name: David F Jones
email: drains2go@yahoo.co.uk
date: 10th January 2012
comments:
Good to stir up memories of the Grove. We lived at 8 Clarendon road from 1946-1966 when we moved to
Dialstone Lane. After Chapel Street & 11plus I was bussed to Moseley Hall GS. Had great times in Torkie park
& the North East Cheshire Show especially on the dodgems with my mate Paul. Sadly him & his girl friend
Bernice were killed on the A6 by some idiot overtaking on the wrong side of the road October 1964.
name: Nancy Tamburino Cuomo
email: delray1910@msn.com
date : 20th September 2011
comments:
Looking for a pen pal (1964) that lived in Hazel Grove England, her name was Beryl Higgenbottem she married
a police officer. Any information please contact me at the above email or facebook
name: Wendy Skeen
email: wendyjskeen@yahoo.co.uk
date: 12th August 2011
comments:
Looking for Skeen family members from Hazel Grove Stockport, decending from Thomas and Esther Skeen born in
Scotland c1840's
please email me wendyjskeen@yahoo.co.uk
name: David Jones
email: djones28@another.com
date: 13th July 2011
comments: Moved to one of the first post-war new suburbs from Trafford Park when I was 6 in 1954. Chapel
Street School til 1960 and then to SGS. To University in 1967 and once my parents left in early '70s I only
rarely went back.
An excellent place to grow up - open fields beyond Dean Lane and from when I was 15 (those were the days!)
loads of pubs (The Red Lion being my local, landlord Reg Hunt). Took a lot of practice to do the pint in
every pub in The Grove run... altho' just a half was an achievable challenge!
Summer and Xmas jobs at Jackson's Dairy - up the farms at 5.30 to collect the milk, delivering with the
wonderful battery hand trucks and back to the bottling.
Don't think I know anyone who lives there now. Often wish I'd just stayed...
Dave Jones.
name: Maureen Girdler
email: maureengirdler@tiscali.co.uk
date: 2nd July 2011
comments: I was hoping for some contact when I wrote a couple of years ago. Anyone who remembers a Maureen
Wimsett, evacuated to Hazel Grove 1943/44 (Doodle bug era) please contact me nefore I pop mu clogs.
name: David Booth
email: DBooth2751953@hotmail.com
date: 17th June 2011
comments:
I am descended from a MOSLEY/MOSELEY family who lived in the Bosden/Hazel Grove area. William MOSLEY married
a Mary abt 1824 and had children: Charles Robert born abt 1825 ( who married Mary Ann WILD ), Elizabeth Chr
26 Feb 1826, and Ann Chr 27 July 1828. By the time of the 1851 Census the family moved to Cheadle Bulkeley.
Any information on this family would be greatly appreciated.
name: Nick Allcock
email: nikallcock@sky.com
date: 15th June 2011
comments:
Not a grover any more but lived there most of my childhood life and have many happy memories from the area
name: Patricia Ayres (formerly Entwistle)
email: ayres.pat@gmail.com
date: 29th April 2011
comments:
Although not a "Grover" I married into one and had 4 Grover children. Happy Days. Helped my inlaws sometimes
behind the bar at the White Hart and the Liberal Club, Big Jack and
Amy Entwistle.
name: freda chandler bowden
email: fredaalan.com@ntlworld.com
date: 20th February 2011
comments:
started going to jacksons lane 1959 and left in 1963..teacher i remember .miss arundell..mrs youd .mr jones
.mr scammell .mrs buckley .mr quayle . and the nasty mr swarbrick .and the very nice mr wright .miss painter
.miss bellameie .mr preston and the best of all ..mr sarson ..
just think it used to be that.. you had to live in hazel grove for 25yrs before you became one ... the
grovers were funny about that and did not like other coming in from different parts .most were hostile....
and alot still are ...
name: Laura Qualls nee Ratcliffe
email: shamballa@aim.com
date: 18th February 2011
comments:
It was lovely seeing pictures of the Hazel Grove area and reading about it's history. I grew up in Hazel
Grove and never knew any of that stuff. I have been gone from England since 1975 when I was 18 but so much
still looks the same. Bet if I stopped by the Rising Sun, I might recognize a few of the regulars - one of
these days maybe. Does any one know if Stockport Convent High School is still around and if they demolished
the Convent? There was an old tree in the convent gardens that was full of carved initials, I was wondering
if anyone knows about it or better yet if their initials were on it.
name: Christina Banks
email: christinaleeming@aol.com
date: 3rd February 2011
comments:
Born in Hazel Grove (Farndon Ave, down't Valley). Remember the famous 'Mill Fire'. Went to Chapel Street
school until 1966, enjoyed visiting Coyne's corner shop penny tray, the Bamboo, Torky Park, etc. Happy days.
