Life’s a Beech!
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.
This week our photography spread is dominated by two views up, and down, Beech Lane, otherwise known as the A538 leading to Manchester Road.
The cobbled road is captured on what looks like a bright summer’s day in the early 1900s.
As you might expect, the road is entirely devoid of any motorised vehicles in stark contrast to the scenes which anyone strolling down the lane would witness today.
Another picture showing Hibel Road over the rooftops, top left, shows what looks as if it might be a charabanc type vehicle or a large taxi.
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.