FOLLOWING the Ask Andrew Special Feature (here) about The Dowery, a visitor to "A Dabber's Nantwich" has identified another of the ladies seen in the main picture.

 

Dear Andrew

   My mother, then Olive Chetwood (nee Birchall), is the one on the far left of the front row.

   Am I right in remembering the premises were the Nantwich Registry Office until the 1950s or 1960s?  Or was that in Barker Street?

Lynda,

Many thanks for your Email. I do have a few other names which I can give you.

   Seated five from left in the front row is Dora Green. It is thought that Mrs Christie-Miller is in the middle, i.e. eight from either end.

   Third row from the front, third from the left, is Muriel Simcoe (who became Muriel Gilford, my mother-in-law). Seven from the right is Margaret Whitlow and back row, five from the right, is Joan Bradshaw.

   These names were given to me (apart from Dora Green and Muriel Simcoe) by Nancy Dutton (nee Bradshaw, whose younger sister I have just named).

   I don't remember the Dowery being the Registry but I do remember the Registry being behind W.H.Smith's, down Church Walk.

   I used to get my hair cut down there - at Ted Moulton’s before he joined Ted Mellor in Hospital Street.

   The Dowery of course always was in Barker Street.

   Incidentally, I came across a Chetwood’s Garage advert from the 1930s which I thought might interest you.