Knutsford
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Macclesfield Town and City Memories
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Macclesfield Town and City Memories
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An exotic world, for young Canadians
We arrived in Knutsford in September 1955: two bewildered parents and four children, the youngest only 10 months old.
My father, a major, had been sent by the Canadian Army to take a year-long course in Manchester. Why he ever sought or consented to this is unknown -- but I suspect he was keen to return to England, since he had so enjoyed his four years there 1942-46.
It was a little less jolly for my longsuffering mother, encumbered with four of the most precocious, heedless children ever born -- of which I was surely the worst.
We settled into a rented house ("Beech House, Toft Road, Knutsford, Cheshire, England" as we were taught to recite to ...read more here
Contributed by Ted Gale
Childhood memories
Knutsford holds a special place in my heart as I was born there in 1956 and spent nearly eight years of my childhood growing up in this then safe and close community. I have very strong memories of family, home, school and friends and the environment during these years up until late 1963 when we emigrated to Western Australia as "10 pound poms". Our family home was 65 Mobberley Rd., Crosstown right next door to the pub (Lee Arms?). My memories of my school days are especially vivid and the now demolished Crosstown school will always have a place in my heart. My elderly aunt still lives across the road from where the school used to be -in the family home ...read more here
Contributed by julie nunn
The old laundry
I have always heard that my gran's sister started the laundry. Prior to this she was a wardress at the prison. Her name was Maria Stanley. I know that family stories get distorted and maybe she just worked at the laundry. She was definitely a wardress in 1901 and I would be interested to know when the laundry came into being. Later in life my great aunt started a laundry in Liverpool which survived till after the second world war. Maybe someone could solve this little mystery for me.
Audrey Frost
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Cheshire memories
The old laundry
I have always heard that my gran's sister started the laundry. Prior to this she was a wardress at the prison. Her name was Maria Stanley. I know that family stories get distorted and maybe she just worked at the laundry. She was definitely a wardress in 1901 and I would be interested to know when the laundry came into being. Later in life my great aunt started a laundry in Liverpool which survived till after the second world war. Maybe someone could solve this little mystery for me.
Audrey Frost
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Extracts From Knutsford & Cheshire books
Winding around the village is the Bridgewater Canal. Cut between 1759 and 1765, it was the
first canal built in England and, along with the Industrial Revolution, which was then also taking
place, it was to change the world. In this area the canal was used for the transportation of
fustian, a form of rough cotton known as ‘poor man’s velvet’ that was produced locally.
An extract from from"Cheshire Living Memories".
This great open-cast canyon no longer exists,
it was filled in by tipping household waste in
the 1960s, but it shows how active the
Alderley Edge Mining Company was in the
second quarter of the 19th century. Alderley
Edge is possibly the earliest site of copper
mining in England, as traces of Early Bronze
Age activity was proved by the Manchester
University`s excavation here in 1997.
An extract from from"Wilmslow and Alderley Edge Photographic Memories".
This view, looking north along what is now the
main A34 towards Alderley Edge village, shows
where Welsh Row crossed the old turnpike,
connecting the old enclosed fields on the plain
with the open common land of the Edge. At the
crossroads is the stump of a cross, a reminder
that in the 13th century, the then lord of the
manor, Sir Walklyn Arderne, attempted but
failed to found a market town here.
An extract from from"Wilmslow and Alderley Edge Photographic Memories".
This peaceful
unassuming lane
crossing the brook is
typical of the quiet
countryside that has
now gone with the
expansion of
Manchester Airport.
An extract from from"Wilmslow and Alderley Edge Photographic Memories".
Dedicated to St John the Evangelist, the main part of the church was built at the Parkers` expense at the end of the 18th
century, but the tower is an 1840s addition by their successors the Dixons. Inside, there are pleasant Arts and Crafts
features, including some late Morris and Co windows.
An extract from from"Wilmslow and Alderley Edge Photographic Memories".