Too many charity shops now!
name: Chris Bowden
email: blutosabode@msn.com
Date: 21st January 2011
comments:
I stumbled across this site by chance but may wish had done sooner I count myself as a Grover lived on
Sandringham road from1948 till 58/9 then moved to Hazelwood rd.Like most went to Chapel st school followed
by Jacksons jail house, serving an apprenticship at Mirrlees,became an engine test inspector I wondered were
Geoff Bostock had gone.Seem to remember meeting Duncan at Rick Wyborns last year.
name: Harold, Eileen & Simon Fletcher
email: eileen.fletcher778@btinternet.com
Date: 19th January 2011
comments:
Great site - a real trip down memory lane. We all attended Chapel Street School. Harold lived in Hope Street
and worked at Mirrlees until 1960 then AVRoes until we moved to Warton in 1977. Eileen lived in Talbot
Street, worked at Simon Carves. Mum worked for Blanche & Joyce until she died in 1971. Our son went to
Chapel Street and then The Jailhouse until 1977. We moved to St Annes until we retired and came over to
Lincolnshire fourteen years ago. Happy memories.
name: MICHAEL KIERANS
email: kieransmbh@vodafone.ie
Date: 17th January 2011
comments:
I am told Dave Shawcross the former Man City and Rochdale player now lives in Hazel Grove Stockport and was
just wondering if anyone would know how he is keeping health wise as I have fond memories of his displays
from when he played for Drogheda F.C. in Ireland.
name: Judith Yates
email: dryates@btinternet.com
Date: 14th January 2011
comments:
Hi Hazel Grove,
I would like to track down an old friend, Shirley Clarke, born in either 1949 or 1950 . I think she lived at
Aldwyn Crescent until around 1968. I would be grateful if anyone has any news of Shirley could let me know
by email. thank you for your help.
Judith Yates
name: Spencer Daily Warren
email: swarren9@kc.rr.com
Date: 5th October 2010
comments:
Hello, I just stopped by to look at the videos page and I have the following heartfelt observations I'd like
to share:
- what a charming place!
- I loved the pub band, and it's resemblance to a hillbilly jamboree in my native Ozarks of Missouri is
uncanny.
- the youthful brass band can PLAY!
- the antique natural gas engine on display in the local museum reminds me very much of a Harley-Davidson
motorcycle (although the natural gas engine is probably more efficient!)
- why would anyone want to ring a bell for 50 years? I suppose I shouldn't knock it until I try it.
You all seem so very nice and it's a lovely village. Cheers to you.
SDW
Kansas City, Missouri
name: kevin clarke
email: ckl@cheshirekeyholding.com
comments:
i went to jacksons lane from 1974 to 1977
my older brother Barry Clarke went to this school between 1960 and 1966. Barry died last week and is being
buried at norbury churc hazel grove at 1.30pm on Wednesday the 1st september all who knew him are welcome.
name: Richard Pickford
email: richard@andrewsnape.com
Date: 15th August 2010
comments:
Great website and comments board.......Heart warming to see so many people with so many fond memories of
Hazel Grove. I have only lived in Hazel Grove for 4 years but have had family live here all of my life. I
run one of the local businesses on the A6, we opened in March this year, although our company name has been
around for about 20 years. My line of business means so many of the names and address I may well come
accross one day! The odd address is already very familiar. I will certainly pass the address for this site
around in the hope some of the people you are all looking to say hello to, log on!
name: Maureen Parker
email: jandm.parker@ntlworld.com
Date: 14th August 2010
comments:
To Peter Cosgrove. Just seen the message, my email address is jandm.parker@ntlworld.com. Please contact me.
name: Ruth Tomlinson (nee Harrison)
email: r.g.tomlinson@btopenworld.com
Date: 7th August 2010
comments:
Lovely to see comments from days gone by. I was born in Hazel Grove and I am still close by. There have been
many changes over the years but having just walked the full length on the A6 today the biggest change is the
traffic. I remember crossing the A6 for the school bus whilst playing ball and not needing to look for
traffic. Of course that was back in the days when we still had trams!!!
I have noticed a few names on this site that I remember, maybe someone will remember me.
