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Web Sites designed and maintained by Mike Royden

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MIKE ROYDEN'S LOCAL HISTORY PAGES

Local History of Liverpool, articles, photos, maps, bulletin board, record office information, University courses, useful links, plus much more. Essential for Local Historians!

Farndon Parish Local History Pages

www.farndon.org.uk

Farndon is a village in the county of Cheshire, England, on the banks of the River Dee, 8 miles south of Chester, and close to the border with Wales. John Speed (1542-1629), the famous cartographer was born in Farndon, and King Edward the Elder died here in 924. There are several buildings of historical interest, including the Grade I listed medieval bridge and at least sixteen Grade II structures.

Royden Family History Web Site

www.roydenhistory.co.uk

A family history site for the Royden name or family. History pages, the full tree, coat of arms, name meaning, guestbook, message board and feedback form for those who are or think they may be related.

Halewood Parish Local History Pages

www.halewood.org.uk

Halewood lies to the south east of Liverpool and was once a township in the large parish of Childwall. This website is still in preparation and will hopefully be online by the end of summer 2007. Various aspects of Halewood's history will be covered, including articles, documents, photographs, maps etc.

Bombardier Charles Royden R.F.A. (1881-1918)

www.roydenhistory.co.uk

Charles Royden was in the Royal Field Artillery in the First World War and was killed in 1918. It has taken many years of research to compile enough material for this modest biography. To ensure that even this was not forgotten visit these pages for a more detailed account of Charles Royden at the Somme and his war record.

Ellesmere Port Local History Pages

This site is an on-going local history project researched and compiled by Year 9 pupils of the Whitby High School under the guidance of Mike Royden. It is researched each year around November, but updated throughout the year. Topics include studies of the suburbs and villages around Ellesmere Port, eg. Great Sutton, Little Sutton, Capenhurst, Overpool, Whitby, plus local sites such as Poole Hall, Whitby Hall, and the Temporary Government Housing Programme (1944-49) Prefab site known as 'Tin Town', Hooton Hall and Hooton Airfield. A newly designed site will be online by September 2007.

Ellesmere Port War Memorial Project

www.eportwarmemorial.org.uk

Dedicated to the memory of Ellesmere Port men who have given their lives during confict, this site is an ongoing project attempting to piece together a little more background about the men who fought and died. It also ties in with tours of the Battlefields where we are trying to visit the graves or memorials of as many soldiers recorded on the Ellesmere Port War Memorial as we can. This website reports the results of those efforts and shows where future researches may lie.

WWI Battlefields Tour

A tour of the World War One Battlefields of Flanders Fields, Belgium and Vimy Ridge and the Somme in France. Site contains full tour photographs, archive photographs, poetry, tracing soldiers who died in the Great War, plus links to useful sites.

Whitby High School Learning Portal

www.whitbyhigh.co.uk

The new Whitby High School Learning Web Site. Latest news, events, prospectus information, plus extensive learning materials.
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St.Nicholas Parish Church, Halewood

www.stnicholashalewood.org

Covers all aspects of Church life in Halewood parish, plus special feature of the William Morris stained glass windows and the fund raising efforts to save them.

Whitby High Online

www.whitbyhs.cheshire.sch.uk


The original Whitby High School Web Site - winner of several awards and shortlisted out of 600 schools for the BECTA/Guardian Education Web Award for 2001. Now superceded by the Learning Portal above.

Everton F.C. Nostalgia Pages

Pages featuring latest news concerning Everton throughout the media, the Hall of Fame presentation evenings 1999/2000/2001, the Hall of Fame books and Lewis Royden, the Everton mascot presenting awards at the 2001 Gwladys Street Hall of Fame.