Hazel Grove - Stockport - England

Name:  Ron Singleton
Email: Marple
Date:  19 April 2008

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I lived in the Grove and the Norbury area of High Lane from 1931. Attended the council school, Chapel Street leaving in 1941. Worked at William Arnolds next to Marcliff Cinema and Simpsons Sausage factory. Joined the Merchant Navy in 1944 after my elder brother was killed in the MN in 1943, age 17. Left the sea in 1956 married and moved to Marple,
Was licensee of the Navigation puplic house in Marple for 26 years. Now retired in Marple and will be 81 on 23/4/08. a lot of memories.

Name:  Geoffrey Burgess.
Email: Offerton. Stockport. Cheshire.
Date:  14 April 2008

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Hi. Just found the site!. And very good to. I was born 1940 on Clarendon rd. Went to Norbury CofE School from 1945 to 1955.
      And lived on Clarendon until 1966, when I married and moved all the way to Offerton. Been there ever since.
       Would like to here from any body who remembers me from those days only ever seen a very few school friends since we left. geoff.burgess@hotmail.co.uk

Name:  Enid
Email: Cornwall
Date:  29 March 2008

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   I  Remember Mr Sharp and I used to sit on the railway embankment across the road from the greyhound track,trying to see the dogs racing. I eventually went to work at  White city  track. Found homes for 2 retired dogs with great people near Torkington park.. It was good to see them running around in such a lovely area. sadly I dont have .photos of the old track. I  do hope you get your story in print. Happy days  

Name:  Doug Armitage
Email: Peachland, B.C., Canada
Date:  29 February 2008

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In my efforts to get information on the several relatives named Armitage or Coleman who taught in Cheshire in the 30s through to the 80s, I came upon this site. In the very early 30s I lived in Hazel Grove and attended a kindergarten run by a Miss Smith cleverly located above a bakery on the main street. Happy memories. Any suggestions to help with my quest?

Name: Janis Wilson(nee Pickburn)
Email: Bollington
Date: 18 February 2008

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Moved from the Grove to Bollington 3 years ago after living in the Grove for 43 years. Still have many friends there its a great place but now very busy.Bollington is very different but the village atmosphere here is like Hazel Grove was when i was young. Miss it but wont be moving back

Name:  VICTOR SHACKLETONr
Email: dukinfield
Date:  27 January 2008

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In the year 1948, I enjoyed the pleasure of meeting Mr. Sharp who was the owner of Hazel grove Geyhound Stadium. I had been given a greyhound as a pet. He was 2 yrs. old and a beautiful dog who I felt could prove a success on the track. i took him for a trial at Hazel Grove which he won in grand style. 'Jonny' who I raced as 'Steeplejack' impressed Mr. Sharp yet my dog needed to lose weight he had gained living at home. I left Jonny in the care of Mr. Sharp and his staff, and it was three weeks before he was to race before the public. Jonny was a close second in his first race but won like a champion on his next outing. There was a poignant end to my lovely dog's time at Hazel Grove but Mr. Sharp did insist Jonny was good enough to race in the greyhound derby at Wembley Stadium. I have written a five thousand word story on Jonny and I dearly would have loved a photo of the now defunct Hazel Grove Greyhound track and I too wondered if anyone remembered 'Steeplejack' racing there in the late 1940s?  I understood Mr. Sharp was a gentleman Farmer. He was a lovely man and the greyhound satadium was a credit to him and his staff who really cared for the greyhounds they looked after so well. Could anyone help with any information at all on all the above. I am hoping my story on Jonny will eventually be published in the Tameside Reporter. It is a great read and of course an interesting look back at those happy times.    Thank you for your kind interest.... Victor Shackleton

Name:  Robert Breen
Email: Quakers Hill, N. S. W. Australia
Date:  03 December 2007

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Could anyone enlighten me as to where Castle Farm, Mile End, Hazel Grove, Stockport was? As this was the one time residence (1856) of my Great grandfather 'Whimsical Walker,' son of Robert Stanley Walker.
Contact: yoda999breen@netscape.net

Name:  Melinda Hudson( nee Jackson)
Email: Hazel Grove
Date:  28 November 2007
Time:  17:40

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Great site! Spent from 1963 - 1983 in the 'Grove' Went to Chapel street then 'Jacko's jail house'! I remember the music teacher well - I got kicked out once by Mrs harwood - or as we called her Fanny Harwood - God bless her!Live in Cornwall now - but try and get back now and again!

Name:  Trevor Moseley
Email: Hazel Grove
Date:  23 September 2007

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Some of the previous comments bring back happy memories.
Have kept my links to the present day although the Grove is but a shadow of its former self. The halcyon days for me were the 50s and 60s. Does anyone remember the Sunday afternoons spent in the Black Cat coffee bar at the Rising Sun drinking hot Vimto's? There was also Bennisons chip shop and the Marcliffe Cinema later named the Warwick on Macclesfield Road.

Name:  Peter Yates
Email: Melbourne, Australia
Date:  25 September 2007

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I remember Warburtons, near the C0fE school. Derek Warburton had cars and motorbikes in there. Remember looking at the BSA's Triumphs etc. "Fishing at the Figure of Eight" where the industrial estate is now close to the Scally Bridge. Remember catching newts there. I made a few trips on the back of the lorry to Tal-y-bont summer camp in Wales -
everytime we came into a town the bugle would be blown and we used to prod passers by with sticks we managed to snap of trees overhead.

Name:  Rowland Hobson
Email: Peterborough
Date:  09 September 2007

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anyone remember warburtons motorcycle shop,  the fishing at the figure of eight pond or waiting for the cane on friday lunchtimes at the jailhouse. 1st Hazel Grove scouts going to annual camp on the back of alorry, No Health and safety in those day's. 

