Backford and Mollington Local History Society
Backford and Mollington Local History Society was formed in 2002. Members, I assure you, are all (fairly) normal people – we just like finding out about how people lived and how events have unfolded, over the years, particularly in our part of Cheshire. We meet on the first Wednesday of most months, at 7.30pm in the Village Hall. Often there is a visiting speaker, who gives a presentation on some topic of local interest (local is a loose term) and over the seasons we have heard about such matters as the role of Neston in the slave trade, the Mollington connections of the first RAF ace pilot of WW2 and the history of Backford and Mollington Halls. One of our committee organizes visits/conducted tours of nearby sites of historical interest e.g. Liverpool Town Hall, Gladstone Library in North Wales and sites of historical industrial interest. We take part in national/county initiatives e.g. research into the lives of local men who took part in WW1 and record events which will be of interest to future history students e.g. We also note any (building) developments within our area, recording the changes for posterity. When Cheshire County Council vacated Backford Hall some members produced a DVD of the history of the Hall and its state when vacated. The same team has produced a DVD of the state of the Hall and associated buildings as it is now, after development. Several members have undertaken individual projects, or have worked with other members, to produce accounts of historical events in local families or at local landmarks. Some of these pieces of work have been published in our two books “Beneath the Surface”, Volumes 1 and 2.
