This is for people who fancy a good read and enjoy historical tales from long ago. Research into her family's past convinced her to write the Crewe book, and much of it concentrates on how the town slowly emerged long before, during and immediately after the arrival of the railway in the 1800s. Chambers has pieced together some fascinating detail to offer an understanding about the areas surrounding Church and Monks Coppenhall and how these would eventually become what most of us think of as Crewe. We all moan about petty crime, vandalism and theft that we hear about through the media, so some of the tales from the 1600s will amuse. Even back then local folk were dragged before Quarter Sessions for misdemeanors various