Little Haywood
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Colwich Football Team
My father, James E Bond, captained the Colwich Swifts for at least two seasons, and the team won the league in 1949. Jim played at Right Half. This memory was shared by Jim's friend Bill Fox.
A memory of Colwich contributed by Margaret Curtis
A 1950s childhood memory
I have very fond memories of Great Haywood during the 50s as my sister and I went to stay with our grandmother during the school holidays. We lived near to the centre of Manchester and so to visit this village in the 50s was like entering another world.
Grandma lived on the outskirts of the village in Tolldish Lane and she was quite a reclusive lady. Her husband had died in 1952 and because her cottage was not in the village as such, she kept herself to herself.
The photo, I believe, is of the post office in the village which was kept by a Miss Yelland. My sister and I, and of course grandma, would walk down to the ...read more here
A memory of Great Haywood contributed by Anne Forster
The Clifford Arms
Ahh, The Drinking Hole!
A memory of Great Haywood contributed by Simon Allen BMus. (Hons)
Bailey Bridge Pontoon - Canal Cruisers.
I built the boat shown on the right hand side of the photograph.
Bailey Bridge pontoon MKVI N0.19053 was manufactured by Gee Walker & Slater Ltd, Uttoxeter Road, Derby and sent to Engineers Stores, US Army Depot, Newbury, Berkshire on 29/9/1944. At post-war WD surplus sales, a considerable number of these Bailey Bridge pontoons were bought by Levesley's International and stored at their depot at Alrewas near Burton on Trent.
John Dobson, a local boat builder at Burton, began putting cabins on to these pontoons for sale as canal cruisers. I bought the pontoon hull for £18.00, built the cabin to a Dobson design, fitted out the interior and named it 'Agenor'. In August 1950, powered by a British Anzani 4HP outboard ...read more here
A memory of Great Haywood contributed by Alwyn Davies
Extracts From Little Haywood & Staffordshire books
Along with Great Haywood, this village was where the inhabitants of Shugborough were relocated, as their own village was gradually absorbed into the parkland surrounding Shugborough Hall.
An extract from from"Staffordshire Photographic Memories".
Along with Great Haywood, this village was where the
inhabitants of Shugborough were relocated, as their own
village was gradually absorbed into the parkland surround-
ing Shugborough Hall.
An extract from from"Staffordshire Pocket Album".
Looking down the lane, towards Cannock Chase, note the railway
bridge which carried the line between Colwich junction and
Macclesfield. It was built in 1848-49 by the North Staffordshire
Railway Company (nicknamed the Knotty after its emblem the
Stafford Knot), to link local services to the main London line at
Colwich. The house on the right has been demolished.
An extract from from"Stafford Living Memories Pocket Album".
This view of Weetman’s Bridge, looking upstream, shows the pedestrian refuges above each pier, as on Great
Haywood’s Essex Bridge. Before this bridge was built, the Trent was forded at this point then. In 1830, a wooden
footbridge for pedestrians was erected, but cattle and carriages still had to pass through the river.
An extract from from"Down the Trent Photographic Memories".
In 1418-19 John Glasman of Rugeley sent glass to York Minster,
and recent excavations nearby have revealed the remains of several
glass furnaces dating from the 14th and the 16th centuries. During
the 1950s the Chase was declared an Area of Outstanding Natural
Beauty, and as these last few photographs have shown, it has been
a popular place for recreation.
An extract from from"Stafford Living Memories Pocket Album".