A Commodore PET in the old man's kitchen
A Trip Around Macclesfield and Sandbach, Cheshire - 10th September 2005
The weekend had started on Sunday Morning with a trip to Hazel Grove, near Stockport, to pick up a vintage Commodore PET 4016 purchased off eBay. After Sunday afternoon's trip up to the Pennines, Nosher and The Old Chap head off into Macclesfield on the following Monday - Dad to do a few errands, me to take photos. There's a stop-off to the shop of dad's late chum Jim the Butcher to get some sausages, followed by a roam around some of the sights of Macclesfield. Ordinarily, as you drive down into town from the Buxton direction on a winter's day, you get a real sense of bleak mill town, although even then it's nothing like as black as it was in the 80s. However, today's sunny, so the effect isn't quite as grim. Finally, on the way home back to Suffolk, there's a visit to one-time home Sandbach to see what's changed, and to glimpse again the favourite old school - Sandbach Grammar.
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The Old Chap scratches his head in the kitchen
The Old Man tries to finish the crossword
The back garden
Rob, Jim's colleague, who now runs the butcher's
Rob and The Old Chap chat about stuff
The old man in Cotterill and Hill, Macclesfield
Sausages are weighed
The Old Man at the counter
Dad checks a list
Rob chats to the old man
The Cheshire Building Society
An alleyway opposite HSBC
The Old Chap heads off to the town hall
Macclesfield Town Hall
St. Michael's church, black from mill soot
Church Street
St. Michael's Church, Macclesfield
The churchyard of St. Michael's
The Castle Inn, one of The Old Chap's boozers
Window cleaners in action
The Old Man wanders past 'Carpet House'
The doorway of a small fabric emporium
A kid spins a sign around
The Macclesfield indoor market
Some dude looks at a cold meats chiller
The Old Man hangs his washing out
A mill, from the top of Clowes Lane
A mill near Clowes Lane
Clowes Lane, Macclesfield
The Saxon Crosses, Sandbach, Cheshire
The red-brick building was a model shop in the 70s
The Lower Chequer Pub, unchanged from the 70s,
The Lower Chequer pub
More Saxon Crosses
Another view of the Saxon Crosses
Market Square
Sandbach Town Hall and Indoor Market
Monument on the roundabout on the way to Wheelock
Sandbach Grammar, dating from 1677
Nosher's old form room is top right
The view from Crewe Road, like on the walk to school
The cricket pavillion
Nearly home: Sunset near Wickham Skeith, Suffolk
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A Commodore PET in the old man's kitchen
A Commodore PET in the old man's kitchen
The Old Chap scratches his head in the kitchen
The Old Man tries to finish the crossword
The back garden
Rob, Jim's colleague, who now runs the butcher's
Rob and The Old Chap chat about stuff
The old man in Cotterill and Hill, Macclesfield
Sausages are weighed
The Old Man at the counter
Dad checks a list
Rob chats to the old man
The Cheshire Building Society
An alleyway opposite HSBC
The Old Chap heads off to the town hall
Macclesfield Town Hall
St. Michael's church, black from mill soot
Church Street
St. Michael's Church, Macclesfield
The churchyard of St. Michael's
The Castle Inn, one of The Old Chap's boozers
Window cleaners in action
The Old Man wanders past 'Carpet House'
The doorway of a small fabric emporium
A kid spins a sign around
The Macclesfield indoor market
Some dude looks at a cold meats chiller
The Old Man hangs his washing out
A mill, from the top of Clowes Lane
A mill near Clowes Lane
Clowes Lane, Macclesfield
The Saxon Crosses, Sandbach, Cheshire
The red-brick building was a model shop in the 70s
The Lower Chequer Pub, unchanged from the 70s,
The Lower Chequer pub
More Saxon Crosses
Another view of the Saxon Crosses
Market Square
Sandbach Town Hall and Indoor Market
Monument on the roundabout on the way to Wheelock
Sandbach Grammar, dating from 1677
Nosher's old form room is top right
The view from Crewe Road, like on the walk to school
The cricket pavillion
Nearly home: Sunset near Wickham Skeith, Suffolk