Photographs of Cheadle in the 1900s
Reference number: 698
An interior hallway in Abney Hall
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Patients resting in a ward inside Barnes Convalescent Home
Patients in the Curtis Ward at Barnes Convalescent Home
Members of the Pierce family in service at Brookfield House (off Wilmslow Road) in 1904
Brookside farm, close to Broadway on the west side of Wilmslow Road, as it was at the beginning of the 20th Century. (Most of the farm buildings have now been demolished and new houses built there)
Farewell to Kitty Godson
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Members of the Cheadle Fire Service pose for the camera outside their fire station which was based in what is now Massie Street car park
A number of youngsters, cyclists and other people sit on the benches at the front of Cheadle Green with the institute behind
The music room at Cheadle Royal Hospital
Wedding party for the marriage of Jessie Lee and Percy Herbert Rogers, believed to be in Bulkeley Road, c1904
A portrait of locally born entertainer Gabrielle Ray who became a huge star in London in the early years of the 20th Century
When the Cheadle tram service began in 1903, the terminus to the West was the Horse and Farrier pub in Gatley
Children play at the front of Cheadle Green in 1902 with the George and Dragon pub in the background.
A family outside a house on Hall Grove (behind St Mary's church)
The shopkeeper stands outside his convenience store on the corner of Hall Street
Frank Gibson plumbing merchant shop at number 34 (north side) of High Street
View of High Street near the George and Dragon
Jonathan Alcock, long-serving Cheadle undertaker and builder and also a member of the Alcock family which owned a shop on the south side of High Street for more than 150 years
A horse drinking from the trough at the base of the Ockleston Memorial with the George and Dragon pub in the background
Reference number: 871
The Ockleston Memorial with the Institute building and Cheadle Green in the background
The Sanitary Laundry building on the south side of High Street in what later became the electricity showroom
Two cyclists sit on a bench in the roundabouts at the junction of Wilmslow Road and Schools Hill
Pedestrians and cyclists on Schools Hill
Reverend Macdona, the rector of St Mary's church, inspects a detachment of the 3rd Battalion Cheshire Regiment in 1905
Reference number: 166
The White Hart hotel with people on the road
Typical street scene outside the White hart Hotel with young boys staring at the camera
A view of Wilmslow Road looking towards the White Hart Hotel