Portal:Cheshire/Calendar/October

1 October 1827: First stone laid of Grosvenor Bridge, Chester (pictured).

1 October 1905: Inventor John Dolphin born in Christleton.

3 October 1953: First public motor race at Oulton Park.

5 October 1963: Journalist Nick Robinson born in Macclesfield.

10 October 1654: Frodsham Castle destroyed by fire during the Civil War, after the death there of John Savage, 2nd Earl Rivers.

10 October 1868: Runcorn Railway Bridge officially opened.

10 October 1960: Alan Garner's The Weirdstone of Brisingamen first published.

11 October 1678: Antiquarian Sir Peter Leycester died in Nether Tabley.

14 October 1869: Chester Town Hall officially opened by the future Edward VII.

14 October 2017: Mersey Gateway Bridge opened.

16 October 1643: Acton and Dorfold briefly captured by Royalists.

17 October 1832: Grosvenor Bridge, Chester, officially opened (still incomplete) by the future Queen Victoria.

17 October 1934: Novelist Alan Garner born in Congleton.

19 October 1359: A great storm destroyed the nave of Vale Royal Abbey.

19 October 1965: Train driver Wallace Oakes awarded the George Cross posthumously.

20 October 1891: Physicist and Nobel prize winner James Chadwick born in Bollington.

21 October 1650: First record of the Cheshire cheese trade with London.

22 October 1996: Helicopter crash near Middlewich killed five people, including Matthew Harding, vice-chair of Chelsea F.C., and journalist John Bauldie.

26 October 1865: Equestrian Statue of Viscount Combermere unveiled in Chester.

27 October 1874: Mill fire killed eight people at Over.