The Chippy Down Walker's Lane

A Memory of Little Sutton.

Dear All,
there are certainly many fine memories of Little Sutton on this web-site...bravo
I was more of a Great Sutton lad myself. I lived off Sutton Way, near the roundabout. Went to the Primary school next door. Then on to Mill Lane and eventually to Chester Art College, Handbridge.
As a kid and during those warm sunny, never ending school holidays, if I wasn't out catching sticklebacks from the pond in that field that was later to become Northern Rise (what a shame, there were fields all the way to Cappenhurst) I'd be biking it down to the Brook, turn left, then follow it all the way to the Rivacre Brow. But more often than not, I'd cross the Brook and cycle up the hill to the playing field at Whetstone Hey. Lounge around on the slope dominating the Port and the horizon.
Back in 1979 I totally widened my horizons, I left for France, and I've been here living and working eversince.
Since my father, Walter, passed away, my brother and I have been doing quite a lot of research on our family tree. At the same time making enquiries of Dad's wartime records, we've been trying to learn something of his youth and of all the Parry's in Little Sutton. Besides a set of fine family photos that have recently come to light, we don't have very much before the war years.
As my Grandparents ran a small Chippy down Walker's Lane. I was just wondering whether anyone out there had any memories of it? No matter how small the anecdote, it would be good to read.

Many thanks in advance.
Paul Parry.