Winsford
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Winsford books (14 available)
Macclesfield Town and City Memories
Hardback
Macclesfield Town and City Memories
Paperback
- 3 photos on Winsford appear in 1 Frith books - View photos of Winsford
- Read extracts and see photos from these books on Winsford and Cheshire
Winsford memories
Read and share memories of Winsford and Cheshire inspired by Frith photos
My memories
I lived here on the Grange Estate from 1964 to 1968 and attended Meadowbank primary and Winsford high school before moving to Australia 40yrs ago. The photos I see bring back lots of good times for me. I will write other memories after confirmation of this letter. I am sure readers of this website would be very pleased and amazed. Thank you.
Alan Bond
Contributed by Alan Bond
Cheshire memories
My memories
I lived here on the Grange Estate from 1964 to 1968 and attended Meadowbank primary and Winsford high school before moving to Australia 40yrs ago. The photos I see bring back lots of good times for me. I will write other memories after confirmation of this letter. I am sure readers of this website would be very pleased and amazed. Thank you.
Alan Bond
A memory of Winsford contributed by Alan Bond
The off licence
The old meeting place, sitting on the wall after youth club in the church hall, or on any other occasion.
Birt Price, the shop where you could buy almost anything from a child's bycicle to tools and hardware.
A memory of Davenham contributed by Peter Herreaman
A hot summers day.
My name is Paul.D.Dean. I am the little boy in the photograph. I was eight years old at the time. The year was 1953, Coronation year. It was a hot day in the school summer holidays. My house can be seen in the background to the left of the School.
My mother had sent me to take down passing car numbers to keep me occupied and out of her way while she did her housework. No sense of danger in 1953. Little car traffic passed through the village in 1953 mostly cycles of I.C.I. workers going to work and home after work. I was sitting on the other side of the memorial (London Road) and when the photographer arrived he moved ...read more here
A memory of Davenham contributed by paul dean
Extracts From Winsford & Cheshire books
The sham castle on Mow Cop is clearly
visible from much of Congleton.
An extract from from"Congleton Town and City Memories".
The photographer was looking eastwards from the entrance. At this time, all but the uppermost section of the east window had clear glass.
Stained glass was introduced later in 1922. Although not discernible in this picture (perhaps because of the glare from the windows), there
are two oil paintings by Edward Penny on either side of the window, which were painted in 1748. They depict St Paul and St Peter.
An extract from from"Congleton Town and City Memories".
Later photographs from the 1950s show no change to the building apart from the addition of a hanging sign at the front, and the
replacement of the gas lamp-post with an electric, concrete one. This scene looks practically the same today.
Smaller timber-framed buildings can be seen in Lawton Street, Moody Street and Little Street. Others exist but are hidden by later frontages.
A few more survive in the surrounding countryside, and a couple of miles along the Manchester Road is the timber-framed Marton Church,
one of the earliest and most complete examples in the country.
An extract from from"Congleton Town and City Memories".
This view of the roundabout - a novelty in Congleton - shows where the south end of the
bypass joins the existing main road. It looks much the same today, with attractive flower-
beds, although it has been reduced in size to aid the flow of the traffic. The house on the
right is Mortlake House, which was part of the Danesford Children’s Home and is now the
Woodlands pub. Many of the trees behind it have been removed to make way for flats and
houses. The second building from the left is the Catholic church of St Mary.
An extract from from"Congleton Town and City Memories".
Passing through the gatehouse passage into the courtyard, we are faced
with the hall entrance and the magnificent bay windows. Little has
changed here since the photograph was taken - and for centuries before
- except that, as on the gatehouse, the painted quatrefoils have been
removed from the curved coving.
An extract from from"Congleton Town and City Memories".