Photographs of Cheadle in the 1900s

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Abney Hall

 Reference number: 698 

An interior hallway in Abney Hall

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Barnes Convalescent Home

Reference number: 813
Cattle grazing in the grounds around Barnes Convalescent Home in 1908

 

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Barnes Convalescent Home

Reference number: 104
 

Patients resting in a ward inside Barnes Convalescent Home

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Barnes Convalescent Home

Reference number: 279

 

Patients in the Curtis Ward at Barnes Convalescent Home

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Brookfield House

Reference number: 613
 

Members of the Pierce family in service at Brookfield House (off Wilmslow Road) in 1904

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Brookside Farm

Reference number: 557
Photograph of the old Brookside Farm (now mostly demolished) on the side of Wilmslow Road

 

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Brookside Farm

Reference number: 767

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)

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Cheadle

Reference number: 883

Farewell to Kitty Godson

 

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Cheadle

Reference number: 884
Portrait of the Lee family, believed to be outside number 2 Ernest Street

 

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Cheadle

Reference number: 320

A senior Cheadle office worker at his desk in 1908

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Cheadle

Reference number: AA4

Former Cheadle and Gatley UDC councillor Joe Johnson using Cheadle's advanced telephone subscription service in the late 1900s 
 

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Cheadle Cricket team

Reference number: 709
 
A photograph of the Cheadle Cricket Club first team in 1905

 

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Cheadle Fire Service

Reference number: 617

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

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Cheadle Green

Reference number: 755
View of the front of Cheadle Green, with the Cheadle Lower station in the background and a passing train on the railway bridge

 

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Cheadle Green

Reference number: 629
 
A view of the front of Cheadle Green in 1902 with the Ockleston Memorial and High Street in the background

 

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Cheadle Hall

Reference number: 231
 
An elaborate archway leading into another room inside Cheadle Hall

 

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Cheadle Hall

Reference number: 228
 
The main drawing room inside Cheadle Hall

 

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Cheadle Hall

Reference number: 711
 
A photograph of Cheadle Hall taken from Stockport Road. (Cheadle Hall stood for around 200 years at what is now the back Cheadle Green).

 

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Cheadle Institute

Reference number: A64

A number of youngsters, cyclists and other people sit on the benches at the front of Cheadle Green with the institute behind

 

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Cheadle Old Woods

Reference number: 371
A man walks along the path through Cheadle Old Woods near where Councillor Lane is located

 

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Cheadle Primary School

Reference number: 374
Pupils are photographed in the woodwork class at the newly opened Cheadle Primary School in 1909

 

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Cheadle Rectory

Reference number: A24
 
A front view of the old Cheadle Rectory which previously stood on the site of the old Post Office before it was demolished in the late 1930s

 

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Cheadle Rectory

Reference number: 559
A front view of the old Cheadle Rectory which previously stood on the site of the Post Office before it was demolished in the late 1930s

 

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Cheadle road sign

Reference number: 377
Local residents stand next to the road sign on Manchester Road, Handforth with the sign showing Cheadle and Manchester in one direction and Wilmslow in the other

 

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Cheadle Royal Hospital

Reference number: 326
The main buildings of Cheadle Royal Hospital, then commonly known as Royal Asylum, Cheadle

 

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Cheadle Royal Hospital

Reference number: 340
The greenhouses and kitchen gardens at Cheadle Royal Hospital

 

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Cheadle Royal Hospital

Reference number: 329

 

The music room at Cheadle Royal Hospital

 

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Cheadle Sunday School

Reference number: 885 
Sunday school group photograph

 

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Cheadle tram

Reference number: A58
 
The newly started tram makes its way towards Gatley, passing a horse drawn bus which is waiting outside the White Hart Hotel

 

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Cheadle tram

Reference number: 177
 
Photograph of a Cheadle to Stockport tram with the guard, driver and passengers all posing for the camera

 

