Hyde Cheshire Blog

[...] S. Sharp, 44, a gardener of 2 Green Street; Ernest Waddington, 54, a boot repairer of 328 Market Street; Mr J.J. & Mrs Margaret Sudlow, 71, of 124 Dowson Road; and Norman Hinchcliffe,20, an [...]

Whilst supermarket shopping is good  because everything is under one roof, I do still miss the old days of going to lots of different shops on a Satu [...]

[...] Here is a view of Market Street with the Philanthropic Society building with the sign at the top intact. This was destroyed a [...]

[...] recently one of the comments on the post mentioned the Abbey Gallery at the top end of Market Street near the Dowson Road junction. I was passing there yesterday and noticed in the window some [...]

[...] Although we've got a couple of pictures by Owen Traynor I didn't know anything about him till I started to put this post together. He has his own [...]

[...] Road junction. I was passing there yesterday and noticed in the window some paintings by Owen Traynor and a few others of local scenes by other artists. This is a photograph I took which shows a [...]

[...] someone knows others who were in these pantomimes.  Panto was held in the church hall in Gee Cross. Jean Wilde (aged about 8) is kneeling in front row, fourth from the right. Same panto - [...]

[...] (a true Mancunian born and in Higher Blackley) and my grand-folks lived in Allen Avenue, Gee Cross. I migrated to Western Australia in 1972 and then in 2012 went to live in southern Tasmania with [...]

[...] I was informed this week that one of our subscribers JOE LLOYD of Gee Cross had passed away. Joe was a local historian and railway enthusiast Joe Lloyd Words By Dave [...]

[...] ), and this research was prompted by his childhood recollection of his family home at 31 Stockport Road being twice damaged in air raids. It appears that the first bombs dropped by the Luftwaffe on [...]

[...] was born in Wallasey son of a grocer but moved to Hyde very soon after his birth. Lived on Stockport road a few doors away from Zion’s church and the railway lines on Peel Street He attended Leigh [...]

[...] the back of the drawing is a sticker showing where it was drawn: My early 1960s A-Z shows that Vulcan Street ran between Cross Street and Boardman Street and parallel to Great Norbury Street: Vulcan [...]

[...] When I showed the drawing of Vulcan Street by Trevor Grimshaw recently one of the comments on the post mentioned the Abbey Gallery at the [...]

[...] work at Beyer Peacocks (Gorton tank) as a trainee apprentice designer then called up for national service. Served in Northern Ireland in the military police special investigations squad rose to [...]

[...] from local scenes and he also experimented with more decorative and abstract themes. After National Service in the army where he served in the Canal Zone, Egypt, he took a teacher training course at [...]

[...] This is a picture that we've got by Trevor Grimshaw showing St George's Church and on the back of the drawing is a sticker showing where it was [...]

[...] When I showed the drawing of Vulcan Street by Trevor Grimshaw recently one of the comments on the post mentioned the Abbey Gallery at the top end of Market [...]

[...] file ‘’A Register of War-damaged Buildings in Hyde’’ that may not have passed from Hyde Town Hall in 1974 to Tameside Council. POSTSCRIPT – It would be interesting to learn the [...]

[...] , after national service he decided Beyer Peacocks not the job for his so he started at Hyde town hall as a committee Clark 1946 stayed in local government all his career working at Stratford [...]

[...] stop in Greenfield Street and a SELNEC bus just turning in to Greenfield Street from Great Norbury Street. Many thanks Eric [...]

[...] A-Z shows that Vulcan Street ran between Cross Street and Boardman Street and parallel to Great Norbury Street: Vulcan Street isn't named on the 1897 map of Hyde but it does show the passageway [...]

[...] 30-plus years to my time as a doorman at Lowry's Nightclub Grafton Street Hyde. Lowry's From Clarendon Road Over to John ... Hello, I've just spent many hours reading through your web page on Hyde and [...]

[...] Regina (Queen) or Rex (King). This particular post box is located at the junction of Clarendon Road and Commercial Brow.  The royal cipher on the front of the post box is “GR” (George Rex) [...]