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name: Nany L Brimhall
email: nbrimhall@brimhallassociates.com
date: 1st June 2010
comments:
Hello, our family is related to the Bramhall's in England and my mother and I and at least one cousin
have indeed visited the old manor house from America over the years. We wrote ahead of time and asked
for a special "family" tour and laughed when we arrived and they looked at us like we had two heads,
they were so uninterested in the traveling American descendents who must come thru there looking for
their heritage enough to not even create a ripple in a forehead of the ticket taker. Anyway, for any
other of you Americans who make the trip it is an interesting visit and a lovely park area. The
Davenport family connection is pre-eminent in the historical information so you might be disappointed
if you aren't preapred for that. Very little, if anything on the Bramhall family. Fyi.
name: mike ilett
email: mp.ilett@tiscali.co.uk
date: 21st May 2010
comments:
Brought up in bramhall, went to moss hey primary school till 1969, then to hazel grove secondary
school, ( now live in orkney ), greetings and thanks to all the teachers at the above schools.... you
were great and we owe you a lot....also was a member of " bramhall village players" at lumb lane
centre in the 1970s. and also brilliant memories of "happy valley" where we used to walk home from
school every night...also the school did cross country in happy valley from hazel grove sec school (
HGSSB ) along to bramhall grammer and then back (preferred this to football ) it was a good school.
however, it all went downhill when it changed to comprehensive in our last year,...but that is
apparently "progress" .
Very many happy memories of the boat yard at higher poynton run by mrs burgess,.... i had my first
boat there "firefly" then later a 40ft narrowboat " foxton" before buying and operating commercial
narrowboats in leicester . a lot of great memories and a lot of photo albums.
name: Marisa LW
email: mlogan-ward@brickbone.co.uk
date: 7th May 2010
comments:
My husband and I have just had an offer accepted on a house in Bramhall. We are so excited to be
coming to such a beautiful and interesting village. It only took us one drive into Bramhall to realise
that this is where we wanted to live and raise a family. Im sure this website will be a great resource
over the coming months!
name: Rosemarie Davenport
email: TankerTail@aol.com
comments:
My husband is descended from Richard Davenport and I love the history of the family. It is rich and
fascinating. I'm not sure if he is "connected" to Bramhall or not but I find it interesting because we
can't make the leap from England to America as yet in the family tree. The Manor is beautiful.
Name: Lesley
Email: clbret@xplornet.ca
Date: 28th March 2010
Comments:
My Grandfather used to work at a place called Bramhall Grange Farm. This was around 1900. Can anyone
help me find the location of such a place. Thank you.
Name: Margaret Nixon
Comments:
I visited Bramhall back in 2005 to see where my SKEEN ancestors lived and was very impressed with what I saw. I would love to go back one
day and have a longer visit.
Thanks for the website keep up the great work. I loved looking at the
photos.
Name: David Flamee
Email: davidflamee@hotmail.co.uk
Date: 05 Oct 2008
Comments:
I have not been to this site for a couple of years. It has improved very much
over that time.Well done!. The last time i visited i posted a request to any one
who had information especialy photos of an area known as jacksons brick works
adswood and parkside sites and an area known as tenement lane. The timeframe i
am interested in especialy is between 1960s and 1970s. when a farm existed on
tenement lane and much of the brickworks was a landfill site. Earlier info is
very welcome such as the building of the Parkside estate and the housebuilding
on the former rugby club land.Any info at all regarding the history and
development of this area would be most appreciated. Thank you very much.davidflamee@hotmail.co.uk
Name: Elizabeth Ann Lovic
Email: elovic105@comcast.net
Date: 07 Aug 2008
Comments:
I have just recieved a Post Card of beautiful Bramhall from my nephew - must
compliment you on your web site - beautifully done - and easy to access!
One day maybe I will be able to visit and see all there is to offer.
Best wishes,
Elizabeth A. Lovic
Pennsylvania, USA
Name: Lewis Flint
Email: lewis.a.flint@jci.com
Date: 07 Jul 2008
Comments:
Hi,
I lived in Bramhall from 1970-1977 when we moved to Knutsford and we lived on
Headlands Road. I went to Hulme Hall Juniors between 71 and 73 then Bramhall
High School 75-77. Does anybody remember me? I used to know Phillipa Cooke,
Judith Neild, Chris Myers, Mark Lyons, Mark Cavill, Robert Nixon, Peter Dallibar,
Catriona Dunwwodie, Wendy Green and many more. Please get in touch if you
remember me--Lewis Flint
Name: bill whiteley
Email: billwhiteley@btconnect.com
Date: 12 Jun 2008
Comments:
I found a glass photo plate dated 1900 and one of them say it is "stocks at
bramhall" it looks like the ones at bramhall but not in the grounds any one
know were the stock can from?
Name: Kathleen Bramhall Pigott
Email: pigottk@byui.edu
Date: 10 Jun 2008
Comments:
My children and I were looking up websites related to my maiden name, Bramhall,
and we very much enjoyed your site! I have been aware of Bramhall Hall for
many years, and hope to one day visit. Do you have any special incentives
for Bramhalls to visit your town?!
Thanks for a great site!
Name: Edward Anderton
Email: andertonmd@mweb.co.za
Date: 19 May 2008
Comments:
My parents lived in Ladythorne Crescent, early 1920s, house designed by my uncle Norman Taylor who designe Cawthorne, Woodford Rd for my grandpa. I
went to Miss Hooley's school nr rail bridge & used to visit the old smithy in Woodford Rd where Bramhall's first petrol pump was to be found. Now in
Cape Town age 85!
