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Macclesfield Town and City Memories
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Macclesfield Town and City Memories
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Acton Bridge memories
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Island Cottage
My nanna and grandad Noden lived at Island Cottage. Grandad was a bridgekeeper along with Jack Powell and Syd Bebbington at Acton swing bridge from 1945-1960. There was an enormous flood in 1946 when my grandparents were the first to be rescued. The water rose over 12and a half feet. A Bulldog Drummond film had its location at Acton Bridge when his car was supposed to go into the river and he had to be rescued. My grandad was standing by with his rowing boat. During the 1950s the River Weaver was a very important waterway and some very big boats went up and down to I.C.I Winnington. Once when the lock gates further downstream got stuck all the water drained ...read more here
Contributed by christine ruskin
Cheshire memories
Island Cottage
My nanna and grandad Noden lived at Island Cottage. Grandad was a bridgekeeper along with Jack Powell and Syd Bebbington at Acton swing bridge from 1945-1960. There was an enormous flood in 1946 when my grandparents were the first to be rescued. The water rose over 12and a half feet. A Bulldog Drummond film had its location at Acton Bridge when his car was supposed to go into the river and he had to be rescued. My grandad was standing by with his rowing boat. During the 1950s the River Weaver was a very important waterway and some very big boats went up and down to I.C.I Winnington. Once when the lock gates further downstream got stuck all the water drained ...read more here
A memory of Acton Bridge contributed by christine ruskin
We moved to Weaverham in 1958, at that time it was a good place to bring up children, and a good place for children to grow up in. The village was surrounded by fields and woods, where we played. There was of course the usual childish mischief, knocking on doors, and swiftly running away for one. I left Weaverham in 1968 and only ever went back there to visit my folks. I have now retired, and am enjoying it, but I don't live in Weaverham and I think most of my generation have left the place now.
A memory of Weaverham contributed by Jeff Green
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 ...read more here
A memory of Weaverham contributed by David yates
Extracts From Acton Bridge & Cheshire books
A Moore resident keeps a look out for a rare commercial barge making its leisurely way along the Bridgewater Canal. Since this tranquil image was captured by Frith, only pleasure boats ply the canal and tie at up Moore to stock up at the village shop.
An extract from from"Warrington Photographic Memories".
Moore’s village school was showing its age in 1955. Built in 1877 for a much smaller community, its facilities had failed to keep pace with its teaching standards. An HMI’s report of 1956 commented on the unsuitability of the cumbersome old school desks, the lack of dining facilities and the need for new toilets to replace ‘the present bucket sanitation’.
An extract from from"Warrington Photographic Memories".
Was this young Moore resident off to spend her pocket money at the local Post Office? Alas, there seems little there to tempt her, for the enamel advertising signs only offer Wills’s Woodbine Cigarettes and Craven A tobacco, or seemingly saucy magazines such as Men Only!
An extract from from"Warrington Photographic Memories".
This deceptively simple photograph captures the spirit of Moore in 1955: the road curving out of the village; the essential Post Office; and an absence of menfolk, who were probably hard at work on the farms.
An extract from from"Warrington Photographic Memories".
St John’s was designed by Paley and Austin, the distinguished Lancaster architects, and built in the local red sandstone by Fairhursts of Whitley. Consecrated in May 1885, the church was entirely financed by the first Sir Gilbert Greenall, a devout Anglican. St John’s was the Greenall’s family chapel, and Sir Gilbert, his son and grandson lie buried in its graveyard.
An extract from from"Warrington Photographic Memories".