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My memories
I lived here on the Grange Estate from 1964 to 1968 and attended Meadowbank primary and Winsford high school before moving to Australia 40yrs ago. The photos I see bring back lots of good times for me. I will write other memories after confirmation of this letter. I am sure readers of this website would be very pleased and amazed. Thank you.
Alan Bond
A memory of Winsford contributed by Alan Bond
The off licence
The old meeting place, sitting on the wall after youth club in the church hall, or on any other occasion.
Birt Price, the shop where you could buy almost anything from a child's bycicle to tools and hardware.
A memory of Davenham contributed by Peter Herreaman
A hot summers day.
My name is Paul.D.Dean. I am the little boy in the photograph. I was eight years old at the time. The year was 1953, Coronation year. It was a hot day in the school summer holidays. My house can be seen in the background to the left of the School.
My mother had sent me to take down passing car numbers to keep me occupied and out of her way while she did her housework. No sense of danger in 1953. Little car traffic passed through the village in 1953 mostly cycles of I.C.I. workers going to work and home after work. I was sitting on the other side of the memorial (London Road) and when the photographer arrived he moved ...read more here
A memory of Davenham contributed by paul dean
my first school
This photo shows my first school where I went from 1945. My father worked in the bakery, which was also a grocers shop.
A memory of Davenham contributed by keith williams
Extracts From Over & 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".