Oldtimer
That one looks a bit like I remember, except it didn't have what I presume are hanging baskets or something, i.e. it was an unadorned building and there wasn't that wall in front of it, just a large open space, not paved, but sort of very fine shale or something and then a wooden fence, (where I parked my bike) and then the footpath. The footpath on the photo looks as if it is just outside the pub now. I don't understand that unless they've widened the road. Maybe next time we go North, we'll take a drive round and look at all the old places.
My cousin lives in Lymm and she says Hale hasn't changed much, but that we wouldn't recognise Altrincham at all and by the sound of it, Hale Barns has changed from a smallish village to a place with wine bars and Manchester United footballers etc.
Liz