Name:  Michael Holt
Email: Carterton Nz
Date:  25 August 2007

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Made an entry in 2004. Have moved back to NZ from Canada earlier this. Lived in Mill Lane aged one year in 1938 from Ashton-u-Lyne. Joined the army in 1958 and then moved to Canada in 1964. Went to Norbury School, Hazel Grove Council in Chapel Street, and then Stockport Grammer. Mates, Alan Smith(tubby) who lived on Macclesfield Road, Keith Faulkner Devonshire Road, Joe Johnson Brook Street? Went to the Grove Cinema (the Bug Hut - you went in alone but came out with friends) on most Fridays in the 50s. Although I wouldn't live back in England I still have very fond memories of 'The Grove. email: mgokanagan@slingshot.co.nz

Name:  Barbara  nee Sykes
Email: Traralgon Vic. Australia
Date:  22 August 2007

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Found the site whilst looking for anything on Dialstone Lane School.  I was born in 1931 and spent the first 17 years of my life between Poynton, Hazel Grove and Cale Green.  Lived in Prestbury St. next door to the local bobby Herbert Garner.  WEnt to Southwood Rd School, Dialstone Lane and finished at St Georges.After living in so many places since those days I find it very heartening to read the  many comments from people with such a great affection for the old place.  I have recently written a novel and one portion is sited around the area where I lived in Hazel Grove - even includes the Sewing Cotton factory - is it still there? Best wishes from the Antipodes  Barbara. 

Name:  John Sibbles
Email: Bolton
Date:  19 August 2007

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Lived in Dean Lane from 1953 until 1963, went to Chapel Street School and then when Jackson's Lane opened we all moved up there.
Now retired and living in Bolton, it would be nice to hear from anyone who can remember me

Name:  Pauline Rogers nee Bolland
Email: Hockley, Poynton
Date:  15 July 2007

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My grandmother, Mabel Booth and my mother Joan Bolland owned Hockley P.O> I was born in the flat above in 1945. My great aunt Ethel Beard lived in Grundy street, Hazel Grove. I used to spend a couple of weeks of my summer holidays there, each year, and we would always have a nostalgic visit to Poynton. Would anyone know if Grundy street still exists? I live in Cumbria now. I'll keep looking in the visitors book for any  comments, Cheers.

Name:  Anne Brooks Pfister
Email: Berkeley, CA
Date:  09 July 2007

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Thank you for creating this terrific website devoted to a place so many people so warmly recall and, even if they now live far away, hold in their hearts...  My great-great-grandfather was from Hazel Grove, Rev. Jabez Brooks (who became a minister like his father).  I look forward to the day when I may visit "the Village" and see it for myself.
Best wishes,
Anne

Name:  DAVID MC GRATH
Email: BURNLEY,LANCS
Date:  04 July 2007

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excellent website! i spent my childhhood in 'the grove' i went to norbury hall and jacksons lane. i remember dave brooks very well. this website brings back loads of great memories! i dont live too far away and get back every so often because the place will always be a magnet to me...lots of laughter and good mates!

Name:  Dave Brooks
Email: Chesterfield,Derbyshire
Date:  25 June 2007

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I lived in the GROVE from 1963-1985,all memorys are fantastic.From Norbury Hall infants and juniors to Jacksons Jail house more commonly known now as Hazel Grove High.Trying to drink your way through the Grove from the Rising Sun past the Bulls Head,Bees Knees and so on and so on,late on if any money left it was off to the Bamboo or if you were really flush Rotters! A great place to grow up and I still drive through occasionally and allways with a smile on my face.Great to see her own website.

Name:  Sam Berry
Email: Newcastle, NSW, Australia
Date:  08 June 2007

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Popped in here for a few cheeky pints when i was living round the corner at my auntys place. Was a fairdinkum english pub and loved watching the man u games there. also remember seeing aus beat eng in rugby, then great britian on the same night in 04. lost the plot that night and ended up in the walkabout in manchester. i love how we never lose anything!

Name:  Theo  Hazelgrove
Email: Kendall     Australia
Date:  13 June 2007

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Great  to  see  "Hazelgrove"  is  doing  well.  My  ancestors  came  from  there at  some  stage  but  I  am  not  sure  when.  I  was  born  in  Australia.

Will  visit  this  lovely  location  one  day.

Theo  Hazelgrove
61  2  65594026
email;  wlh@primus.com.au

Name:  Rosie's Mum
Email: Toronto (was Hazel Grove
Date:  23 May 2007

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This is for Joe.  Fidler Moor was the nickname name for the area around Brook Street.  And this is for Wendy.  Hazel Grove Library should have books on Hazel Grove and quite a few of them mention the history of the Cock Inn.

Name:  Jenny
Email: Hazel Grove
Date:  11 May 2007

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is great to see a website for hazel grove. i have lived in hazel grove for all of my life. it is great to see so many people being enthusiastic about it. if anyone has any connection with Norbury Church (St Thomas') near Torkington Pank would love to hear from you.

Name:  Wendy
Email: Hazel Grove
Date:  09 May 2007

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Loved your web site. Bit over enthusiastic saying about great transport services, you can't even get a bus to Macclesfield on a Sunday. If you take a train, you have to go the opposite way first to Stockport, then change and come back down to Macc.

Apart from that it is good. I was actually looking for a Historical Society for Hazel Grove but did not see one mentioned, I want to know any history about the Cock Hotel on London Road, which I am currently painting.

