Dunham Massey
Dunham Massey maps (2 available)
Map of Cheshire
Beautifully hand-drawn and coloured, dating from around 1840
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Dunham Massey books (14 available)
Macclesfield Town and City Memories
Hardback
Macclesfield Town and City Memories
Paperback
Dunham Massey memories
Read and share memories of Dunham Massey and Cheshire inspired by Frith photos
laurel bank
My mother was born at this house in Dunham Massey in sept 1910.
her uncle who lived also at this house played golf with the earl.
opposite lived quakers
Contributed by derek robinson
Cheshire memories
laurel bank
My mother was born at this house in Dunham Massey in sept 1910.
her uncle who lived also at this house played golf with the earl.
opposite lived quakers
A memory of Dunham Massey contributed by derek robinson
Yates family
My great great grandmother Jane Ann MASON nee Yates was born in Rostherne Village, about 1864 she married Fred MASON 1880
Her father was John an argicultural labourer and her mother was also named Jane from Mobberley
His father was also named John born 1795 in Rostherne. Still looking for information
geoff mason
A memory of Rostherne contributed by geoff mason
life in High Legh
I started school at High Legh school in 1949-teacher Miss James I think.
I lived at Holly Cottage on the way to Arley.
My dad worked at the water tower for the council, repairing water pipes.
My mother worked for Stanley Morton & son the milk rounds people
Anyone remember us.
A memory of High Legh contributed by Geoff Bowes
Extracts From Dunham Massey & Cheshire books
A Moore resident keeps a look out for a rare commercial barge making its leisurely way along the Bridgewater Canal. Since this tranquil image was captured by Frith, only pleasure boats ply the canal and tie at up Moore to stock up at the village shop.
An extract from from"Warrington Photographic Memories".
Moore’s village school was showing its age in 1955. Built in 1877 for a much smaller community, its facilities had failed to keep pace with its teaching standards. An HMI’s report of 1956 commented on the unsuitability of the cumbersome old school desks, the lack of dining facilities and the need for new toilets to replace ‘the present bucket sanitation’.
An extract from from"Warrington Photographic Memories".
Was this young Moore resident off to spend her pocket money at the local Post Office? Alas, there seems little there to tempt her, for the enamel advertising signs only offer Wills’s Woodbine Cigarettes and Craven A tobacco, or seemingly saucy magazines such as Men Only!
An extract from from"Warrington Photographic Memories".
This deceptively simple photograph captures the spirit of Moore in 1955: the road curving out of the village; the essential Post Office; and an absence of menfolk, who were probably hard at work on the farms.
An extract from from"Warrington Photographic Memories".
St John’s was designed by Paley and Austin, the distinguished Lancaster architects, and built in the local red sandstone by Fairhursts of Whitley. Consecrated in May 1885, the church was entirely financed by the first Sir Gilbert Greenall, a devout Anglican. St John’s was the Greenall’s family chapel, and Sir Gilbert, his son and grandson lie buried in its graveyard.
An extract from from"Warrington Photographic Memories".