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Colwich Football Team
My father, James E Bond, captained the Colwich Swifts for at least two seasons, and the team won the league in 1949. Jim played at Right Half. This memory was shared by Jim's friend Bill Fox.
Contributed by Margaret Curtis
Staffordshire memories
Colwich Football Team
My father, James E Bond, captained the Colwich Swifts for at least two seasons, and the team won the league in 1949. Jim played at Right Half. This memory was shared by Jim's friend Bill Fox.
A memory of Colwich contributed by Margaret Curtis
Summer Holidays
I was born in Brewery Yard, Great Haywood. After the war my mum moved to Notting Hill, London, so in the summer holidays my sister and I would stay at Nan & Grandads in the village. Mum {Eileen Bailey} played the piano in the Fox & Hounds, Stubbs's were the local butchers. I spent a few months at the local school, during the Notting Hill riots. We would come on our own by train, { it was safe in the 50s} then a bus to Shugborough Park, and would walk across the park lugging a rather large suitcase, which my dad had put handles on each end to make it easier for us. I remember going to the pictures in the ...read more here
A memory of Great Haywood contributed by Christine Pitcher
A 1950s childhood memory
I have very fond memories of Great Haywood during the 50s as my sister and I went to stay with our grandmother during the school holidays. We lived near to the centre of Manchester and so to visit this village in the 50s was like entering another world.
Grandma lived on the outskirts of the village in Tolldish Lane and she was quite a reclusive lady. Her husband had died in 1952 and because her cottage was not in the village as such, she kept herself to herself.
The photo, I believe, is of the post office in the village which was kept by a Miss Yelland. My sister and I, and of course grandma, would walk down to the ...read more here
A memory of Great Haywood contributed by Anne Forster
Extracts From Colwich & Staffordshire books
Originally built as a private house called Mount Pleasant
in 1730, it was later enlarged and renamed Mount
Pavilion. In 1836 it became home to a group of Benedictine
nuns. Their community had fled the French Revolution in
Paris in 1795 and had settled first in Dorset and then
Somerset, before moving to Staffordshire.
An extract from from"Stafford Living Memories Pocket Album".
It was near here in June 1839 that a passenger on a boat to London,
Mrs Christina Collins, was brutally beaten, raped and murdered. Her
body was dragged out of the canal two days later at the Bloody Steps in
Rugeley, where her grave can be seen in the churchyard. Two of the crew
were hanged and another transported.
An extract from from"Stafford Living Memories Pocket Album".
According to tradition, the church of St Michael and All Angels is said
to stand on the site of a 7th-century wooden chapel dedicated to St
Chad. Most of the present church dates from the 19th century, although
the tower was built in 1640. There is a memorial inside to Admiral
George Anson, who is buried here. Note the St George’s flag on the
tall flagpole.
An extract from from"Stafford Living Memories Pocket Album".
The Shropshire Union Canal, engineered by Thomas Telford and con-
structed between 1827 and 1835, was the last of the major canals. It linked
Birmingham to the Mersey, and was built in a more direct line than previous
canals, sometimes through deep cuttings, to reduce distances in an attempt to
compete with railways. The Boat Inn stands beside the bridge.
An extract from from"Stafford Living Memories Pocket Album".
The Shropshire Union Canal, engineered by Thomas Telford and con-
structed between 1827 and 1835, was the last of the major canals. It linked
Birmingham to the Mersey, and was built in a more direct line than previous
canals, sometimes through deep cuttings, to reduce distances in an attempt to
compete with railways. The Boat Inn stands beside the bridge.
An extract from from"Stafford Living Memories Pocket Album".