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Acton Bridge, Cheshire
Acton Bridge maps
Historic maps of Acton Bridge and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Acton Bridge maps
Historic map of Acton Bridge
Illustrated Victorian map of Cheshire
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Acton Bridge books
Displaying 3 of 12 books about Acton Bridge and the local area. View all Acton Bridge books
Cheshire County Memories
Paperback
$30
Cheshire Photographic Memories
Paperback
$28
Cheshire Living Memories
Paperback
$28
2 Acton Bridge photos appear in 2 Frith book titles. You can read extracts and browse photos from these books.
Memories of Acton Bridge
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My nanna and grandad Noden lived at Island Cottage. Grandad was a bridgekeeper along with Jack Powell and Syd Bebbington at Acton swing bridge from 1945-1960. There was an enormous flood in 1946 when my grandparents were the first to be rescued. The water rose over 12and a half feet. A Bulldog Drummond film had its location at Acton Bridge when... [more]
Shared on 27 November 2006
Hello Laurie
My dad had the boat 'Jan' - I still see Roger & Jean from time to time. We still have a boat on the Weaver at AB, and she is called 'Triton'. I have a brother called Peter and my parents were called Peter & Mary - but can you remember my name? I... [more]
Shared on 16 December 2009
My memories of Acton Bridge go back to the mid 1950s and early 1960s. The picture of boats at Acton Bridge Cruising Club takes me back to my teenage days. We had a boat called 'Scampi' which was a 32-foot ex-Norwegian lifeboat. It was our family boat. It was kept initially on the Mersey at Wallasey Dock, then my dad decided... [more]
Shared on 17 December 2008
Cheshire memories
Weaverham was a quite place to live and even bring up a family. I don't live there any more but some of my family do, Maddock and Moreton. When I was growing up there we lived on St Mary's Avenue, just off Farm Road. A few months ago now I did a walk down the road, I even saw a few... [more]
Shared on 28 October 2009
We moved to Weaverham in 1958, at that time it was a good place to bring up children, and a good place for children to grow up in. The village was surrounded by fields and woods, where we played. There was of course the usual childish mischief, knocking on doors, and swiftly running away for one. I left Weaverham in 1968... [more]
Shared on 15 February 2008
I arrived in Weaverham in one of its transition periods. ICI had built many houses to house its workers in all the surrounding villages including Weaverham. So Weaverham had already transformed in a way when I got there, but of course for me coming from a city like Liverpool it was a quaint, peaceful village, there just happened to be the... [more]
Shared on 03 August 2006
I broke down in the tunnel in the early 1970s, my kids thought it was great pushing us out off the tunnel wall, they were realy black at the end. I made sure it didn't happen going back!
Shared on 15 June 2009
i remember when dillas owned the sweet shop on lydyatte lane and we used to go with pocket money we would always get a few more i also remember the butchers shop was up and running with an abatoire on town field lane then their was the butchers on runcorn rd which used to make the best pies around i remember... [more]
Shared on 24 November 2007
Extracts From Acton Bridge & Cheshire books
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Acton Bridge, inspired by Frith photos.
Now used just for pleasure boating, the River Weaver would once have been very busy with boats carrying salt to ports along the Mersey estuary. There is a law (that has never been repealed) which states that 'to swim in the River Weaver on a Sunday is an offence punishable by deportation to the Colonies'.
This is an extract from Cheshire Living Memories.
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Warrington Photographic Memories
A Moore resident keeps a look out for a rare commercial barge making its leisurely way along the Bridgewater Canal. Since this tranquil image was captured by Frith, only pleasure boats ply the canal and tie at up Moore to stock up at the village shop.
This is an extract from Warrington Photographic Memories.
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Warrington Photographic Memories
Moore's village school was showing its age in 1955. Built in 1877 for a much smaller community, its facilities had failed to keep pace with its teaching standards. An HMI's report of 1956 commented on the unsuitability of the cumbersome old school desks, the lack of dining facilities and the need for new toilets to replace 'the present bucket sanitation'.
This is an extract from Warrington Photographic Memories.
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Read more and see photos from this book.
