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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.
A memory of Gawsworth contributed by Maurice Adshead
William & Jane Kay marriage 1865
My Great, Great, Grand parents William & Jane Kay came from Congleton Cheshire.
They were married 20-February 1865 in St Peters Church Congleton (marriage certificate)
Witnesses were John Frost and Ann Braithwaite, Married by John Hughes if I have read the spelling correct.
William was born in 1820 Leigh, Lancashire and Jane Kay nee Astle was born 1844 Aston Derby. They had 7 children. William B 1862, Herbert B 1864 Stillborn, Sarah E B 1868 , Alice B 1870, George B 1872, Charles B 1874 Stillborn, and Frank B 1874 all born Congleton, Cheshire except for Sarah & Alice who were born in Hulme Lanc.
In 1881 Hulme, William Kay was a Weaver, Cotton Tape. It looks like ...read more here
A memory of Congleton contributed by Carolyn Sarten
Congleton Baths, late '50s, '60s.
I too have very fond memories of the open air swimming baths in Congleton in the late fifties and the sixties. I can even remember Alec Coles. Happy days. The water was freezing and it was always best to run and dive in to get it over with! For me it was a cup of warm orange squash and a bag of Smiths crisps (with salt in a twisted blue wrapper) at the snack hut. Alec has really said it all but I recall the top board, which was 5 yards high I think, ultimately being closed off because a depth of 8' 6" of water was deemed not to be deep enough for the height of the board yet people ...read more here
A memory of Congleton contributed by Alan Brennan
Congleton Baths
Congleton Open Air Baths during the 50/60s.
It had the entrance of a theatre, 2 steps up with an overhanging portico and glass doors that opened up to a foyer. It was well painted in the colours of the day, council green and white. You could see the pool from inside the entrance and it looked so nice with the calm water. At the point of payment there was a turnstile that was painted council silver. There was a lady who collected your 6d for swimmers and 2d (I think) for spectators, some people had a season ticket that cost 7/6d which entitled you to as many admissions as you wanted. There was a competition amongst the kids to ...read more here
A memory of Congleton contributed by Alec Coles
Extracts From Wincle & Cheshire books
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".
The nave is by Blomfield, and would have been
brand new when this photograph was taken.
The chancel and east window were built a few
years earlier and are by James Stevens. The fine
chandeliers, still lit on special occasions, are Georgian.
An extract from from"Macclesfield Town and City Memories".