Lydiate, Mersey Motorboat Club c.1965

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Our Lydiate TG Guild was active from the 50's to 2012, when the membership dropped and it was embarrassing to see the numbers attending for speakers and we had to close. We had some very happy memories of our time in this Guild with other ladies in the area. We had really interesting speakers, evenings when we made our own fun, plays, musical evenings, choirs, outings amongst other ...see more

I went to Greetby Hill from 1960 to 1967 when I went to the Grammar School. I lived down Ladies Walk up past Cross Hall and we walked down Thompson Avenue, Tayor Avenue and Greetby Hill to get to school. I remember Mr Butts and his bubble car.I remember being an angel in the infant school Christmas nativity play. A girl I knew, Very Rawsthorne, was killed walking to school on Liverpool Road. I was in 1A1, 2A1, 3A1 and ...see more

Lots of my relatives and friends are buried in the churchyard here. I was christened here by Rev Woodcock who had married my parents. I believe that he may have also christened me in 1955. I sang in the choir with Mr Foot as choirmaster until I moved South in 1970. I remember spiking the balcony with the Union Jack flagpole at Church Pararde when I was in 1st Lydiate Guides!

My Godfather, Peter Jones's parents owned the Scotch Piper. I remember being told about the oak tree which actually grew up through the bar area. I went to primary school just along the way at Lydiate CE where I had the most fantastic time. I was Lydiate Rose Queen 1965-66 before movine south to Hampshire when I was 15.