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Blackden Hall

My great great grandfather, Simon Myall, had a farm called Blackden Hall according to the 1851 census. The house is still there but no longer a farm.

Audrey Frost
A memory of Goostrey contributed by First name Last name

The old laundry

I have always heard that my gran's sister  started the laundry.  Prior to this she was a wardress at the prison.  Her name was Maria Stanley.  I know that family stories get distorted and maybe she just worked at the laundry.  She was definitely a wardress in 1901 and I would be interested to know when the laundry came into being.  Later in life my great aunt started a laundry in Liverpool which survived till after the second world war.  Maybe someone could solve this little mystery for me.
Audrey Frost
A memory of Knutsford contributed by First name Last name

An exotic world, for young Canadians

We arrived in Knutsford in September 1955: two bewildered parents and four children, the youngest only 10 months old.

My father, a major, had been sent by the Canadian Army to take a year-long course in Manchester. Why he ever sought or consented to this is unknown -- but I suspect he was keen to return to England, since he had so enjoyed his four years there 1942-46.

It was a little less jolly for my longsuffering mother, encumbered with four of the most precocious, heedless children ever born -- of which I was surely the worst.

We settled into a rented house ("Beech House, Toft Road, Knutsford, Cheshire, England" as we were taught to recite to ...read more here
A memory of Knutsford contributed by Ted Gale

Childhood memories

Knutsford holds a special place in my heart as I was born there in 1956 and spent nearly eight years of my childhood growing up in this then safe and close community. I have very strong memories of family, home, school and friends and the environment during these years up until late 1963 when we emigrated to Western Australia as "10 pound poms". Our family home was 65 Mobberley Rd., Crosstown right next door to the pub (Lee Arms?). My memories of my school days are especially vivid and the now demolished Crosstown school will always have a place in my heart. My elderly aunt still lives across the road from where the school used to be -in the family home ...read more here
A memory of Knutsford contributed by julie nunn