CHESHIRE : TRADITIONS AND HISTORY By T. A. Coward
Those who know the 'county will be charmed with Mr. T. A. Coward's Cheshire : Traditions and History (Methuen. 8s. 6d.). It embodies the knowledge of a lifetime -and it is brightly written. Mr. CAvarci wrote his first book on Cheshire thirty years ago, but he has been at pains to note the many changes that time has wrought. Indeed, Cheshire people who have moved elsewhere will be interested to learn from Mr. Coward how the small villages that they remember have become towns, how Moreton Old Hall and other famous 'rouses have been carefully repaired, while Leasowe Castle is a convalescent home and the beacon tower on Alderley Edge has collapsed, and how Northwich continues to subside into the brine pits below. The first chapter describes Chester and its new-found Roman amphitheatre, and thence we pass to the Wirral, Delamere Forest, Vale Royal, Nantwich and to 'gradually round to Stockport, reminded continually of the varied interests of a county whose outskirts are industrial but whose rural interior is still hardly spoiled: Mr. Coward's flow of historical and family anecdotes is unceasing, and he gives some good and well-chosen photographs.
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