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Just wondering if anyone out there has done any research on the Scottish King, Duncan 1st.  Apparently he is my 33rd great grandfather,  I have gone to the library and found very little info on Jim.  He is the Duncan from Macbeth,  from what I gather Shakespeare's Macbeth was hardly factual and in truth Duncan died in his bed, not murdered as Shakespeare would have us believe.

I haven't been on this site for ages, since I started this thread by asking about George Richards.  I am surprised no one remembers my Dad, Bill Cottrill, he worked for many, many years there.  He was a wood pattern maker.  He was well known in the Altrincham area.  He lived  on Leicester Ave. Timperley, as a child and young man.  He went to school in Altrincham at St Vincent's, before serving his apprenticeship at Churchill's, he worked at Richards for a short while, he then worked in the USA for several years then came back to Timperley and went back to Richards until it closed down.  He then worked at Metal Box company along the Bridgewater canal in Timperley, until he passed away in 1982.

I no longer live in the UK but have fond memories of the Altrincham/Timperley area.  We lived on Bridgewater Rd., in Broadheath, for a few years, from about 1953, then moved to Brookfield Ave. Timperley.   I remember going to Navigation Rd. play ground as a child, if I remember correctly they had a park keeper who lived in a hut on the play ground.  I went to St Vincent's School and then to Loreto  Convent, in Bowden.
I remember walking to Navigation Rd Station with my Mom and my baby brother in a huge pram and they would load the pram into the guards Van and we would go off to Manchester to visit relatives.   It was a lovely clean station with flowers in the summer and a fire in the waiting room in the winter.

Does anyone recall the Radium manufacturing company on Bridgewater Rd in Broadheath. 

We lived across from it in the 50s, I believe it made polish and we used to play with the off-cut pieces of metal, they were like a Frisbee,  we threw them and they would glide a good way.  We got many cuts from them but they were great fun.   

We used to have a bonfire on Guy Fawkes night on the spare land which I think belonged to the Radium company.    That was real community spirit, we collected for weeks prior to Bonfire night and the local people would provide, cocoa, parkin and treacle toffee for all and bake potatoes in the fire, nothing tasted better.

It was such simple times then, people seemed to watch out for each other and nobody had very much.

What we got for Xmas presents the children of today would scoff at, mostly clothes for the year and if we were lucky a toy.  I got a pedigree walking doll one year, which I still have.

Update to this.  I have found the grave I was looking for.  Both G. grandparents buried in Duke St. cemetary, Southport.  Thanks to all who helped in the search.