Name:  Chris Chapman
Email: Sandbach
Date:  05 May 2007

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Lived in Hazel Grove from about 1966 to mid 70's. Lived in Butley Street off Commercial Road. Now live in Sandbach with a great pair of kids and wonderful Sue my wife.

Went to Chapel St primary first. Then remember getting the old style Red corporation bus for 2p when I started going to Jacko's jailhouse! Remember the Crombie coats, Coynes cornershop on the junction of Commercial road and Bosden Hall Road? Penny sweet trays - great.

Does anyone remember the old teacher in charge of Music at Chapel Street? The one who always insisted that kids sing 'OnWaaard Christian Soldiers' instead of 'OnWOOD Christian Soldiers'? She was from another era!

Ahh. Brilliant.

Name:  Robert Petricek
Email: Los Angeles CA USA
Date:  30 April 2007

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This is for Joe, whose entry was on April 28, 2007.  I enjoyed greatly your comments about Hazel Grove.  My grandmother was born and raised there, at 75 London Road.  Her name was Elizabeth Warren; father, Arthur Warren; mother, Hannah Warren (nee Perry); her brothers, James and Frank Warren.  They emigrated here to Los Angeles in the early 1900's.  I was able to visit Hazel Grove in Sept. 1986, and enjoyed it immensely.  Sadly, I lost all my photos I had taken of Hazel Grove.  My wife surprised me with, as a present for our wedding anniversary, photos she received from a kind lady she met through this website.  I was so excited!  Anyway, as you had commented that you have lived in Hazel Grove for 65 years, I would love to hear what it was like back then.  If you would care to email me at r.petricek@adelphia.net, I would so enjoy hearing from you.  Best Regards!

Name:  Joe
Email: Hazel grove
Date:  28 April 2007

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I think your website is just great, It's nice to think other people who are spread all over the World are looking into the Hazel Grove site.
I am 65 years old and I have lived in the Grove all my life my family lived in Brook St, I have two brothers and one sister my mother was also borne in Brook St. When I was born we lived in Fiddler Moor? (dose anybody know where this was)
good luck.

Joe

Name:  Geoff Bostock
Email: geoffbostock@eircom.net
Date:  20 March 2006

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Many thanks to Gladys Barry in America for contacting me. Great Years in the apprentice school at mirrlees with Arthur and Horace Webb and indeed Freddie Coombes. 'The bald eagle' many great years after that in the machine shops,fitting shops and on the engine test beds.Good luck and all the best to anyone who knows me. geoff bostock.

Name:  Chantel Venema
Email: Chantel@yours.com
Date:  14 March 2006

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Great site!  Ahhh, torky park, the Rising Sun, HGHS...  I used to live the Grove until a few years ago when I moved to the Netherlands and it was lovely to find this site!  Anyone remember me?  Drop me a line!

Name:  Ian
Email: itwemlow@yahoo.co.uk
Date:  05 March 2006

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I used to live in a terraced house opposite Hazel Grove station until a year or so ago.  Someone told me that my house, on Station Street, used to be a newspaper shop.  Does anyone remember this being the case?  I'd be interested to know so please drop me an email if you remember a newspaper shop opposite the station on Station Street. itwemlow@yahoo.co.uk
Thanks.

Name:  Georgie Klug
Email: cycloneklug@hotmail.com
Date:  11 February 2006

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Hi

I'm wondering whether anyone knows of the Nield famly that resided at Torkington Hall in Hazel Grove back in the early 1900s. My grandmother and her family moved to Australia in 1926 during the depression years and I'm trying to find out a history of Torkington Hall and the Nield family connection. I'm probably clutching at straws because it was a long time ago but if you can help please send me an email to cycloneklug@hotmail.com

Like many people tracing their family history it gets very hard when your grandparents and their relatives are no longer living and have lost touch.

Thank.

Name:  David Grice
Email:
Date:  14 January 2006

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Love your sight loads of info.
I was very interested in the bypass hazel grove bramhall info.
Please keep it up to date. thanks
I live on the  bosden farm est

Name:  Linda Jackson Moore
Email: dadnil@peoplepc.com
Date:  17 November 2005

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Still in search of information on my great grandfather, Thomas S. Jackson.  He lived in Hazelgrove before he came to America in the 1800's.  E-mailed once before.  Since that e-mail this is my new e-mail address.  If anyone knows of this Thomas S. Jackson, would appreciate hearing from you.

Name:  paul hartill
Email: ballylinan@msn.com
Date:  13 November 2005

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great site and very interesting to an ex grover

Name:  Jeff Hazelgrove
Email: jeff.hazelgrove@conti-na.com
Date:  01 November 2005

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My sister has researched our family and has details back to the 1600's I think, I now live in Canada but my sister still lives in England

Name:  Hilda Torevell
Email: h.torevell@btinternet.com
Date:  28 October 2005

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Great web site.  Just spent the last couple of hours browsing - now late making tea.  Keep up the good work.

Name:  Susan North (nee Ryder)
Email: susannorth@btopenworld.com
Date:  22 October 2005

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I lived and went to school in Hazel Grove until I moved south in about 1970, and I will bookmark your site for the future. Does anyone remember me, I was at Chapel Street Infants and then Jacksons Lane Secondary Modern up to about 1964.

Name:  Angela van der Heyde (Robinson)
Email: specdiet@yahoo.com
Date:  04 October 2005

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I love  site. I moved from Hazel Grove when I was 10yrs old in 1970.  Can anyone tell me if there used to be an infant school on Eyam Rd.  My Mum said it was opened in 1965.
Thanks, Angela

Name:  Bruce
Email: bbgoodman@lincsat.com
Date:  05 July 2005

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Great site thanks!
Can anyone local with a digital camera duck out and take a picture of "The Bird in the Hand" at 117 London Road? Can't find a picture anywhere, and I THINK g-grandma/pa ran the pub way back... name was Whamby or Fletcher or Peers - depending on who her husband was at the time.
I'm in Quebec - so I can't buy you a beer of appreciation! Email:bbgoodman@lincsat.com
Thanks if you can.

