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7 260 CONGLETON. CHESHIRE. [KELLY S are affixed by screws; these alterations, it seems, cost weaving, and for these industries there are extensive £3· The .smaller mace of silver, and 14 inches long, . factories. Coach, chair and nail making and wood turn consistJ:Y of a plain banded staff in three sections, with a ing are also practised, and there are ropewalks, iron and bell-shaped head at either end, the upper being more brass foundries, agricultural implement and machine richly ornamented, and bearing the royal arms of Jas. I works, and in the vicinity, corn mills, gravel pitS' and I. with the cypher I.R. The corporate seal, a. very fine stone quarries; these, unitedly, afford employment t() a. example of 15th century date, is of latten, circular in great number of the inhabitants. shape and I~ inch in diameter, and has for a device a tun A newspaper, called the "Congleton Chronicle" (with floating on the sea, between two conger eels hauriant, which is incorporated the "Congleton & .Macclesfield and surmounted by a lion of England; round the margin MerC'Ilry ") was established in I855, and is published on i:~ a legend: the statute merchant seal o: silver is oval Saturdays by R. Head, I I High street, Congleton. and I! inch long; it hearS' a crowned rose with the The "Cong]Pton Guardian" (I899), a localised edition cypher I.R. encircled by an inscription, and was re-cut of the '' Wari'ington Guardian," is publishe-d on Tues in r66r. The corp<Jration has also four halberds now days and Fridays by Mackie and Co. Limited, High street, carried in processions by the borough police, and an old Congleton. china punch bowl. The mayor wears a robe of dark Congleton is the head quarters of the 5th Volunteer cloth with silk facings, presented bv T. G. Sheldon esq. Bavtruion, the Cheshire Regiment. mayor in 1882-3; and the mayor's .sergeant has also The Cottage Hospital, established in r866 and supported a gown and cocked hat. by voluntary contributions, has 8 beds. In the rear of the Town Hall are butchers' shambles, The charities, for distribution in bread, clothing and the county and borough lock-up,; for the confinement of money, amount to about £270, yearly; including [62 prisoners and gaoler's house. from Holford's charity, and £93 yearly for the general The Corporation Fire Brigade consists of I7 members, uses of the poor from the .AJsagBr's charity; the latter who have three engines and a hose cart, kept in the Mar- furnishes in addition £ rr for apprenticing and the same ket place. for education; Parnell's gift of £2 yearly is for the clergy. The Masonic Hall, 1\Iill street (formerly a Congrega- The public park and recreation gTound, which consists tional chapel), wa.s built in I790, by Capt. Scott, a well- of about 25 acres, is traversed by the river Dane, over known evangelist. The lodge here was founded in I846. which there is an iron bridge, and the park affords ample A charter was granted for a weekly market, to be held facilities for boating, cricket and bowls during the sum on Saturday, by Edward I. to Henry de Lacy, in the year mer months; in the park are two pavilions, one for 1272; and an annual fair of three days' duration to be picnic parties and the other for the use of different athletic held on the festival of the Holy Trinity: the fair has clubs. long been discontinued, but the market, though incon- The objects of interest in the neighbourhood of Congle- . siderable, being so near to Macclesfield, is held every ton are Moreton Hall, Astbury church, Biddulph Grange, Saturday. The chief trade in corn is by sample: ~he Eaton Hall, Bath Vale mineral spring, Moreton Hall, the corn market is held at the "Hull's Head," .Mill street. Old Mill, Cloud End and .Mow Cop. Cloud End is I,I9CJ Fairs are held here annually, viz. on the Thursday be:ore feet and Mow Cop r,o91 feet above the level of the sea. Shrovetide, the 12th of May, the 13th of July and the Sir Waiter Geoffrey Shakerley hart. of Somerford Park, 22nd of November. is the lord. of the manor. A cattle market and public audion is held in the Market The area is 2,549 acres of land and 23 of water; rateable square every alternate Tuesday. value, £33,542; the population in I89I was Io,744, viz.: The chief trades are the manufacture of silk and ribbon, North ward, 3,825; South ward, 2,749 and 'Yeilt ward, silk throwsting and spinning, fustian cutting and towel 4•I70; and in I90I was 10,7o6. OFFICUL .ESTABLISHMENTS, LOCAL INSTITUTIONS &c. Post, M. 0. & T. 0., T ..2\f. 0., Express Delivery, Parcel Gartside-Topping Lt.