History hunters

A VITAL part of an auctioneer’s job is research. And many become adept at finding out about local history. Coming up in the Peter Wilson auction on March 16 is a good example. It might be chipped and cracked, but the old pub jug pictured here – c.1860 – sheds a little more light on the history of Haslington, a Cheshire village between Crewe and Sandbach.