Name: freda chandler bowden
Date: 24th April 2010
Email: fredaalan.com@ntlworld.com
Comments:
i was born at 16 grenville road in 1948
Name: Norman Johanssen
Date: 24th April 2010
Email: n.johanssen@yahoo.co.uk
Comments:
I lived in Hazel Grove from 1961 to 1983 and met some very nice people and some very strange people. I have
been back to stay in a lovely B&B off Brewers Green in 2007 and 2009. The place has changed a little bit but
it's still the same old town. Once a Grover always a Grover.
Name: Arthur Barry
Date: 27th March 2010
Email: abarry@twcny.rr.com
Comments:
Barrys lived at 3 Pearl St. My Dad was apprentice instructor at Mirrlees. I went to Chapel St from till 1960
then on to Marple Hall. now in Upstate NY.
Love this site!
Name: richard manion
Date: 22 March 2010
email: richardmanion@myway.com
comments:
i went to norbury primary school back in the 1960s head teacher was a mr jones . dose any 1 else rember this
school
name: freda chandler bowden
13th March 2010
email: fredaalan.com@ntlworld.com
comments:
i still live in hazelgrove dont want to live any where else ..i am at the top of oueens road .just miss
harwood class room stood at the beging of school field my brother alan chandler who has lived in australia
for forty yrs came over to see us two years ago could not belive that the school had not changed at all, we
have got a realy good view of the play ground from our kitchen window
name: Steven Rowbotham
13 March 2010
email: blackbulleng@btconnect.com
comments:
just reading some coments brings back a lot of memories i lived there from 1958 to about 1970 lived at no9
boston avenue have been back a few times just to look my father came from vine street his father used to
sell herb beer around the village had the first car
name: Peter Cosgrove
11 March 2010
email: Petercdn@aol.com
comments:
Trying to contact : Maureen Perker. Hazel Grove, Cheshire.
Her home is near the Fiveways Hotel.
name: Chris Shingler
email: chris.shingler@virgin.net
date: 2nd March 2010
comments:
Does anyone remember an organist called Ron ? who was the organist at St Mary's in the market place in
Stockport until 1957. He travelled to and from Hazel Grove, where he lived, to St Marys on an old bicycle
which had oil lamps. He had pebble glasses and seemed like someone from a much earlier age in his very old,
possibly oilskin raincoat. He was rather distant and had quite strange methods for auditioning new
choirboys. A new boy had to open his mouth to two fingers width and sing coo. Consequently we boys
nick-named him 'Coo'.
Although rather strange, we were shocked and sadden when he was deposed and replaced as organist by the new
head of the National School attached to st. Mary's.
Name: Geoff Bostock
Email: Hazel Grove
Date: 24 July 2009
Comments:
This is for John Sibbles, Hi John do you remember those great nights at the youth club on Napier Street in
the earley sixties. Remember the MAC Velocette which you sold to me and was your late fathers. I would
welcome any input to this message from anyone at the youth club ie Trevor Moseley, David Brookes, The Birch
Twins or anyone who attended and knows me my e mail is
geoffbostock@eircom.net
Name: DAVID ROWBOTTOM (mikerowbottom@aol.com)
Email: MACCLESFIELD
Date: 17 July 2009
Comments:
My name is David Rowbottom aged 63, I am enquiring if anyone has any reccolection of the fire at Wellington
Mill, Hazel grove, owned by Novo Yarns Ltd.
In which my father George Rowbottom and two other men sadly lost their lives in 1947!
Thanks
David (mikerowbottom@aol.com)
Name: Susan Hughes (nee Berry)
Email: Flixton Manchester
Date: 23 June 2009
Comments:
I lived with my sister Pat from 1952 and attended Norbury C of E School untill 1960. I now work for the NHS
and came across a Consultant by the name of Stephanie Gomme - and guess what - she was in the same class as
me with Mr Clews as the teacher - and we both have the same School Photo showing us. Small world - many
happy momories.
Name: geoffrey burgess
Email: offerton stockport
Date: 17 May 2009
Comments:
For Joy Phillips. Joy Phillips!!!. A name I must admit I had forgotton, it must be 50yrs since we last
met/spoke, Robert Thornley, is doing ok. lives in Cleveleys near Blackpool. He came last year to my fathers
funeral, my father was 94yrs, when he died. I have e,mailed Barbara Grimes nee Kirkman. and we have
exchanged a number of photos. Please keep in touch.
