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Disley memories
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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!
Contributed by Peter Dale
Cheshire memories
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!
A memory of Disley contributed by Peter Dale
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 ...read more here
A memory of Pott Shrigley contributed by Wilfred Jackson
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
Extracts From Disley & 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".