The Post Office, Lime Avenue c1955, Weaverham
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Weaverham & local memories
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The Old Becoming New!
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... Read more
Grange Wood
Many happy years playing in Grange Wood and surrounding fields and walking through the fields up to Acton Bridge.
Picnics with jam butties and water.
Bike rides up to Cuddington and Hartford. Long summer holidays when the tar melted on the roads and scraping the top of my big toes with those rubber flipflops they used to sell in Woolies.
McNeals sweet shop at the bottom of Forest Street and the old Co-op with really high counters.
It's so sad how things are now
Weaverham Secondary Modern
Harry Christian was the headmaster when I started at Weaverham Secondary Modern school in Lime Avenue in 1956. He was the first headmaster of the new school which by then had I think been open one or two years.
Assembly was the big event of the day! I recall that the few Catholic children we had in the school were excused attending and went off for an hours rest and relaxation before lessons started. One or two assemblies stick in my mind. One was at the time of the Cuban crisis when Harry Christian asked us to recall who had backed down and to give thanks for our deliverance (my words). Another was when a poor girl who had been caught stealing was metaphorically put in the stocks up on the stage and publically humiliated and expelled from the school!
Games played a big part in life at Weaverham Sec Mod and we were encouraged to participate. I wasn't much good at football - though I recall... Read more
Weaverham
We moved to Middlehurst Avenue in 1951. My cousin David Gerrard lived next door, and next to him lived David Groves. We were all the same age and went to the same schools. It was a great place to live then. I now live in Spain but I go back twice each year to visit family and friends. Paul Coppock
HAPPY DAYS 1950s And 60s.
I was born and brought up in Weaverham until I left to move to Altrincham with my new wife (and job). Over that 20 year period I have so many happy memories; too many to record in 1000 words. Lived in Lime Avenue all that time with brother, John, and sister, Liz until I married Sandra Doran (from Farm Road) in 1968.
Best friends during my childhood were my brother John, then David Rattray, Paul Beech, Michael Vaughan, John Egerton, Michael Crisp, Brian Atkinson and many others who I knew from the village and the schools I went to. Cycling, running, football and generally hanging out around the village, the woods or if cold weather anyones house whose parents were daft enough to let us stay inside (latterly to play music via Radio Caroline on a dansette radio).
I had a paper round at John Bills newsagents for several years and would often be seen leaping hedges and gates as I delivered the MEN and LE in my... Read more
Living in Lime Avenue
My family moved from 11 The Crescent to Lime Avenue where I attended Weaverham High School. I enjoyed Weaverham and had many friends there, I now live in Canada but have been back many times and will continue to visit whenever I can. Weaverham is a great place to live and I have missed being there.
Old Memory Road
Weaverham was a quite place to live and even bring up a family. I don't live there any more but some of my family do, Maddock and Moreton. When I was growing up there we lived on St Mary's Avenue, just off Farm Road. A few months ago now I did a walk down the road, I even saw a few old faces, but Weaverham is not the same any more. Years ago there were not many police cars driving around the place but now there are. But like I say. Weaverham is not the same any more.
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.
