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The Queen's Visit
I cannot be specific as to the date of the Queen's visit because I was very young at the time.
On the left hand side of the road you can see what was at one time the post office but which later became a carpet shop. On the right hand side of the road (slightly obscured) was Harold Jones's coal merchants yard and next door to it was the green grocers shop which was run by his wife. Everyone was very excited because they were going to see the Queen.
Ledsham Road and Chester Road were lined with people all penned back behind metal barriers with innumerable police men trying to keep the heaving throngs back. The rain poured down and no one could see for the umbrellas. Everyone was soaking wet. The Queen came speeding around the corner in her black, shiny car and everyone cheered and waved their flags even though no-one could see her properly. Luckily I was sitting on top of Harold... Read more
St. George's Presbyterian Church
St. George's Presbyterian Church stands in the forefront of this photograph between what was the Co-operative shop and Tommy Jones the fishmongers shop. How long the Presbyterian Church has stood on this site I don't know but the Church itself was established in Little Sutton in 1838.
Legend has it that that two travellers passing through Little Sutton were stoned by the local youths and upon finding out that there was neither Church nor Chapel in the village paid for it to be built! How true this is I do not know. The Church Hall which was sited next to the old Black Lion pub was demolished in the late 1950s early 1960s and this building was, I suspect, old enough to be the original Chapel/Church which was the subject of the story. I would also add, although this is immaterial, that I was born in Black Lion Lane, and that my ancestors had lived in Little Sutton since at least 1750.
However, I attended at St. George's... Read more
The Rec!
Ah yes, The Rec! Scene of many a battle and many a cup final, in later years there was romance! You could get through the hedge and down onto the railway line to put halfpennies on the line that got flattened by trains as they ran over them.
At the End of Heath Lane, or more accurately at the junction with New Chester Road, a bobby did point duty at busy times. I can remember one day going to school and making a dash across the road and the bobby grabbed me before I went under a car! Probably wouldn't have been fatal - cars didn't get up to much speed in 1959.
When my father was a boy he and a friend were playing in The Rec and Dad got a swing seat thumped into his face that drove his front teeth right through his top lip. He still has the scar at the age of 80!
Also at that junction there used to be a... Read more
Basnetts The Newsagent
Does anyone remember the tobacconists owned by my Uncle Alec Basnett...opposite the Co-op??Johanna Webster.
The Chippy Down Walker's Lane
Dear All,
there are certainly many fine memories of Little Sutton on this web-site...bravo
I was more of a Great Sutton lad myself. I lived off Sutton Way, near the roundabout. Went to the Primary school next door. Then on to Mill Lane and eventually to Chester Art College, Handbridge.
As a kid and during those warm sunny, never ending school holidays, if I wasn't out catching sticklebacks from the pond in that field that was later to become Northern Rise (what a shame, there were fields all the way to Cappenhurst) I'd be biking it down to the Brook, turn left, then follow it all the way to the Rivacre Brow. But more often than not, I'd cross the Brook and cycle up the hill to the playing field at Whetstone Hey. Lounge around on the slope dominating the Port and the horizon.
Back in 1979 I totally widened my horizons, I left for France, and I've been here living... Read more
Hi Paul Saxon
Hi Paul Yes, I went to New Zealand, not Aussie. I remember being a good mate of you and also Steve Howard. Married Barbara Foxon from Upton and we have two Kiwi sons. I remember the fair and the circus at the new library site. As a kid it was just magical. I also went to Berwick Road School, Mrs Mclaren was my teacher, the thought of her sends shivers up my back even now. I worked for Angus Collin Builders Ltd from the late 1960s until about 1973, they were situated down an alley at the side of Pollards the bakers. It was my job to go and pick up the hot pork pies fresh out the oven, on cold winter mornings. Will post more when I get the time. Regards, Mal
New Houses
I moved with my family to live in Heath Lane in early 1956, just at the end of the side road leading to the 'rec'. At that time, it was a country lane with high hedges and there were fields where Granville Drive now is. Reynolds the builder built some of the houses in Heath Lane and Heath Grove and Warringtons built the houses in the Granville Drive area. Seth Hughes, headmaster of the Berwick Road school, lived next door.
I remember many of the shops, and some of the people, referred to by other contributors. One of the shops that does not seem to have been mentioned was the confectionery shop owned by Norman Pollard. Norman lived in Heath Grove and his brother and sister lived in Heath Lane. The shop was in the block opposite to the Presbyterian Church.
During my time there as a teenager, I became interested in railway signalling and spent much time in the signal boxes at Ledsham Station and Ledsham Junction.... Read more
Travellers Rest Public House
My g g uncle George and Aunt Louisa had the Travellers Rest from about 1881, he is still there in 1901, they raised 7 children there, all who at one time or another worked for their parents. He left there and went to the Bowling Green public house in Chester. If anyone has a photo of him I would love to have a copy.
