The videos featured on this page are also available from Nantwich Tourist Information

Centre. To order a copy or copies to be sent to you by post, telephone 01270 537359.

The TIC charges a standard £2.50 fee on top of the price of the videos for credit card orders, but this includes the post and packaging charges.

Nantwich Museum has stock of "Ship Ahoy", "The Jewel in the Town", "Curious South Cheshire" and "More Cheshire Curiosities", but sales are at the Museum only. There isn't a postal service.

For more details of the first four videos see the Jonboro Videos website

TWO of the planned trilogy of videos covering curiosities in Cheshire are now on sale with the launch of the latest, "More Cheshire Curiosities". This is a companion to the original one, "South Cheshire Curiosities."

   The scripts for both are based on a manuscript that was produced at the request of a publisher, but which had to be abandoned when a similar book by another author came on to the market. (That book is now out of print, I believe). I suggested to the writer that we should make a video version of his book-that-wasn't, which he agreed to do. It was decided to split it into three parts.

   "Curious South Cheshire" is available at Nantwich Tourist Information Centre; Nantwich Museum; Nantwich Parish Church Visitors' Centre (Church Shop) - closed until March; Williams' Newsagents, Audlem; Wybunbury Sub Post Office and other outlets (a full list appears on Jonboro Videos).

   "More Cheshire Curiosities" is available from Nantwich Tourist Information Centre; Nantwich Museum; and Nantwich Parish Church - with more outlets to follow shortly

   "Curious South Cheshire" costs £7.25 and "More Cheshire Curiosities" sells at £8. All proceeds are for St Mary's Parish Church Appeal Fund, Nantwich.

   Video duplicating is by Nantwich company Downstream.

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An armchair tour

THIS is an "armchair tour of St Mary's Parish Church" which takes the viewer into some places not seen by the visitor. It looks at the 650-year-old church in the company of Harold Forster MBE who is a regular tour guide at St Mary's. Harold wrote the commentary and speaks it on the video. He is also the producer.   

   This is an amateur production with all proceeds going to the funds of St Mary's. Harold and I (camera and post production) do not get a penny out of it - in fact, it costs us money.

   The 40-minute DVD is priced at £6.95.  

   "The Jewel in the Town" can be bought at Nantwich Tourist Information Centre (by post or in person) or Nantwich Museum (in person only). It is also available at St Mary's Parish Church (although the Church Shop is closed until March). 

   Video duplicating is by Nantwich company Downstream.

oThe story of the making of "The Jewel in The Town" can be read in this Letter from Nantwich.

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Saved from the muddy soil

AS the official photographer for Nantwich Museum, I was in from almost the start of the rescue of a salt ship from the sticky, muddy Nantwich soil where a terrace of modern houses was planned to be built. (It had been discovered the year before I joined the Museum's team of volunteers, but then the excavation was filled in again while funds were raised to save the vessel),

   I was able to video the raising of the salt ship - a storage vessel for brine, from which we get salt, rather than something that sailed - and saw it in the preservation process in York. A scene featuring the new houses, and the launch (!) of  the salt ship in a special ceremony in the Museum's Millennium Gallery are further scenes in the 38-minute video - available in DVD and VHS tape versions. 

   Only two salt ships have been unearthed in the U.K. - and Nantwich has them both. What's more, there are two more that we know of, still under the ground in the town!

   "Ship Ahoy" can be bought (for £5.95) at Nantwich Museum (in person only) or Nantwich Tourist Information Centre (in person or by post). 

   Video duplicating is by Nantwich company Downstream.  

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A series of video guides

PICTURED is one of a series of video guides produced by Peter Latham, a former Cheshire man who is now an expat. "The Treasures of Cheshire" covers Nantwich as well as other South Cheshire towns. The videos are priced at £13.99 and are available, as VHS tapes only, from Nantwich TIC.

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