Creative Midlands Heritage

Creative Midlands Heritage


Cheadle, St Giles the Abbot, Staffs

Posted: 10 Feb 2012 04:18 AM PST

South view of the church

View from the cemetery of the church

West view

Interior of St Giles the Abbot




Silvester and Yeomans memorial

Yeomans and Silvester memorial

Margaret Evangeline Blizzard who died 22nd April 1972 aged 88. Window presented to commemorate Cheadle Rural District Council 1894-1974

Window dedicated to Henry Langley Webb, Surgeon of this town who died 14th July 1903 aged 31.
This window was dedicated by his sorrowing wife


Memorial window dedicated to Masefield, Bowers and Addenbrook (Officers of the Great War who fell)

Memory of Alice Maud Shenton who died January 28th 1946 aged 58 and Marianne Frances Shenton who died March 22nd 1976 aged 96

Window dedicated to Sir Henry Wiggin, Baronet, Born in Cheadle 14th February 1824 and died Matchley Grange, Harborne, Birmingham 12the November 1905

Window dedicated to William Wiggin, late of this town, one of the best of fathers and most upright of men 1764-1862

Stanley, Staffordshire

Posted: 23 Dec 2011 09:30 AM PST

Stanley Congregation Chapel C 1865. Known as Tomkin Chapel

There is a very small chapleyard with three memorials to the left of the building as you lokk at it from the road. I can only assume more bodies are interred

Phoebe, w/o James SMITH of
Rose Bank, Cheddleton, 18 June 1870, 84
Joseph SMITH, s, 23 July 1897, 82

William TURNER, 10 August 1839, 79
Ann, w, 26 March 1838, 78

Amy, d/o Joseph & Sarah JAMES
of Tomkin, 16 January 1870, 13yrs & 8 months
Joseph JAMES, above, late of Brunswick Place,
Hanley, late of Tomkin, 13 April 1878, 61
Sarah JAMES, w, above, 26 July 1884, 69


A view of the inside through a window

OUP unveils plans for HQ expansion

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 11:29 AM PDT

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Last-ditch effort to save Wedgwood collection for nation

Posted: 29 Mar 2012 06:51 AM PDT

The minister will visit the museum in Stoke-on-Trent on Thursday to discuss plans to secure its future and improve it as an attraction – which include uniting it with pieces from the 19th-century Minton Archive. The Wedgwood collection has been under ...
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