66 by Stephen Matthews
A Rostherne Epitaph by Ronald Trenbath
War Time Memories by Marjorie Dorber
Dunham Mill in the Middle Ages in the Middle Ages by Jim Haworth
Bowdon and the Income Tax 1908 - 1914 by Stephen Matthews
Mobberley Priory by Stephen Matthews
NARPAC: A Wartime Memory by Ronald Trenbath
Hale, Bowdon and The Harrying of the North, 1069 by Stephen Matthews
Some Early Vicars of Bowdon by Maurice Ridgway
The Nook Riding School
Canon Maurice Ridgway BA FSA
'Old Sir George' Booth and the 7th Earl of Shrewsbury by Marjorie Cox
Thoughts on some Bowdon Fieldnames by Marjorie Cox
The Origins of the Mothers' Union in Bowdon by Maurice Ridgway
Industry in Agricultural Bowdon by Marjorie Cox
The Horseless Carriage in Bowdon by Ronald Trenbath
The Horse-Drawn Omnibus by Marjorie Cox
Bowdon History Society - 25 years
Bowdon Lawn Tennis Club
Booth Mansion, Chester by Ronald Trenbath
Bowdon Sheaf: Changes in Publication
A Bowdon Developer in the Wild West
Under Canvas at Bowdon
Scouting in Bowdon and Dunham Massey by Peter Kemp
T'was Ever Thus: Adulteration of Food in the Nineteenth Century by Stephen Matthews
A Startling Experience for Altrincham Firemen (1893) by Chris Hill
A Boyhood Inspiration: An Appreciation of Harry Killick 1897 - 1966 by Peter J. Kemp
William Edwards of Bowdon Hall and St Margaret's Church, Dunham Massey by Marjorie Cox
Some Thoughts and Queries on the Castles, Mills and Halls of the Barony of Dunham Massey by Peter Kemp
The Rebuilding of Church of St Mary the Virgin, Bowdon, Cheshire by Ronald Trenbath
Local Transport in the 18th Century by Ronald Trenbath
Sir William Boyd Dawkins by Chris Hill
A Plea for the Preservation of the Old Church Bowdon under the name of T. Fowler & Sons, 1856
Your Dutiful Son: A Sketch of William Grey by Stephen Matthews
Further Thoughts and Evidence on the de Mascy Castles and Mills by Peter Kemp
Housing in Bowdon in 1863 by Stephen Matthews
Bowdon's Name - An Alternative Explanation by Peter Kemp
‘Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight' and the Massey Connection by Peter Kemp
Dunham Massey American Army and British Prisoner-of-War Camp by David Miller
Some Old Bowdon Houses by Peter Kemp
Altrincham Grammar Schools by Ronald Trenbath
The Spoils of War by Chris Hill
The Disappearing Grammar School Gun by Ronald Trenbath
Bowdon Polo Club by Ronald Trenbath
The Bowdon Hydropathic Establishment by David Miller
Gypsies in Bow Green by Ronald Trenbath
Haigh Lawn Hospital by David Miller
Captain Edward Kinder Bradbury VC by David Miller
Peter Kemp by Ronald Trenbath
Bowdon College by David Miller
An Unexpected Connection with Bowdon's Musical Greats by Chris Hill
Alfred Tarbolton: Lawyer, Local Councillor and Local Historian by David Miller
James Peake, Vicar of Bowdon c.1684 to 1689 by Joan Leach
Max Newman - A Distinguished Resident of Bowdon by Chris Hill
The Gaddum Family by Ronald Trenbath and David Miller
Bowdon's Link with the War Poet Laurence Binyon by Ian Bryce
Marjorie Dilys Cox (1923 - 2014) by Alan and Dorothy Shelston
William Ronald Trenbath (1921 - 2014) by Beryl Chartres
Frederick Charles Collens 1876 - 1895 by Ann Nosowska
An Observation on 'Social Ecology' by Chris Hill (PDF p. 496)
Brakspear's Drawing of His Proposed 1860 St Mary's Church by David Miller
Louis Kossuth (1802 - 1894), Hungarian Statesman and Freedom Fighter by Gabor Olah
A Bowdon Church Gravestone by Judith Miller
The Haworth Family Dynasty by David Miller
Go! Pull Down the Tower by Ann Nosowska
A Child Marriage in Bowdon by Judith Miller
The Heald and Hall families by Ian Bryce
Protests and Forgetfulness by Chris Hill
The Origins and Evolution of East Downs Road by Ian Bryce
The Will of Edward Janny, Merchant by Judith Miller
Gravedigger Reply to an Advertisement in 1867 by Derrick Murdie
When the Weathercock on Bowdon Steeple Winked! by Ann Nosowska
Bowdon Village in 1838 by David Miller
Big Bang in Bowdon by Judith Miller
Richmond Road, Bowdon by Ian Bryce
Church Bank on Richmond Road, Bowdon by David Miller
Hugh Kirkpatrick Hall 1749 - 1788 by Ann Nosowska
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