Name: John Carswell
Email: jccarswell@clearmail.com.au
Date: 19 May 2008
Comments:
My family came to the district from Renfrewshire Scotland in 1845 as farmers & became land agents/farm bailiffs at Adlington & Lyme.Connected families are McQue, Mottershead, Handforth, McLuckie, Bradley,
Stevenson, Swindells, Slingsby, Cartwright, Mellor, Jackson, Worthington,
Smallman, Bryning.
Name: Chris Farrow
Email: chris.farrow@sympatico.ca
Date: 14 May 2008
Comments:
Great idea. I was born in Bramhall, and lived on Woodford Road until 1863. When
I returned to Bramhall a few years ago, I was amazed to find that the green
belt, put in place in the 1950's to limit urban sprawl, was still in
place. The fields I played in were still being cultivated; and old farm
buildings had been converted into modern residences.
Name: John
Email: mainlycameras@woosh.co.nz
Date: 16 Apr 2008
Comments:
What a lot of people have moved on, yet I havent seen one remark that suggests
anyone has less than great memories of Bramhall and surrounding areas.
I would have moved to that area if I could have found a house that was as
affordable and that could compare with the price and location of
my home in New Zealand.
I liked Bramhall a lot I worked there for a few years at Barbers Garage. The
best employers around.
I would love to hear from anyone who remembers me . John Powell. or who
remembers Barbers.
Name: Nancy Brimhall Wightman
Email: nancy.wightman@yahoo.com
Date: 28 Mar 2008
Comments:
Very interesting. As a descendant of the Bramhall family I would love to
visit some day.
Name: Charles Reed
Email: charlie@reed3187.fsnet.co.uk
Date: 14 Mar 2008
Comments:
I was born and brought up in Bramhall from 1964-1979, before the family moved
away.
I still count it as home however and have fond memories.
The website is an interesting and useful trip down memory lane. Nice one!
Name: Irene Jenks
Email: irene-j@hotmail.co.uk
Date: 10 Feb 2008
Comments:
I used to take my sons to this Park 40 years ago, and I now take my
Grandchildren
It hasn't changed - it is still as nice today to walk around the Park and the
grounds
Lovely place to walk round
Name: Julia Sinclair
Email: jules.sinclair@mac.com
Date: 01 Feb 2008
Comments:
I was born in a house in Moss Lane in 1954 and shortly after moved to Woodford
Road where we lived until about 1967. I was one of the original pupils at
Bramhall Grammar School but moved down south after about a year there.
Have only been back once since!
Did anybody know The Rothwells from Bramhall, still wonder about my friends!
Name: ron craig
Email: laron13@sympatico.ca
Date: 22 Dec 2007
Comments:
I lived on north park rd and would like to make contact with philip craig
if any one knows his address please let me know thanks , all the best
Name: Roderick O'Mullane
Email: o_mullane@yahoo.co.uk
Date: 29 Oct 2007
Comments:
I am interested in the Bramhall area as my great, great gradfather was a member
of the Freeholders Company Limited, who bought Bramall hall and 20,000 acres of
land in 1877.
I have photocopy of a letter sent to my great, great grandfather in 1879, by a
farmer called George Downing, who was living in Bramhall at the time. The letter
was about asking for more time to pay the rent.
My great, great grandfather was called Henry Ogden and my great grandmother's
maiden name was Lees.
There are two roads in Bramall which are at right angles to each other which are
called Ogden and Lees. I presume these were named after my great, great
grandparents.
bye
Roderick D. O'Mullane
Name: Jim Andrews (from
Sydney Australia)
Email: andrews_sydney@live.com
Date: 28 Oct 2007
Comments:
We visited Bramhall (where my Brother and his Wife & family live) and had a
most enjoyable stay. We intend to visit your beautiful village again next
year 2008.
Thank you for the wonderful stay and God Bless you All, Jim & Benita
Andrews, Northern Beaches, Sydney Australia
Name: Joyce in Kentucky, USA
Email: jcmb@fuse.net
Date: 11 Jul 2007
Comments:
What an interesting site! My Mother's maiden name is Brammell. She
got to visit our ancestrial home in the '80's. We can trace back to the
late 1600's and now I think I can see why we hit a roadblock, the spelling of
the name was changed. I've been told we had a Lord and Lady in the family
way back when! If anyone has any information about the Brammell, possibly
spelled Brammel, Bramel, Bramell, please contact me. I'd love to see if
the branches of our family tree grow off the same trunk!
Name: K M Hook
Email: kenneth-hook1@ntlworld.com
Date: 03 Jul 2007
Comments:
I used to stay with my grandparents at "Wrens Nest" a thatched cottage
at the junction of Moss Lane and Hall Moss Lane. It was knocked down and
on the site George Best built a modern town house. I have many happy
memories of my childhood there during the war years and just afterwards.
Watching Lancaster bombers taking off and landing at woodford. Engine spotting
at Handforth sidings. The POW camp on Spath Lane.And grannies blackberry pies
with fruit collected from the fields that connected Patch lane with Hall Moss
lane with its footpath and styles.
Name: PG
Email: PG@1914-18.co.uk
Date: 02 Jun 2007
Comments:
Went to Bramhall 1934. There during "blitz" of 1940/41 etc.when bombs
dropped on Bramhall -one occasion near the telephone exchange (Land Mine).
Drilled in Commercial Road Hazel Grove school.1942 went to Florida where the US
Navy taught me how to fly an aeroplane. 1945 back to Bramhall. Later left for
the South. From your photos, it does not seem to have changed too much. Using
"Google Earth" on internet can pick out where I used to live plus
Norbury Church, Hazel Grove, where my relatives are buried. Prior to 1947 trams
used to change round at Rising Sun near the church. Feel very much a survivor
now. Most of my friends are listed on Bramhall & Hazel Grove War
memorials or live in OZ where the squadron took its "demob" in 1945.