Name:  jess
Email:
Date:  03 July 2005

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hi i liv in hazel grove luvin it goin torkie fair now

Name:  Emma Mountain( was Beckman)
Email: emma.mountain@stockport.gov.uk
Date:  21 June 2005

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Great to see Hazel grove has it's own site.I have lived in the grove most of my life and 32 years later still enjoy a good night out in the Rising sun and a pub crawl up the grove.Sad to say the odd late night falling out of the Bamboo Club.
Hello to all my old school pals from Hazel Grove High.I would be interested to get in touch with anyone who knew Edna Newall sadly missed. She lived on Grove street and dragged me along to sunday school when i was little at Hazel grove reform church on Commercial road.
Great site

Name:  Rob
Email: haddypdaddy@hotmail.com
Date:  20 June 2005

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This is sort of a followup to a posting from November of last year.  I am also looking for a John Hadfield who was born in Hazel Grove about 1760.  His wife was Mary Burton.  I have been hitting dead ends in finding who John Hadfield's parents are.  His father was born around 1735, but that is the only information I have.  I anyone has any information about this, please email me.  Thank you!

Name:  Jan Kenney Fortado
Email: janfortado@comcast.net
Date:  09 June 2005

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Havng just visited Stockport, which included driving through the Hazel Grove section, I set out to search for information on one branch of my Hughes family I have not been able to find. On my first visit just a week ago to Stockport I did not have the time to really search for missing family. I realize I am tilting at windmills, but I was wondering if there is anyone who might know of Hughes families who now live in the Hazel Grove section of Stockport. If someone were to share addresses with me, I could write. This is a summary of the family line I am trying to trace:

Peter Hughes, born in Stockport, 1858, to James and Eliza Hughes. The family lived on Duke St., Kershaw’s Place, Ormesher’s Court, and Tatton Street. (1) George, b1891 m. Mary Anne Newcombe in 1914, lived at 11 Fletcher St. in 1921; (2) Alice could have married a Wright on 48 Miller St;  (3) John Edward b1896 m. Mary Helen Hodkinson and had son James in 1929; (4) Mary Elizabeth b1899 m. Richard Mellor 1921; (5) Thomas m. Sophia Thompson 1927 & had daughter Mary 1928 then married Eveline Thompson in 1968 at St. Peter’s Hazel Grove; James, a possible brother, m. Frances Hallam 1927 and had Joseph 1928 & Mary 1929. 

Thank you if anyone can help.
Jan

Name:  Vera Flett
Email: fletty@wn.com.au
Date:  14 May 2005

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My mothet-in-law is Lillie Alberta Flett(nee Hazelgrove) from Tonbridge, England. Can anyone please tell me if there is any connection between the surname Hazelgrove and the town of the same name? I come from Australind in Western Australia and used to live in Manjimup, Western Australia before that.I am also trying to research the name Hazelgrove and Wood.

Name:  chris charnock
Email: chris.charnock@ntlworld.com
Date:  05 May 2005

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found this site whilst bored at work. can anyone tell me how far back bullock smithy dates and was it really a place where women offered there services at really good rates. lived in the grove for 30 years would'nt live any where else .

Name:  you don't need to know!
Email:
Date:  10 April 2005

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hi, im 14 an live in the grove, jst off dean lane....i rely think there shud be more things for us teenagers, for example a cinema...they wud make a LOT of money!i have to travel into manchester, of the traf. centre if i want to see a film, cos the cinema at stockport iz skanky n full of scals...so HGers..a nice cinema wud be mch appreiciated!many thanx

Name:  Margaret Nixon
Email: m.mnixon@satlink.com.au
Date:  29 March 2005

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I'm an australian & will be in Hazel Grove & area from 19th-24th May looking for the ancestors old haunts. Searching for the SKEEN families. Are there any still living in the area?

Name:  day family
Email: jstdidit@aol.com
Date:  29 March 2005

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We met a family of 5 from Hazel Grove on 03/18 at the Disney Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Fl.  They were friendly and told us about your website and we wanted to take a look. We were the family from Missouri. If they get a chance please drop us a line back.  Hope you made it home safely.

Greg, Rhonda and Nate Day

Name:  enid
Email: wildcatmoggy@tiscali.co.ukplease will
Date:  05 March 2005

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will the lady from canada please e mail me. old school chum i think name mary.

Name:  Enid
Email: wildcatmoggy@tiscali.co.uk
Date:  04 March 2005

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Still looking for 1950s postcard or  photo of Hazel Grove in the area of Harrisons old sweet shop and the then Marcliffe cinema. This is a good web site.  Cheers Enid   old ex Grover.

Name:  Mary E. Moriarty
Email: mary_moriarty@sbcglobal.net
Date:  04 March 2005

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FYI..There was a gentleman David Howell Trowsdale born 20 February 1940 that was a historian in your town.  He recently passed away in his sleep living in the USA.  I'm wondering about the cost of an obituary in your local newspaper.

