High Legh
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Map of Cheshire
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High Legh books (16 available)
Macclesfield Town and City Memories
Hardback
Macclesfield Town and City Memories
Paperback
- 3 photos on High Legh appear in 2 Frith books - View photos of High Legh
- Read extracts and see photos from these books on High Legh and Cheshire
High Legh memories
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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.
Contributed by Geoff Bowes
Cheshire memories
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
Arley Cheshire in the 1940''s
Some time ago I read with great interest in a local paper that the pool at Arley had been restored.
My formative years were happily spent at Green Lodge on the green were I was born in 1932. My father lived there for over 40 years, he made a garden from the lodge down to the Pool and boat house now sadly no longer there. The boat house had two areas for the water with the landing stages and a room above with old punt. There was a large flat bottomed boat which was used to fish and row before the time the pool was drained off. The boat was sent to Rostherne Lake.
My father ...read more here
A memory of Arley contributed by peter astles
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
Extracts From High Legh & Cheshire books
Formerly home to a branch of the Legh family, Swineyard Hall was sold off by Lt Colonel Cornwall Legh in 1919. The sale catalogue described it as a ‘charming old-world residence, in black and white chequered design ... partially surrounded by a moat’; it was ‘a comfortable and commodious domicile ... (with) interior fittings of rare old oak’.
An extract from from"Warrington Photographic Memories".
The village of High Legh probably gets its name because it was an early settlement in a
forest clearing sitting on high land. The name was then taken by the two main families
that owned land here – the Leghs and the Leighs. No longer a primary school, the building
pictured has now been converted to serve as the local village hall.
An extract from from"Cheshire Living Memories".
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 and Tit Bits!
An extract from from"Warrington Photographic Memories".