Thelwall
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Thelwall books (16 available)
Macclesfield Town and City Memories
Hardback
Macclesfield Town and City Memories
Paperback
- 6 photos on Thelwall appear in 2 Frith books - View photos of Thelwall
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Thelwall memories
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Swimming
I remember the old swimming pool we had back then and I was not allowed to swim because I had a bad ear. We used to sneak in during the long staff meeting sessions. I remember playing on the den site and what a football pitch we had!
Contributed by roy meanley
chaigley school
I am a former pupil of Chaigley, where I spent several happy years. I remember the little school house on the left side opposite and a little further up from the post office where we used to sit and have an illicit smoke. I also remember the Rose Queen Carnival. My memories of the village are of a place that almost seemed as though it was somehow more remote than it actually is. I have returned a couple of times as an adult and found it much the same.
Contributed by chris everard
Parrot
Childhood memory, the post office door had an actual brass bell fitted to it, on entering if the post master was in the back their parrot used to scream 'Wipe your feet' followed by 'No stamps today'.
Richard Oxley
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Happy Days
I was known as David Armitage not William I have so many happy memories of Chaigley Mr Goynes was headmaster. I would love to hear from any old boys who remember me especialy Bob Price from Scunthorpe.
Contributed by William Armitage
Extracts From Thelwall & Cheshire books
All Saints Church reflects the Victorian fashion for Gothic architecture. William Nicholson of Thelwall Hall financed its building in 1843 to replace an earlier chapel. All Saints is seen here after the addition of a chancel in 1857 and the alterations of the early 1890s. Its stained glass memorials to prominent Thelwall families include a window commemorating the Rylands, who were leading Warrington wire manufacturers.
An extract from from"Warrington Photographic Memories".
The Guiness Brewery’s vessel ‘Guiness’ waits to enter Latchford Locks near Thelwall after discharging her liquid cargo at Manchester. Begun in 1883, the Manchester Ship Canal was a major civil engineering project of the Victorian age. By its completion in December 1893, 17,000 ‘navvies’ had shifted 54 million cubic yards of soil and rocks to create the 35.5-mile-long canal at the then staggering cost of £15 million. New sections of waterway were linked to the River Mersey to enable ocean-going vessels to reach the new inland port of Manchester and the neighbouring Lancashire cotton towns.
An extract from from"Warrington Photographic Memories".
The post office and the village shop were at the heart of Thelwall life in the mid 1950s. The public telephone box outside the post office reflects an era before mobile phones became commonplace, whilst the right-hand shop window of P L Greenway, ‘grocer and provision dealer’, is typical of the small general store which proceeded the supermarket age.
An extract from from"Warrington Photographic Memories".
Modern-day Warrington aspires to city status, but the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that the village of Thelwall briefly held that honour. ‘In the year 923 (AD) King Edward the Elder founded a city here and called it Thelwall’, proclaims the inscription on the gable end of the Pickering Arms (seen on the right of the photograph).
An extract from from"Warrington Photographic Memories".
Today’s motorists lane-hopping on the M6 over the nearby Thelwall viaduct might envy the traffic flow through 1950s Thelwall! The village’s population has increased at least ten-fold in the intervening half century, but many of its historic buildings such as the Pickering Arms (right) have been preserved.
An extract from from"Warrington Photographic Memories".