Name:  Alex Flitcroft
Email: flitty@ntlworld.com
Date:  02 March 2005

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wow, a website for hazel grove! i'd never of thought it. i'm 21, i live near the fiveways(the place to be! best pub in world!) and i'm so proud to be a grover. i just think that, where i grew up (and still live) is the best place to live as a kid, or a man for that fact. the days of when chips at the flamingo chippy were 60p! when the co-op was called shopping giant. when there was no filter lights at the fiveways crossing and my mum would always say 'there'll be an accident here one day!' when i used to get my hair cut at fred's barbers, him telling me the ways of the world, making me laugh and how he always wore that wig. in the summer, spending my days in mill lane woods on my bike, playing hide and seek until we were attacked by a wasps nest. all the kids from around the fiveways playing football on devonshire park, with jumpers for goal posts. but now its mcdonalds and sainsburys, hazel grove has become such a busier place since i was a kid. a just wish the future generation will love and respect the grove as i do now. getting that warm feeling when traveling back from university on the train. i went to norbury hall primary school when mrs whitehurst was head mistriss 89-95. then hazel grove high school 95-2000. im now at salford uni doing media performance(the course peter kay did) hoping to make the grove proud.

Name:  A Biker.
Email:  
Date:  08 January 2005

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My parents and my older sister moved into Hazel Grove from Manchester in 1960 and remained here happily for the rest of their lives. Myself and my younger sister were both born here. I'm 44 now and I've seen many changes in the years that I've lived here. I went to Norbury Hall infants and junior schools ,the infants school no longer exists, houses now occupy the site, and the once open farmland area off Chester Road is now a huge housing estate with shops and schools. The cinema and greyhound track closed years ago and there is a small industrial estate built over the top of the track. Hazel Grove is a nice area to live in with good local facilities, library, restaurants, bars  and shops, and in general  the people here are mainly friendly towards each other, but like anywhere else there are always the ones who want to spoil it for everyone else. It is said in history books  that Hazel Grove has an interesting and dark past ,and was notoriously known for much drunken behaviour, fighting and debauchery and was also a local haunt for the vicious Highway men of the roads who would prey upon the rich and idle that passed this way in their fine carriages. ( sounds a bit like a typical  modernday Friday night on the A6?)
As a child i spent many happy hours playing in the woods at the top of Mill Lane and in Torkington park, and in my teens experienced countless pub crawls up through the village and ending up in the local night club 'The Bamboo' which is still there today. I remember  a time when there were no traffic lights at the Fiveways or the Rising Sun junctions, I can't imagine it being like that now.

Name:  Paul Hobbs
Email: hoblink@northnet.com.au
Date:  03 January 2005

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Hi everyone.
I lived in Hazel Grove in 1950 to 53, I was then 8 or 9 years old.
I used to walk to Norbury primary school from Devonshire Road. Along the way between to two railway lines was the grayhound raceway and the Cinema. I know the race track was dismantled, what is there now? Is the cinema still going?
A funny story (I hope). We lived next door to the park in Devonshire Road. At that time it was undeveloped and somewhat of a dump. The hedging between us and the park was such that our Welsh Colley dog made his own path through our hedge and into the park then through the park hedge into Devonshire road.
This was just great for him because he could come and go as he pleased.
For some six years 'Laddie' had freedom of movement and had by this time even created his own pathway.
One day the Council decided to clean-up and develop the park for local residence.
Once the park was declared as a park, quite naturally they banned all pets!
Well, nobody told 'Laddie' who continued to use his personal private path.
Council advised us that we must block up the hawthorne hedge and stop the dogs egress.
Have you ever tried to blockup a hedge? it is almost impossible without removing and replacing it.
Never the less, the Council decided that they would block his path. So for six months or more, every so often Council stuck something in the different pathways the dog created.
Eventually, they too gave up and officially, Laddie was the only pet allowed in the Park. Laddie died many years later, having lived a full and active life dispite the Council

PS I now live in a small village in New England Australia.
Thanks

Name:  enid allman   nee Dolphin
Email: wildcatmoggy@tiscali.co.uk
Date:  05 December 2004

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good site. can anyone help me find apostcard or photo of the grove inthe 1950s or earlier. harrisons sweet shop opposite norbury church.? 

thankyou

Name:  paul hartill
Email: paul@eircom.net
Date:  27 November 2004

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ex grover,very impressed,things are looking up for the better since i left,keep up the good work

Name:  pastor  Victor  James Cheady
Email: cheadys@yahoo.com
Date:  19 November 2004

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This is a great site friends  told me about. Please help me to find a friend, Mr. Paul Booth, he  should be a pastor by now in hazel grove. I misplaced his address.  I am in Ghana, West Africa.

Name:  Reva Jensen
Email: ofe0069@xmission.com
Date:  14 November 2004

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lice HaslamAround 1795/1800,his dad John Hadfield And
ary Burton , He Abt 1760 She 1762. Married 1781 stockport, died 1831 in hazel grove She in 1833 also Hazel grove If you know anything that would help email or write to me at 4720 N. Hwy 38 Brigham Utah 84302. thanks so much for being able to post this . This is great to be able to read able the town where family came from.

Name:  Geoffrey Bostock
Email: geoffbostock@eircom.net
Date:  10 November 2004

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Born on the stockport side of bramhall moor lane in 1945 many good friends from this area the Smiths ,Blanes , Proctors , Mc Mahon's , Hiltons ,Broadbents, Kelly's , Alti Broadbent,Joe Barton, Hallworths shop. and the Whittles.Norman @ family.Frank @ family. 37 happy years at Mirrlees good luck and best wishes to you all god bless Geoff County Clare, Ireland.

Name:  allen flitcroft
Email: flitty@ntlworld.com
Date:  04 November 2004

Comments:

Great site. Lived in the Grove for all my 48 years, so still a true Grover. Went to Chapel Street from 61 till 66 and then Marple Hall from 66 onwards. Antone who remembers me please feel free to wmail.
flitty@ntlworld.com

ALLEN.

