West Park rocks!

OUR nostalgia column brings you fascinating pictures taken in Macclesfield in days gone by. OUR new-look nostalgia picture spread now brings you a wide selection of old photographs each week.

We have teamed up with Macclesfield Library and Cheshire Archives and Local Studies to share old photographs from the archives and will be featuring several different images each week.

Taking pride of place in the centre of our nostalgia spread is a picture of a group, possibly a mum and children, inspecting a large boulder during the 1950s.

The impressive smooth granite rock is thought to have been carried to Cheshire by a glacier from the Lake District during the last ice age.

It was subsequently discovered during excavation work on Oxford Road during Victorian times.

It carries a plaque which states that it was presented to the park by benefactor Joseph Hudson Beswick.

We also have a picture of St Michael’s Terrace from the 1950s and two postcards featuring town landmarks from the 1930s.

Explore old books, maps and newspapers at Macclesfield Library, Jordangate, SK10 1EE or visit archives.cheshire.gov. uk.

We would love to hear your memories relating to any of the pictures we share over our pages.

If you have additional information on the pictures featured today, please contact staff at the Cheshire Image Bank by visiting www. cheshireimagebank.org. uk and clicking on ‘Can you help?’

You can get in touch with us by emailing macclesfieldexpress@ menmedia.co.uk.