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Cheadle wedding party

Reference number: 866 

Wedding party for the marriage of Jessie Lee and Percy Herbert Rogers, believed to be in Bulkeley Road, c1904

 

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Cheadle Wesleyan School at Eden Place

Reference number: 319
A class photographs of pupils at the Wesleyan Schools in 1904

 

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Cheadle Wesleyan School at Eden Place

Reference number: 209
 
A class photograph of pupils at the Eden Place Day School

 

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Cheadle Wood Farm

Reference number: 501
Rear view of the main residential houses at Cheadle Wood Farm near the River Mersey

 

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Frances Street children

Reference number: 212
Children of the families who live in Frances Street pose for a group photograph

 

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Gabrielle Ray

Reference number: 609
 
A portrait of locally born entertainer Gabrielle Ray who became a huge star in London in the early years of the 20th Century

 

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Gabrielle Ray

Reference number: 610

 

A portrait of locally born entertainer Gabrielle Ray who became a huge star in London in the early years of the 20th Century

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Gatley Road

Reference number: 180
 
Dignitaries and engineers inspect the new tram lines built into Gatley Road in 1903 before being covered over

 

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Gatley Road

Reference number: 452
A tinted colour photograph of Gatley Road with a horse drawn carriage and tram in the distance

 

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Gatley terminus

Reference number: 769

When the Cheadle tram service began in 1903, the terminus to the West was the Horse and Farrier pub in Gatley

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Gatley tram terminus

Reference number: 768

When the Cheadle tram service began in 1903, the terminus to the West was the Horse and Farrier pub in Gatley

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Gatley tram terminus

Reference number: 772

When the Cheadle tram service began in 1903, the terminus to the West was the Horse and Farrier pub in Gatley

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Gatley tram terminus

Reference number: 770

When the Cheadle tram service began in 1903, the terminus to the West was the Horse and Farrier pub in Gatley

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George and Dragon

Reference number: 697

 

Children play at the front of Cheadle Green in 1902 with the George and Dragon pub in the background.

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Hall Grove

Reference number: 382

A family outside a house on Hall Grove (behind St Mary's church)

 

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Hall Street

Reference number: A61
 

The shopkeeper stands outside his convenience store on the corner of Hall Street

 

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Hall Street

Reference number: 712
 
Residents of Hall Street walk along the road and pavement

 

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Heathside girls hockey club

Reference number: 887
Heath side girls hockey club team photograph

 

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High Street

Reference number: 148
 
A couple walk along High Street, while others sit around the Ockleston Memorial

 

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High Street

Reference number: 476
A view of High Street with a tram passing St Mary's church

 

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High Street

Reference number: 402

Frank Gibson plumbing merchant shop at number 34 (north side) of High Street

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High Street

Reference number: 129
 
View of High Street towards Cheadle Hall

 

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High Street

Reference number: 178
 
A tram travels along High Street as it heads towards Stockport

 

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High Street

Reference number: 143
 
A view of High Street westbound

 

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High Street

Reference number: 105
 
View of High Street looking westwards towards St Mary's church

 

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High Street

Reference number: 411
A view of High Street eastbound

 

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High Street

Reference number: 176
 
A tram on High Street heading towards Stockport

 

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High Street

Reference number: 200
 
A view of the north side of High Street with a number of horse drawn taxis in the road

 

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High Street

Reference number: A85
 

View of High Street near the George and Dragon

 

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Horse drawn bus

Reference number: 121

Contemporary photograph of a Cheadle to Manchester horse-drawn bus which would have been in service in the 1890s

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Horse drawn bus

Reference number: 765

Contemporary photograph of the lower deck of a Cheadle to Manchester horse-drawn bus which would have been in service during the 1890s

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Horse drawn bus

Reference number: 358
Coachman Scotch Bob (Robert Telford), the guard and passengers pose for a photograph on a horse-drawn bus outside the White Hart Hotel

 

