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Cheshire / Re: Collar House, Prestbury
« on: Friday 09 August 13 20:44 BST (UK)  »
Hi folks, especially Craven 481 who was born at Collar House

My book on the history of Collar House is finished and the manager of the Prestbury Beaumont/Collar House has offered to have a coffee morning on Saturday Sept 14th at 11.  I will have the book available then.  I need to let Collar House know the numbers should you wish to come.

It is 50 pages of A4 with the history from 1780 -2012.

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Cheshire / Re: Collar House, Prestbury
« on: Saturday 03 March 12 22:42 GMT (UK)  »
Hi Charlie
Thanks for the contact but I would need to know when you think it belonged to your Quaker Fry family.   It passed by a will from father to son in the Hordern family in 1780 and again down the family line in 1819.  These details are confirmed by annual entries in George 4th's Land Tax returns. It then passes to the Hervey family from 1859-1888.  more wills etc.  It is then bought by the Mill owner Isaac Waterhouse in 1888 and held by him until his death in 1913.  If you have data prior to 1780 I shall be overjoyed.
best wishes
Mary

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Cheshire / Re: Collar House, Prestbury
« on: Wednesday 22 February 12 12:16 GMT (UK)  »
Hi
I have not used any sort of chat site before so

Ken   I will let this site know if I can get a publisher at reasonable price   always a worry for short runs

Kim I am curious to know how you know my family and would be interested in Grandpa's bungalow but have no idea how to give you my email address.    My phone no is 01245421794

I am wary of on-line advice as there is another site which says the Moseley family at Collar were related to Oswald Mosley the fascist.  How people can be so sloppy about spelling I do not know. Rex Moseley's older brother Oswald worked in the family Rubber Manufacturing firm in Manchester all his life and had nothing to do with fascists.  If people bothered to check they would find that not only is the surname spelt differently but their middle names are different too.   And once this sort of rubbish starts to be written it gets 'shared as truth' when it is not.

Thanks to both of you for responding
Mary

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Cheshire / Re: Collar House, Prestbury
« on: Tuesday 21 February 12 19:29 GMT (UK)  »
Hi
Collar House was used in the war by St Mary's Manchester when Manchester was being bombed.  My mother was the midwife who got the operating theatre there up and running.  She met my father there and they married in 1943.  I was born there in 1944.  I went to visit the house and decided to write a history of the house.  It is nearly finished.  I traced the house back to at least 1780 and have data on at least 7 families who owned or tenanted the house.  I wrote two articles for the local church magazine to ask people for info and had many responses and some photos, inc. one of the staff of the house in 1904.  When the Prestbury Beaumont Care Home was built they retained the lovely east and south facades and knocked down the old kitchen and staff quarters to build two wings of accomodation better suited to the care of older people.  I hope to publish the booklet later this summer (it is 50 pages) and intend to leave copies in the local libraries.
It was used for deliveries from Dec 1939 - 1952 when the Manchester wards had been repaired/rebuilt.   Hope this helps  I am new to this site.
Mary 

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