Old Hyde

Old Hyde
Pole Bank 1910 ----------------------------------------------------------Town Hall 1937 --------------------------------------------- Cenotaph 1990
Showing posts with label Werneth Low. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Werneth Low. Show all posts

Tuesday, 6 April 2010

Towards Windy Harbour


This camcorder still from 1993 was taken on Werneth Low looking towards the restaurant at Windy Harbour.


This 1999 photograph was taken from a little further away looking past Windy Harbour towards Hattersley and the Longdendale Valley.

The restaurant was damaged by fire in 2000 and subsequently demolished.

The present state of the site can be seen on Hyde Daily Photo.

Wednesday, 19 August 2009

James North 1993


This is a still picture from a video I took in 1993 and recently had transferred to a DVD. Apologies for the quality but lets examine the width.

In the foreground is the rough ground now occupied by Alder Community School.

Under the trees in the middle lies Hyde Cemetery.

In the background is the James North Factory, which was demolished in 1998.

Sunday, 26 July 2009

Hyde War Memorial Trust


A new website has just come online. The Hyde War Memorial Trust website has been set up to document the 710 men of Hyde who perished in the Great war of 1914-1919 (when the treaty of Versailles was actually signed). In time, it will contain a wealth of information relating to the men, the monument and the country park.

One of the first additions to the site is a copy of the original 1921 unveiling souvenir brochure.

Thursday, 6 November 2008

Top of Joel Lane


A view of the houses on Werneth Low Road at Four Lane Ends from the top of Joel Lane.

See the view in the opposite direction about 100 years later on Hyde Daily Photo.

Thursday, 26 June 2008

Coronation Bonfire on Werneth Low


The coronation of Edward VII was set for 26th June 1902.

On Werneth Low, a bonfire was built.

Two days before the ceremony, the King was taken ill and the actual coronation postponed until 9th August.

On the command of the King, the bonfire was lit and the celebrations went ahead on the original date as planned.

Wednesday, 11 June 2008

Uplands Farm


This 1920s picture of Uplands Farm on Werneth Low features Violet Warner.

She and her husband lived there with her sister who was the wife of Wright Robinson, an active trade unionist who was Lord Mayor of Manchester 1941-42.

In the summer months they provided teas for ramblers and advertised by posting notices in rhyme on woodland trees.

My other ABC Wednesday U posts this week are ~~ Unity Inn Sign at Hyde Daily Photo ~~ Ulriken at Ackworth born, gone West ~~ Under the Pier at Sithenah

To visit more ABC-Wednesday U posts go to Mrs. Nesbitt's Place.

Friday, 11 April 2008

Edith and Dorothy Woodhead

This 1921 photograph of Edith and Dorothy Woodhead, the daughters of Samuel Woodhead and Annie Gee, was sent to me by Edith's daughter, Ruth Beck.

Ruth is researching her family history. She writes
When my mum died in 2000, all of our family history died with her. One day, going through my mother's things, I found a marriage certificate for Annie Gee of Romiley and Sam Woodhead of Stalybridge. Annie's father was Edwin Gee. Martha was listed as Agatha on the census, her father was Henry Bardsley and Kenyon was her mother's married name to Edward Kenyon who died before Martha was born. The earliest Gees I have found were in Apethorn in the early 1700s. Other addresses I found during the 1800s were Werneth Low Coal Pits, Pinfold, New Houses, Werneth, PoleAcre Lane. My grandfather owned 4 homes in Greave Fold in the early 1900s and Edwin died while living at 6 Fern Street in 1945. So I have done quite well with lots of help from many folks in your area. The place I would have liked to have found more information about was Beech Lane, where Peter Gee died in 1849. I think it was a home for the infirmed as the witness to his death was Mary Gee, an inmate and Peter died of diarrhea. He would have been 72. I think most of my family are buried at Stockport, Saint Mary.

Update 2014: The contact previous given for Ruth is now a dead link.

Tuesday, 12 February 2008

Four Lane Ends


This is Four Lane Ends on Werneth Low, around 1910.

On the left hand side is a Quarry now used as a car park. Werneth Low Road carries on past the Hare & Hounds.

The houses are on Higham Lane which comes in from the right, while Joel Lane goes off at right angles.

Monday, 21 January 2008

Werneth Low, circa 1990


I found this in a box of photographs recently. It was taken with a "panoramic" camera. I don't remember much about it, except that I only took one roll of film with it. Most of the results are not especially impressive but they include a couple of pictures of the Cenotaph or War Memorial on Werneth Low. This is scanned and cropped.

The date is around 1990, I think. I've posted the other surviving photo on Hyde Daily Photo.
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