In 2023 it is the 1100^th anniversary of Thelwall being declared a ‘city’.  There is to be an open meeting on Wednesday 30^thNovember for local groups and individuals to gather interest and ideas, and set up an organising committee.  The meeting will take place at the Royal British Legion, doors opening at 7pm for the meeting to start at 7.30.   Representatives and individual members of all village organisations will be very welcome.   

We’ve been looking back at the way the village came together to celebrate 1000 years in 1923 and 1050 years in 1973. In 1923, Thelwall’s celebrations helped to fund a new war memorial (Bell Lane), dedicated in 1925. So successful was the event that the pub was drunk dry and the caterers ran out of food and drinks. In May 1973, Thelwall Youth and Community Association organised Festival 1050 – a four day event with a folk festival, a piano recital by Stephen Hough, an arts and crafts exhibition in the school and a procession that saw Miss Thelwall (Carol Moss) brought across the Manchester Ship Canal by the ferry boat where she was met by the Thelwall Rose Queen (Julie Lager) to a fanfare. They then joined a procession of vintage cars round the village.

If you have any memorabilia, photos, films or memories from these events, we would like to hear from you.  You can email thelwallhistorygroup@gmail.com