Stella & Rose's Books

Front cover

Contents

• Foreword by Lionel Munby
• Introduction
• The History of Ashwell - in a snippet
• People of Ashwell
• Samuel Harradine
• The Thorn Family
• Robert Wilson
• The Bryants and 19th Century Emigration
• The Fordhams and 19th Century Emigration
• Buildings of Ashwell
• Fordham's Brewery
• The Lychgate
• The Lockup
• Mills in Ashweel
• Merchant Taylor's School and the Museum
• Inventories and the Six Bells
• More about the Six Bells
• Church and Chapels of Ashwell
• The Tower of St Mary's Church
• The 16th Century Clock in St Mary's Church
• The Ecclesiastical Census of 1851
• The Weathercock on St Mary's Tower
• Miscellaneous
• The Creating of Ashwell and Domesday Book
• Domesday Book and the Decline of Ashwell Market
• Changes to New Year's day
• John Betjeman on Ashwell
• Roads of the Parish
• Christian Names in 1851
• Highley Hill
• Pricems Field and a Roman Village
• Governing Ashwell
• The Overseers' Accounts and Poor Relief
• The Governing of Ashwell
• Vicars and Rectors
• 'Ashwell Water for Ashwell People'
• Justice during the Reign of Elizabeth I
• Merchant Taylors' School
• Henry Colbron, Founder of the Merchant Taylor's School in Ashwell
• More About Henry Colbron
• Recent Changes at the Merchant Taylor's Centre