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Map of Staffordshire
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Alsager books (11 available)
- 4 photos on Alsager appear in 2 Frith books - View photos of Alsager
- Read extracts and see photos from these books on Alsager and Staffordshire
Alsager memories
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Mr Dovey Newsagent
I was born and lived in Alsager for over 40 years and remember Bank corner. I was a newspaper boy for Mr Dovey. Also have a sepia photo of Hancocks store which I also recall quite well as a young boy.
Contributed by Peter Dale
Just Fields
There was never a housing estate in those days so everyone was able to walk to school across the open fields. There was also a farm situated near the junction of Sandbach Road North and Lodge Road
Contributed by Peter Dale
Staffordshire memories
Just Fields
There was never a housing estate in those days so everyone was able to walk to school across the open fields. There was also a farm situated near the junction of Sandbach Road North and Lodge Road
A memory of Alsager contributed by Peter Dale
Mr Dovey Newsagent
I was born and lived in Alsager for over 40 years and remember Bank corner. I was a newspaper boy for Mr Dovey. Also have a sepia photo of Hancocks store which I also recall quite well as a young boy.
A memory of Alsager contributed by Peter Dale
Extracts From Alsager & Staffordshire books
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".
This road is a very busy one today, as it leads to the Alsager campus of Manchester Metropolitan University. The building on the right in the photograph is the Methodist church. It was built in 1834 on what would then have been the very outskirts of the town.
An extract from from"Nantwich and Crewe Photographic Memories".
The original part of the town of Alsager was to the north of here. The development of this part of the town only really dates from the opening of the railway between Crewe and Derby in 1848. Alsager’s station is just where the road bends, and there is a level crossing at this point, just beyond the cyclists.
An extract from from"Cheshire Living Memories".
For centuries the town was little more than a small agricultural hamlet. Then the Alsager family started to build houses and a church here in the 18th and 19th centuries. This view shows the main road through the town, which has changed little in recent years.
An extract from from"Nantwich and Crewe Photographic Memories".
The sham castle on Mow Cop is clearly visible from much of Congleton.
An extract from from"Congleton Town and City Memories".