The Congleton Chronicle Reports: Housing

Name: The Congleton Chronicle Reports: Housing
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A look at the development of housing in Congleton during the 20th century as reported in the pages of the local newspaper, the Congleton Chronicle.

Author: Peter Boon

Booklet size: A5

A history of Congleton's largest and oldest silk mill

The trade directories for the period 1816 – 1927 reveal that many chemists and druggists have occupied premises in High Street.

According to the Domesday book of 1086, Astbury was more important and larger than neighbouring Congleton...

The chemists who operated in Lawton Street and Moor Street, Congleton, in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The various town halls that have existed in Congleton since the fifteenth century.

From the siege of Biddulph Hall to the building of Mow Cop Castle, the story of a fascinating part of Staffordshire and Cheshire.