Great web site.
Name: Mrs Ezzard
Email: ceshowcase@aol.com
Date: 26 May 2007
Comments:
In 1880's my Great Great Grandfather John Mcquie lived at Station
Street,Bramhall,Hazelgrove,Cheshire, he worked as a Forester for one of the
large Estates which I assume would have been Bramhall. If anyone can confirm
this or has any information on this I would be greatful?.
Name: melanie mottershead
Email: mandmharrell@netzero.com
Date: 03 May 2007
Comments:
left Cheadle Hulme 30 years ago, Mum owned clothing store in Bramhall.
Nice to see from the photo gallery that not everything has changed. Anyone
reading this that knew me, contact me at mandmharrell@netzero.com.
now living in Canada
Name: Colin Fraser
Email: codec19@hotmail.com
Date: 29 Apr 2007
Comments:
Living in Australia we were sorting through some old papers and came upon a 1984
Lancashire Life (The year we emigrated)! There was a good article on
Bramhall and it brought back memories from the 40's when I used to spend all my
summer holidays in Wilmslow and my cousins used to take me to Bramhall baths -
is that still the same or is it all redeveloped now? Also in the forces
with Keith Robson - are you out there Keith?
Name: Sarah
Contact: welshgirlie77@hotmail.com
Date: 04 January 2007
Comments:
What a great site and a lovely village, I have been coming back and forth to
Poynton from Wales the last few months and staying with friends and I must say
how lovely it is here, even considering moving to Poynton, as I feel very safe
here. :-)
Sarah
Name: Geoff Bostock
Email: geoffbostock@eircom.net
Date: 20 March 2006
Comments:
Many thanks to Gladys Barry in America for contacting me. Great Years in the
apprentice school at mirrlees with Arthur and Horace Webb and indeed Freddie
Coombes. 'The bald eagle' many great years after that in the machine
shops,fitting shops and on the engine test beds.Good luck and all the best to
anyone who knows me. geoff bostock.
Name: Chantel Venema
Email: Chantel@yours.com
Date: 14 March 2006
Comments:
Great site! Ahhh, torky park, the Rising Sun, HGHS... I used to live
the Grove until a few years ago when I moved to the Netherlands and it was
lovely to find this site! Anyone remember me? Drop me a line!
Name: Ian
Email: itwemlow@yahoo.co.uk
Date: 05 March 2006
Comments:
I used to live in a terraced house opposite Hazel Grove station until a year or
so ago. Someone told me that my house, on Station Street, used to be a
newspaper shop. Does anyone remember this being the case? I'd be
interested to know so please drop me an email if you remember a newspaper shop
opposite the station on Station Street. itwemlow@yahoo.co.uk
Thanks.
Name: Georgie Klug
Email: cycloneklug@hotmail.com
Date: 11 February 2006
Comments:
Hi
I'm wondering whether anyone knows of the Nield famly that resided at Torkington
Hall in Hazel Grove back in the early 1900s. My grandmother and her family moved
to Australia in 1926 during the depression years and I'm trying to find out a
history of Torkington Hall and the Nield family connection. I'm probably
clutching at straws because it was a long time ago but if you can help please
send me an email to cycloneklug@hotmail.com
Like many people tracing their family history it gets very hard when your
grandparents and their relatives are no longer living and have lost touch.
Thank.
Name: David Grice
Email:
Date: 14 January 2006
Comments:
Love your sight loads of info.
I was very interested in the bypass hazel grove bramhall info.
Please keep it up to date. thanks
I live on the bosden farm est
Name: Linda Jackson Moore
Email: dadnil@peoplepc.com
Date: 17 November 2005
Comments:
Still in search of information on my great grandfather, Thomas S. Jackson.
He lived in Hazelgrove before he came to America in the 1800's. E-mailed
once before. Since that e-mail this is my new e-mail address. If
anyone knows of this Thomas S. Jackson, would appreciate hearing from you.
Name: paul hartill
Email: ballylinan@msn.com
Date: 13 November 2005
Comments:
great site and very interesting to an ex grover
Name: Jeff Hazelgrove
Email: jeff.hazelgrove@conti-na.com
Date: 01 November 2005
Comments:
My sister has researched our family and has details back to the 1600's I think,
I now live in Canada but my sister still lives in England
Name: Hilda Torevell
Email: h.torevell@btinternet.com
Date: 28 October 2005
Comments:
Great web site. Just spent the last couple of hours browsing - now late
making tea. Keep up the good work.
Name: Susan North (nee Ryder)
Email: susannorth@btopenworld.com
Date: 22 October 2005
Comments:
I lived and went to school in Hazel Grove until I moved south in about 1970, and
I will bookmark your site for the future. Does anyone remember me, I was at
Chapel Street Infants and then Jacksons Lane Secondary Modern up to about 1964.
Name: Angela van der Heyde
(Robinson)
Email: specdiet@yahoo.com
Date: 04 October 2005
Comments:
I love site. I moved from Hazel Grove when I was 10yrs old in 1970.
Can anyone tell me if there used to be an infant school on Eyam Rd. My Mum
said it was opened in 1965.
Thanks, Angela
Name: Bruce
Email: bbgoodman@lincsat.com
Date: 05 July 2005
Comments:
Great site thanks!
Can anyone local with a digital camera duck out and take a picture of "The
Bird in the Hand" at 117 London Road? Can't find a picture anywhere, and I
THINK g-grandma/pa ran the pub way back... name was Whamby or Fletcher or Peers
- depending on who her husband was at the time.
I'm in Quebec - so I can't buy you a beer of appreciation! Email:bbgoodman@lincsat.com
Thanks if you can.
