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Bank Street, CONGLETON, CW12 1EJ

The Congleton Kitchen offer kitchen meals, wine and beer sales, kitchen products, take-out meals, a cookery school, dinner parties, outside catering and kitchen hire. Website: https://www.thecongletonkitchen.co.uk

Built in 1890 and now looking unused, the Primitive Methodist Church is just off the High Street on Kinsey Street. Kinsey Street is very narrow and the Church is a tall, imposing, building which makes it very difficult to get a full front shot. For a wider view see Image

This is where the house belonging to John Bradshaw used to stand, before being pulled down in 1820. Bradshaw (1602-1658) was born in Stockport, Cheshire and was the younger son of a minor gentry family. He went on to study law at Gray's Inn in London before returning to Cheshire, where he became a prominent lawyer and was Mayor of Congleton in 1637. Later, he returned to London and became a judge at the Sheriff's Court, presiding over several high profile trials. In 1649, after several other prominent lawyers and judges had turned down the position, Bradshaw reluctantly took up the post of Lord-President of the High Court of Justice. Whilst holding office he presided over the trial of Charles I, sentencing him to death. Bradshaw died in 1659 and was buried in Westminster Abbey, after the Restoration he posthumously tried for the crime of Regicide (murder of a member of the Royal Family). Found guilty, his body was exhumed and hung in chains at Tyburn ( http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/biog/bradshaw.htm ).

This blue plaque is mounted on the steps leading to Bradshaw House, the site of the former home of John Bradshaw. Bradshaw (1602-1658) was born in Stockport, Cheshire and was the younger son of a minor gentry family. He went on to study law at Gray's Inn in London before returning to Cheshire, where he became a prominent lawyer and was Mayor of Congleton in 1637. Later, he returned to London and became a judge at the Sheriff's Court, presiding over several high profile trials. In 1649, after several other prominent lawyers and judges had turned down the position, Bradshaw reluctantly took up the post of Lord-President of the High Court of Justice. Whilst holding office he presided over the trial of Charles I, sentencing him to death. Bradshaw died in 1659 and was buried in Westminster Abbey, after the Restoration he posthumously tried for the crime of Regicide (murder of a member of the Royal Family). Found guilty, his body was exhumed and hung in chains at Tyburn ( http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/biog/bradshaw.htm ).

Although I was concentrating on Congleton's textile past, this pleasing building caught my eye and it was only decent to take its picture.

Grade II listed late eighteenth-century house. List entry: https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1104893

Commemorating the dead from several wars, recent high winds had scattered the wreaths. Unusually, this monument also includes an inscription to the brave men of The Royal Netherlands Brigade "Princess Irene" that was formed in Congleton on January 11th 1941 http://www.prinsesirenebrigade.nl/chronicle.htm (in English) and http://www.prinsesirenebrigade.nl/ (in Dutch).