Crossdown School
A Memory of Knutsford.
Both my brother and I (twins) started school in the 1950's - Miss Akins, Miss Houth(?) F.Ford (the headteacher) had a dog. We played in the yard and the school had its own garden. We would go to the St Cross church on holy days. I would later marry in the church in 1969, I'm still with my wife. Dinner time we would have dinner at the church hut. We lived at Shawheath - Manner Park was going up and the farm (Clarkson's) was still a working farm. No shops at Shawheath, no pub, no overspill from Manchester, just the old Brickyard. Mr Okes, the water tower, Dog Lodge corner, the small sweet shop near A R Salters and Webbs milk/shop - it has changed not all for the better.
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Teachers at Cross Town School in the mid 1950s included a headmaster Mr L G Cromwell, Miss Ford and Joe Curbishley who was a great bloke. Later he and Miss Ford were in charge of the new Norbury Booths School built on Manor Park.
Clarkson's farm was one of the first to open a farm shop, just a few veg, eggs and milk. There was a shop at Shaw Heath, next to the new paper mill, a newsagents and general grocer's known as Percy's. Next door to that was Collins' dairy which also sold a few other items. There was no pub in the early days but there was the Shaw Heath Social Club, initially constructed with a wartime Nissan hut and then a large house was converted into the Five Oaks pub run by Jack London.
My dad worked for a short while at the paper mill and then as a postman. Our parents respected each other I think but weren't close friends. I remember your mum riding along Mobberley Road on her bike and she always shouted hello.
Your brother Gerald had a 3 wheeler car in the mid 1960s and me, my mate John and my wife to be crowded into it one day and he drove us to Southport. We had a great day out finished off with a few pints in the White Bear.
I don't live in Knutsford now and don't visit often even though I'm only a few miles away. But it was a good place to grow up in.