Name:  allen flitcroft
Email: flitty@ntlworld.com
Date:  04 November 2004

Comments:

good site. Like the friends reunited idea.

Name:  derek bowden
Email: cloverhouse@guernsey.net
Date:  29 August 2004

Comments:

hi old grovers.i lived at 56 talbot st from1950-1967. went to chapel st school then marple hall grammar.
travelled all over, now live in guernsey channel isles. anybody still out there remembers me get in touch

Name:  enid allman   nee Dolphin
Email: wildcatmoggy@tiscali.co.uk
Date:  20 August 2004

Comments:

superb site .memories, ah yes.... fanny buxton headmistress chapel st school oh that cane..... the bug hut cinema the grove...... the marcliffe cinema great  saturday matinees.... the silver moon milk bar.. the greyhound track hazel grove show  lovely little shops     vanilla slices  brunts chemist shop   many many happy times..good ole bullock smithy

Name:  Joy Goodison (nee Cooper)
Email: goodison@telkomsa.net
Date:  17 August 2004

Comments:

Hoping to use the visitors book as a tool to find people I knew years ago.
Lived in Chatsworth Road, Hazel Grove.  Emigrated with my family to South Africa in 1969.  Specifically trying to find Susan Gate, John Sturmey, Ann Ritzon, anyone remember them?  Just to say Hi and find out what they have done with their lives.

Name:  Melinda Hudson (nee Jackson)
Email: melindatony1@aol.com
Date:  14 August 2004

Comments:

Great site! I lived in the Grove for almost twenty years, before moving to Cornwall, although I visit ocassionally.

Name:  Richard Hyde Jack
Email: rhjack@bellsouth.net
Date:  26 July 2004

Comments:

Greetings and gratitude from a Yankee cousin of the town.  It's been fun and very interesting to "see" and visit an ancestral family area, although my specific progenitor, William decamped the ville a rather long time ago.  Perhaps one day we'll make the trip back, although there are rather a lot of us.  In the mean time I'll check in now and then.

Richard Hyde Jack
Athens, Georgia, US

Name:  Margaret Hughes
Email: maggi237@hotmail.com
Date:  22 July 2004

Comments:

I am trying to find out any history regarding Torkington Road.  My mother and uncle were evacuated there during WW2 although I don't have the details of the family they went to.I wonder if anyone had any stories relating to those times involving evacuees.

Name:  Michael Holt
Email: michael@mcguirehiebert.com
Date:  30 June 2004

Comments:

I was looking for a history of the area. The web site is excellent, the information on the "by-pass" very interesting considering I lived in Hazel Grove in the 40s and 50s and they were talking about the need for it then!!  

Name:  Ted C
Email: tecono@onetel.co.uk
Date:  26 June 2004

Comments:

Congratulations on a super site especialy the large size fonts and none glaring backgrounds.
As a partialy sighted person this is all to absent on most webb pages making them impossible to read,
but your's is just fine.  Thanks a million.
35 Years Grover.

Name:  Lizzy Simpoll
Email: lizzysimpoll@aol.com
Date:  19 June 2004

Comments:

I have lived in Hazel Grove all my life from baby to 79 year old. I have loved the whole of my life here and plan to carry on that way! Hazel Grove is a wonderful place to be.

Name:  Kath Newton nee Baines
Email: KB28EAN@aol.com
Date:  12 June 2004

Comments:

Hi

I used to be called Katie (cos there was another Kathy - Kathy Wood) in our class at Jackson's Jail.
I did not come to live in Hazel Grove till I was 11, although my Mum was born upstairs in the Grove Inn.

I was in the last mixed year before the school was split into Girls and Boys and then the school was combined again - this time Upper and Lower.

What a joy being close to the swimming pool must be - we used to try and learn to swim in the open air pool at Bramhall. Brrrrrrrrr!

I have not got far - just in and out of Stockport - all these people living in far flung places really make me envious.

I too am doing my family tree, so if you are searching Parkers from Disley or Bowdens from Strines, and earlier in Marple - all in wood trades these are the local names, along with Aspden/Aspin from Over Darwen and Poynton (coal miners) then Hazel Grove from 1851.

I used to live on Hazel Street and then just off Chester Road.

Good luck to everyone especially the FT researchers.

Kath who used to be Katie.

Name:  Ian Twemlow
Email: itwemlow@hotmail.com
Date:  09 June 2004

Comments:

Fantastic website.  The Forum made very interesting reading.  Well done!

Name:  Fran
Email:
Date:  09 June 2004

Comments:

Hi everybody my name is Fran had a great time.

Name:  Emily Wallace
Email:
Date:  16 May 2004

Comments:

My local high school, Hazel Grove high, is being disrupted by local youths driving motorbikes in our playground. The school has done nothing about it and i am sure that students want to know why. Please could somebody do something before one of our students is hurt. I may be 13 but we are the future of hazel grove so if somebody doesnt do anything then i will.

Name:  Barry Maulkin
Email: bazzas60@hotmail.com
Date:  03 May 2004

Comments:

Hi, Great website
I lived at 10 Arnside Avenue in the mid sixties.
I went to Moorfield county primary school and left when I was 10 to immigrate to Australia
I now reside in Adelaide, Australia
If anyone remembers me feel free to e-mail

Regards

Bazz

Name:  Harvey Warburton
Email: hwarburton@chartermi.net
Date:  25 April 2004

Comments:

Very nice website!
My great grandfather lived in Hazel Grove, working as a coal miner at the Vernon Estate, as we understand it.  He left in 1863 settled in Canton, Ohio as a coal miner.  My wife and I will be visiting Hazel Grove in 3 weeks and look forward to learning more about the history of the area.  We had a very brief visit in 1974 when we lived in Brentwood, Essex.
Harvey Warburton
7871 W. Day Forest Road
Empire, MI  49630

Name:  kay o'brien & gill davison ( nee platt)
Email: candyfrog22@hotmail.com.au
Date:  25 April 2004

Comments:

Hi everyone!
We are ex residents of 66 Aldwyn Crescent Hazel Grove. We moved to Melbourne Australia with our family in 1966.
We'd love to hear from anyone who remembers the "Platt" family.
Very interested to look around where we grew up.
Lots of changes but the main street looks same.
We will visit the site regularly from now on.

