algy Posted April 9, 2011 Report Share Posted April 9, 2011 Many of these photograph?s may be available from the Warrington Museum/Library and will be of far superior quality to those viewed here. Anyone having any issue with the displaying of these photographs due to copyright or ownership infringement please contact me either by PM. or through the Moderators and I shall remove them immediately. Stretton Village. Walton Village. The Stag Inn, Lower walton. Walton Road in the 1800s. Walton Village Post Office. Walton Old Hall. Walton Old Hall rear garden. The construction of Walton Lock c1890. Walton Hall. Walton Hall the Head Gardeners Cottage. Walton Hall gardens & lily pond. Walton Hall Gardens in the early years. Walton Hall & Gardens. 1906. The tram terminus in Stockton Heath square, the old 'Mullberry tree' just before demolishing. 1914. A Tram travelling up London Road, Stockton Heath. The Stretton to Whitley motorbus. Stretton Hall. Strange's bread van before the1914-18 war, the driver William Bridge was lost his life in this war. Stockton Heath 1909, a sign of a hard winter, Skating on Ackers Pit. 1911. Loading narrowboats at London Bridge wharf. 1904.Wilderspool tramway being extended into the village. 1900. The junction with Grappenhall Rd. & Chester Rd. Lumb Brook. 1900. Same area different aspect of the junction with Grappenhall Rd. & Chester Rd. at Lumb Brook. 1894. London Road has been realigned to pass over the new Swingbridge. Walton Road, not really changes much in a 100 years or so. Stockton Heath, Walton Rd. fingerpost shows the way to Lower Walton, Higher Walton & Stretton. Victoria Square, the old Police Station. Stockton Heath War Memorial. Stockton Heath the original Chester Rd. now Whitefield Rd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harry hayes Posted April 9, 2011 Report Share Posted April 9, 2011 Brilliant. Happy days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algy Posted April 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2011 Not many more to go now as I'm starting to 'drain the barrel'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sha Posted April 9, 2011 Report Share Posted April 9, 2011 Brilliant Algy, thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted April 9, 2011 Report Share Posted April 9, 2011 Excellent, as usual. Didn't realise that there were that many houses at Whitley in those days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algy Posted April 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2011 Peter, not sure if the photo was taken in Whitley it may have been in Stretton, I am unable to identify the buildings, or it is more likely that the service ran from both villages transporting people to Stockton Heath & Warrington or even Northwich. I shall make some enquiries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teessidewire Posted April 12, 2011 Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 I may be wrong, but the fourth photograph looks like the junction of Walton Road and Whitefield Road and it appears to be taken from where the roundabout is now. If that is the case, then we owned the shop in the forefront of the picture. it was number 78 Walton Road and was eventually subject of a Compulsary Purchase Order along with number 1 Whitefield Road to make the bend onto Whitefield Road more safe. We bought the shop and flat above from a family called Brown and we were there until about 1968. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted April 12, 2011 Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 You are right Teeside. I uploaded the same picture onto the other Stockton Heath photo thread of Algys a week or so ago but it was no where near as clear as the one Algy has uploaded here. Anyway here's the info I put with it ... "Walton Road looking towards the village c1890. On the left are Toll Bar Cottages (names after the Toll Gate which was once on the road). On the right is the shop that used to stand on the corner of Whitefield Road prior to road widening. In the distance is the builders yard where the garage now is. An just visible is the roof of Ebenezer the original Wesleyan Methodist Church. " What did you used to sell in your shop ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted April 12, 2011 Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 Algy... On the "Stockton Heath War Memorial" photo have you any idea what the white structure is to the left of the war memorial. I zoomed in and it looks to have a glass ? panel in the front.. I thought it might have been a phone box but did they have phone boxes then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teessidewire Posted April 12, 2011 Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 You are right Teeside. I uploaded the same picture onto the other Stockton Heath photo thread of Algys a week or so ago but it was no where near as clear as the one Algy has uploaded here. Anyway here's the info I put with it ... "Walton Road looking towards the village c1890. On the left are Toll Bar Cottages (names after the Toll Gate which was once on the road). On the right is the shop that used to stand on the corner of Whitefield Road prior to road widening. In the distance is the builders yard where the garage now is. An just visible is the roof of Ebenezer the original Wesleyan Methodist Church. " What did you used to sell in your shop ? We were Grocers. My Dad was a manager for Percy Mountfield at the Beehive Stores at Stretton (we lived first at 6, Red Gables, Pepper St, Appleton, then 73 Ellesmere Rd, Stockton Heath), then my parents bought the shop sometime in the early sixties and we lived above it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted April 12, 2011 Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 Oooh I remember us chatting on here some time ago now Teeside as there were some other local photo's on and it turned out that you actually lived in what is now my sisters house many years ago... Still a small world eh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algy Posted April 12, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 Dizz, you are 'spot on' it is a telephone box, I dont know the exact date but I would say the War Memorial would have been erected somewhere between 1922 & 26, plenty of phones around by then although not for the working class folks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted April 12, 2011 Report Share Posted April 12, 2011 Percy Mounfield. That's a blast from the past. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teessidewire Posted April 13, 2011 Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 Oooh I remember us chatting on here some time ago now Teeside as there were some other local photo's on and it turned out that you actually lived in what is now my sisters house many years ago... Still a small world eh Do you know, widening the road actually made very little difference in the end. Somewhere at home I've got a photograph of me outside the front window of the shop in my 'Jimmy Clitheroe' St Thomas' School uniform. If I can find it I'll put it on here. It gives a good view of some of the old style advertising boards around the shop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted April 13, 2011 Report Share Posted April 13, 2011 Would love to see that ... get searching Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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