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Hockley| Pott Shrigley| Bramhall| Hazel Grove| High Lane| Bollington| Bollington Cross| Prestbury| Cheadle Hulme| Disley| Handforth| Strines| Rainow| Wilmslow| Styal| Cheadle| Stockport| Macclesfield| Romiley| Alderley Edge| Broken Cross| New Mills| Marple Bridge| Whaley Bridge| Taxal| Gatley| Walker Barn| Horwich End| Heaton Mersey| Nether Alderley
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From 1947
My surname was Lesley Hulland, it would be nice to remember if anyone remembers me, I lived at Rabbit Burrow Farm until I was 15. I was baptised at St George's church and married there but am divorced now. I went to school at Poynton primary and then on to the secondary school. I was involved at the social centre where I was in many pantos, and did ballet there for 7 years. I live in Crewe now and have 2 grandchildren and 2 sons. My mother was born and bred in Poynton, and I have a famous great-grandmother who was on the stage and had a house built called The Homestead on Chester Road, Poynton, sadly it is no longer there. The headmaster at the secondary school was Mr Wyche, I also remember Mr Sutcliffe and Mrs Robinson, and Miss Tiffin, to name but a few. I have to say I miss Poynton and the dear memories it still holds for me, when we moved from the farm we went to... Read more
Nostalgia
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 modernized from our days when it was a 2up/2down with no running water, no electricity and the 'petty', a good old northern word, was at the end of the garden.) My Dad at that time worked down the pit at Hammond's brick works. In 1940 I won a scholarship to go to Kings School, Macclesfield where this village lad mixed with the more fortunate.
Being wartime we had to work and my younger brother and I worked at Pott Hall Farm where we picked potatoes, thinned and fashed turnips, milked cows and went hay making. The farmer was a fiery tempered, red haired man of Irish descent by... Read more
All at Sea - my Boyhood Poem
The ship had struck an iceberg a hole yawned in its side. In came the water racing fast - a swirling rushing tide. Then up came Jack the captain, He cried "put fear to rout - I've blown a hole in the other side to let the water out".
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
Percy Smith
My mum was born at the end of this row, near the Bollin, to Percy & Gertrude SMITH, in 1934. In 1978, Percy was recorded while he walked around the village sharing his encyclopedic knowledge. I will be dropping off CDs of this recording next weekend while we're at the Bridge Hotel, where my wife and I were married in 1997.
A. Hine
Minnesota
School Dinners
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 then marched back again, rain or shine. Meals were eaten on trestle tables with long rows of benches down each side. The only choice was take it or leave it, but if you took it you had eat it!
