Langley memories
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Born And Bred in Langley From 1943 to 1967
Norn at no 36 Main Road, mother Marion Simpson married to Frank Williams, schooled at Langley Primary School, Beech Hall Prep School and Macclesfield Grammar, worked at the blood transfusion service in Manchester before joining an American medical company selling modern tech, including kidney and heart lung machines. Had own businesses and recently retired, living in Colton, Staffordshire. I had the most exciting childhood in Langley, from wildlife to sport, especially the early days of cricket. All my mother's side of the family, Heapys, had been in the area for 150 years, particularly around Flash. I had many friends in the village and later was friends with John Richards at Gawsworth when at Beech Hall, and still retain some friends within the county.
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Frightening Times
In 1997 I worked for a company calles SES security where I was a security officer at Parkside. Over my time there I became fascinated with the layout of the site and spent many many months walking the length and breadth of every building there. I have to say that the main building with the clock tower was one of the most frightening places I have ever been. There was just this feeling of all the tortured souls that had been within its walls. As I am writting this now, the hairs on the back of my neck are jumping. You could just sense the sadness and of the building itself. At the side of the main building with clock tower was what I would desribe as a caretaker's courtyard. I was obsessed with finding the elusive tunnels of Parkside and here is where I found them. At the back of one of the caretaker's buildings was a heavy-duty prison-style red door. Behind this door was miles of tunnels,... Read more
John Adshead - Exercising The Dogs
It was a common site to see John Adshead cycling to work from Gawsworth New Hall to the Lonsdale & Adshead brewery on Park Green Macclesfield. There was a driver and car available at the house, but it was usually the bike that got John to work. The dogs ! No they were not running alongside the cycle, they were tucked into John's coat. The brewery was sold in 1950, about 10 years before this picture was taken.
Schooldays
I was born in Broken Cross and went to the old infant school when Mrs. Richards, Miss Lomax and Mrs. Frith were the teachers there. I seem to remember school concerts being held round the corner in a building just before the start of Gawsworth Road. When I was small the Post Office was in one of the cottages on the hill going down into the village but the counter was too high for me to see over. The newsagent's shop was kept by Mr. and Mrs. Dale. On Sundays we walked up to Henbury Church where I was later married when Rev. Jones was the Vicar.
Quest For my Ain Folk
I visited St Peter's in August 1976 as part of a search for traces of my ancestors, the De Vauxs of Adlington, French Hugenots who first settled from France, in 1630. They became Yeomen farmers on the Leghs Adlington estate and stayed there until late 1890's. A number of them lie buried in a crypt next to the Leghs lair. I met the Verger who kindly opened the Church old registers to discover entries of my ancestors. My Grand Mother, Elizabeth Jane Vaux, lived at Hope Green, married my Grand father, James Kerr Bell, son of James Bell, co-founder of the famous Glasgow printing house of Bell and Bain now a public company est 1831. I am born an Australian from my father, who was born at the Grange, Handforth, Lancashire in 1879 and after World War 1 emigrated to Australia where en route he met my mother and they fell in love and both settled down here in Melbourne, Victoria. Accompanying me in 1976 was my wife Merlyn whose... Read more
Broken Cross Post Office
my parents owned the piost office from about 1958-1965 - their names were albert (bill) edward wild and dorothy emma wild and the inscription on the board read "AE and DE Wild" before they owned it , it belonged to Vera and Dennis Eaton . my Dad died in 1964 and then my Mum sold the business on and moved back to Derby. i went to henbury primary school and sang at henbury church. My freinds at that school were Alan Goodwin and Susan Windsor - whose Mum was the lollipop lady for the school. my Mum opened a wool shop at one end. opposite the post office was the Pack Horse Inn and further into the village was a very small village primary school. Joe and Audrey Barlow owned the green grocery shop. i remember the bank next door and the break in. i was about 7 at the time and remember the robbers got away across our garden and i found lots of money under... Read more
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