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February 2013: Rochdale Town Hall & Toad Lane Museum
Rather unfairly, Rochdale is often regarded as being a bit of a backwater. We drive past it on the motorway but don’t think of visiting it. Perhaps that’s why Judith planned an outing there as she had...
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October 2013: MediaCityUK
MediaCityUK, a development site, of mixed-use and some 200acres, on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal, is the home, amongst others of BBC North. And was the destination of the Society’s autumn...
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March 2014: Robinsons Brewery
The Society trip to Robinson’s Brewery; a tale of three tokens, two baker’s dozen, and one tower of 54 steps. Judith Wilshaw had kindly organized this tour, this ‘trip’ in which a coach was not to be...
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April 2014: Exploring Curious Cheshire
The ‘Curious Cheshire Charabanc Caper’, was a journey that started not on this day, but many summers ago, when a fresh-faced and innocent Donald Reid took his bike, thermos flask and butties to Neston...
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June 2014: Arley Hall and Gardens
Our summer trip to Arley Hall and Gardens, the home of Viscount Ashbrook and his family, took place on mid summer’s day. We were fortunate that the weather was kind to us even though it was not quite...
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October 2014: Chadkirk & Stockport Hydro
One Saturday afternoon in October, the members of the society joined a three stage ‘Tour de Chadkirk’ encompassing 1500 years of history. To paraphrase Dickens, ‘It was the oldest of times, and the...
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March 2015: Victoria Park & Baths, Elizabeth Gaskell House, Manchester
A lonely figure stood at the junction of Upper Brook Street and Hathersage Road. It was twenty five past ten and no one had turned up for the planned day visiting the Victoria Park area. Judith was...
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June 2015: Wentworth Woodhouse and Wortley Top Forge
There was no problem with finding Wentworth Woodhouse. With 365 rooms, it is the biggest house in Europe. Quite a contrast to the miners’ cottages that we passed on the way there. However it might not...
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Manchester Central Reference Library & Ordsall Hall
No coaches allowed on this trip. Make your own way, pal! Not a great surprise though, as the destination was Manchester. Your scribe began his day’s odyssey in the waiting room of Rose Hill Station,...
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April 2016: Nether Alderley Mill & Jodrell Bank Observatory
Into Cheshire for the Society’s spring trip 2016, Nether Alderley Mill in the morning, and Jodrell Bank Observatory, in the afternoon. The sun shone on the day and the travellers, but alas a cool wind...
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July 2016: Saltaire & Bingley Five Rise
A tale of a nineteenth century model town, five locks, and a July day in God’s Own County. On boarding the coach, early 9am start, we discovered that Judith had lost her voice, but the day proved that...
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Avro Heritage Museum, November 2016
‘To boldly go where no Society has gone before’ – a noble objective but not true on this occasion. The consultation exercise with the members earlier this year had drawn the suggestion to revisit...
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London Road Fire Station, January 2017
Standing at the junction of London Road and Whitworth Street, the building has been largely empty since 1986, gradually deteriorating. It has been a Grade II* listed building since 1974 but that did...
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Visit to Stockport War Memorial Art Gallery
After the Great War the people of Stockport wanted to create memorial with a purpose, not just another cenotaph. The main objective of the building was to ‘perpetuate the names of the fallen Stockport...
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Visit to Stockport War Memorial Art Gallery, March 2017
How long have you lived in Stockport?What is that building opposite the Town Hall?Have you ever visited it? The chances are that you have never been to the Stockport War Memorial and Art Gallery. If...
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Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet and Renishaw Hall, April 2017
Our winter visit was a day of two halves: industrial heritage in the morning followed by an afternoon tour of an historic mansion and the opportunity to stroll around gardens in the warm sunshine. An...
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Summer Stroll A : All Saints Churchyard
All Saints Churchyard - Hilary Atkinson,15th May With three walks to come, the Festival of Evening Strolls started for the Society, with this story of three churches in one. The bolt-on, to the...
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Summer Stroll B: Melandra & Glossop
20 people plus one handsome dog joined Neil Mullineux on Monday evening for his history tour of Glossop. We met at the car park at Melandra Fort (though one needs imagination to see the fort). From...
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Summer Trip : Cromford Mill
In the mid-Eighteenth Century Richard Arkwright, a wig maker from Preston, perfected a whacky new machine to spin strong cotton yarn suitable for use as both the warp and weft when weaving fabric on a...
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Summer Stroll C: Bugsworth Basin
A watery end to the summer strolls. Bugsworth Basin was the destination for 30 or so adventurers on a warm and sunny evening in July, the final summer stroll of this season’s three. Judith Wilshaw...
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