My Early Years

A Memory of Heaton Mersey.

I was born right across the road from this row of shops ,at no. 491 they were every old cottages ,the end one being the old police station, complete with dungeon, the elderly lady who lived there still had the front as it was as a police station .
charge desk and all.there was an underground tunnel that went from the cellar to court rooms which were a little farther down, on the next row of shops.
to the back was a yard or court, it was cobbled ,our toilets were across the yard and down an entry they were shared ,and very cold in winter, but had a great view over to cheadle and the railway.
I remember the barber ,he was a counciller, mr. J. Heaton.
In the corner of this photo out of view was john williams , I remember wonderful smells of coffee and smoked bacon, one of my mothers friends and a neibour ms lilly robinson worked there.
My father and mother both worked at mellond and cowards for most of their working life , and lived in heaton mersey from the end of the war.
peter chislett.