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Alsager books (16 available)
Macclesfield Town and City Memories
Hardback
Macclesfield Town and City Memories
Paperback
- 4 photos on Alsager appear in 2 Frith books - View photos of Alsager
- Read extracts and see photos from these books on Alsager and Staffordshire
Alsager memories
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Mr Dovey Newsagent
I was born and lived in Alsager for over 40 years and remember Bank corner. I was a newspaper boy for Mr Dovey. Also have a sepia photo of Hancocks store which I also recall quite well as a young boy.
Contributed by Peter Dale
Just Fields
There was never a housing estate in those days so everyone was able to walk to school across the open fields. There was also a farm situated near the junction of Sandbach Road North and Lodge Road
Contributed by Peter Dale
Staffordshire memories
Just Fields
There was never a housing estate in those days so everyone was able to walk to school across the open fields. There was also a farm situated near the junction of Sandbach Road North and Lodge Road
A memory of Alsager contributed by Peter Dale
Mr Dovey Newsagent
I was born and lived in Alsager for over 40 years and remember Bank corner. I was a newspaper boy for Mr Dovey. Also have a sepia photo of Hancocks store which I also recall quite well as a young boy.
A memory of Alsager contributed by Peter Dale
Extracts From Alsager & Staffordshire books
Listed in the Domesday Book as ‘Eleacier’, the town’s name tells us that this was once ‘Aelle’s field or ploughed land’. But it
may be that the final element of the name comes from the Norse word ‘akr’, indicating Viking settlement here – the Vikings
certainly inhabited the county around Chester, but we will never know for sure if they settled this far inland. ‘Akr’ is also the
source of our word ‘acre’ today.
An extract from from"Nantwich and Crewe Photographic Memories".
This road is a very busy one today, as it leads to the Alsager campus of Manchester Metropolitan University. The building on
the right in the photograph is the Methodist church. It was built in 1834 on what would then have been the very outskirts of
the town.
An extract from from"Nantwich and Crewe Photographic Memories".
The original part of the
town of Alsager was to
the north of here. The
development of this
part of the town only
really dates from the
opening of the railway
between Crewe and
Derby in 1848. Alsager’s
station is just where the
road bends, and there
is a level crossing at
this point, just beyond
the cyclists.
An extract from from"Cheshire Living Memories".
For centuries the town was little more than a small agricultural
hamlet. Then the Alsager family started to build houses and a church
here in the 18th and 19th centuries. This view shows the main road
through the town, which has changed little in recent years.
An extract from from"Nantwich and Crewe Photographic Memories".
The sham castle on Mow Cop is clearly
visible from much of Congleton.
An extract from from"Congleton Town and City Memories".