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Photograph of pupils at Macclesfield Road Primary School in 1947
Photo supplied by Barbara Jackson

Macclesfield Road School 1947

1947

Primary school children at Macclefield Road school.

Macclesfield Road Primary School

1947

Robert Oakes, Sheila Jones?, Penny Bolshaw, Kath Street, Dennis Johnson, John Horsefall, Joan Forshaw, Brian Sproston, Margaret Weighell, Frank Hardy, Margaret Higgins, Jean Butters, Kathleen Byron, Gladys Goulding, Diane Horsefall?, Marion Oakes, Ann Drinkall?, Ian Longworth, Jeremy Bishop, Lesley Henshall, Helen Pemberton, Susan Whitehurst, Beryl Kent, Glenys Harrison.

Macclesfield Road School Children

1952

Pupils at Macclesfield Road School from about 1955

Macclesfield Road School

1955

Penny Bolshaw, Jean Butters , Elaine Warburton, Joan Forshaw on the far right,

Macclesfield Road School Scottish Dance Group

1955

A class from Holmes Chapel School when it had to meet at the Victoria Club before the Middlewich Primary School was built. The photo was taken outside the Victoria Club and includes Margaret Croll fourth from right on 3rd row.

Class of Holmes Chapel School at Victoria Club

1960

Pages from Parish Magazine with pastoral message from John Culey

A St Luke's Parish Magazine from 1966

1966

A 1966 Parish Magazine

A St Luke's Parish Magazine from 1966

1966

Article published in Sandbach Chronicle on 19 May 1981, reporting on the success of the hockey team in South Cheshire Schools Championships.
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Comprehensive School Hockey Team 1981

1981

Article from Sandbach Chronicle re group from HC Primary School who completed their own version of The Bayeaux Tapestry.
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Primary School Tapestry Group

1982

A newspaper article from Macclesfield Courier and Herald from Nov 1858 describing the inauguration of a new bell.

News Item about St Luke's Church Bells

1858

Summer garden party at the Hermitage

Summer Party at the Hermitage

1900

May Day parade about 1903 with George and Dragon in the background

May Day Celebrations

1903

May Day parade through The Square in 1906

May Day Parade

1906

Carriage carrying participants in the May Day parade

May Day Parade 1906

1906

May Day parade through The Square in 1907. This image shows a troop of blacked up faces as part of the May Day parade of 1907. Such a parade would be correctly viewed as racist in the 21st Century. It is therefore important that this image is seen in the historical context of the time and does not represent a view of acceptable behaviour today.

May Day Parade 1907

1907

Meeting of the local hunt in the Square with the Bull's Head and George and Dragon in the background

The Hunt in the Square

1910

A school sack race, a traditional summer Sports Day race in which children stepped inside a rough old sack and then had to ‘hop’ over the ground to race each other along a short course. In this case, at Holmes Chapel, but typical of thousands of similar events across the nation each summer.

School Sack Race

1910

This one took place in the Swan Hotel Field. This one looks like around the time of WW1

Group of participants around the May Queen.

1916

Troops parading through the Square at the time of WW1

Troops Parading in the Square

1918

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