The "Memorial" (Petition) of 1889: Difference between revisions

== The 'Memorial' (Petition) of 1889, submitted by 197 Signatories from Hoole, Flookersbrook, Trafford, Newton and Upton to ‘The Joint Railway Companies’<ref>''<small>Original article researched and written by Monty Mercer, April 2019, Hoole History and Heritage Society, based on his presentation to the Society in January 2018</small>''</ref> ==

In late 2014, two members of The Hoole History & Heritage Society, whilst researching, at the National Archives in Kew, the origins of the Chester Union Workhouse in Hoole, stumbled upon an unrelated, but unique and fascinating document that had led to a major development in Hoole in the late nineteenth century.