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Has the death knell sounded for Byrons House?
5:37pm Monday 13th October 2008
IN his will Francis Figgins, having left the Byrons Estate in Sutton in the hands of trustees, requested that all the household furniture be given to his wife.
Classic education in Macclesfield
11:56am Thursday 4th September 2008
WHATEVER had made Francis Figgins decide to move to Sutton near Macclesfield, after being established in Poynton for 25 years, could possibly have had something to do with his health.
Comments (0)Francis Figgins’ son is groomed to be the next principal of Byrons Academy
10:31am Friday 15th August 2008
BY the beginning of 1827, it would seem that at last Francis Figgins was fulfilling his ambition, ie that of training the eldest of his three sons, John, to assist him, presumably with the idea that in due course John would eventually take over the running of the Poynton School.
Flying high over Macclesfield
9:22am Tuesday 19th August 2008
Early in the morning of Monday 30th June 1827 the inflating of Charles Green’s balloon in the Gas Works Yard in Hurdsfield began. The advertising had been successful, and as the morning progressed crowds poured in from Congleton and Knutsford, and so great was the gathering that no one could remember anything to equal it.
Huge machine over borough
9:23am Tuesday 19th August 2008
On the first of June 1826 people living and working on the Staffordshire and Cheshire border were ‘annoyed and dismayed’ to see approaching one of those ‘huge machines’ – a large balloon. It descended near Swythamley Park, and some labourers seeing it unoccupied, managed to secure it.
Yob violence is nothing new
9:25am Tuesday 19th August 2008
Sunday evening of March 4 1826 would long be remembered as the start of mob violence which saw all the gas lights in the town centre damaged, including the one outside the Angel, together with several of the inn’s glass panes. A bricklayer’s labourer, having filled his pockets with stones, did much damage.
More on Dickinson and Thornycroft
11:26am Friday 16th May 2008
ALTHOUGH I seem to have written at some length about the surgeon William Binley Dickinson and the sculptor, Thomas Thornycroft, there is a far greater story to tell which is beyond the scope of these articles.
A family of surgeons
9:57am Friday 2nd May 2008
WILLIAM Binley Dickinson was baptised at St Mary's church, Hinckley, Leicestershire, on October 3, 1790.
The story of an apprentice
12:11pm Friday 18th April 2008
THOMAS Thornycroft of Great Tidnock Farm, Gawsworth, would have been 15 or 16 years of age when his apprenticeship with the Macclesfield surgeon, Mr John Fleet, began in the very early 1830s.
The Thornycrofts of Great Tidnock Farm
10:24am Friday 4th April 2008
BY the middle of the 18th century a John Thornycroft was farming at Little Moreton Hall, just south of Congleton.
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