Showing posts with label Cheadle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cheadle. Show all posts
Friday, 11 December 2020

Pub gone to the dogs

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  The Talbot in Cheadle has now closed, possibly forever.  It's a shame; it was just an old boozer, but a great old boozer. 'Talbot...
Sunday, 12 June 2016

Queen's birthday in wool

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As is well known to confused foreigners, the Queen has two birthdays, one her actual birth-date and the other an official day of cel...
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Thursday, 24 December 2015

Late on Xmas Day

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It seems strangely redundant to inform us all that the person in this Cheadle churchyard grave is, umm, the "late" Ralph Ratcl...
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Tuesday, 18 November 2014

Knot in a twist

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This rather handsome iron girder holds up the roof of the Cheadle Indoor Market - the manufacturer is Silvester & Hopkins, a firm whi...
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Monday, 13 October 2014

Walking on pigeons

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When you walk along Cheadle's pavements, you walk on pigeons.  It was hard to find out why exactly, but after some enquiries, it seem...
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Thursday, 9 October 2014

Elvis Presley ... in Staffordshire

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What's this?  The head-quarters of the Official Elvis Presley Fan Club of Great Britain ?  Down a side-street in a small market town...
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Wednesday, 17 September 2014

Clayhanger - book and cottage

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Anyone from Staffordshire will immediately react to the word Clayhanger - it being the name of the first of Arnold Bennett's trilo...
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Friday, 22 August 2014

Four centuries of sunsets

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Sunset on red brick is literally a warming experience.  Mill House in Cheadle is a seventeenth century building - it has seen nearly fou...
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Tuesday, 28 January 2014

Round house

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Why anyone would want to build a round house is a mystery to me.  The 'Round House' in Cheadle is tiny.  In the nineteenth centur...
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Thursday, 12 September 2013

Walking ... football !

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Over-50s want to play football too, even if they don't necessarily want to be sprinting around for ninety minutes on a large pitch. S...
Sunday, 8 September 2013

Taking tea in the graveyard

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Garden furniture is not common in a graveyard, and I'm not sure I'd feel comfortable taking tea and cake on these particular benc...
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Tuesday, 21 May 2013

Camouflagued factory

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The factories owned by JCB always fill me with admiration.  In Staffordshire we have three – at Rocester, Cheadle and Uttoxeter (all clo...
Monday, 28 January 2013

Tower crane immortalised

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Tower Crane Drive, which you will find just outside Cheadle, is a new-ish road, on which an industrial estate is based. This particu...
Tuesday, 26 June 2012

Rat immortalised

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Modern art doesn't often depict rats, but this fine metal sculpture in Cheadle is a tribute to an underrated local resident living here ...
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Sunday, 18 March 2012

Greatest of Gothic Revival

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Augustus Welby Pugin was, by any standards, a great architect and designer. In just twenty years of professional life (he died aged just ...
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Sunday, 4 March 2012

Cheadle in colour glass

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This beautiful window reminds me that stained-glass work is not confined to the designers of many years ago. This lovely modern glass in ...
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Sunday, 30 October 2011

Looney Lynne

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Birthdays (especially the big ones, the ones that end in zeros) can be a difficult time for the one who’s at the centre of the attentio...
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Friday, 26 August 2011

Fred Burton's hot water bottle

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Fred Burton could only come from Cheadle (an odd, unique place…). He specialises in weird feats of strength, including blowing up hot-wate...
Tuesday, 17 May 2011

Rat rescue centre!

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Yes, your eyes do not deceieve you: RAT rescue. Mo Webster, the lovely lady who lives in this house in Cheadle, takes in pet rats given up...