Six Chorlton families ……. and their final resting place ….. coming to a book shop and a pub near you

I say coming to you but the book of these very different six families is already in Chorlton Book shop and available online from us.

This is the latest in our series “nothing to do in chorlton", and is entitled The Lych Gate and Grave Situations Beyond. 

We have chosen the six because each tells a story about our township from the 1760s into the beginning of the twentieth century.

They include Mary Crowther, the last woman to do penance in the old church on the Green, Thomas Walker who successfully campaigned for an end to Britain’s involvement in the slave trade, Samuel and Sarah Nixon who dispensed beer and cheer from their beer shop on Beech Road and the Holt and Brook’s families who took different sides in the Great Chorlton Church Schism.

Along with these stories come an account of the old parish church and its graveyard with a nod to some grim happenings.

All of which just leaves the launch of the book at the Lloyds Hotel on Easter Monday from 1pm.

It will be the usual mix of light humour, some serious history and more than a few surprises.

One of which will be from local author Stephen Smythe who will be reading some of his short fiction.

And for those who want the series stuff, this is the twelfth book the team have published and the fourth in that very popular series “nothing to do in chorlton”.  

All of which are available from the authors at  www.pubbooks.co.uk   as well as Chorlton Book shop.

So come and join us for an afternoon celebrating old Chorlton in the company of friends, and heaps of discerning students of art and those hidden history stories.

And as an added bonus there will be an appearance from Eric Braithwaite  who claims direct descendancy  from the last marl hewer of Martledge.

Location; The Lloyds Chorlton

Pictures; graves and things, 2011