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Jonathan Alcock

Reference number: 752

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

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Manchester

Reference number: 385
The former offices of Sir James Watts of Abney Hall on Portland Street in the centre of Manchester

 

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Moseley Old Hall

Reference number: A72
 
The family of one of the cottages inside Moseley Old Hall pose for a photograph

 

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Ockleston Memorial

Reference number: A55

A horse drinking from the trough at the base of the Ockleston Memorial with the George and Dragon pub in the background

 

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Ockleston Memorial

Reference number: 871

The Ockleston Memorial with the Institute building and Cheadle Green in the background

 

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Sanitary Laundry

Reference number: 184

The Sanitary Laundry building on the south side of High Street in what later became the electricity showroom

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Schools Hill

Reference number: 761
Several people sit on the benches in the old roundabouts at the junction of Schools Hill and Wilmslow Road

 

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Schools Hill

Reference number: 694

Two cyclists sit on a bench in the roundabouts at the junction of Wilmslow Road and Schools Hill

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Schools Hill

Reference number: 130
 
A view of Schools Hill taken from the Wilmslow Road junction

 

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Schools Hill

Reference number: 153
View of cars, cyclists and pedestrians coming heading up School's Hill with Wilmslow Road in the background

 

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Schools Hill

Reference number: 150
A view of Schools Hill westbound

 

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Schools Hill

Reference number: 867

Pedestrians and cyclists on Schools Hill

 

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Scotch Bob

Reference number: 321
Cheadle coachman Scotch Bob "Robert Telford" poses for a photograph in full uniform in 1908

 

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St Mary's church

Reference number: 475
A view of St Mary's church in winter covered in snow

 

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St Mary's church

Reference number: 487
A view of St Mary's church

 

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St Mary's church

Reference number: 478
The lychgate at St Mary's church in 1909 with the church in the background

 

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St Mary's church

Reference number: A17

Young men stand outside the entrance to St Mary's church

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St Mary's church

Reference number: A94

Reverend Macdona, the rector of St Mary's church, inspects a detachment of the 3rd Battalion Cheshire Regiment in 1905

 

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St Mary's church

Reference number: 480
St Mary's church porch

 

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St Mary's church

Reference number: 488
View of the St Mart's church lychgate with the church in the background

 

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St Mary's church

Reference number: 473
View of St Mary's church and the lychgate in 1909

 

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Stockport Road

Reference number: A31
 
A horse drawn taxi passes the Red Lion pub as it travels along Stockport Road 

 

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Tram by Cheadle Green

Reference number: A14
 
A tram passes Cheadle Green on the way to Stockport

 

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Weavers Building

Reference number: 138
 
Street scene at the junction of Gatley Road and Wilmlslow Road with the Weavers Building in the background

 

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Weavers Building

Reference number: 166

Cyclists gather outside the front of the Weavers building

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Weavers Building

Reference number: 723
 
The Weavers Building on the corner of Wilmslow Road and Gatley Road when it was still known as Burgons.

 

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White Hart Hotel

Reference number: AA3
 
Street scene of a motorised bus outside the White Hart Hotel

 

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White Hart Hotel

Reference number: 771

The White Hart hotel with people on the road

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White Hart hotel and St Mary's church

Reference number: AA1
 

Typical street scene outside the White hart Hotel with young boys staring at the camera

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Wilmslow Road

Reference number: 155
An open top car turns into Wilmslow Road from High Street

 

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Wilmslow Road

Reference number: 359
View along Wilmslow Road towards the White Hart Hotel in 1906. The wall of the old rectory is on the left and the National School is on the right.

 

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Wilmslow Road

Reference number: 355
View of Wilmslow Road leading towards the White Hart Hotel. The wall of the old rectory is on the left and the National School is on the right.

 

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Wilmslow Road

Reference number: 302

 

A view of Wilmslow Road looking towards the White Hart Hotel

 

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Wilmslow Road

Reference number: 351 
Tinted colour photograph of horse drawn buses waiting outside the White Hart Hotel terminus

 

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