You can e,mail me at, geoff.burgess@hotmail.co.uk
Name: Hilary Burgess. Nee Mellor
Email: Offerton, Stockport.
Date: 17 May 2009
Comments:
My name is Hilary Burgess nee Mellor. I was born in 1945 at Higher Farm. Threaphurst Lane. Torkington.and
lived there until 1966 when I married. I attended Hillcrest grammer school Bramhall and on leaving I trained
as a nurse at Stepping Hill, Hospital. And stayed nursing until retirement in 2007. I would like to hear
from any body who knew me during that time.
Name: Barbara Grimes (nee Kirkman)
Email: Canada
Date: 07 May 2009
Comments:
This is for John Sibbles. Saw your name on this site. Do you remember me! Judith Howarth was my friend. We
were all in the same class at Jackson's Lane School. You can e-mail me at grimesj@shaw.ca If you scroll down
you will read a little about me. I would love to hear how you are doing, and what you have done in your
life.
Name: Joy Butterworth nee Phillips
Email: Newquay Cornwall
Date: 04 May 2009
Comments:
Found this site by accident, It brought back many memories of my childhood. Born 1939 in Clarenden Road
opposite Geoffrey Burgess and Robert Thornley. A valley girl! I remember the end of war street party, Chapel
st School and Miss Harwood.
Name: Geoff Burgess
Email: Offerton
Date: 29 April 2009
Comments:
For Joe Daniels.
Finally found your reply almost 12 mths after you made it. Sorry. Of the names you gave, sadly Bob Brown
passed away, I did attend his funeral. But Joe apart from you i've never seen any of the others.
Geoff
Name: Barbara Grimes (Kirkman)
Email: Hazel Grove
Date: 27 April 2009
Comments:
I have just scrolled down this site and found a few folk I remember. I now live in Canada and have done for
29 years. I am married and have two wonderful children and 7 grandchildren. You can reach me at
grimesj@shaw.ca
Name: Tina Bryant
Email: Kalgoorlie
Date: 14 April 2009
Comments:
It was so good to find this site. I went to moorefield school and then onto Jacksons lane I made lots of
friends Ondria Hitchen Karen Betts Gillian Diamond if anyone remembers. We left 1971 and moved to Ireland
from there I lived in Canada for 14 years and now in Australia 4 years soon to move back to Ireland. This is
a great web site I have loved reading everyones comments.
Name: Jean Sharrock
Email: Birthplace Stockport (home in Paisley)
Date: 12 March 2009
Comments:
Hi, I've just found your website whilst trying to find my former school's OLD GIRLS' ASSOCIATION (I was at
Stockport High School between 1967 - 1974). I'm delighted to read all the lovely, informative emails from so
many folks from the Hazel Grove area (I come from Cale Green, but I know Hazel Grove very well). My home is
in Paisley, Scotland but I am living back here with my parents Marjorie (89) and Joe (93) just to help out
(it's lovely to be back in Stockport). I have noticed some emails of particular interest which I will get
round to answering at some point particularly Ron Singleton with his interest in classical music (I am a
composer and an oboist) and Michael Holt (my mum Marjorie Sharrock nee Luxton lived at no 8, Mill Lane at
the time you were there although she was 18 in 1938 but she recalls your young parents before you as a
baby!). I am fascinated in this chance to catch up old memories for my parents who
got married at Norbury Parish Church 10th May 1941 and I still visit my grandparents' grave in the grounds.
Maybe someone out there can help me to find some contact addresses from Stockport High School for Girls (now
HillCrest Grammar), I want to access our old Founder's Day Song we used to sing every year in St. George's
Church (For Lo, The Winter is Past.....words from The Song of Solomon)? I've not had occasion to use a site
like this before so what do I do? What is the polite protocol? THANKYOU for this brainchild - who thought up
the idea of this website? Is there one for Cale Green? Heaviley for my Mum? Heaton Norris for my Dad? Please
contact me at gianpieroluigi@o2.co.uk
Name: maureen girdler@tiscali.co.uk
Email: Poole Dorset
Date: 21 January 2009
Comments:
I was evacuated to Hazel Grove in about 1944 I think and stayed with a family in Dean Street if I remember
rightly and went to a local school, their name was Jamieson - I was about 13 years of age. Anyone out there
remember us - it is still vivid in my memory. My name was then Maureen Wimsett.
Name: Keith
Email: Sheffield
Date: 14 January 2009
Comments:
Joan Saltsman (not sure about the spelling).