Name: jess
Email:
Date: 03 July 2005
Comments:
hi i liv in hazel grove luvin it goin torkie fair now
Name: Emma Mountain( was
Beckman)
Email: emma.mountain@stockport.gov.uk
Date: 21 June 2005
Comments:
Great to see Hazel grove has it's own site.I have lived in the grove most of my
life and 32 years later still enjoy a good night out in the Rising sun and a pub
crawl up the grove.Sad to say the odd late night falling out of the Bamboo Club.
Hello to all my old school pals from Hazel Grove High.I would be interested to
get in touch with anyone who knew Edna Newall sadly missed. She lived on Grove
street and dragged me along to sunday school when i was little at Hazel grove
reform church on Commercial road.
Great site
Name: Rob
Email: haddypdaddy@hotmail.com
Date: 20 June 2005
Comments:
This is sort of a followup to a posting from November of last year. I am
also looking for a John Hadfield who was born in Hazel Grove about 1760.
His wife was Mary Burton. I have been hitting dead ends in finding who
John Hadfield's parents are. His father was born around 1735, but that is
the only information I have. I anyone has any information about this,
please email me. Thank you!
Name: Jan Kenney Fortado
Email: janfortado@comcast.net
Date: 09 June 2005
Comments:
Havng just visited Stockport, which included driving through the Hazel Grove
section, I set out to search for information on one branch of my Hughes family I
have not been able to find. On my first visit just a week ago to Stockport I did
not have the time to really search for missing family. I realize I am tilting at
windmills, but I was wondering if there is anyone who might know of Hughes
families who now live in the Hazel Grove section of Stockport. If someone were
to share addresses with me, I could write. This is a summary of the family line
I am trying to trace:
Peter Hughes, born in Stockport, 1858, to James and Eliza Hughes. The family
lived on Duke St., Kershaw’s Place, Ormesher’s Court, and Tatton Street. (1)
George, b1891 m. Mary Anne Newcombe in 1914, lived at 11 Fletcher St. in 1921;
(2) Alice could have married a Wright on 48 Miller St; (3) John Edward
b1896 m. Mary Helen Hodkinson and had son James in 1929; (4) Mary Elizabeth
b1899 m. Richard Mellor 1921; (5) Thomas m. Sophia Thompson 1927 & had
daughter Mary 1928 then married Eveline Thompson in 1968 at St. Peter’s Hazel
Grove; James, a possible brother, m. Frances Hallam 1927 and had Joseph 1928
& Mary 1929.
Thank you if anyone can help.
Jan
Name: Vera Flett
Email: fletty@wn.com.au
Date: 14 May 2005
Comments:
My mothet-in-law is Lillie Alberta Flett(nee Hazelgrove) from Tonbridge,
England. Can anyone please tell me if there is any connection between the
surname Hazelgrove and the town of the same name? I come from Australind in
Western Australia and used to live in Manjimup, Western Australia before that.I
am also trying to research the name Hazelgrove and Wood.
Name: chris charnock
Email: chris.charnock@ntlworld.com
Date: 05 May 2005
Comments:
found this site whilst bored at work. can anyone tell me how far back bullock
smithy dates and was it really a place where women offered there services at
really good rates. lived in the grove for 30 years would'nt live any where else
.
Name: you don't need to know!
Email:
Date: 10 April 2005
Comments:
hi, im 14 an live in the grove, jst off dean lane....i rely think there shud be
more things for us teenagers, for example a cinema...they wud make a LOT of
money!i have to travel into manchester, of the traf. centre if i want to see a
film, cos the cinema at stockport iz skanky n full of scals...so HGers..a nice
cinema wud be mch appreiciated!many thanx
Name: Margaret Nixon
Email: m.mnixon@satlink.com.au
Date: 29 March 2005
Comments:
I'm an australian & will be in Hazel Grove & area from 19th-24th May
looking for the ancestors old haunts. Searching for the SKEEN families. Are
there any still living in the area?
Name: day family
Email: jstdidit@aol.com
Date: 29 March 2005
Comments:
We met a family of 5 from Hazel Grove on 03/18 at the Disney Wide World of
Sports Complex in Orlando, Fl. They were friendly and told us about your
website and we wanted to take a look. We were the family from Missouri. If they
get a chance please drop us a line back. Hope you made it home safely.
Greg, Rhonda and Nate Day
Name: enid
Email: wildcatmoggy@tiscali.co.ukplease
will
Date: 05 March 2005
Comments:
will the lady from canada please e mail me. old school chum i think name mary.
Name: Enid
Email: wildcatmoggy@tiscali.co.uk
Date: 04 March 2005
Comments:
Still looking for 1950s postcard or photo of Hazel Grove in the area of
Harrisons old sweet shop and the then Marcliffe cinema. This is a good web site.
Cheers Enid old ex Grover.
Name: Mary E. Moriarty
Email: mary_moriarty@sbcglobal.net
Date: 04 March 2005
Comments:
FYI..There was a gentleman David Howell Trowsdale born 20 February 1940 that was
a historian in your town. He recently passed away in his sleep living in
the USA. I'm wondering about the cost of an obituary in your local
newspaper.
