Mort's Scrapbook

The Mort Family Scrapbooks

On Loan from Jamie MacDonald & Margaret Taylor

What did we do before we had the Internet?

Before TV, before most people even had radios, we "surfed" the newspapers and cut out what caught our eye and made scrapbooks. Maybe local news, travel, sport. The vast majority of these books were consigned to the bin many years ago but we are very fortunate that the Mort family held on to theirs ... with clippings from as early as 1907 right up to the 1940s. There is lots of general material giving a flavour of the times but every now and then a little gem that tells of local life in Lymm at the time.

Thank you to Jamie McDonald, formerly of the Lymm Hotel and to Margaret Taylor for sharing these with us.

Items in this collection

1911, Territorials entertained — Default Images

Building of the Manchester Ship Canal — Default Images

C. H. G. Cornwall Legh, notice of death — Default Images

Charles Blease, notice of death & Mr and Mrs A. Leather, Golden Wedding — Default Images

Cherry Lane, Lymm, Independent Methodists. — Default Images

Clock in Cross to show Jubilee time — Default Images

Corn Mill and Lower Dam — Default Images

Crabtree's death, a blow to sport — Default Images

Fight for 'Pride of Cheshire' — Default Images

High Legh Chapel closure — Default Images

High Legh Independent Methodist Chapel — Default Images

Honour for Mrs K M Holden — Default Images

James Gould and Shire Horse, Lymm Grey — Default Images

Jubilee service at Lymm Cross — Default Images

Lymm Council, 1910 report — Default Images

Lymm Dam emptied for road widening — Default Images

Lymm Urban District Councillors, 1930 — Default Images