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The mill you refer to in the text was about 100 yards up the road from St. Bartholomews, on the opposite side of the road. It was owned by William Bower (not Bowen), and was the last of several Bower cotton mills in Wilmslow, ...Read more

A memory of Wilmslow in 1860 by Peter Bower

I can remember my early childhood days.  We lived in The Avenue.  All the fields at the back of us were open fields.  It is all houses of course these days.(Elton Crescent, Miller Road etc). Early school days were having ...Read more

A memory of Wheatley by Bill Middleton

The mill bridge shown in the photograph was washed away in a flood in the 1960's. Unfortunately the mill pond was a favourite place for some children to swim in then. We lost one of the children on the hospital estate by drowning there ...Read more

A memory of Chartham in 1961 by Peter Soltysiak

What a great place this web site is. I certainly love the Burnt Oak as I knew it between 1947 and 1969 when I then emigrated to SA (since back in Weston super Mare). All the memories you folk have mentioned are mine too. I ...Read more

A memory of Burnt Oak in 1960 by Fred East

The Llanthony Post Office was originally the Mill Cottage and my great great great grandparents George and Margaret Harrison lived there. Just across the track from there was the Mill which was three storeys high, and ...Read more

A memory of Llanthony in 1860 by Susan Harrison

My father, James E Bond, captained the Colwich Swifts for at least two seasons, and the team won the league in 1949. Jim played at Right Half. This memory was shared by Jim's friend Bill Fox.

A memory of Colwich in 1949 by Margaret Curtis

This is the seat of the Biddulph family; it was built in the early sixteenth century, probably to replace an earlier Saxon, possibly fortified, house that has been identified on Bailey's Hill, to the south west of the Old Hall.  It was ...Read more

A memory of Biddulph by Lauren Hughes

This dam on the river Scaur would be erected to power the mill,the big building to the right of the falls of which is now gone as is the dam When I was a boy water was taken from the left and used to power a turbine to generate electricty ...Read more

A memory of Penpont by Hugh Turner

Starting school for the first time was at Mistley Norman School, my first teacher was Miss Temple in the infants we were given a slate board and slate pencil one thing that sticks in my memory we all had a small mattres and ...Read more

A memory of Manningtree in 1949 by Vernon Clarke

Whilst this isn't actually one of my recollections, I do know that Haddenham had at least two mills. One of them being owned back in 1809 by Messrs William and Robert Pate. My Gtx5 Grandfather, Philip Newman was a ...Read more

A memory of Haddenham by Andrew Martin