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Digging for victory

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Building work on the Together Trust site is ongoing as the charity extends its Inscape service in Cheadle. Amongst the diggers and the builders, as the final bits of work are completed, history occasionally comes to light. Foundation walls of the Sanatorium

A home for neglected motherless children

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We recently had a request from a genealogist looking for an ancestor that was living at a house on Tetlow Lane , Broughton in the 1901 census. Tetlow Grove House, Tetlow Lane

'Welcome Home'

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After the last few blogs about the importance of documents for establishing identity I thought we would look at some more of our fabulous emigration collection and the individuals they represented. Passengers on the boat to Canada

The Archivist has returned to the building

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Last week was spent in the delightful city of Cardiff at this year’s ARA conference . As well as an array of speakers on various different subjects one of the most intriguing, in relation to the charity, was that of Michael Jones, who was mentioned in our last blog . The importance of records for establishing identity