Driver did right to block those jumping road queue
BIG thanks to the brave driver who safely blocked off the ‘fast lane’ on the Silk Road to prevent ‘queue jumpers’ between Hurdsfield and Hulley Road roundabouts, (whilst the roadworks were ongoing, restricting the traffic to one lane, which the signs clearly stated).
He, or she, drove at the same speed as the inner slower lane holding back the ‘speedsters’ to their rightful place in the queue.
Well done, it proves there are still some thoughtful drivers around!
Malcolm Maginn, Marigold Close, Macclesfield
PHOTOS HOLD SUCH MEMORIES
THANK you for another interesting couple of pages of photos (Nostalgia, August 19).
The weavers shown on page 19 are my grandparents and the photo was taken as late as 1958 in 24 Crossall Street (now no longer there).
As a child I used to play with the shuttles in their garret - with their permission.
In true weaver tradition they re-used everything, especially string! Never cut a parcel tied with string - always carefully undo it.
If you needed a longer string you would tie shorter pieces together. Nothing was ever thrown away. Interesting times.
The photo at the top of page 19 must date from around 1949-53.
The car (North Western never called them buses - they were road cars - the other vehicles in the picture are ‘motors’) is a 31 seat Eastern Counties bodied Bristol L5G dating from 1938, fleet number 904 (AJA 104).
It received a 1948 Weymann body from a pre-war Leyland in around 1953-4 and was withdrawn in 1957 (the body went on to a 1946 Bristol and lasted until 1963).
This dates the photo. It is on service 46 to Broken Cross.
I remember looking at buses travelling two ways along Chestergate in the 1950s, often viewed from above from the tea room above Whitakers Camera Shop.
Chestergate became one way towards the town hall in the late
1950s and is of course now pedestrianised.
The pre-war Bristol North Western vehicles had coach style thick and high back seating and of great comfort. Nothing to beat it since!
Robert Bracegirdle via email
REVIEW WILL GIVE BALANCE
WE shared our residents’ disappointment when parking charges were re-introduced following a two-month suspension but we were all informed when the charges were suspended that it wasn’t permanent.
The council held out for as long as it could, many other councils had already reintroduced charges long before
Cheshire East had.
The financial pressures put onto councils during the
Covid pandemic to keep services running despite promises from Government that those costs would be covered, which they now seem to have abandoned, have meant that the charges being brought back was a financial necessity.
This, although undesirable, is understandable to maintain a balanced budget and keep services for all residents running.
Longer-term we have put through a countywide parking review, the first one since Cheshire East Council was established, which will address the inequality of parking in Cheshire East.
Where some places parking is entirely free and others it’s charged at expensive rates, this will address the balance.
Councillors Ashley Farrall and Liz Braithwaite, Macclesfield Central