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Pott Shrigley maps
Historic maps of Pott Shrigley and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Pott Shrigley maps
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Illustrated Victorian map of Cheshire
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Pott Shrigley books
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Cheshire County Memories
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Cheshire Photographic Memories
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Cheshire Living Memories
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Our family lived at Jackson Brow in Pott Shrigley. We were living in No. 2 when the war was declared in 1939 and we listened to this on an old Lissen radio which required two dry batteries and one wet accumulator to run. A year later we moved to No. 1 which was the house at the front. (It has been... [more]
Shared on 26 August 2008
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When I went to the school we had our dinners in a room downstairs and heaven help you if you cheeked the dinner ladies. The Headmaster's son at the time, Michael Roe, did and he got a real telling off and probably the cane too! I also vividly remember standing at assembly waiting to hear the result of the... [more]
Shared on 12 January 2009
The primary school, on the hill at the far end of the street, had no kitchen facilites when I was there. School meals were prepared and served in St Mary's church hall, out of the photograph to the right. Every day we would be marched along the street in a long crocodile to have a our school dinner, and... [more]
Shared on 17 April 2008
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... [more]
Shared on 06 January 2008
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... [more]
Shared on 30 October 2007
Does anyone remember me, Tony Smith? I lived on Meriton Road for 25 years. My friends were Derek Clayton, Brian Wilson, Ray Riley etc etc, and our first pints were drunk in the Greyhound and the Freemasons. We also went to the Regal dance hall, and the Creole Club in Wilmslow, all good memories. Please e mail me: tonysmith296@tiscali.co.uk
Shared on 12 November 2009
The Greyhound on Wimslow Road was one of my favorite places as a child of 6-7 years of age. In 1939, I would often be lucky and as I came over the Railway Bridge from 15 Brereton Road, and after having an ice cream cone in the newsagents, to find the gypsy caravan was stopped in front of the Greyhound... [more]
Shared on 18 September 2008
Does anyone remember Grange FARM (next to The Grange) on Clay Lane in the 1940s or 1950s please? jeanjames@telus.net
Shared on 05 February 2008
Extracts From Pott Shrigley & Cheshire books
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Macclesfield Town and City Memories
Prestbury was the mother church of Macclesfield. Its ancient parish, one of the largest in the country, stretched right up to Rainow and Kettleshulme in the hills, north as far as Poynton, and out in the south and west to Bosley and Chelford. Macclesfield town was in the parish of Prestbury until the 19th century, although it had long outgrown its parent. A walk round Prestbury churchyard... [more]
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Macclesfield Town and City Memories
A leisurely country scene; note the lawn set out for games, and the swinging seat under its canopy. Behind the bird house on the left is a wonderful great barn with a sweeping roof of Kerridge stone slabs. The hall itself has now lost its stable doors, and the ivy, and has acquired a fine central doorcase complete with the Harrington arms.
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Macclesfield Town and City Memories
This little estate church was built in 1840. The initials TH and LHH which appear over the tower door and on the family pew stand for Thomas Hibbert and his sister Letitia Hamilton Hibbert, of Birtles Hall. It was, as can be seen, entirely covered with ivy 'neatly trimmed and cared for'. Today, inspecting architects would never allow this; there is just a little tasteful Virginia Creeper. The vicarage of... [more]
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