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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

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Summer garden party at the Hermitage

Summer Party at the Hermitage

1900

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

May Day Celebrations

1903

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May Day parade through The Square in 1906

May Day Parade

1906

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Carriage carrying participants in the May Day parade

May Day Parade 1906

1906

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Troops parading through the Square at the time of WW1

Troops Parading in the Square

1918

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Same year as another photograph in the archive

May Festival

1920

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The photograph shows the wedding of Annie Ford and is taken with the front elevation of the farm house which is now called Croco Brook Farm

Wedding Photograph at Back Lane Farm

1924

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Part of the procession in the Village Fete

Village Fete in 1924

1924

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Wedding of Joe Baddeley & Mabel Blunstone

Wedding of Joe Baddeley and Mabel Blunstone

1930

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The local scouts enjoying a meal at the Hermitage under the watchful eye of the butler and staff

Hermitage Scout Party

1930

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The first May Queen, Elizabeth Mandeville is in the centre of the group. She was then Mrs A Gater.

Group of Ladies at May Day Festival

1930

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Extract from Sandbach and District Parochial magazine January 1944, Holmes Chapel section.

Holmes hapel section of Sandbach Parish Magazine

1944

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The bell ringers of St Lukes church who rang for victory at end of WW2

1945 Bell Ringers

1945

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School Nativity Play 1951. Back row from l to r Margaret Higgins, Esther Curley, Pam Moss, Brenda Pickering, Joyce Pickering, Felicity Bishop?, Betty Alcock ,Diane Hassall. Front row Beryl Kent?, Pamela Bleasdale, Margaret Culey, Carol Hassall

Macclesfield Road School Nativity

1951

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The Queen was Joan Chesters and retiring Queen Gwen Kendrick. The choirboy was Douglas Benson and Page Boy Philip Hardwicke. Also in the group are Ena Headrapson, Brenda?. Beryl Whitehurst, Brenda Headrapson, June Gobbet, Gillian Hilsden, Pam Moss, Beryl Robinson, Betty Alcock, Joan Wortley, Joyce Pickering, Peggy Hoyle.

St Luke's Rose Queen 1951

1951

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