Higher Walton
Higher Walton photos (5 available)
Higher Walton maps (2 available)
Map of Cheshire
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Higher Walton books (16 available)
Macclesfield Town and City Memories
Hardback
Macclesfield Town and City Memories
Paperback
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An American Boy in Stockton Heath, England
I was a 13 year old boy from Wilmington, North Carolina, USA. My father was a Sergeant in the US Air Force, assigned to Burtonwood RAF Station. We rented a flat at 35 London Rd, Stockton Heath. It was over Mr. Alfred Ward's Butcher Shop. His wife operated the Sweet Shop on the opposite side of the road. Their son was named Terrance.
London Road was lined with small shops; several butchers, bakery, candy shops, the post office, a shoe shop and others. This was a big change for an American boy. I enjoyed following my mother when she shopped at the different shops.
I would watch Mr. Ward in his shop serving customers just the right amount ...read more here
A memory of Stockton Heath contributed by jay wilcox
Sad Demise
Sadly we see very few ships passing down the Manchester Ship Canal these days. When I was a kid I lived in Latchford not far from the locks. We used to spend many hours watching the ships pass through the locks on there way to Liverpool or Manchester. We were occasionally rewarded by a pack of cigarettes or sweets thrown by the crew to us kids. Happy days.
A memory of Warrington contributed by Ian Miller
The Queen's Visit.
I remember as a youngster my mum and dad talking of the Queen's forthcoming visit to Warrington and how the statue of Oliver Cromwell was to be covered so as not to upset her. They eventually moved the statue to a less visible place and the side of the Academy.
A memory of Warrington contributed by Ian Miller
Happy times
The building at the top of the picture with the advert on was a grocers called Hendrey Millings. I worked there as a young man and had my first encounter with the opposite sex!!!
A memory of Warrington contributed by leslie edge
Extracts From Higher Walton & Cheshire books
Begun in the mid 1830s, Walton Hall was to be both the family home and the country estate of Gilbert Greenall, a wealthy local brewer and prominent businessman. In the 1870s the hall was extended to accommodate the children of his second marriage and the enlarged household necessary now that he was Warrington’s Member of Parliament and a baronet. By the death of Lord Daresbury, Sir Gilbert’s son, in 1938, Walton had become a model agricultural estate. This view shows the original 1830s wing in Elizabethan style with its distinctive pinnacles (right), and the 1870s extension in Scottish baronial style (left).
An extract from from"Warrington Photographic Memories".
Prosperity came to
Warrington along with
industry in the 1800s,
and this is reflected in
the quality of all the
town’s commercial
buildings. The variety
of industries here
was enormous – from
glass making to the
production of pins,
tanning, sailcloth
and soap production,
brewing and,
inevitably in this area,
chemical industries.
An extract from from"Cheshire Living Memories".
This view shows the visitor’s entrance below the oriel window (left) and the single-storey gunroom next to it. The adjacent bay-windowed section contained the library below and Lady Daresbury’s bedroom above. The three-storey wing (partially hidden by the tree) included the housekeeper’s room and the butler’s pantry. It was largely demolished in the late 1970s apart from the clock tower.
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".
Although its style is medieval, this church, dedicated to St John the Evangelist, was built in
1885 by Sir Gilbert Greenall, a Lancashire MP and founder of the famous brewing company
that bears his name. There is a window in the church that shows St George, but the face of
the saint is that of a descendent of Sir Gilbert’s who died in 1928.
An extract from from"Cheshire Living Memories".