Name:  Marek
Email: moonymaroon@yahoo.de
Date:  10 April 2004

Comments:

Alright, there´s a lot which reminds me on this place. First, I had a great time when I was there for few days, coming from berlin. I´ve met a lot of people who were really nice to me, showing me a lot of places where to go, what to do and so on...and second, I had a really beautiful and awesome time with this one girl coming from stockport I really need to see one day again. So, thanks for this stunning time and the people who are living there...I love this place!

Name:  Helen Tiona
Email: no1helen@ntlworld.com
Date:  05 April 2004

Comments:

I have lived in Hazel Grove for all my life and would not like to move anywhere else!!! Hazel Grove is Fantastic.  Everything you would ever need is in the heart of Stockport. Luv Helen Tiona

Name:  Emma Bernstein
Email: EmmaBernstein3@aol.com
Date:  31 March 2004

Comments:

I lived in Hazel Grove from being a baby till being 12 and now (aged 17) i'm living in Germany. I was thrilled on stumbling across this homepage and it was great looking at the pics. I was at Torkington Primary School and then later at HGHS. If anyone wants to get in touched I'd be thrilled.

Name:  Diana Richardson
Email: hazelgrove@hotmail.com
Date:  25 February 2004

Comments:

Hi folks,

I am Diana.  I used to live with my parents in Hazel Grove until I was 3.  Then my folks migrated to New Zealand.  That was 40 years ago.  I visited Hazel Grove with my kids last summer and we were thrilled at what we saw,  especially my two teenage children.  I would love to keep in touch with any local resident of Hazel Grove who may be interested in communicating with a former Grover in New  Zealand.

Bye.

Name:  ann
Email: aa@rsvn6.freeserve.co.uk
Date:  15 February 2004

Comments:

The site is good fun but I am trying to find a local church- Norbury St. Thomas, and anyone who might know about parish records, memorials etc. my grt. grandfather was maried there between 1861 and 1865.

Name:  Angela Sljokic (nee Foster)
Email: angelasljokic@aol.com
Date:  30 January 2004

Comments:

Wow! I lived in Hazel Grove in Arendal Avenue for only a short time as a very young child. Don't really have a lot of memories of the place except for starting school, I think it was Hazel Grove Primary. great to see what the place is like now. Would love to come back to see the place.

Name:  Wally
Email: ftotti1989@yahoo.com
Date:  21 December 2003

Comments:

Hi everyone!
Wow! Lots of people have left here and gone to some nice places! Im only 14 but I want to move from Hazel Grove when im older to somewhere like America.

Name:  Mike Horne
Email: mike@jhorne62.freeserve.co.uk
Date:  14 December 2003

Comments:

I was very interested to see the website for Hazel Grove, and found it quite informative.
I have some great memories of visiting Hazel Grove in the 1950's. My grandparents, Percy & Jessie Russell lived in Gordon Avenue about 1958/60. The road was unmade then (no tarmac), and stretched up to London Road. There was a ginnel that joined up to the back yards of the houses, and both the road and the ginnel were lit by gas lamps. I remember that there was a green door that seperated my grandparent's house (number four) to the ginnel.
My brother & I used to stay there on visits from our house in Leeds. We used to visit the recreation ground near the railway.
I can remember a fair bit of detail about the area, and also visiting nearby Bramhall Hall, and Lyme Hall.
My (late) Uncle, George Arthur Shawcross, worked at nearby Stepping Hill Hospital, as an electrician. He and his wife, Jean (also now late) used to live at Dorking Close, Stockport at this time.
My grandparents along with my mother, Iris, her sister Jean, brothers John & Michael (all late apart from my mother, lived at Dialstone Lane during WW II time, so the area brings many great memories for my mother.
My mother & I came back for a visit, five years ago, and noticed many changes, especially to Gordon Avenue, which is now cut off from London Road.
I was christened at Dialstone Lane Methodist Church, Stockport, in the mid - 1950's, although I was actually born in Leeds in 1954.

Name:  Pauline Taylor
Email: pauline.taylor@unsw.edu.au
Date:  25 November 2003

Comments:

Hello from Australia to all my old school friends from Jackson's Lane 1966 - 1970

Name:  Ken & Sheila Johnson
Email: kg.johnson@ntlwrld.com
Date:  05 September 2003

Comments:

As one time residents of Hazel Grove, greetings to anyone who may remeber us. Our first house was 14 Castleton Road. Sheila used to work at Mirlees  in the personel dept. Time period was 1953 to 1959.
The web site is great and interesting to explore.
We now live in Menston, Ilkley, West Yorks. 

Name:  Gillian West
Email: gilly.jw@sympatico.ca
Date:  22 July 2003

Comments:

Looking forward to visiting this site again.  I used to live on Torquay Grove before I moved to Ontario Canada in 1974.    Nice to visit old familiar places

Name:  Kate Leech
Email: KLeech@cedarhouseschool.co.uk
Date:  10 July 2003

Comments:

Hello Hazel Grove I Miss u Love Kate

Name:  graham fletcher
Email: gflr1@yahoo.com
Date:  28 June 2003

Comments:

I was pleasantly surprised to find so nice a web page for the village where I was raised. I left England over 25 years ago and currently reside outside Lubbock Texas. I will spend hours going through this site now so I don't miss anything.

