Cheadle Hulme
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Cheadle Hulme books (3 available)
Did You Know? Bury - A Miscellany
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Manchester Photographic Memories
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Greater Manchester Photographic Memories
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Station Road
This is a picture of Station Road with Snapes's hardware shop on the corner. The petrol pump was no longer in use by then but the paraffin one was. Opposite Snapes's is Oak Meadow where we used to play on our bikes and climb trees.
Working back along behind the camera on the same side was the Elycian cinema. Lovely little picture house. I saw Where Eagles Dare, Carry on Camping, the Jungle Book etc there. Also Kes (to my mum's horror). We had intermissions and ice cream and orange drinks sold by attendants with torches and a tray then.
Further on just before the railway bridge is Pimlotts butchers with an abattoir at the back. Was still ...read more here
Contributed by BRYAN BASKERVILLE
Cheadle Road
This is taken from by St Andrew's Church looking back towards Cheadle Hulme. We lived on Hulme Hall Road at that time. One or two years later I attended Sunday school at St Andrews and also Junos which was an organisation similar to cubs that was held in a hut at the back of the church. I remember the petrol station and further on towards the corner of Buckingham Road?? was RS McColls newsagents. Turn down Buckingham Road and keep going to Queens Road Primary School where I started in 1968.
On the right would be the Kenilworth pub. Further along Cheadle Road past the junction was a few shops and the post office. I think it was called Connolly's. ...read more here
Contributed by BRYAN BASKERVILLE
Cheshire memories
Cheadle Road
This is taken from by St Andrew's Church looking back towards Cheadle Hulme. We lived on Hulme Hall Road at that time. One or two years later I attended Sunday school at St Andrews and also Junos which was an organisation similar to cubs that was held in a hut at the back of the church. I remember the petrol station and further on towards the corner of Buckingham Road?? was RS McColls newsagents. Turn down Buckingham Road and keep going to Queens Road Primary School where I started in 1968.
On the right would be the Kenilworth pub. Further along Cheadle Road past the junction was a few shops and the post office. I think it was called Connolly's. ...read more here
A memory of Cheadle Hulme contributed by BRYAN BASKERVILLE
Station Road
This is a picture of Station Road with Snapes's hardware shop on the corner. The petrol pump was no longer in use by then but the paraffin one was. Opposite Snapes's is Oak Meadow where we used to play on our bikes and climb trees.
Working back along behind the camera on the same side was the Elycian cinema. Lovely little picture house. I saw Where Eagles Dare, Carry on Camping, the Jungle Book etc there. Also Kes (to my mum's horror). We had intermissions and ice cream and orange drinks sold by attendants with torches and a tray then.
Further on just before the railway bridge is Pimlotts butchers with an abattoir at the back. Was still ...read more here
A memory of Cheadle Hulme contributed by BRYAN BASKERVILLE
Extracts From Cheadle Hulme & Cheshire books
Cheadle Hulme is part of a township which includes Cheadle Bulkeley and Cheadle Moseley, which became a parish in its own right in August 1868. The view is looking towards the former London & North Western Railway station on the line to Stockport and Manchester. Note also the roadside petrol pumps, now collectors’ items in their own right.
An extract from from"Greater Manchester Photographic Memories".
This aerial view of the swing bridges at Barton again shows them swung to let a large cargo ship through. Note that the cargo ship has tugs fore and aft to guide it through this section of the canal. Barton Monastery stands just to the right of the swing bridges; it was formerly All Saints RC Church, Barton. The area at the top of the picture was the wood seasoning area for one of the large timber firms using the canal, and is now a housing estate.
An extract from from"Manchester Photographic Memories".
This view shows the two bridges at Barton upon Irwell both swung to let the paddle steamer ‘Ivanhoe’ pass. When the Ship Canal first opened (our view is only twelve months after that opening on 1 January 1894), many people wanted to travel, and see the wonders of this new waterway. A Ship Canal Pleasure Steamer Company was formed, and weekends and Bank Holidays would see two or three of these paddle steamers taking passengers on sight-seeing trips up and down the canal.
An extract from from"Manchester Photographic Memories".
When the Duke of Bridgewater planned his canal into Manchester in 1760, the original plan was to stay on the Salford side of the Irwell. Because he could not purchase the land he wanted, he was forced to cross the River Irwell and go into Manchester via Stretford. He was given permission to skirt the Trafford Park Estate, but his big problem was crossing the Irwell, which he did with a beautiful stone aqueduct designed by James Brindley. This aqueduct lasted over one hundred and twenty years, until the emerging Ship Canal needed it out of the way for the large vessels to pass. This swing aqueduct that carries the Bridgewater Canal over the Manchester Ship Canal was the answer to their problem.
An extract from from"Manchester Photographic Memories".
When the docks first opened, it took a while for them to reach their potential, but by 1900 they had started to show that they could be successful and profitable. Moves were then made to enlarge the dock, and the land belonging to the Manchester Racecourse Co was purchased ready to build No 9 dock. This dock, the largest of all the docks, was officially opened by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra on a royal visit on 13 July 1905.
An extract from from"Manchester Photographic Memories".