I am trying to trace Joan Saltsman who lived in the Hazel Grove area in the early 1970's. I believe her
father may have been of German descent but not sure. Any information please via e-mail on
wkh12l@btinternet.com
Name: Ron Singleton
Email: Marple
Date: 21 December 2008
Comments:
Hi Ernie Potts
I emailed you sometime this year regarding Hazel Grove Council School and people we both remember. However
it is now coming up to Christmas time again and I remember the plays we would put on in the Hall. It seemed
we all had a part to play, I remember one part I played was "Much the Millers son in Robin Hood", with a
pillow stuck up my shirt to make me fat because in those days we were all a bit thin.
Regards :- Ron Singleton, Email, maronbf3@ntlworld.com
Name: Anne Marie Anderson
Email: Huntsville, Ontario, Canada
Date: 30 November 2008
Comments:
You have a lovely looking town! I had ancestors by the surname of Johnson. They lived at 33 Chapel Street in
1891 and I wanted to see what Hazel Grove looked like. I was hoping for a few more photos but you have a
great website and I have learned a great deal from it. Hope to visit someday soon.
Thank You !
Anne Marie Anderson (jamesanderson@sympatico.ca)
Name: albert coleman
Email: brisbane australia
Date: 12 November 2008
Comments:
Hi i lived in hazel grove from when i was 5(1952) till 1974 I think I have just traced my sister ann(waiting
for a reply)still looking for old friends Yvonne Dunning(Tatton close) and Martin Hopkins(the Bulls Head)
email me if you have any info alby9000@hotmail.com) gret work with the site lol
Name: Philip Brooks
Email: Glossop
Date: 21 October 2008
Comments:
Hello for the 2nd time.
I have just made a firm connection that my Gt Grandfather x 5, namely John Hallworth Married Mary Torkington
about 1760. I am aware that there is a Torkington Rd, and assume that their name then must be of some
significance within the local area ? I would appreciate any information.
Thank You
Phil philchris@isaacjoe.plus.com
Name: Debbie Sgouros-(nee Pitt)
Email: Bramhall
Date: 07 October 2008
Comments:
Spent 6 years at Jacko jail house and loved it!!
Met loads of new people and would love to catch up with them. Left school in 1975 and spent a few years
working at manchester airport before deciding to leave Uk. I now live in Greece - Corfu , am married to a
greek and have a daughter who is 19yrs of age. Anybody from my year would love to hear from you .
Name: gillysauce
Email: surrey
Date: 09 September 2008
Comments:
I lived in the grove from 1970 to 1986, i loved it sledging in torky park, going to the fair in july, the
play scheme at torkington school in the summer hols. Mr Parrots fruit and veg shop, going on massive pub
crawls from the rising sun to the george and dragon. AIM the youth club at the methodist church on wesley st.
The civic hall discos. the golden door and tittertons the pork butchers. stockport town hall i was convinced
the queen lived there.... davenport major and minor. the new manzil curry house. god i could go on and on.
Oh must mention Fanny Harwood and Rotters discotheque as they were back then or if you wanted posh ...Quaffers
Name: Will Bennett
Email: Taunton Somerset
Date: 04 September 2008
Comments:
I'm planning a visit to Hazel grove in the next few weeks with my Dad, we seem to be a broken off part of
the Bennetts that seem to cluster around Hazel Grove and Chapel En Le Frith area. My great grandparents were
John Thomas Bennett who married Sarah Elizabeth Fletcher in around 1886. They are buried at Norbury parish
Church. I look forward to visiting!!
Name: Vera Flett
Email: Australind, Western Australia
Date: 14 August 2008
Comments:
Loved visiting your page. Just wish I could visit your country.Hope to get in touch with Jeff Hazelgrove as
my mother-in-law was a Hazelgrove.
Name: Bill Lee
Email: Sarasota, Florida, USA
Date: 11 July 2008
Comments:
I have lost conntact with my friends, Frank and Shelaugh Broadhurst. If anyone knows how to contact them
please let me know. I read the visitors book from time to time for my family several generations removed
were from the general area. They are Jehovah's Witnesses and attend the local Kingdom Hall. Thank you very
much. Bill Lee, and Margie
Name: Jacqueline Emmerson
Email: New Mills Derbyshire
Date: 09 July 2008
Comments:
IN REPLY TO DOUG ARMITAGE.
My nana lived in Hazel Grove through the time you mentioned, her name was Elizabeth Armitage, she married
and became Elizabeth Dickinson. Her cousin taught french at Dialstone School around 1945 to 1950. This was
at a time when my father James Peter Finn was at school at Dialstone.
