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Snelson maps
Historic maps of Snelson and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Snelson maps
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Chelford| Over Peover| Lower Withington| Capesthorne Hall| Nether Alderley| Goostrey| Alderley Edge| Twemlow Green| Mobberley| Smithy Green| Allostock| Lower Peover| Knutsford| Marton| Henbury| Cranage| Holmes Chapel| Wilmslow| Broken Cross| Gawsworth| Prestbury| Styal| Handforth| Rostherne| Middlewich
Snelson area books
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Cheshire memories
My Primary School
What a lovely old photo! I was lucky enough to spend my primary school years, 1962 to 1968, at Lower Withington primary school as did my sister Cathy and my mum and uncle before us. Our headmistress lived in the house next door to the school and believe it or not she actually taught my mum and uncle also!
We all have many good memories of growing up in Lower Withington and all these years on it still feels like home when we go back even though we moved away in 1969.
The village has changed a bit over the years, what place hasn't; the school is now a large house and the grass in the front of the photo is now the Village Hall car park. In our day there was a hall but it was a low wooden building and we knew it as the
'Parish Room'; the church is still the same though, a green corrugated tin building but all the more... Read more
More Barber Family
My G-G grandfather Joseph Barber married Maria Clark, both of Lower Withington, in the Parish of Prestbury 18th March 1819.
Joseph & Maria Barbers Children
Jane 14th July 1822
Ann 12th March 1826
Marianne 3rd Feb.1828
James 30 March 1830
All above Baptized Capesthorne Chapelry Cheshire
Fire Damage.
The Smithy was destroyed by fire about 1900. A new Smithy was built in its place.
Village Shop, Nether Alderley
It is often stated that the village shop was also the Post Office, but this is not true. There was a letter box (bar) in the wall, but the nearest Post Office was at Monk's Heath. The village shop was very small but sold a variety of products from chicken feed to postcards.
Great Times
In the late 1960s and early 1970s I stayed here for my school hols, my grandmother worked for Mr and Mrs Bodd who were the owners at the time. My grandparants lived in part of the house round the side which in itsself was large. One thing that sticks out in my mind is the sights of a few ghosts that were about the place, and a bricked room between two of the bedrooms upstairs opposite the bathroom, there was always something going on in or about this area, at one time I was in the bathroom and the door handle started to shake and the door was rattling, when I grabbed the door and opened it there was nobody there; thirty years later I was telling my uncle this and he said that it had happened to him too, many times, when he lived there, he was surprised that I knew about this as at the time they did not want to tell us kids about it, as it... Read more
My Father - Aubrey (Aub) Davenport
From 1960 approx onwards- my father was the best blacksmith around. He was a master blacksmith at Smithy-House, Siddington. He not only shod horses but was the master of welding farming implements. Never a bad word was ever said about him. He retired to Chelford where he died in 2001. Many of the farmers remembered him including -The Wains, Worth's, Venables, Pilkingtons and many many others including Mr R Rush layreader at the church who gave a wonderful reading at my father's funeral. I would appreciate all fond memories to my email at javealady@msn.com.
