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Weaverham, the Post Office, Lime Avenue c1955
Weaverham, High Street c1955
Weaverham, the Gate Inn c1965
Historic maps of Weaverham and the local area, hand-drawn by Ordnance Survey and Samuel Lewis. View all Weaverham maps
Historic map of Weaverham
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Displaying 2 of 10 books about Weaverham and the local area. View all Weaverham books
Macclesfield Town and City Memories
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Macclesfield Town and City Memories
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Wilmslow and Alderley Edge Photographic Memories
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We moved to Weaverham in 1958, at that time it was a good place to bring up children, and a good place for children to grow up in. The village was surrounded by fields and woods, where we played. There was of course the usual childish mischief, knocking on doors, and swiftly running away for one. I left Weaverham in 1968 and only ever went back there to visit my folks. I have now retired, and am enjoying it, but I don't live in Weaverham and I think most of my generation have left the place now.
Shared on 15 February 2008
I arrived in Weaverham in one of its transition periods. ICI had built many houses to house its workers in all the surrounding villages including Weaverham. So Weaverham had already transformed in a way when I got there, but of course for me coming from a city like Liverpool it was a quaint, peaceful village, there just happened to be the old Weaverham and the new!
Several farms still survived and I was fortunate to work on one at weekends for a few shillings. But the days of the big farms had long gone. The one that I worked on had one milking cow and a dozen hens and that was it!
But Weaverham despite its Liverpool influx remained a peaceful village with very little crime or social disorder. Seems a far cry from today. There were still orchards to 'scrump' in and ancient country lanes to ride to school on. I rode from Weaverham to Winsford everyday for several years come rain, hail or snow. Computers and the internet didn't exist in those days so we were amused by TV and social events.
I joined the Boys Brigade and danced rock and roll at the Owley Wood club and camped out in Delamere Forest and everything seemed sublimely simple and good and clean!
We visited even smaller villages on our cycle jaunts, but Weaverham was home and met all our needs, apart from a good cinema which we found in Northwich and a few bigger shops. After Liverpool it was really a breath of fresh air - a new stab at life - a new beginning - the old could still be remembered but cast off!
We had gardens and vast amounts of fields and rivers and orchards and sandpits - the world was an oyster and Weaverham was the pearl.
We fell in love for the first time in Weaverham, fell out of love just as rapidly and avoided getting married too soon. We were schooled, found our first jobs and then finally spread our wings and many left.
I don't believe I have any bad memories of Weaverham - it nurtured me and grew me up and finally let me go!
Shared on 03 August 2006
i remember when dillas owned the sweet shop on lydyatte lane and we used to go with pocket money we would always get a few more i also remember the butchers shop was up and running with an abatoire on town field lane then their was the butchers on runcorn rd which used to make the best pies around i remember goin threr after school when the infant schol was there,
Shared on 24 November 2007
School Lane & the Grange School
I was born at 60 School lane & would like to know what was on the land prior to our house which I think was built in the early thirties.
I attended the Grange School on Bradburns Lane. gray & green uniforms, Mrs. Perry head teacher with Mrs. Atherton, Miss Taylor, Miss Western. Although the school continues for now up to 18 year olds, we left at 11, and there used to be a huge beech tree with a rope ladder which I fell from & rhododendrons we used to play in.
I used to be friendly with the family at Hartford Hall before it became a hotel.
Does anyone remember them ?
Shared on 30 December 2007
Displaying a selection of extracts from Frith books about Weaverham, inspired by Frith photos.
Warrington Photographic Memories
A Moore resident keeps a look out for a rare commercial barge making its leisurely way along the Bridgewater Canal. Since this tranquil image was captured by Frith, only pleasure boats ply the canal and tie at up Moore to stock up at the village shop.
Warrington Photographic Memories
Moore’s village school was showing its age in 1955. Built in 1877 for a much smaller community, its facilities had failed to keep pace with its teaching standards. An HMI’s report of 1956 commented on the unsuitability of the cumbersome old school desks, the lack of dining facilities and the need for new toilets to replace ‘the present bucket sanitation’.
Warrington Photographic Memories
Was this young Moore resident off to spend her pocket money at the local Post Office? Alas, there seems little there to tempt her, for the enamel advertising signs only offer Wills’s Woodbine Cigarettes and Craven A tobacco, or seemingly saucy magazines such as Men Only!
