HISTORY | CDG/A/HIST/-
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| Article on Bell Ringers’ Jugs. Barbara Payne and Maurice Ridgeway (Copy from Vol. 16, No. 7 of the Journal of the Antique Collectors’ Club) n.d. - c. 1976.) Contains references to a jug stolen from Bowdon Parish Church in 1976. | HIST/1 |
| Photocopies from Chester Diocesan Gazette (1887): | HIST/2/1,2 |
| Formation of the Guild; | HIST/2/1 |
| Further progress. | HIST/2/2 |
| The Chester Diocesan Guild of Church Bell Ringers: - The First Hundred Years; n.d. (1989). | HIST/3 |
| Chester Diocesan Leaflet, August 1971 - Bishop Ellison’s thoughts on bell ringers. | HIST/4 |
| Notes made by J. David Adams. | HIST/5/1-6 |
| Relating to Bell Tower, Chester Cathedral (1962-75). | HIST/5/1 |
| Notes from Chester Chronicle: a. peals 1834-44; b. foundation of Guild; c. collapse of St John’s; tower (Chester), 1881. | HIST/5/2 |
| Notes from Mottram-in-Longendale peal book (1805-41). | HIST/5/3 |
| Some notes from Macclesfield St Michael’s Churchwardens’ Accounts 1686-1700. | HIST/5/4 |
| Some notes from Macclesfield St Michael’s Vestry Minutes 1685-1749. | HIST/5/5 |
| Various references to bell ringing found at the Cheshire Record Office; notes on “archive” material retained at St Michael’s, Macclesfield. | HIST/5/6 |
| Material used to prepare an article on the Eaton Railway and Harry Wilde’s ringing career. (The article appeared in The Ringing World of 9th August 1996.) Also included are items belonging to Harry Wilde and a copy of the article. | HIST/6 |
| Tales of Chester - Bernard Wall - St John’s, Chester. | HIST/7 |
| Tales of Chester - Bernard Wall - Swindleys’ Iron. | HIST/8 |
| Notes made by J. David Adams. | HIST/9/1-4 |
| Interview with John W. Griffiths (1996). | HIST/9/1 |
| Interview with Norah Randles (1996). | HIST/9/2 |
| Obituaries taken from J.W. Griffiths’ peal book. | HIST/9/3 |
| Notes on Chester Bells and Ringers. | HIST/9/4 |
| Copy of article appearing in The Ringing World of 15th May 1998 on the 90th Birthday of John W. Griffiths of Chester. | HIST/10 |
| Copy of article appearing in The Ringing World of 4th December 1998 on the peal rung to mark the 50th anniversary of a local band peal of London at Handbridge. | HIST/11 |
| Article on the history and current state of the Chester Diocesan Guild in its Diamond Jubilee Year; The Ringing World, May 2nd 1947. | HIST/12 |
| The Chester Scholars or The Gentlemen Bellringers of St John’s [Chester]; J. W. Clarke; 1953. Photocopy of an article in Volume 40 of the Journal of the Chester and North Wales Architectural Archaeological and Historic Society | HIST/13 |
| C. J. Bowen Cooke and Church Bells – Brian Harris (2005) | HIST/14 |
| Copy (from the Ringing World?) of an article by E.A. Barnett on ‘The Liversedge Prize-Ringing’. N.d., but must be 1950s. | HIST/15 |
| Page from Illustrated Mail, May 20 1905: ‘Recent Remarkable Bellringing Records’. | HIST/16 |
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