SOUVENIRS of your visit to the museum and Nantwich - such as the Civil War cannon (left) - can be bought from the small shop area at the desk within the main gallery. Postcards and stationery items can also be bought here. There are many excellent books, packed with local information, on sale, see below. There are also local videos.

lIt is perfectly safe to buy the cannon. It is actually a pencil sharpener! 

CHRISTMAS CARDS (New for 2009)

THE shop has a range of cards on sale - Christmas cards, a greetings card (blank) and a postcard. For more details click here (separate page). 

A BOOK that looks at the story of salt production throughout the county from a number of aspects - the history, the location of the salt works, the workers, salt tax, etc, "The Salt Industry" in on sale in the shop. There are excellent colour photographs to accompany Andrew and Annelise Fielding's text. There are also useful appendices, including a glossary of salt terms, and places to visit to learn more - including Nantwich Museum, of course. Nantwich's part in the salt story merits several mentions.

Price: £5.99. 

THREE Nantwich videos are available in the Museum Shop. The first is our own "Ship Ahoy - The raising of the Nantwich salt ship" which follows the story from the rescuing of the ship from the Nantwich mud through to its "launch" in the Museum - including behind-the-scenes footage. 38 minutes, 4:3 ratio, DVD or VHS tape, PAL, colour. £5.95.  

THE second is the video, "Curious South Cheshire", which looks at curiosities in and around Nantwich - from Audlem to Bunbury, and from Shocklach to Mow Cop. Approximately 50 minutes, 4:3 ratio, DVD only, PAL, colour. £7.25. Also available in NTSC format.

THE third is "The Jewel in the Town", a video tour of St Mary's Parish Church, including parts of the church not normally seen by visitors. 40 minutes, 4:3 ratio, DVD only, PAL, colour. £6.95.

"Park Road Bowling Club - The First Hundred Years" is the title of this book by Museum Trust member, Derek Hughes. It follows the story of the club from 1906 to 2006.

   The club ground, on the corner of Park Road, was once the site of the Brine Baths Hotel, now a housing estate. Pictured right are modern day bowlers, from the book.

   The price is £2.   

Jane Stevenson's book "Nantwich: a brief history and guide" (left), tells the story of the market and floral town of Nantwich.  Written by one of the Museum's volunteers, it is the ideal book for anyone newly arrived in town or visitors who simply want to get to know more about us.

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The Brine Baths Hotel in Nantwich was a centre for people who wished to indulge in baths fed from the hotel's own brine spring. It has been demolished and the land is now a housing estate. Derek Hughes (again) tells the history of the hotel and some of the people who worked there.

"An Historical Account of the Town and Parish of Nantwich; With a particular Relation of the remarkable Siege it sustained in the Grand Rebellion in 1643" (breath) is the title of this book, written in 1774 by Joseph Partridge. This is a new edition of the work with some notes from Hall's "History of Nantwich" added. 

RICHARD ILLIDGE

Another book on sale in the shop is Peter Jones' book on Lieutenant Richard Illidge (1637-1709) of Wybunbury, near Nantwich. Click here to read all about it.

The Museum Shop has many other items on sale, including this Ordnance Survey Map of Nantwich in 1908. The large scale map, published as The Godfrey Edition, will be a valuable aid for anyone researching their family history, or who wishes to know how the town streets were laid out at the start of the 20th century.