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John Adshead - Exercising the dogs
It was a common site to see John Adshead cycling to work from Gawsworth New Hall to the Lonsdale & Adshead brewery on Park Green Macclesfield. There was a driver and car available at the house, but it was usually the bike that got John to work. The dogs ! No they were not running alongside the cycle, they were tucked into John's coat. The brewery was sold in 1950, about 10 years before this picture was taken.
Contributed by Maurice Adshead
Cheshire memories
John Adshead - Exercising the dogs
It was a common site to see John Adshead cycling to work from Gawsworth New Hall to the Lonsdale & Adshead brewery on Park Green Macclesfield. There was a driver and car available at the house, but it was usually the bike that got John to work. The dogs ! No they were not running alongside the cycle, they were tucked into John's coat. The brewery was sold in 1950, about 10 years before this picture was taken.
A memory of Gawsworth contributed by Maurice Adshead
My father - Aubrey (Aub) Davenport
From 1960 approx onwards- my father was the best blacksmith around. He was a master blacksmith at Smithy-House, Siddington. He not only shod horses but was the master of welding farming implements. Never a bad word was ever said about him. He retired to Chelford where he died in 2001. Many of the farmers remembered him including -The Wains, Worth's, Venables, Pilkingtons and many many others including Mr R Rush layreader at the church who gave a wonderful reading at my father's funeral. I would appreciate all fond memories to my email at javealady@msn.com.
A memory of Siddington contributed by Diane Payne
broken cross post office
my parents owned the piost office from about 1958-1965 - their names were albert (bill) edward wild and dorothy emma wild and the inscription on the board read "AE and DE Wild" before they owned it , it belonged to Vera and Dennis Eaton . my Dad died in 1964 and then my Mum sold the business on and moved back to Derby. i went to henbury primary school and sang at henbury church. My freinds at that school were Alan Goodwin and Susan Windsor - whose Mum was the lollipop lady for the school. my Mum opened a wool shop at one end. opposite the post office was the Pack Horse Inn and further into the village ...read more here
A memory of Prestbury contributed by vivien hyde
Extracts From Gawsworth & Cheshire books
A leisurely country scene; note the lawn set out
for games, and the swinging seat under its canopy.
Behind the bird house on the left is a wonderful
great barn with a sweeping roof of Kerridge
stone slabs. The hall itself has now lost its stable
doors, and the ivy, and has acquired a fine central
doorcase complete with the Harrington arms.
An extract from from"Macclesfield Town and City Memories".
Prestbury was
the mother church of Macclesfield. Its ancient parish, one of the largest
in the country, stretched right up to Rainow and Kettleshulme in the
hills, north as far as Poynton, and out in the south and west to Bosley
and Chelford. Macclesfield town was in the parish of Prestbury until
the 19th century, although it had long outgrown its parent. A walk
round Prestbury churchyard (especially recommended in crocus time)
will leave an outstanding impression of the antiquity of the place, as
evidenced by the carved Saxon cross and the little Norman chapel that
stand near the church, and of the sheer size of the graveyard which is a
reflection of the size of the parish. The windows of the Norman chapel
at Prestbury are glazed with a delightful modern series of pictures
relating to the following poem:
When as a child I laughed and wept,
time crept.
When as a youth I dreamed and talked,
time walked.
When I became a full-grown man, time ran.
And later as I older grew, time flew.
Soon I shall find while travelling on,
time gone.
Will Christ have saved my soul by then? Amen.
This seems a good note on which to finish this book.
An extract from from"Macclesfield Town and City Memories".
A leisurely country scene; note the lawn set out
for games, and the swinging seat under its canopy.
Behind the bird house on the left is a wonderful
great barn with a sweeping roof of Kerridge
stone slabs. The hall itself has now lost its stable
doors, and the ivy, and has acquired a fine central
doorcase complete with the Harrington arms.
An extract from from"Macclesfield Town and City Memories".
This little estate church was built in 1840.
The initials TH and LHH which appear
over the tower door and on the family pew
stand for Thomas Hibbert and his sister
Letitia Hamilton Hibbert, of Birtles Hall.
It was, as can be seen, entirely covered with
ivy ‘neatly trimmed and cared for’. Today,
inspecting architects would never allow this;
there is just a little tasteful Virginia Creeper.
The vicarage of 1892 is characteristically
bigger than the church. A grave near the
fence commemorates Harold and Mary
Worth, killed by enemy action on 23
December 1940 at Acton Farm.
An extract from from"Macclesfield Town and City Memories".
The town may have been dingy in 1955, but you could buy anything you wanted. The little white tower of the late lamented Majestic
Cinema of 1922 rises in the middle distance.
An extract from from"Macclesfield Town and City Memories".