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Alsager memories
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I was also a papergirl for Mr Dovey
I used to deliver The Evening Sentinal, Crewe Chronical and Daily papers for Mr Dovey. I used to ride my bike from Oakhanger all the way up there deliver my round and then go to school at the Comp! I think I got paid around £5.00. Happy days. Fond memories.
Contributed by Gill Dougherty
Mr Dovey Newsagent
I was born and lived in Alsager for over 40 years and remember Bank corner. I was a newspaper boy for Mr Dovey. Also have a sepia photo of Hancocks store which I also recall quite well as a young boy.
Contributed by Peter Dale
Just Fields
There was never a housing estate in those days so everyone was able to walk to school across the open fields. There was also a farm situated near the junction of Sandbach Road North and Lodge Road
Contributed by Peter Dale
Staffordshire memories
I was also a papergirl for Mr Dovey
I used to deliver The Evening Sentinal, Crewe Chronical and Daily papers for Mr Dovey. I used to ride my bike from Oakhanger all the way up there deliver my round and then go to school at the Comp! I think I got paid around £5.00. Happy days. Fond memories.
A memory of Alsager contributed by Gill Dougherty
Extracts From Alsager & Staffordshire books
The sham castle on Mow Cop is clearly
visible from much of Congleton.
An extract from from"Congleton Town and City Memories".
The photographer was looking eastwards from the entrance. At this time, all but the uppermost section of the east window had clear glass.
Stained glass was introduced later in 1922. Although not discernible in this picture (perhaps because of the glare from the windows), there
are two oil paintings by Edward Penny on either side of the window, which were painted in 1748. They depict St Paul and St Peter.
An extract from from"Congleton Town and City Memories".
Later photographs from the 1950s show no change to the building apart from the addition of a hanging sign at the front, and the
replacement of the gas lamp-post with an electric, concrete one. This scene looks practically the same today.
Smaller timber-framed buildings can be seen in Lawton Street, Moody Street and Little Street. Others exist but are hidden by later frontages.
A few more survive in the surrounding countryside, and a couple of miles along the Manchester Road is the timber-framed Marton Church,
one of the earliest and most complete examples in the country.
An extract from from"Congleton Town and City Memories".
This view of the roundabout - a novelty in Congleton - shows where the south end of the
bypass joins the existing main road. It looks much the same today, with attractive flower-
beds, although it has been reduced in size to aid the flow of the traffic. The house on the
right is Mortlake House, which was part of the Danesford Children’s Home and is now the
Woodlands pub. Many of the trees behind it have been removed to make way for flats and
houses. The second building from the left is the Catholic church of St Mary.
An extract from from"Congleton Town and City Memories".
Passing through the gatehouse passage into the courtyard, we are faced
with the hall entrance and the magnificent bay windows. Little has
changed here since the photograph was taken - and for centuries before
- except that, as on the gatehouse, the painted quatrefoils have been
removed from the curved coving.
An extract from from"Congleton Town and City Memories".