More on Dickinson and Thornycroft
	11:26am Fri 16 May 08
	ALTHOUGH I seem to have written at some length about the surgeon William Binley Dickinson and the sculptor, Thomas Thornycroft, there is a far greater story to tell which is beyond the scope of these articles.

	A family of surgeons
	9:57am Fri 2 May 08
	WILLIAM Binley Dickinson was baptised at St Mary's church, Hinckley, Leicestershire, on October 3, 1790.

	The story of an apprentice
	12:11pm Fri 18 Apr 08
	THOMAS Thornycroft of Great Tidnock Farm, Gawsworth, would have been 15 or 16 years of age when his apprenticeship with the Macclesfield surgeon, Mr John Fleet, began in the very early 1830s.

	The Thornycrofts of Great Tidnock Farm
	10:24am Fri 4 Apr 08
	BY the middle of the 18th century a John Thornycroft was farming at Little Moreton Hall, just south of Congleton.

	Boudicca has town connections
	10:31am Fri 14 Mar 08
	IF I were to ask many adults in Macclesfield if they had heard of the sculptors Michaelangelo and Henry Moore, I am certain the vast majority of them would say: "Of course".

	The ladies’ prerogative
	11:58am Fri 29 Feb 08
	LEAP year could not be better for the ladies, but what history, or mystery, lies behind February 29? Leap year, of course, has a scientific basis, but does not answer the question why females can offer marriage to their desired males. The extra day allotted to February helps to adjust our calendar, known as the Gregorian Calendar, because it was introduced by Pope Gregory Xlll in 1582, although not corrected in England until 1752.

	Prestbury rescue
	10:37am Fri 15 Feb 08
	15th Feb, 2008 In March 1823 a report, headed 'Providential Escape at Prestbury', must have had the Courier readers enthralled, as the details were retold.

	More on turnpikes
	10:48am Fri 1 Feb 08
	THE Bill relating to the turnpike road from Macclesfield to Buxton, etc., was finally passed in May 1852, after all the concerned parties had agreed on the amendments. The decision was taken to remove both tollgates, ie Broken Cross and Buxton Road, at the end of four years, which would mean that only two tolls were payable through Macclesfield all the way to Buxton, instead of four.

	How the cost of the Buxton Road turnpike soared
	10:39am Fri 18 Jan 08
	THINKING I had said goodbye to turnpike roads before my festive season's articles, I now find that I must return to them, if only for a couple more articles.

	The Falklands story ... continued
	10:31am Fri 4 Jan 08
	AS a completion to the Christmas article a brief follow-up seems appropriate. The British Government, wishing to establish a permanent settlement in the Falklands, used the early months of 1840 to advertise the proposed new colony through the efforts of the Colonial Office.

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