Places
36 places found.
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- Chester, Cheshire
- Congleton, Cheshire
- Runcorn, Cheshire
- Warrington, Cheshire
- Crewe, Cheshire
- Northwich, Cheshire
- Chester Zoo, Cheshire
- Widnes, Cheshire
- Macclesfield, Cheshire
- Lymm, Cheshire
- Nantwich, Cheshire
- Frodsham, Cheshire
- Knutsford, Cheshire
- Winsford, Cheshire
- Alderley Edge, Cheshire
- Wilmslow, Cheshire
- Ellesmere Port, Cheshire
- Sandbach, Cheshire
- Alsager, Cheshire
- Bollington, Cheshire
- Malpas, Cheshire
- Neston, Cheshire
- Middlewich, Cheshire
- Gawsworth, Cheshire
- Cuddington, Cheshire
- Burton, Cheshire (near Tarvin)
- Prestbury, Cheshire
- Beeston, Cheshire
- Weaverham, Cheshire
- Parkgate, Cheshire (near Neston)
- Goostrey, Cheshire
- Hartford, Cheshire
- Disley, Cheshire
- Tarporley, Cheshire
- Barnton, Cheshire
- Sandiway, Cheshire
Photos
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Maps
2,963 maps found.
Books
16 books found. Showing results 25 to 16.
Memories
156 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.
Happy Days!
I was a trainee residential social worker at Elm House, Christmas 1974. I spent 2 months at several residential establishments working for the old Cheshire County Council. Fond memories of matron Dolly Barrett and cook Nan.
A memory of Nantwich in 1974
Happy Days 1950s And 60s
I was born and brought up in Weaverham until I left to move to Altrincham with my new wife (and job). Over that 20 year period I have so many happy memories; too many to record in 1000 words. Lived in Lime Avenue all ...Read more
A memory of Weaverham by
From Woodland Road To Cheshire Via The Penllwyn
On June 11th 1952 in the front downstairs room, (or close by) of 14 Woodland Road I let out my first cry. My early days of Pont are blurred, because they were not happy days. But I do remember ...Read more
A memory of Pontllanfraith by
Doseley
When my dad Derick John Jones was born in 1944 he lived in a row of houses called Dill Doll Row or Dill Da Row as some people called them, they were situated at Sandy Bank, Doseley, just behind the Cheshire Cheese pub at Doseley. My dad ...Read more
A memory of Doseley in 1944 by
Stubbington House School Teachers
I read with interest Peter Madden's memories. I remember Madden, we were all known by surnames. Just to jog a few more memories, there was Miss Critten's partner Miss Stapleton, they taught the juniors - ...Read more
A memory of Stubbington by
The Shops And Doctors At Sandiway 1956
We first arrived in Sandiway in 1956. I remember getting off the bus at the top of Mere Lane and walking down towards our new home in Cherry Lane. The house was a 'tied house' belonging to the ICI and our ...Read more
A memory of Sandiway in 1956 by
A Winter Crossing On The North Sea
I well remember the King George Dock as I embarked here with 33rd Signal Regiment (a TAVR unit formerly known as the Lancashire and Cheshire Yeomanry). We were en route to Germany having a posting ...Read more
A memory of Kingston upon Hull in 1968 by
Dereham Norfolk
I was born in Dereham, Muriel Secker, and lived in Cowper Road. I went to the Infants School, near Bishop Bonners Cott, 1928-1932/3, then National School and finally was Head Girl at Crown Road School. 1939 I worked in Hobbies ...Read more
A memory of Great Dunham in 1930 by
Chelmsford, Shire Hall 1895.
Many years ago the Shire Hall was where the Quarter Sessions trials were held. This would be the same as the Crown Court trials of to-day. The magistrates court was held in an old building which can still be seen in ...Read more
A memory of Chelmsford by
First Love
1995 was the best year of my life, I was aged 13 and I was totally besotted with a lad in the village called James Power, he was working with a local builder from Penmachno called Jeremy McWilliam. I loved the way he was of being the ...Read more
A memory of Cwm in 1993 by
Captions
94 captions found. Showing results 25 to 48.
The soldier is in his best uniform and is probably on his way to the drill hall in Ashley Road, depot for A and B companies of the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Cheshire Regiment.
Macclesfield became a borough in 1220, and by the17th century it was described as 'one of the fairest towns in Cheshire'.
What is thought to be the oldest inhabited house in Cheshire is also near Alderley Edge: the stone-built portion of Chorley Hall is thought to date from about 1330, the remainder being Elizabethan.
In medieval times it was a market town owned by Combermere Abbey, a Cistercian abbey on the Cheshire border.
St Mary's Church is one of the finest churches in Cheshire, and serves a community that was, at one time, more important than nearby Nantwich.
An impressive modern commercial waterway, the Weaver acts a a funnel for industrial products from Cheshire, carrying them down to Weston Point Docks, where there is a link with the Manchester Ship Canal
By the 1860s Bollington was thriving, but during the American Civil War the cotton towns of Lancashire, east Cheshire and north Derbyshire felt the effects of the Federal blockade of Confederate ports.
The parish of Rainow and Saltersford was one of the most extensive in the whole of Cheshire.
This is another extremely pretty little village in the heart of what was once Cheshire's cheese-producing countryside.
This Georgian mansion, built in 1736 by Giacomo Leoni, the architect of Lyme Hall, Cheshire, has commanding views across the River Irk to Heaton Hall.
Although just within the county of Cheshire, this area has now, like Handforth to the west, become more of a suburb of Manchester.
Rising as it does in the hills on the Staffordshire and Cheshire borders, the Trent in 1885 was estimated at being about 150 miles in length with a drainage area of 4050 square miles, of which 2900 were
This runs for 30 miles through the heart of Cheshire, and ends by the locks of Grindley Brook just on the border with Shropshire.
Once again, having crossed the bridge, we are back in that area of Cheshire that was once part of Lancashire until the county boundary changes of 1974.
Dean Row chapel is one of a series of very similar Dissenter chapels built in North East Cheshire soon after the 1688 Toleration Act, testimony to the strong Nonconformist tradition that had developed
Separated from the old town of Warrington by the Mersey and also (since the 1890s) by the Manchester Ship Canal, with Thelwall we are now back in that part of the county that was always Cheshire.
Ellesmere Port was the focal point for much of the canal activity in Cheshire.
Wirral fishermen are loading mussels into jute sacks ready for transportation to the restaurants of Cheshire and Liverpool.
This is the southern or `t`Cheshire side` of the lake, with the roof of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Hotel, which opened on 17 December 1875, just visible in the centre.
'To see Cheshire you must see Gawsworth'.
It is obviously a quiet time of day in this Cheshire village.
Looking south down the main road towards Wilmslow, with the road over to Macclesfield going off to the left, affluent Cheshire is driving towards the viewer and the young couple wait for
Briefly a private school after the Second World War, the Hall was then given by Lord Zetland to the Leonard Cheshire Foundation in 1961.
Its mainly 19th-century parish church of St James, which we see here in its wooded setting, is in the diocese of Chester, recalling the fact that the village was in Cheshire until local government re-organisation
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