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The Blue Cap Hotel
My Grandparents Jack and Edna Williams ran The Blue Cap Hotel in Sandiway during my youth and my fondest memories are there, of Rooms 6 and 7, which would be allocated to my sister and I during our stays. There were garages out in the parking lot, one of which was turned into a temporary stable for my horse one summer. The Cheshire Hunt used to leave from the Hotel and although at the time I was too young to ride with them, I remember the smell of the sherry being handed out on silver trays at the pre-hunt gathering, then in majestic splendor, the hunt would move off the car park and down the dual carriageway before turning right into the woods across the street.
Sadly, my grandfather passed away at the old age of 97, two years ago, but Grandma is still going strong, retired and living in her own house in Rochdale, Lancashire. I have lots of pictures and movies of our time at The Blue Cap.... Read more
The Shops And Doctors at Sandiway 1956
We first arrived in Sandiway in 1956. I remember getting off the bus at the top of Mere Lane and walking down towards our new home in Cherry Lane. The house was a 'tied house' belonging to the ICI and our tenancy of it was dependant on my father working at the ICI. On our right near the top of Mere Lane was a small mere, or flash as they are called in Cheshire, in a field (now under Sandown Crescent!). There were no buildings on the right hand side of Mere Lane at all then and the view was was across fields for some distance. Just past the start of Ash Road on the left side of Mere lane as we were going there were (and still are) shops serving the local area. Some of the shopkeepers' names have stuck in my mind: there was a shop on the corner of Ash Road and Mere lane, I think it was a bakery then, later to become a clothing shop?,... Read more
Dark Ark Lane
My grandmother used to be terrified of going down Dark Ark Lane, probably in the late 60s and 70s, whenever we went to Delamere Forest for family days out.
The Old Becoming New!
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 old Weaverham and the new!
Several farms still survived and I was fortunate to work on one at weekends for a few shillings. But the days of the big farms had long gone. The one that I worked on had one milking cow and a dozen hens and that was it!
But Weaverham despite its Liverpool influx remained a peaceful village with very little crime or social disorder. Seems a far cry from today. There were still orchards to 'scrump' in and ancient country lanes to ride to school on. I rode from Weaverham to Winsford everyday for several years come rain, hail or snow. Computers and... Read more
Happy Memories
I have so many happy memories of growing up in Weaverham. My young friends and I making our way through the woods off Northwich Road near Walnut Avenue. I think it was known as Beech Wood or Hazelwood. We would follow the path and the stream that ran through the wood, in those days the water was crystal clear, all day paddling and splashing, sitting on the embankment and enjoying our picnic. We could spend all day, eventually, tired and dirty, with soggy wet socks, we would make our way home. In the late spring the wood was covered in a complete eiderdown of bluebells - I spent hours on my own picking bouquets for my mum. Bluebells are still my favourite flower to this day, and I have them growing in my garden in the city. Memories of swimming in the River Weaver, waiting for the barges to come down and bobbing up and down on the swell as they went past. One of many favourite... Read more
Weaverham Secondary Modern
Harry Christian was the headmaster when I started at Weaverham Secondary Modern school in Lime Avenue in 1956. He was the first headmaster of the new school which by then had I think been open one or two years.
Assembly was the big event of the day! I recall that the few Catholic children we had in the school were excused attending and went off for an hours rest and relaxation before lessons started. One or two assemblies stick in my mind. One was at the time of the Cuban crisis when Harry Christian asked us to recall who had backed down and to give thanks for our deliverance (my words). Another was when a poor girl who had been caught stealing was metaphorically put in the stocks up on the stage and publically humiliated and expelled from the school!
Games played a big part in life at Weaverham Sec Mod and we were encouraged to participate. I wasn't much good at football - though I recall... Read more
Grange Wood
Many happy years playing in Grange Wood and surrounding fields and walking through the fields up to Acton Bridge.
Picnics with jam butties and water.
Bike rides up to Cuddington and Hartford. Long summer holidays when the tar melted on the roads and scraping the top of my big toes with those rubber flipflops they used to sell in Woolies.
McNeals sweet shop at the bottom of Forest Street and the old Co-op with really high counters.
It's so sad how things are now
