http://www.communitynewsgroup.co.uk/news/maccnews/dorothybentleysmith/ Community Newsgroup /news/maccnews/dorothybentleysmith/ en-gb Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:58:31 +0000 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:58:31 +0000 http://www.communitynewsgroup.co.uk/news/maccnews/dorothybentleysmith/rssterms/ M6 nvincent@newsquest.co.uk (Nigel Vincent) webmaster@digitalmedia.newsquest.co.uk (Tim Joy) http://www.communitynewsgroup.co.uk/resources/images/294238/?type=rsslogo http://www.communitynewsgroup.co.uk/news/maccnews/dorothybentleysmith/ http://www.communitynewsgroup.co.uk/news/maccnews/dorothybentleysmith/3753640.Has_the_death_knell_sounded_for_Byrons_House_/?ref=rss IN his will Francis Figgins, having left the Byrons Estate in Sutton in the hands of trustees, requested that all the household furniture be given to his wife. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:37:20 +0100 92a9d39b49d5c93c6ac81c7b0e3571e8 http://www.communitynewsgroup.co.uk/news/maccnews/dorothybentleysmith/3646467.Classic_education_in_Macclesfield/?ref=rss WHATEVER had made Francis Figgins decide to move to Sutton near Macclesfield, after being established in Poynton for 25 years, could possibly have had something to do with his health. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:56:44 +0100 a7a61dc94bb7da1f83330bad1e66ef2e http://www.communitynewsgroup.co.uk/news/maccnews/dorothybentleysmith/3604817.Yob_violence_is_nothing_new/?ref=rss Sunday evening of March 4 1826 would long be remembered as the start of mob violence which saw all the gas lights in the town centre damaged, including the one outside the Angel, together with several of the inn’s glass panes. A bricklayer’s labourer, having filled his pockets with stones, did much damage. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:25:00 +0100 62324c39eef9174f3535503f136ffee7 http://www.communitynewsgroup.co.uk/news/maccnews/dorothybentleysmith/3604802.Flying_high_over_Macclesfield/?ref=rss Early in the morning of Monday 30th June 1827 the inflating of Charles Green’s balloon in the Gas Works Yard in Hurdsfield began. The advertising had been successful, and as the morning progressed crowds poured in from Congleton and Knutsford, and so great was the gathering that no one could remember anything to equal it. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:22:10 +0100 6122567c1a92b79370ffd0cf86558bde http://www.communitynewsgroup.co.uk/news/maccnews/dorothybentleysmith/3604810.Huge_machine_over_borough/?ref=rss On the first of June 1826 people living and working on the Staffordshire and Cheshire border were ‘annoyed and dismayed’ to see approaching one of those ‘huge machines’ – a large balloon. It descended near Swythamley Park, and some labourers seeing it unoccupied, managed to secure it. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:23:45 +0100 ed109d5c26038b35bb0a99cfab510462 http://www.communitynewsgroup.co.uk/news/maccnews/dorothybentleysmith/3596697.Francis_Figgins____son_is_groomed_to_be_the_next_principal_of_Byrons_Academy/?ref=rss BY the beginning of 1827, it would seem that at last Francis Figgins was fulfilling his ambition, ie that of training the eldest of his three sons, John, to assist him, presumably with the idea that in due course John would eventually take over the running of the Poynton School. Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:31:13 +0100 17968de64d1c609ab3c7cbe9ad951cee http://www.communitynewsgroup.co.uk/news/maccnews/dorothybentleysmith/2276531.More_on_Dickinson_and_Thornycroft/?ref=rss 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. Fri, 16 May 2008 11:26:00 +0100 db125755fa0124337de352c900d6c1d0 http://www.communitynewsgroup.co.uk/news/maccnews/dorothybentleysmith/2242750.A_family_of_surgeons/?ref=rss WILLIAM Binley Dickinson was baptised at St Mary's church, Hinckley, Leicestershire, on October 3, 1790. Fri, 02 May 2008 09:57:00 +0100 7c0e03f7ceeb533a344a431df443350f http://www.communitynewsgroup.co.uk/news/maccnews/dorothybentleysmith/2208091.The_story_of_an_apprentice/?ref=rss 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. Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:11:00 +0100 b74fedca67519fdac0495ff1ebc12910 http://www.communitynewsgroup.co.uk/news/maccnews/dorothybentleysmith/2171401.The_Thornycrofts_of_Great_Tidnock_Farm/?ref=rss BY the middle of the 18th century a John Thornycroft was farming at Little Moreton Hall, just south of Congleton. Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:24:00 +0100 429f4098f40dae4b6679d90084e4966d