BUCKLEY SOCIETY MAGAZINE

The latest edition of the Buckley Magazine Number 42 is now available price £3.00 at local outlets or via the Society 

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The content of magazine 42 includes:

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1               Contents

 2               Editorial

 3 - 5          Margaret Carmen Shone (15/11/1938 -14/03/2017) Michael Shone

 6               John (Jack) Bright and his Contribution to the Society’s Archive Carol Shone

 7 – 14       Memories of Liverpool Road - “The Forgotten Bit” Joy Jones

 15 – 16     Report on Recent Excavations in Buckley Viviana Culshaw and

                 Brookhill Pottery, Buckley (SJ 2794 6553) Richard Hankinson, Clwyd-Powys Archaeological                  Trust

 17 – 18     Price’s Pottery Finds - Processing, Identification and Cataloguing - 

                 Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust Open Days Carol Shone

 19 – 21     Commemorating the End of the Pottery Industry in Buckley Paul Davies

 22 – 28     Edward Bellis, 1760 – 1848, and the Battle of Trafalgar

                 Research by Dave Annal, Rosalind Bailey, Pamela and Derek Ayshford,

                 Helen Jenson, Barbara Forbes, David Rowe: Compiled by Carol Shone

 29 – 30     Frederick Birks VC MM (16.8.1894 – 21.9.1917) and a Family Violin

                 Information provided by Sharon Gladish (nee Miller) and Janet Tildesley; written by Carol                  Shone

 31 – 32    Goodnight Mr Birks – The Story of a WWI Buckley Hero, a Production

                by Westwood Community Primary School

                and Plans to Refurbish Fred Birks’ Memorial at St. Matthew’s Church

 33 – 37    Buckley Soldiers from the Second World War Peter Kelsall and Dave Vickers

 38 – 41    Flintshire War Memorials – Visits to the WWI Battlefields – In Particular, Buckley and

                Ewloe Soldiers of The Great War Commemorated on The Menin Gate Memorial At

                Ypres, Flanders Barbara Forbes

 41            Buckley Free Library Opening 1904

 42 – 43       Wheatley - Buckley Railway Company’s First Locomotive Paul Davies

 44 – 45     Lives on the Track Paul Davies

 45            Maritime Wales in the Middle Ages: 1039-1542 by Ken Lloyd Gruffydd - book flier

 46 – 47    Buckley Society Summer Walk Barbara Forbes

 48 – 50    A Family in and Around Buckley Alfred James

 50           The Buckley Society Programme of Talks February to May 2018

 51 – 52    Some 1930s and 40s Advertisements for Businesses in Lane End