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Macclesfield Town and City Memories
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Macclesfield Town and City Memories
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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 ...read more here
A memory of Prestbury contributed by vivien hyde
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 ...read more here
A memory of Prestbury contributed by James Logan-Bell
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.
A memory of Gawsworth contributed by Maurice Adshead
Village Shop, Nether Alderley
It is often stated that the village shop was also the Post Office, but this is not true. There was a letter box (bar) in the wall, but the nearest Post Office was at Monk's Heath. The village shop was very small but sold a variety of products from chicken feed to postcards.
A memory of Nether Alderley contributed by Hilary Hartigan
Extracts From Broken Cross & Cheshire books
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 (especially recommended in crocus time)
will leave an outstanding impression of the antiquity of the place, as
evidenced by the carved Saxon cross and the little Norman chapel that
stand near the church, and of the sheer size of the graveyard which is a
reflection of the size of the parish. The windows of the Norman chapel
at Prestbury are glazed with a delightful modern series of pictures
relating to the following poem:
When as a child I laughed and wept,
time crept.
When as a youth I dreamed and talked,
time walked.
When I became a full-grown man, time ran.
And later as I older grew, time flew.
Soon I shall find while travelling on,
time gone.
Will Christ have saved my soul by then? Amen.
This seems a good note on which to finish this book.
An extract from from"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.
An extract from from"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 1892 is characteristically
bigger than the church. A grave near the
fence commemorates Harold and Mary
Worth, killed by enemy action on 23
December 1940 at Acton Farm.
An extract from from"Macclesfield Town and City Memories".
The town may have been dingy in 1955, but you could buy anything you wanted. The little white tower of the late lamented Majestic
Cinema of 1922 rises in the middle distance.
An extract from from"Macclesfield Town and City Memories".
The nave is by Blomfield, and would have been
brand new when this photograph was taken.
The chancel and east window were built a few
years earlier and are by James Stevens. The fine
chandeliers, still lit on special occasions, are Georgian.
An extract from from"Macclesfield Town and City Memories".