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Cheshire / Re: Photographs of Altrincham - A New Book
« on: Saturday 09 September 06 20:22 BST (UK)  »
Annie,

Sorry for hi-jacking your topic, but these things tend to run away as I'm sure you know. I'm really pleased to hear about the new book about photographers in the Altrincham area, I find it fascinating to see these old pictures as I have been an 'Alty' girl for the past 60+ years, and my
Mum before me. My only regret is that she died before I found out about her family. I'm sure she  never knew the half of it!   J

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Cheshire / Re: Photographs of Altrincham - A New Book
« on: Saturday 09 September 06 20:14 BST (UK)  »
Andy,
No, the antiques shop isn't there any more. There used to be an auction house in Sale, on Northenden Road, but I don't think it still exists, and I can't remember the company name, I'm sorry.
There could be any number of places in the area which could have sold the portrait - it could have gone in the original sale of the shop many years ago.       J

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Cheshire / Re: Photographs of Altrincham - A New Book
« on: Friday 08 September 06 22:34 BST (UK)  »
Hi Andrea,

Can't say I know the shop, but I'll have a look around for you, I might be able to come up with something. Let you know as soon as I can.    J
                                   

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The Common Room / Family connections unexpectedly found in Jamaica
« on: Friday 08 September 06 19:50 BST (UK)  »
While searching a churchyard in Beattock, Dumfriesshire for my husband's family graves, we found a reference to two brothers who died in Jamaica in 1815/16. We are at a loss to understand why they were there at all. The family were farmers or farm labourers until the next generation, when a son left to become a draper in London and then Gloucester, where he brought up his family.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to why these young men would go to Jamaica?  they appeared to live inland in two different small residential areas.

 Jac


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Cheshire / Smithy in Altrincham
« on: Friday 08 September 06 19:28 BST (UK)  »
I have been looking for information about a smithy in Altrincham. My g-grandfather Joseph Davenport either owned or worked for a smithy in the old 'Calais' area of Altrincham around 1880. This area is off Lloyd Street at the south end of Altrincham, on the border of Hale. It was a very poor area which was demolished in the late 1960's to make way for Sainsbury's supermarket. My grandparents lived there until 1956 when my grandfather died. They had a small front room shop - Murray's on Islington Street. I wonder if anyone remembers them!!      J

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Cheshire / Re: Photographs of Altrincham - A New Book
« on: Friday 08 September 06 19:18 BST (UK)  »
Hi Keith,
I certainly did go 'south' as you put it. I had friends in Kensington Gardens, Hale and used to take piano lessons on Hermitage Road.
The Altrincham area has changed almost beyond recognition since I married in 1967 and moved a few miles away. When I returned to the area in 1975 the George Street development had altered the face of the town, and more development followed. I remember riding home from The Girls' Grammar School down George Street to the newsagents at the end for my weekly teen magazines
Your name sounds familiar, I have a good friend -Brian Clark - who also went to AGS, and I believe is involved in the Old Boys Ass. Do you by any chance know him?            J


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Cheshire / Re: Photographs of Altrincham - A New Book
« on: Thursday 07 September 06 21:20 BST (UK)  »
Do any of you still live in the Altrincham area? I live next door in Sale, but I was brought up in Altrincham, and my mother Joyce Murray (nee Peake) was born and died in the same Altrincham house, so we were a real 'Alty' family. My father Thomas Murray was also born and brought up in Altrincham.
All the books you mention are familiar to me except this new one. The Basil D Morrison one was especially dear to my mother's heart as she had a signed copy, and there was a photograph of her and her sisters in it.
I remember many of the scenes in the books of old photographs, as a child I wandered the streets of Altrincham, Broadheath and Timperley with my friends throughout the long school holidays of the fifties. Incidentally, many old photos of Altrincham, Sale and  surrounding areas can be seen on the Trafford Website.

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Cheshire / Re: Churchills and Richards Engineering Cos. Broadheath, Altrincham.
« on: Thursday 07 September 06 21:05 BST (UK)  »
My father was at Richards too, I remember it as George Richards, and also as Richards & Tilghmans. He worked there all through my childhood in the late forties and the fifties, right through into the sixties. He was made redundant in 1967, and following an accident at his next job, died in 1969.
One of my most vivid memories is of him coming to meet me from school and giving me a ride on his bicycle crossbar on his way home for dinner. If you know Altrincham now, you will know that there is a road named George Richards Way which runs parallel to Atlantic Street.

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