By Jonathan White
Shavington-cum-Gresty Parish Council has hosted a two-day exhibition to commemorate the 80th D-Day landings anniversary.
The free-entry exhibition took place at Shavington Village Hall and included displays of artefacts, documents, memorabilia and information from the World Wars, curated by local respected historian Mark Potts.
St Mary’s Church on Monks Lane in Acton staged several events during the annual ‘Holly Holy Day’ on Saturday.
The events took place on the same day as The Sealed Knot Battle of Nantwich re-enactment in Nantwich
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Thousands of people gathered in Nantwich and Acton to enjoy the 50th anniversary of the “Battle of Nantwich” on Holly Holy Day.
Events took place in Acton and across the town, before the Sealed Knot parade down Welsh Row and the battle re-enactment on Mill Island in Nantwich.
By Jonathan White
Nantwich Town FC historian Michael Chatwin is compiling a new book on the football club in aid of NHS Charities.
The book will include all the club’s results back to its formation in 1884.
By Jonathan White
Activities have been organised at St Mary’s Church in Acton on the annual ‘Holly Holy Day’ Battle of Nantwich on Saturday January 26.
The Church will be open from 9am until 11:30am serving hot drinks and buttered toast with the opportunity to go up the Church’s Tower.
A special talk called “Commemorating Battlefields: from Nantwich (1644) to the Great War (1914-18)” takes place on Saturday January 31.
Dr Ian Atherton, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Keele, will be hosting the talk.
The first of a series of talks accompanying the “Nantwich and the First World War” exhibition at Nantwich Museum takes place this week.
Prominent local historian Mark Potts will speak on “The Great War – the cost to the families of Nantwich” tomorrow (Wednesday August 20).
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