-Col. Robert Francis C.B. Daven- port hall, Congleton Post, S. B. & .Annuitv• & Insurance Office, Mill street . Arrivals.-Letters arrive from all parts at 4 a.m. 2. 40 Grindley Capt. William Harry, Belle vue, Congleton & 6.30 p.m Sally .Arthur Isaac esq. Heathfield, Congleton Dispatches._.:2\forning mail to London & all parts, 9 Sally Arthur John esq. West heath, Congleton a.m. ; day mail to London & the South, Potteries, Swettenham Clement Wm. esq. Somerford Booths hall, Crewe, Liverpool & North Wales, 11.30 a.m. (extra Congleton stamp, rr.35 a.m.); to Manchester & Macclesfield, ~fid Swettenham Col. Robert Warren, Kilmurry grove, Bray, lands, Stoke-on-Trent & Potteries, 1.40 p.m. ; night Ireland mail to London & all parts, g. r5 p.m. (extra stamp, The :\layor of Congleton & the Chairmen of the Buglaw 9·35 p.m.); only one dispatch on sundays, at g.r5 p.m. ton Urban & Congleton Rural District Councils, for (extra stamp, 9·35 p.m) the time being, are ex-officio magistrates Letters delivered at 6-45 a.m. 3.20 & 7 p.m.; on sundays Clerk, Henry Lister Reade, West street at 6.45 a.m. only Sub-Clerk, Henry Lister Reade, jun. West street Money Orders granted & paid & Savings Bank & Annuity Meetings at Town hall, every 3rd Wednesday in the month, bus~ness transacted from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. ; money at II a.m. orders (telegraph), 8 a.m. to 8 p.m The places in the district are :-Buglawton, Davenport, Telegraph Office open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. ; on sundays Hulme 1Valfield, Keimincham, Moreton-cum-Alcumlow, from 8 to ro a.m. only Newbold Astbury, Odd Rode, Radnor, Smallwood, Parcel Po8't.-Parcels are dispatched to all parts at 9 Somerford & Swettenham a.m. & 1.30, 7.30 & 9·I5 p.m. Parcels are delivered at 7.30 a.m. & 3.20 & 7 p.m (sundays excepted) BOROUGH MAGISTRATES. Town Sub-Post & l\L 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance The Mayor OffiCf'-s.-Lawton street, West road, High Town. At Baird .THmes Thomson Wilson M.B. WesiJ st. Congleton the High Town Office telegrams can be handed in & Barlow Paul Thomas, West road, Congleton telegraph money orders are issued, hut not paid Carscm William Lindsay, Wagg street, Congleton Rural messengers are dispatd~ed to Eaton, Hulme, Wal Conder Arnold Clarkson, Wood~and view,Brook st.Congltn field, Somerford Booths, Swettenham, Buglawton, Ast Farring-ton William, 'Vestbourne villas, Omgleton bury, ~foreton, NoTth Rode, Biddulph, Biddulph Moor, Hogg Capel Wilson, Davenshaw house, Bugla'llton Timbers brook & Bradley Green at 6 a. m. daily (sun Maskery Samuel, The Brooklands, Congleton days excepted) Reade Henry Lister, West street Salt Isaac, Vale house, Congleton COUNTY MAGISTRATES. ShPldon Thomas George, I3 Howey hill Acting at Congleton for the Middlewich & Sandbarh Sally Arthur Isaac, Heatbfield, Congleton Petty Sessional Divis~on (Oongleton Section) ; for full Swettenham Col. Robert Warren, Kilmurry grove, Bray, list of Magistrates for this Division, see Sandbach Ireland Hogg Capel Wilson esq. Davenshaw house, Buglawton, Clerk to the Magistrates, George Sproston, Chapel :~t Congleton, chairman Baroug-h Petty Sessions are held at the Town hall every Shakerlev Col. Sir Waiter Geofirey hart. Somerford :Mon. & Thurs. at II a.m. park, Congleton Antrobus Lieut.-Col. John Coutts, Eaton ball,nr.Cong-letn CORPORATION, 1gor-2. Ashton Alfred esq. Kermincham lodge, Holmes Chapel, :\fayor-.Alderrnan George Pedley. Crewe Deputy-:\Iaypr-.Alderman William Worrall. Bradwell Charles Denis esq. High Daisy bank, Ilulme. .Aldermen. Walmfield, Congleton Retire Nov. Retire Nov. Bullock Thomas esq. Park lane-, Cong-leton Samuel Maskery ......... 1.904 [ Joseph Birks ............ zgo7 Daintry George Percival esq. Oaklands, North Rode, H~~b~rt Shepherd ...... 19041 George Pedley ............ 1907 Congleton \\ 1lliam W orrall... .. .. 1904 Isaac Salt.................. I go'! .