Name: Alex Flitcroft
Email: flitty@ntlworld.com
Date: 02 March 2005
Comments:
wow, a website for hazel grove! i'd never of thought it. i'm 21, i live near the
fiveways(the place to be! best pub in world!) and i'm so proud to be a grover. i
just think that, where i grew up (and still live) is the best place to live as a
kid, or a man for that fact. the days of when chips at the flamingo chippy were
60p! when the co-op was called shopping giant. when there was no filter lights
at the fiveways crossing and my mum would always say 'there'll be an accident
here one day!' when i used to get my hair cut at fred's barbers, him telling me
the ways of the world, making me laugh and how he always wore that wig. in the
summer, spending my days in mill lane woods on my bike, playing hide and seek
until we were attacked by a wasps nest. all the kids from around the fiveways
playing football on devonshire park, with jumpers for goal posts. but now its
mcdonalds and sainsburys, hazel grove has become such a busier place since i was
a kid. a just wish the future generation will love and respect the grove as i do
now. getting that warm feeling when traveling back from university on the train.
i went to norbury hall primary school when mrs whitehurst was head mistriss
89-95. then hazel grove high school 95-2000. im now at salford uni doing media
performance(the course peter kay did) hoping to make the grove proud.
Name: A Biker.
Email:
Date: 08 January 2005
Comments:
My parents and my older sister moved into Hazel Grove from Manchester in 1960
and remained here happily for the rest of their lives. Myself and my younger
sister were both born here. I'm 44 now and I've seen many changes in the years
that I've lived here. I went to Norbury Hall infants and junior schools ,the
infants school no longer exists, houses now occupy the site, and the once open
farmland area off Chester Road is now a huge housing estate with shops and
schools. The cinema and greyhound track closed years ago and there is a small
industrial estate built over the top of the track. Hazel Grove is a nice area to
live in with good local facilities, library, restaurants, bars and shops,
and in general the people here are mainly friendly towards each other, but
like anywhere else there are always the ones who want to spoil it for everyone
else. It is said in history books that Hazel Grove has an interesting and
dark past ,and was notoriously known for much drunken behaviour, fighting and
debauchery and was also a local haunt for the vicious Highway men of the roads
who would prey upon the rich and idle that passed this way in their fine
carriages. ( sounds a bit like a typical modernday Friday night on the
A6?)
As a child i spent many happy hours playing in the woods at the top of Mill Lane
and in Torkington park, and in my teens experienced countless pub crawls up
through the village and ending up in the local night club 'The Bamboo' which is
still there today. I remember a time when there were no traffic lights at
the Fiveways or the Rising Sun junctions, I can't imagine it being like that
now.
Name: Paul Hobbs
Email: hoblink@northnet.com.au
Date: 03 January 2005
Comments:
Hi everyone.
I lived in Hazel Grove in 1950 to 53, I was then 8 or 9 years old.
I used to walk to Norbury primary school from Devonshire Road. Along the way
between to two railway lines was the grayhound raceway and the Cinema. I know
the race track was dismantled, what is there now? Is the cinema still going?
A funny story (I hope). We lived next door to the park in Devonshire Road. At
that time it was undeveloped and somewhat of a dump. The hedging between us and
the park was such that our Welsh Colley dog made his own path through our hedge
and into the park then through the park hedge into Devonshire road.
This was just great for him because he could come and go as he pleased.
For some six years 'Laddie' had freedom of movement and had by this time even
created his own pathway.
One day the Council decided to clean-up and develop the park for local
residence.
Once the park was declared as a park, quite naturally they banned all pets!
Well, nobody told 'Laddie' who continued to use his personal private path.
Council advised us that we must block up the hawthorne hedge and stop the dogs
egress.
Have you ever tried to blockup a hedge? it is almost impossible without removing
and replacing it.
Never the less, the Council decided that they would block his path. So for six
months or more, every so often Council stuck something in the different pathways
the dog created.
Eventually, they too gave up and officially, Laddie was the only pet allowed in
the Park. Laddie died many years later, having lived a full and active life
dispite the Council
PS I now live in a small village in New England Australia.
Thanks
Name: enid allman
nee Dolphin
Email: wildcatmoggy@tiscali.co.uk
Date: 05 December 2004
Comments:
good site. can anyone help me find apostcard or photo of the grove inthe 1950s
or earlier. harrisons sweet shop opposite norbury church.?
thankyou
Name: paul hartill
Email: paul@eircom.net
Date: 27 November 2004
Comments:
ex grover,very impressed,things are looking up for the better since i left,keep
up the good work
Name: pastor Victor
James Cheady
Email: cheadys@yahoo.com
Date: 19 November 2004
Comments:
This is a great site friends told me about. Please help me to find a
friend, Mr. Paul Booth, he should be a pastor by now in hazel grove. I
misplaced his address. I am in Ghana, West Africa.
Name: Reva Jensen
Email: ofe0069@xmission.com
Date: 14 November 2004
Comments:
lice HaslamAround 1795/1800,his dad John Hadfield And
ary Burton , He Abt 1760 She 1762. Married 1781 stockport, died 1831 in hazel
grove She in 1833 also Hazel grove If you know anything that would help email or
write to me at 4720 N. Hwy 38 Brigham Utah 84302. thanks so much for being able
to post this . This is great to be able to read able the town where family came
from.
Name: Geoffrey Bostock
Email: geoffbostock@eircom.net
Date: 10 November 2004
Comments:
Born on the stockport side of bramhall moor lane in 1945 many good friends from
this area the Smiths ,Blanes , Proctors , Mc Mahon's , Hiltons ,Broadbents,
Kelly's , Alti Broadbent,Joe Barton, Hallworths shop. and the Whittles.Norman @
family.Frank @ family. 37 happy years at Mirrlees good luck and best wishes to
you all god bless Geoff County Clare, Ireland.
Name: allen flitcroft
Email: flitty@ntlworld.com
Date: 04 November 2004
Comments:
Great site. Lived in the Grove for all my 48 years, so still a true Grover. Went
to Chapel Street from 61 till 66 and then Marple Hall from 66 onwards. Antone
who remembers me please feel free to wmail.
flitty@ntlworld.com
ALLEN.
