Here are a few of the subjects I am going to talk about next in my entries.
Kent Road petrol station site (ex-Total).
Edgeley Road petrol station site (ex-Shell), currently trading as a hand car wash.
New street lights in Cheadle Heath.
Illumination of the directional signs in Cheadle Heath.
Street cleansing in Cheadle Heath.
Brinksway retaining walls.
Saturday, June 26th, 2010.
ReplyDeleteHi, I just wanted to say hello, as I was born in Cheadle Heath, as David Welsh, at number 1, Eva Road, over 63 years ago in April, 1947. Although I moved forty miles south to Stoke-on-Trent at the age of seven and a half in September, 1954, I have never settled here; made no friends here; have never been married nor had any children and still regard myself as an ex-Cheadle Heathian, as I have many happy memories of the place, such as riding on the trams; attending Cheadle Heath Infants School in Edgeley Road(known locally as The Tin Bucket) and playing about on my favourite childhood haunt, the Cheadle Heath railway.
Two dramatic occurences in 1953 when I was six were being knocked down by a car while crossing Stockport Road, Cheadle Heath, outside the shops, and my mysterious fall sixty feet down the cliffs at Brinksway into the River Mersey and the dramatic rescue that followed by the late Bill Howard and the late Jack Morris, who somehow got down the cliffs and dragged me from the river unconscious and Bill giving me artificial respiration before the two of them, inch by inch, dragged me back up the very dangerous cliffs to the safety of Jack's now long gone cottage at 122, Brinksway. In those days, it as easy for people to gain access to the cliffs and many children had fallen into the river there and been drowned. I was one of the very few who survived such an ordeal.