Nostalgic memories of Little Sutton's local history
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Ledsham station was on the Hooton - Chester line. On the railway bridge at the end of Ledsham Road you can still see the glazed tiles that were part of the interior of the entrance building. The 'Cheshire Yeoman' across the road was originally called the Station Hotel. The station itself was quite large (4 platforms) though most of this has been filled in and is now covered in part by the Welsh Road.
Did Ledsham actually have a station? I've seen photos of what is titled Ledsham Station, but I've also seen a photo titled, 'Little Sutton, c. 1906' with a lovely sign above the building in the photo saying '1909', which has lead me to distrust photos from the past somewhat. I've tried Googling for information on the station, but I cannot for the life of me find anything about it to see if it exists. The ...see more
Dear Paul, I feel I should know either you or your brother but don't. However, the Youth Club was originally Little Sutton library and prior to that the reading room. I remember going there to choose my books from a very young age. I participated in decorating it when it was gutted and became a Youth Club. It was very busy on its opening and I had to serve behind the "bar" i.e. coke, orange etc. As I ...see more
Hi Paul Saxon here, we moved to Red Lion Lane in 1961. I went to Mill Lane school and my brother Craig McAteer went to Berwick Road school. Little Sutton was small as was Red Lion Lane. We lived right next to the bowling green. There used to be a youth club by the now car wash area and Craig and I played tennis at Hooton Lawn Tennis Club with Pete Moore. Our mates at the time were Clifford Snowdon, ...see more
Hi Kathleen Some good old memories there...Tried to load this up as a comment to your article but the system failed! Marjorie Lockett was a Bennion, being the daughter of Joseph Bennion one of my Grandfather Albert's brothers. Joseph was the Blacksmith and Albert was a Wheelwright/Joiner. Marjorie married George Lockett, also a Joiner who had lived on the corner of Ledsham Road where the estate agent now ...see more
Yes, the Cubbin twins - Alison and Janet. They had an older sister, Shirley, who became a dancer. I was in love with Janet for years! She was full of life, always laughing and fooling around. I never got up the courage to ask her out and never got round to telling her years later how much I had admired her. I can't now. The twins' father, Ronnie, was my father's best friend. They grew up together in ...see more
St. George's Presbyterian Church stands in the forefront of this photograph between what was the Co-operative shop and Tommy Jones the fishmongers shop. How long the Presbyterian Church has stood on this site I don't know but the Church itself was established in Little Sutton in 1838. Legend has it that that two travellers passing through Little Sutton were stoned by the local youths and ...see more
I cannot be specific as to the date of the Queen's visit because I was very young at the time. On the left hand side of the road you can see what was at one time the post office but which later became a carpet shop. On the right hand side of the road (slightly obscured) was Harold Jones's coal merchants yard and next door to it was the green grocers shop which was run by his wife. Everyone was very ...see more
I recall the school was divided into two portions, the infants and the juniors. A small corridor with Seth Hughes' office alongside separated the two. The infants were in the two classrooms at the School House end of the building where the very motherly Mrs Edwards took care of the first intake and the somewhat more stern Mrs McLaren took the 2nd year. The juniors had the large classroom at ...see more
I seem to have opened up vast memory stores here! It's good to know so many people who were around at the time I was at Berwick Road are still around today. Mind you, fifty-ish isn't old these days never mind what teenagers think. Who remembers Warrington's Cafe? I do. And the OLD Black Lion (not that I ever went in there - too young) and the Railway (first mother-in-law ran that place.) It was a good place ...see more