Name: allen flitcroft
Email: flitty@ntlworld.com
Date: 04 November 2004
Comments:
good site. Like the friends reunited idea.
Name: derek bowden
Email: cloverhouse@guernsey.net
Date: 29 August 2004
Comments:
hi old grovers.i lived at 56 talbot st from1950-1967. went to chapel st school
then marple hall grammar.
travelled all over, now live in guernsey channel isles. anybody still out there
remembers me get in touch
Name: enid allman
nee Dolphin
Email: wildcatmoggy@tiscali.co.uk
Date: 20 August 2004
Comments:
superb site .memories, ah yes.... fanny buxton headmistress chapel st school oh
that cane..... the bug hut cinema the grove...... the marcliffe cinema great
saturday matinees.... the silver moon milk bar.. the greyhound track hazel grove
show lovely little shops vanilla slices
brunts chemist shop many many happy times..good ole bullock smithy
Name: Joy Goodison (nee
Cooper)
Email: goodison@telkomsa.net
Date: 17 August 2004
Comments:
Hoping to use the visitors book as a tool to find people I knew years ago.
Lived in Chatsworth Road, Hazel Grove. Emigrated with my family to South
Africa in 1969. Specifically trying to find Susan Gate, John Sturmey, Ann
Ritzon, anyone remember them? Just to say Hi and find out what they have
done with their lives.
Name: Melinda Hudson (nee
Jackson)
Email: melindatony1@aol.com
Date: 14 August 2004
Comments:
Great site! I lived in the Grove for almost twenty years, before moving to
Cornwall, although I visit ocassionally.
Name: Richard Hyde Jack
Email: rhjack@bellsouth.net
Date: 26 July 2004
Comments:
Greetings and gratitude from a Yankee cousin of the town. It's been fun
and very interesting to "see" and visit an ancestral family area,
although my specific progenitor, William decamped the ville a rather long time
ago. Perhaps one day we'll make the trip back, although there are rather a
lot of us. In the mean time I'll check in now and then.
Richard Hyde Jack
Athens, Georgia, US
Name: Margaret Hughes
Email: maggi237@hotmail.com
Date: 22 July 2004
Comments:
I am trying to find out any history regarding Torkington Road. My mother
and uncle were evacuated there during WW2 although I don't have the details of
the family they went to.I wonder if anyone had any stories relating to those
times involving evacuees.
Name: Michael Holt
Email: michael@mcguirehiebert.com
Date: 30 June 2004
Comments:
I was looking for a history of the area. The web site is excellent, the
information on the "by-pass" very interesting considering I lived in
Hazel Grove in the 40s and 50s and they were talking about the need for it
then!!
Name: Ted C
Email: tecono@onetel.co.uk
Date: 26 June 2004
Comments:
Congratulations on a super site especialy the large size fonts and none glaring
backgrounds.
As a partialy sighted person this is all to absent on most webb pages making
them impossible to read,
but your's is just fine. Thanks a million.
35 Years Grover.
Name: Lizzy Simpoll
Email: lizzysimpoll@aol.com
Date: 19 June 2004
Comments:
I have lived in Hazel Grove all my life from baby to 79 year old. I have loved
the whole of my life here and plan to carry on that way! Hazel Grove is a
wonderful place to be.
Name: Kath Newton nee Baines
Email: KB28EAN@aol.com
Date: 12 June 2004
Comments:
Hi
I used to be called Katie (cos there was another Kathy - Kathy Wood) in our
class at Jackson's Jail.
I did not come to live in Hazel Grove till I was 11, although my Mum was born
upstairs in the Grove Inn.
I was in the last mixed year before the school was split into Girls and Boys and
then the school was combined again - this time Upper and Lower.
What a joy being close to the swimming pool must be - we used to try and learn
to swim in the open air pool at Bramhall. Brrrrrrrrr!
I have not got far - just in and out of Stockport - all these people living in
far flung places really make me envious.
I too am doing my family tree, so if you are searching Parkers from Disley or
Bowdens from Strines, and earlier in Marple - all in wood trades these are the
local names, along with Aspden/Aspin from Over Darwen and Poynton (coal miners)
then Hazel Grove from 1851.
I used to live on Hazel Street and then just off Chester Road.
Good luck to everyone especially the FT researchers.
Kath who used to be Katie.
Name: Ian Twemlow
Email: itwemlow@hotmail.com
Date: 09 June 2004
Comments:
Fantastic website. The Forum made very interesting reading. Well
done!
Name: Fran
Email:
Date: 09 June 2004
Comments:
Hi everybody my name is Fran had a great time.
Name: Emily Wallace
Email:
Date: 16 May 2004
Comments:
My local high school, Hazel Grove high, is being disrupted by local youths
driving motorbikes in our playground. The school has done nothing about it and i
am sure that students want to know why. Please could somebody do something
before one of our students is hurt. I may be 13 but we are the future of hazel
grove so if somebody doesnt do anything then i will.
Name: Barry Maulkin
Email: bazzas60@hotmail.com
Date: 03 May 2004
Comments:
Hi, Great website
I lived at 10 Arnside Avenue in the mid sixties.
I went to Moorfield county primary school and left when I was 10 to immigrate to
Australia
I now reside in Adelaide, Australia
If anyone remembers me feel free to e-mail
Regards
Bazz
Name: Harvey Warburton
Email: hwarburton@chartermi.net
Date: 25 April 2004
Comments:
Very nice website!
My great grandfather lived in Hazel Grove, working as a coal miner at the Vernon
Estate, as we understand it. He left in 1863 settled in Canton, Ohio as a
coal miner. My wife and I will be visiting Hazel Grove in 3 weeks and look
forward to learning more about the history of the area. We had a very
brief visit in 1974 when we lived in Brentwood, Essex.
