One of the main areas of research is obtaining images. There are very few available for public access in record offices etc, and most appear to remain in private hands. Can you help? Any scenes of village life would be appreciated - buildings, street scenes, people, events etc. If you can point the way to where useful images may exist that would be helpful too.

My thanks to those who have helped out so far - Avril at Farndon Hall, Russell Stones in the USA, Farndon Doctors Surgery, Mary Marshall (formerly of the Rock Cottage), Peter Gauterin.

I also hope to try to add more about the war memorial, rather than list their names here. I have done this already elsewhere and created a website to make the research accessible. This has included several trips to the battlefields of France and Belgium to help our research. You can view this here: Ellesmere Port War Memorial Project. Do you have information about any of the men on the Farndon War Memorial, especially photographs or where they lived?

Peter Gauterin, descended from John Gauterin recorded on the Memorial, has been visiting the battlefields on a regular basis since the early 1980s. He has a wealth of evidence and has kindly agreed to contribute towards the research of the men recorded on the memorial. Hopefully this can be added in the near future.

Local Farndon men Ken Wakefield, Neil Lewis, and Colin Capewell toured the battlefields in August 2009, and visited the grave of Charles Williamson of the Old Red Lion Inn, Churton, who is on the Farndon Memorial. Ken has kindly written a report of the trip and there is also a new page with research on Charles Williamson:

Full Battlefield tour report - Ken Wakefield

Charles Williamson - visit to his grave and research report.