Whitegate
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Whitegate books (16 available)
Macclesfield Town and City Memories
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Macclesfield Town and City Memories
Paperback
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Cheshire memories
The Blue Cap Hotel
My Grandparents Jack and Edna Williams ran The Blue Cap Hotel in Sandiway during my youth and my fondest memories are there, of Rooms 6 and 7, which would be allocated to my sister and I during our stays. There were garages out in the parking lot, one of which was turned into a temporary stable for my horse one summer. The Cheshire Hunt used to leave from the Hotel and although at the time I was too young to ride with them, I remember the smell of the sherry being handed out on silver trays at the pre-hunt gathering, then in majestic splendor, the hunt would move off the car park and down the dual carriageway before turning right into ...read more here
A memory of Sandiway contributed by Anita Healey
School Lane & the Grange School
I was born at 60 School lane & would like to know what was on the land prior to our house which I think was built in the early thirties.
I attended the Grange School on Bradburns Lane. gray & green uniforms, Mrs. Perry head teacher with Mrs. Atherton, Miss Taylor, Miss Western. Although the school continues for now up to 18 year olds, we left at 11, and there used to be a huge beech tree with a rope ladder which I fell from & rhododendrons we used to play in.
I used to be friendly with the family at Hartford Hall before it became a hotel.
Does anyone remember them ?
A memory of Hartford contributed by First name Last name
the grange school
I went to a school called The Grange in Hartford. Does anyone know where it was, or if it still exists?
HL
A memory of Hartford contributed by First name Last name
Mid Cheshire College of FE
I was at Mid-Cheshire College in 1976. I got to know The Greenbank rather well!
A memory of Hartford contributed by Stephen Owen
Extracts From Whitegate & Cheshire books
Whitegate is named for
an old white gate which
would once have marked
the entrance to the former
Vale Royal Abbey. Today
there is another white
gate at the entrance to
the church, just across the
road from this delightful
old cottage. Nearby
there is a 5˝-mile trail,
the Whitegate Way, that
follows an old railway line
built in the 19th century
to transport salt.
An extract from from"Cheshire Living Memories".
Having survived the great fire of 1583, St Mary’s Church
is the oldest building in the town. Much of the structure
dates from the 14th century, although it is thought that
building work was probably interrupted by the Black
Death and only resumed much later that same century.
An extract from from"Nantwich and Crewe Photographic Memories".
The market hall was built by John Hill in 1854. It should come as no surprise in Crewe that he was a railway contractor for
the London and North Western Railway (LNWR). Intended as a cheese market, it had a capacity for 2,000 tons of cheese.
Originally it had direct access at the rear of the building to the main railway line.
An extract from from"Nantwich and Crewe Photographic Memories".
The clock tower
stands just inside the
main entrance to
Queen’s Park. It was
built using
subscriptions from
workers in all
departments of the
LNWR Company ‘as a
token of their
appreciation of the
generosity of their
Board of Directors
(who) presented the
park to the town’. It is
decorated with a
carved head on each
side depicting three
board members and
Queen Victoria. It
also served as a
drinking fountain,
but the water has
now been cut off.
An extract from from"Nantwich and Crewe Photographic Memories".
Bunbury has been described as ‘a village that the commuter has
found but not spoilt’, and it has a delightful mixture of buildings
of all periods. The village itself is rather a tale of two halves: this
area around the former village green has the shops, and the other
half, a short distance away, is focused on the church.
An extract from from"Nantwich and Crewe Photographic Memories".