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Who Was Cecily Rylands?

When cataloguing a scrapbook kept by John Paul Rylands, I came across an invitation to the wedding of a Cecily Rylands to a John Samuel...

A Victorian Christmas

It seemed suitable, given the time of year, for me to write a blog entry relating to Christmas. For many of the Rylands, throughout the...

Badly Behaved Children

Today’s blog entry relates to John Paul Rylands’ schooldays. You may remember in an earlier blog entry I told you about the prank he played on Mr...

Dressed Crab

After all of the gloom of murder and execution from the last blog, I thought I would look at something a little more light hearted for...

The Murder of John Ratcliffe

The execution of William Heaton for murder, as mentioned in the last blog entry, left me curious as to just what had happened in the Heaton...

Human Skin

Today’s blog relates to an entry in Thomas Glazebrook Rylands’ diary for the year of 1884. The last time we looked at T.G.R’s diary (in...

Mary Rylands’ Funeral Card 1836

Mary Rylands was the second wife of John Rylands of Bewsey House and the Summer House, Warrington. His first wife had been Martha Booth of Warrington....

Here’s Patten for Ever, Huzza!

With all the arguing about Scottish independence we have just had, and all the political parties doing their best to stab each other in the...

The Warrington Volunteers – Part II

In the last blog you may remember I showed you a piece of music used by Dr. Kirkland’s band in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, but relating to Warrington. We...

The Warrington Volunteers

In his latest blog, Philip Jeffs uncovers a tune that captures an important moment in Warrington’s history… Today’s blog entry is a short piece of music from...

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