Harvey Warburton
7871 W. Day Forest Road
Empire, MI 49630
Name: kay o'brien & gill davison (
nee platt)
Email: candyfrog22@hotmail.com.au
Date: 25 April 2004
Comments:
Hi everyone!
We are ex residents of 66 Aldwyn Crescent Hazel Grove. We moved to Melbourne
Australia with our family in 1966.
We'd love to hear from anyone who remembers the "Platt" family.
Very interested to look around where we grew up.
Lots of changes but the main street looks same.
We will visit the site regularly from now on.
Name: Marek
Email: moonymaroon@yahoo.de
Date: 10 April 2004
Comments:
Alright, there´s a lot which reminds me on this place. First, I had a great
time when I was there for few days, coming from berlin. I´ve met a lot of
people who were really nice to me, showing me a lot of places where to go, what
to do and so on...and second, I had a really beautiful and awesome time with
this one girl coming from stockport I really need to see one day again. So,
thanks for this stunning time and the people who are living there...I love this
place!
Name: Helen Tiona
Email: no1helen@ntlworld.com
Date: 05 April 2004
Comments:
I have lived in Hazel Grove for all my life and would not like to move anywhere
else!!! Hazel Grove is Fantastic. Everything you would ever need is in the
heart of Stockport. Luv Helen Tiona
Name: Emma Bernstein
Email: EmmaBernstein3@aol.com
Date: 31 March 2004
Comments:
I lived in Hazel Grove from being a baby till being 12 and now (aged 17) i'm
living in Germany. I was thrilled on stumbling across this homepage and it was
great looking at the pics. I was at Torkington Primary School and then later at
HGHS. If anyone wants to get in touched I'd be thrilled.
Name: Diana Richardson
Email: hazelgrove@hotmail.com
Date: 25 February 2004
Comments:
Hi folks,
I am Diana. I used to live with my parents in Hazel Grove until I was 3.
Then my folks migrated to New Zealand. That was 40 years ago. I
visited Hazel Grove with my kids last summer and we were thrilled at what we
saw, especially my two teenage children. I would love to keep in
touch with any local resident of Hazel Grove who may be interested in
communicating with a former Grover in New Zealand.
Bye.
Name: ann
Email: aa@rsvn6.freeserve.co.uk
Date: 15 February 2004
Comments:
The site is good fun but I am trying to find a local church- Norbury St. Thomas,
and anyone who might know about parish records, memorials etc. my grt.
grandfather was maried there between 1861 and 1865.
Name: Angela Sljokic (nee Foster)
Email: angelasljokic@aol.com
Date: 30 January 2004
Comments:
Wow! I lived in Hazel Grove in Arendal Avenue for only a short time as a very
young child. Don't really have a lot of memories of the place except for
starting school, I think it was Hazel Grove Primary. great to see what the place
is like now. Would love to come back to see the place.
Name: Wally
Email: ftotti1989@yahoo.com
Date: 21 December 2003
Comments:
Hi everyone!
Wow! Lots of people have left here and gone to some nice places! Im only 14 but
I want to move from Hazel Grove when im older to somewhere like America.
Name: Mike Horne
Email: mike@jhorne62.freeserve.co.uk
Date: 14 December 2003
Comments:
I was very interested to see the website for Hazel Grove, and found it quite
informative.
I have some great memories of visiting Hazel Grove in the 1950's. My
grandparents, Percy & Jessie Russell lived in Gordon Avenue about 1958/60.
The road was unmade then (no tarmac), and stretched up to London Road. There was
a ginnel that joined up to the back yards of the houses, and both the road and
the ginnel were lit by gas lamps. I remember that there was a green door that
seperated my grandparent's house (number four) to the ginnel.
My brother & I used to stay there on visits from our house in Leeds. We used
to visit the recreation ground near the railway.
I can remember a fair bit of detail about the area, and also visiting nearby
Bramhall Hall, and Lyme Hall.
My (late) Uncle, George Arthur Shawcross, worked at nearby Stepping Hill
Hospital, as an electrician. He and his wife, Jean (also now late) used to live
at Dorking Close, Stockport at this time.
My grandparents along with my mother, Iris, her sister Jean, brothers John &
Michael (all late apart from my mother, lived at Dialstone Lane during WW II
time, so the area brings many great memories for my mother.
My mother & I came back for a visit, five years ago, and noticed many
changes, especially to Gordon Avenue, which is now cut off from London Road.
I was christened at Dialstone Lane Methodist Church, Stockport, in the mid -
1950's, although I was actually born in Leeds in 1954.
Name: Pauline Taylor
Email: pauline.taylor@unsw.edu.au
Date: 25 November 2003
Comments:
Hello from Australia to all my old school friends from Jackson's Lane 1966 -
1970
Name: Ken & Sheila Johnson
Email: kg.johnson@ntlwrld.com
Date: 05 September 2003
Comments:
As one time residents of Hazel Grove, greetings to anyone who may remeber us.
Our first house was 14 Castleton Road. Sheila used to work at Mirlees in
the personel dept. Time period was 1953 to 1959.
The web site is great and interesting to explore.
We now live in Menston, Ilkley, West Yorks.
Name: Gillian West
Email: gilly.jw@sympatico.ca
Date: 22 July 2003
Comments:
Looking forward to visiting this site again. I used to live on Torquay
Grove before I moved to Ontario Canada in 1974. Nice to visit
old familiar places
Name: Kate Leech
Email: KLeech@cedarhouseschool.co.uk
Date: 10 July 2003
Comments:
Hello Hazel Grove I Miss u Love Kate
Name: graham fletcher
Email: gflr1@yahoo.com
Date: 28 June 2003
Comments:
I was pleasantly surprised to find so nice a web page for the village where I
was raised. I left England over 25 years ago and currently reside outside
Lubbock Texas. I will spend hours going through this site now so I don't miss
anything.