Name:  Waye Arthur
Email: wayne311@hotmail.com
Date:  08 June 2003

Comments:

Great site. I have been looking for my family and they started here in hazel grove. thanks

Name:  wild child!!!
Email:
Date:  05 June 2003

Comments:

brilliant site! i've lived in hazel grove all my life (17yrs) and i love finding out new things about it. i just love seeing things on the site and saying 'I've been there' so thanx.

Name:  Anne Kan Hai (nee Boardman)
Email: lonestarr144@hotmail.com
Date:  26 May 2003

Comments:

What a great site. As a born and bred grover now living in Canada, I was browsing the UK site as I am coming home for 3 weeks this summer.  Looking forward to seeing some people I have not seen in 27 years.  So great to see the smaller communities are still thriving.
Grover's are the BEST!

Name:  Nora V (Tarkington)
Email: Sistersthree3@Juno.com
Date:  13 May 2003

Comments:

Hi, I have traced my father's family back to John Tarkington, born 1620 in Hazel Grove, England.
John married Prudence (last name unknown).
Can anyone give me any history of Hazel Grove at that time?  Does anyone have any info you'd share about the Tarkingtons?  I don't care if it's Black Sheep or White Sheep, just want information on my ancestry.  Thanks so much.

Name:  Patricia Compeau
Email: comppa@kingston.net
Date:  02 April 2003

Comments:

Lovely site. Was looking for information about Hazel Grove. Surprised to see so much detail. Mom grew up on Nelson street and met/married my Dad in 1945. She returned to Canada with Dad after the war and always spoke so lovely of Hazel Grove. She wrote a little story about growing up in England in a big family. Hope to someday visit the places she wrote about.

Name:  Mark Holland
Email:
Date:  01 April 2003

Comments:

Fantastic web site. Good to see Hazel Grove leading the way with a good web site, Currently living in Auckland, New Zealand, keep it up!!!!!!!!!!!

Name:  guymay
Email: mumu@mugu.com
Date:  08 March 2003

Comments:

very nice.

Name:  rita bennett
Email: marscavi@libero.it
Date:  04 March 2003

Comments:

I thought it was great to find the site and rather hoped that more of my age-group used it, than seems to be. I'm a born grover living in italy. Went to Hazel grove primary from 1955 then on to Marple Hall Grammar (as it was then), so far I've had one contact, which bucked me up no end, but it would be lovely to ''find some more of yer'' out there. Promise to answer, so please contact me at above e-mail address or at my office one: rbennett@ermes-ceramiche.it which is even better. Keep up the good work on the site, I like knowing what's going on at home, even if I'm way over here. All the best, Rita

Name:  Mark
Email: markusmaus@ntlworld.com
Date:  22 February 2003

Comments:

finally hazel grove has got a website :D, i'm born and breed in hazel grove, for the last 15yrs of my life, well i am only 15, so all my life, hazel grove is a good place to live

Name:  Brian & Mary Avison
Email: briary1@shaw.ca
Date:  17 February 2003

Comments:

Great to see a Hazel Grove site. Used to live on Reevey Avenue, but now live in Edmonton Alberta. Anyone interested in trading pix of the Grove with pix of Alberta, we would be glad to hear from them.

Name: Bern Bevenour
Email: bern@cyberia.com
Date: 28 January 2003

Comments

Nice start on website. Looking forward to having information on history of village and of historic churches with some information on pipe organs which may be installed in those churches. I live in Pa USA and like to learn about the villages/towns of Britain using the web. THanks for having this site.

Name: ali
Email:
Date: 06 January 2003

Comments

was looking forward to someone making a proper website for hazel grove! great start :)

Name: Peter Phythian
Email: pphythian@cosco.co.uk
Date: 09 December 2002

Comments

Just found this site, been wondering for a while if someone would start one. Keep up the good work.

Name: Ursula Kauer
Email: ursula.kauer@chello.at
Date: 02 December 2002

Comments

I am form Austria, I have good friends in Hazel Grove and I spent 10 days in summer 2001 here. It is very nice for me to see the home page - I can recall the good memories I have had with Hazel Grove.

Name: Steve Thompson
Email: thommo15@ntlworld.com
Date: 11 November 2002

Comments

I am 38 years old and have lived in the Grove for the whole of those 38 years. I can't really imagine living anywhere else. Only just recently found this website and now have it as my home page. Keep up good work

Name: Linda Jackson Moore
Email: adnil@1acc.com
Date: 12 October 2002

Comments

Looking forward to further development in the history of Hazelgrove. I found this site while searching for information on my Great Grandfather, Thomas Stonewall Jackson. He resided in Hazelgrove before coming to America in the 1800's. I am looking forward to visiting Hazelgrove.

Name: Gill Halpin( nee Clare)
Email: halpmac@aol.com
Date: 11 October 2002

Comments

Came across this site by accident. Started looking at kitchens and ended up here.I would like to see the friends reunited site grow as I am from THE GROVE but now live in Poynton. I look forward to watching you develop. I would like to say I did recognise all the photos, so how about some more!

Name: Brian Ashurst
Email: bashurst@redshift.com
Date: 17 August 2002

Comments

Brilliant start--looking forward to further development. Specially would like to see something about the history and captions to the photos. I lived in Hazel Grove, Devonshire Road, 1952-1962. Now live in Seaside, California.

Name: JuneTupai
Email: junetupai@hotmail.com
Date: 07 August 2002

Comments

Cool website, easy to follow and getaround.