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WW2 Saighton Camp
I met my wife in Saighton Camp, but have a sister of hers in Fardon where she will be going to visit in May. I am the husband of Peggy MORT of Saighton my memories are short-lived now but remembered, we live in Canada.
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Where Does The Time Go
This is the church where my 17 year old son was christened. This is also the church where I spent most of my childhood. From about the age of 10, my friends and I would go grave rubbing. We actually spent more time cleaning the old graves with an old twig and reading about who was in there. As we got older, about 13-ish, we would go into the graveyard for a sneaky puff of our cigarettes, and hide any spare ones we had in the big old tree at the entrance of the church.
Around the same time, I did the paper round for Mr Jones around the church area and down onto the estate where I lived. I did ...read more here
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Cheshire memories
Where Does The Time Go
This is the church where my 17 year old son was christened. This is also the church where I spent most of my childhood. From about the age of 10, my friends and I would go grave rubbing. We actually spent more time cleaning the old graves with an old twig and reading about who was in there. As we got older, about 13-ish, we would go into the graveyard for a sneaky puff of our cigarettes, and hide any spare ones we had in the big old tree at the entrance of the church.
Around the same time, I did the paper round for Mr Jones around the church area and down onto the estate where I lived. I did ...read more here
A memory of Farndon contributed by tracey nevitt
WW2 Saighton Camp
I met my wife in Saighton Camp, but have a sister of hers in Fardon where she will be going to visit in May. I am the husband of Peggy MORT of Saighton my memories are short-lived now but remembered, we live in Canada.
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Extracts From Farndon & Cheshire books
Having survived the great fire of 1583, St Mary’s Church
is the oldest building in the town. Much of the structure
dates from the 14th century, although it is thought that
building work was probably interrupted by the Black
Death and only resumed much later that same century.
An extract from from"Nantwich and Crewe Photographic Memories".
The market hall was built by John Hill in 1854. It should come as no surprise in Crewe that he was a railway contractor for
the London and North Western Railway (LNWR). Intended as a cheese market, it had a capacity for 2,000 tons of cheese.
Originally it had direct access at the rear of the building to the main railway line.
An extract from from"Nantwich and Crewe Photographic Memories".
The clock tower
stands just inside the
main entrance to
Queen’s Park. It was
built using
subscriptions from
workers in all
departments of the
LNWR Company ‘as a
token of their
appreciation of the
generosity of their
Board of Directors
(who) presented the
park to the town’. It is
decorated with a
carved head on each
side depicting three
board members and
Queen Victoria. It
also served as a
drinking fountain,
but the water has
now been cut off.
An extract from from"Nantwich and Crewe Photographic Memories".
Bunbury has been described as ‘a village that the commuter has
found but not spoilt’, and it has a delightful mixture of buildings
of all periods. The village itself is rather a tale of two halves: this
area around the former village green has the shops, and the other
half, a short distance away, is focused on the church.
An extract from from"Nantwich and Crewe Photographic Memories".
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".