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Please could anyone tell me which local newspapers covered New Mills in Derbyshire or Knutsford in Cheshire in 1959?
I am trying to find an obituary or an article regarding a fatal car accident on Mere Road in Cheshire.
thanks
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I cannot help at all with New Mills.
However the local paper likely to have covered Mere (Cheshire) in 1959 and certainly a fatal accident is the Altrincham, Sale and Bowdon Guardian. The paper is no longer published but copies almost certainly will be held by the Trafford Local Studies Centre in Sale. Do you have a more precise date for the event?
Reiver
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I think that the Stockport Advertiser covered New Mills as well as a large swathe of NE Cheshire and Derbyshire. I remember reading it when I lived in New MIlls in the mid 1970s.
Hope this helps.
Regards
Nell
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Thankyou both for your replies.
Yes Reiver I do have an accurate date of death.
It was 30/10/1959. I believe it to be the same date as the accident.
I will try the Stockport Advertiser, thanks Nell
Regards
Liz
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The distance between Mere and New Mills is some 23 miles. Would New Mills be where you expect the person in the accident to have come from?
Altrincham is only 6 miles - and I suppose is the nearest town.
In case it is helpful :)
Reiver
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Hi Reiver,
yes New Mills is the last address of the deceased, he lived with his parents who were landlord's of The Liberal Club at the time. The Club has now gone.
The person who died was my father, and his father died some weeks later.
I was born within weeks of both deaths so am desperate to find any information for my family records. I do not live in the area so progress is hard going, although roots chat has been a great help.
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the Altrincham, Sale and Bowdon Guardian
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If my memory serves me right, I think there was a Knutsford edition too, which might be more appropriate.
In 1959, pre motorways etc. it was quite a long trek from New Mills to Mere Road, Knutsford. From Altrincham not too much of a distance and quite a quick journey as there was, even then the A56.
Lizzie
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thanks Lizzie and Reiver for the information.
I have just found out that the place of death I gave you is the wrong way round and it should have said, Chester Road , Mere. Sorry
I wonder if this makes a difference to the local Newspapers?
Regards
Liz
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We used to call the A56 the Chester Road, so it won't make any difference to the newspapers, apart from the fact it would almost certainly be the Altrincham Sale and Bowdon Guardian.
The A56 was (probably still is) a very wide road but although it was busy as roads went in the 1950s, we still used to ride our cycles along there and into the Cheshire villages.
Lizzie
ps. Slightly off topic Reiver - Does the demise of the Altrincham Guardian mean there is no longer a local newspaper in the area? I think I've heard recently that the Manchester Evening News is in dire straits too.
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Matsmam,
If I can I will try and get into Trafford Local Studies in the not too distant future. But I'll 'watdh this space' in case somebody beats me to it.
Lizzie
Ptobably the main local newspaper now is the Sale and Altrincham Messenger. The Guardian - in all its guises - dropped out many years ago. As you say there was a Knutsford Guardian but I feel that a fatal accident on the 'main Chester Road' at or near Mere Corner would almost certainly be covered in the 'main' Altrincham version.
Additionally I knew that Trafford Local Studies kept copies of the Altrincham version - which is nearer me :)
Regards
Reiver
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Thankyou all for your help.
Kindest regards
Liz
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Hi to Lizzie and Reiver,
just to let you know I contacted the Trafford Local Centre as you suggested and I have just received a reply today.
They have found an article relating to the accident in which my father died. it was printed in The Altrincham, Bowdon & Hale Guardian.
They are sending me a copy.
Without your help and the help of this wonderful website I may never have found it.
Thanks go to all of you who help out there.
Matsmam
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Delighted to hear that.
Best wishes with your continuing research
Reiver
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Hi
Just as an add on to some of the posts. The Knutsford Guardian is still published every wednesday and they do have there own website.
I think it's very possible that if the accident happened in Mere it would also have been in the Knutsford edition also.
Jill