WHEREAS a Fiat in Bankruptcy is awarded and issued forth against Philip Roger Atcherley, of Whitchurch, in the county of Salop, Mercer, Draper, and Tailor, Dealer and Chapman, and he being declared a bankrupt is hereby required to surrender himself to the Commissioners in the said Fiat named, or the major part of them, on the 14th day of January… Read more »
< Back to Part 1 Private Sam Hitchen, of the Cheshires, the old Lostock Gralam and Witton Albion footballer, is engaged in the “greater game” in France, and, in the course of a letter full of football terms, which he has written to his mother […] he gives a vivid account of a charge upon the Germans. “[…] As the… Read more »
< Back to Hope and Hester Atcherley’s school days It is 1914, and the war in Europe means that tensions are high. In the city of Chester the alarm has been raised. A week after the despatch of Britain’s expeditionary force, an aeroplane and an airship have alighted on the Chester’s racecourse, the Roodee. The men aboard report that a… Read more »
Notice is hereby given, That we, whose Names are hereunto subscribed, being inhabitants of the townships of Kinnersley, Preston, Hoo-Hall, Horton, Lubstreepark, Buttery Farm, Cheshall, Longford, Brockton, Tiberton, Cherrington, Dearyhouse Farm, Rowton, Moortown, Sambrook, and Eyton, near Wellington, in the County of Salop, have formed ourselves into a Society, to prosecute, at our joint Expense, all House-breakers, Horse-stealers, or Persons… Read more »
< Back to Part 1. As we have seen, by 1841 John Atcherley [] was working as a silk mercer for John Satterfield & Co in Manchester. He was then 27 years of age, having been born in 1813 at Weston Lullingfields in Shropshire, a son of farmer Richard Atcherley and his wife Mary (née Jones). John was baptised – along… Read more »
An email from a visitor to this website was all it took for me to rapidly revise my research route-map for the week. “I recently acquired an 1880s dress by ‘Oliver & Atcherley’”, wrote Simon Howard, who wanted to find out more about this particular business. Simon added: “The makers mark appears to have two royal crests alongside it and… Read more »