I would love to here if this is of any help to you on your quest.
Jackie.
Name: Duncan McSorland
Email: Horsham, West Sussex
Date: 27 June 2008
Comments:
Quite nostalgic reading about the bygone days of HG.
I Worked at Mirrelees from '64 until '80 - Married a grover (Linda Scriven) who lived in Peter St, The
Valley and then Reevey Avenue and who went to Norbury Primary then Jacksons Jailhouse..........
Fond memories of the Woodman, Cock, Grapes & George & Dragon....... pub crawls, golden door cakes and the
fiveways disco.. and not to forget the indian restaurants - the Oriental & The Rawlpindi.......
Hi to anyone who might remember us...................
Name: mary halliwell
Email: penmaenmawr
Date: 13 June 2008
Comments:
I lived in HG for 16 years. Left in 1971. Happy memories of Torkington Park, Hazel Grove Show, horse riding
in Offerton etc. We lived in Sandringham Road, very rural then, on the edge of farmland, but now it's part
of a big housing estate. Just putting these thoughts down in a moment of nostalgia! Hello Hazel Grove, I
haven't forgotten you.
Name: dave mcgrath
Email: burnley,lancs
Date: 30 May 2008
Comments:
Is there anybody out there who went to jacksons lane between 1971 and 1977 and remembers me? i remember miss
robinson who later became a tv presenter! also jim carter, miss rundle and who could forget miss camine and
of course spudhead and bonehead........happy days!!
Name: Ron Singleton
Email: Marple
Date: 13 May 2008
Comments:
Email:-maronbf3@ntlworld.com Hi . Ernie Potts, nice to here from sombody who remembers me. Frank Kirton was
one of my good mates all through school. I met up with him about 15 years ago at a school reunion. After
leaving school he became a painter & decorator, and lives in the Shaw Heath area of Stockport, he will be
the same age as me (81). He, like me, is interested in classical music. If you remember we would collect jam
jars and take them to school and were packed into boxes,then collected by the CO-OP jam factory paying the
school a half penny for each jar. The money, about £34 bought a radiogram which was in the hall. The music
teacher (name forgotten) would bring these classical records and play them to us, telling the storey of the
music. Frank and I have had interest in music ever since. Remember John Davenport, played the violin, Albert
Evans who had the dance band would teach violin. John played double bass for the band that played at the
Town Hall. Remember George Rowbotham, Frank Johnson, Harold Brooks, I believe they have all pssed on. I was
at sea Merchant Navy for 12 years, in the domestic appliance trade, worked for Hoover Ltd and had the
Navigation Hotel, Marple 26 years. Email me Ernie and I can tell you a lot more.
Name: Ernie Potts
Email: Staple Hill,South Gloucestershire
Date: 27 April 2008
Comments:
This is in answer to the entry from Ron Singleton.I remember you from school,we were in the same class
through school and left at the same time .I left the "Grove" in 1966 and have been living down here ever
since.Do you have any contact with any other of our classmates? I bumped into Frank Kirton at the Union Jack
Club in Singapore in 1947,he said that Norman Taylor was also out there in the navy.I also have many
memories of our schooldays.
Name: Joe Daniels
Email: Offerton
Date: 24 April 2008
Comments:
Hi this is for Geoffrey Burgess, well Geoff if you are looking for somebody who remembers I sure do you was
the best drawer of buses in Norbury School really you should be because your Dad was a North Western bus
driver and you loved to draw them we had great times at school together, we were both Prefects together
along with lads like Paul Burlace and many more sadly Paul is not with us now ,but do you remember Billy
Carrington /Gordon Grundy/Bob Brown/Dennis Cocket/Shirley Norbury/Irene Hallworth oh I could go on all night
about Norbury and Jacksons Lane
If you remember at the top of Norbury School their was a bell and when a new Norbury School for Infants was
built on Bosden Farm estate at the top of Kingfisher Road that same bell was placed on top of the school,
but now the school has been knocked down can any one tell me where our old school bell is?
because it should be returned to Norbury Church.
Lets here more people talking about Hazel Grove after all their is no better place to talk about so come on
(Leon Bostock) get cracking.
Name: Ron Singleton
Email: Marple
Date: 19 April 2008
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
great site and very interesting to an ex grover
Name: Jeff Hazelgrove
Email: jeff.hazelgrove@conti-na.com
Date: 01 November 2005
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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
Comments:
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.