Name: Waye Arthur
Email: wayne311@hotmail.com
Date: 08 June 2003
Comments:
Great site. I have been looking for my family and they started here in hazel
grove. thanks
Name: wild child!!!
Email:
Date: 05 June 2003
Comments:
brilliant site! i've lived in hazel grove all my life (17yrs) and i love finding
out new things about it. i just love seeing things on the site and saying 'I've
been there' so thanx.
Name: Anne Kan Hai (nee Boardman)
Email: lonestarr144@hotmail.com
Date: 26 May 2003
Comments:
What a great site. As a born and bred grover now living in Canada, I was
browsing the UK site as I am coming home for 3 weeks this summer. Looking
forward to seeing some people I have not seen in 27 years. So great to see
the smaller communities are still thriving.
Grover's are the BEST!
Name: Nora V (Tarkington)
Email: Sistersthree3@Juno.com
Date: 13 May 2003
Comments:
Hi, I have traced my father's family back to John Tarkington, born 1620 in Hazel
Grove, England.
John married Prudence (last name unknown).
Can anyone give me any history of Hazel Grove at that time? Does anyone
have any info you'd share about the Tarkingtons? I don't care if it's
Black Sheep or White Sheep, just want information on my ancestry. Thanks
so much.
Name: Patricia Compeau
Email: comppa@kingston.net
Date: 02 April 2003
Comments:
Lovely site. Was looking for information about Hazel Grove. Surprised to see so
much detail. Mom grew up on Nelson street and met/married my Dad in 1945. She
returned to Canada with Dad after the war and always spoke so lovely of Hazel
Grove. She wrote a little story about growing up in England in a big family.
Hope to someday visit the places she wrote about.
Name: Mark Holland
Email:
Date: 01 April 2003
Comments:
Fantastic web site. Good to see Hazel Grove leading the way with a good web
site, Currently living in Auckland, New Zealand, keep it up!!!!!!!!!!!
Name: guymay
Email: mumu@mugu.com
Date: 08 March 2003
Comments:
very nice.
Name: rita bennett
Email: marscavi@libero.it
Date: 04 March 2003
Comments:
I thought it was great to find the site and rather hoped that more of my
age-group used it, than seems to be. I'm a born grover living in italy. Went to
Hazel grove primary from 1955 then on to Marple Hall Grammar (as it was then),
so far I've had one contact, which bucked me up no end, but it would be lovely
to ''find some more of yer'' out there. Promise to answer, so please contact me
at above e-mail address or at my office one: rbennett@ermes-ceramiche.it
which is even better. Keep up the good work on the site, I like knowing what's
going on at home, even if I'm way over here. All the best, Rita
Name: Mark
Email: markusmaus@ntlworld.com
Date: 22 February 2003
Comments:
finally hazel grove has got a website :D, i'm born and breed in hazel grove, for
the last 15yrs of my life, well i am only 15, so all my life, hazel grove is a
good place to live
Name: Brian & Mary Avison
Email: briary1@shaw.ca
Date: 17 February 2003
Comments:
Great to see a Hazel Grove site. Used to live on Reevey Avenue, but now live in
Edmonton Alberta. Anyone interested in trading pix of the Grove with pix of
Alberta, we would be glad to hear from them.
Name: Bern Bevenour
Email: bern@cyberia.com
Date: 28 January 2003
Comments
Nice start on website. Looking forward to having information on history of
village and of historic churches with some information on pipe organs which may
be installed in those churches. I live in Pa USA and like to learn about the
villages/towns of Britain using the web. THanks for having this site.
Name: ali
Email:
Date: 06 January 2003
Comments
was looking forward to someone making a proper
website for hazel grove! great start :)
Name: Peter Phythian
Email: pphythian@cosco.co.uk
Date: 09 December 2002
Comments
Just found this site, been wondering for a while if
someone would start one. Keep up the good work.
Name: Ursula Kauer
Email: ursula.kauer@chello.at
Date: 02 December 2002
Comments
I am form Austria, I have good friends in Hazel
Grove and I spent 10 days in summer 2001 here. It is very nice for me to see the
home page - I can recall the good memories I have had with Hazel Grove.
Name: Steve Thompson
Email: thommo15@ntlworld.com
Date: 11 November 2002
Comments
I am 38 years old and have lived in the Grove for
the whole of those 38 years. I can't really imagine living anywhere else. Only
just recently found this website and now have it as my home page. Keep up good
work
Name: Linda Jackson Moore
Email: adnil@1acc.com
Date: 12 October 2002
Comments
Looking forward to further development in the
history of Hazelgrove. I found this site while searching for information on my
Great Grandfather, Thomas Stonewall Jackson. He resided in Hazelgrove before
coming to America in the 1800's. I am looking forward to visiting Hazelgrove.
Name: Gill Halpin( nee Clare)
Email: halpmac@aol.com
Date: 11 October 2002
Comments
Came across this site by accident. Started looking
at kitchens and ended up here.I would like to see the friends reunited site grow
as I am from THE GROVE but now live in Poynton. I look forward to watching you
develop. I would like to say I did recognise all the photos, so how about some
more!
Name: Brian Ashurst
Email: bashurst@redshift.com
Date: 17 August 2002
Comments
Brilliant start--looking forward to further
development. Specially would like to see something about the history and
captions to the photos. I lived in Hazel Grove, Devonshire Road, 1952-1962. Now
live in Seaside, California.
Name: JuneTupai
Email: junetupai@hotmail.com
Date: 07 August 2002
Comments
Cool website, easy to follow and getaround.
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