Moore
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- 4 photos on Moore appear in 1 Frith books - View photos of Moore
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Who are these people?
Who are the people in this photo. My mum and dad bought the Post Office from Mr. and Mrs. Evans but I can't work out yet which year that would be, sometime in the 1950's that I do know. Can't work out whether or not that's me with the dog and the other two, I think, might be Ann and Alan Ainsworth. Around the building, just underneath the black and white bit, there is some writing and I can't think for the life of me what it says. People used to organise car treasure hunts and one of the things they had to find was what this writing said. Sunday afternoons in the summer were a nightmare with cars constantly stopping ...read more here
Contributed by SUSAN SIMM
Mrs. Butterfield
First thing that came into my head when I saw this - Mrs. Butterfield - the Headmistress. I went to this school from 1951 to 1956. Mrs. Butterfield put me in for the 11 plus exam a year early and I passed and moved on to Helsby Grammar School. Moore school was just one big room divided into infants and juniors by a partition. There was a big black stove to heat the place and we used to put our free bottles of milk on it in the winter to thaw it out. The toilets were outside and were just big buckets which had to be emptied. A big lorry would turn up to empty them and, always it seemed, at ...read more here
Contributed by SUSAN SIMM
Cheshire memories
Who are these people?
Who are the people in this photo. My mum and dad bought the Post Office from Mr. and Mrs. Evans but I can't work out yet which year that would be, sometime in the 1950's that I do know. Can't work out whether or not that's me with the dog and the other two, I think, might be Ann and Alan Ainsworth. Around the building, just underneath the black and white bit, there is some writing and I can't think for the life of me what it says. People used to organise car treasure hunts and one of the things they had to find was what this writing said. Sunday afternoons in the summer were a nightmare with cars constantly stopping ...read more here
A memory of Moore contributed by SUSAN SIMM
Mrs. Butterfield
First thing that came into my head when I saw this - Mrs. Butterfield - the Headmistress. I went to this school from 1951 to 1956. Mrs. Butterfield put me in for the 11 plus exam a year early and I passed and moved on to Helsby Grammar School. Moore school was just one big room divided into infants and juniors by a partition. There was a big black stove to heat the place and we used to put our free bottles of milk on it in the winter to thaw it out. The toilets were outside and were just big buckets which had to be emptied. A big lorry would turn up to empty them and, always it seemed, at ...read more here
A memory of Moore contributed by SUSAN SIMM
Extracts From Moore & Cheshire books
Today the land around
here has been drained
and is now excellent
farming land. This
drainage took place when
the canals were being
cut so that the village
sits between two canals
(the Bridgewater and the
Manchester Ship Canal).
This view shows the
Bridgewater Canal. Today
the heart of the village is
a conservation area.
An extract from from"Widnes and Runcorn Photographic Memories".
Moore is so called
because this was once
very boggy land close
to the river. In fact
the peat around the
village used to be dug
by the local people for
use as fuel. They were
not, however, allowed
to dig it for sale -
presumably this was
a way of controlling
the amount that was
cut each year. The
school pictured here
was built in 1878 but
is no longer used as a school.
An extract from from"Widnes and Runcorn Photographic Memories".
With so many workers
arriving here in the 1800s
from Ireland there was a
strong Roman Catholic
presence and this
enormous church was
built in the 1870s to serve
that congregation. For
the first 23 years it was
also a collegiate church
for Jesuits with, at one time, 32 priests, 22 scholastics and 17 lay brothers.
An extract from from"Widnes and Runcorn Photographic Memories".
There have
been several
Ditchfield Halls
near here. In the
1500s and 1600s the
Dychfield family
that lived here
were strong Roman
Catholics and
refused to attend
the Protestant
services at their local
parish church at
Farnworth. Instead
they built their own
chapel but they were
still fined for not
attending the official
church services! The
last Ditchfield Hall
was demolished in
the 1960s.
An extract from from"Widnes and Runcorn Photographic Memories".
It would have been near here that the ferry landed. The first ferry was established in 1178 by the baron who owned Halton
Castle on the southern side of the estuary. His estates included lands on the northern side and, apparently, the ferry was set
up primarily so his tenants could cross the river more easily in order to pay him their taxes.
An extract from from"Widnes and Runcorn Photographic Memories".