Caverswall Guestbook

Submitted by
Name: Nick Goacher
From: Barlaston
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Comments:
I am really pleased to see that Caverswall and it's story are available on the inteernet.It is a lovely village with plenty of character and history, and is an example of how lives and society are changing.

Added: September 13, 2011

Submitted by
Name: Peter Lawrence
From: weston Coyney
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Comments:
Does anyone in the area of Weston Coyney & caverswall know of any land owners or famr owners in the area.I am traing to fly a paramotor,and I looking for asmall field to land & take off in.A paramotor is just a paraglider with a small petrol enigine on my back that allows me to fly with out using hills to gain lift.

Added: August 28, 2011

Submitted by
Name: Geoffrey Williams
From: Caverswall
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Comments:
I would be very intrested with any Information or history of St Peters school house, Caverswall.

Regards
G Williams.

Added: August 18, 2011

Submitted by
Name: David Rayner
From: Stoke-on-Trent
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Comments:
Can anyone shed any light on this? As an 11 / 12 year old boy living at 1, Raglan Street (now Dimmelow Street), Coalville Estate, in the 1950s, I remember a tragic incident where a neighbour, Mr Hansen, a coal miner, of 5, Raglan Street, was killed in an accident in the pit. He had two sons, George, the youngest, and Michael, the oldest, and I remember Michael sitting on the front doorstep of number 5 crying after being told the news of his father's death. This would have been around 1958 / 1959. But I have never been able to trace anything about this, not even on Robert Burden's North Staffordshire Coalfields website. If it happened in 1959, there was a six weeks long national printers strike during that summer and the Evening Sentinel was only able to bring out a four page special edition paper every night, minus the family announcements columns and just about everything else. So if the tragedy happened during this period, the death would not have been reported in the paper. Does anyone reading this remember what happened and the date it occured?

Added: July 27, 2011

Submitted by
Name: Hilary Milburn
From: Wakefield West Yorkshire
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Comments:
Having lost my Mum very recently, I was going through her wartime photos and found an almost identical photo to the one on the article about Cheadle Y Station. Is Mary, who wrote the article, still alive? I am interested to know if she knew my Mum, then Joyce Aldus, as she is in the photo.

Added: July 17, 2011

Submitted by
Name: Michael Brown
From: Durham City
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Comments:
Hello My Great Grandfather Charles Forrester born Abt 1874 lived in Caverswall he was married to Elizabeth (Betsy) they had two children at that time Charles born 1902 and Minnie born 1904 they moved Durham Abt 1906 I would be Greatful If any body has any information on this family

Added: June 15, 2011

Submitted by
Name: Mitchell Rafferty
From: Cheadle
E-mail: Contact

Comments:
Hello
Im trying to trace a James Gould known as Mo
who was posted to Woodhead around 1954/55
If anyone has any info on him however small I would love to hear from them.
Thankyou

Added: May 21, 2011

Submitted by
Name: Edward M Penning
From: Newcastle, North Staffordshire
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Comments:
I was born in a house in Stuart Avenue, Draycott, in the Parish of Dilhorne in 1938 and christened at the Catholic Church in Caverswall.
I left Draycott in either late 1939 or sometime in 1940 with my mother owing to the outbreak of war and my father being enlisted in the Army. I was subsequently raised in Cobridge during the war and until 1953, but kept in touch with Blythe Bridge where my grandparents lived on Uttoxeter Rd throughout the war years and beyond, making regular visits and on occasion staying with them for a month or so, which has left an indelible mark on the fond memories of my earliest years.

Added: April 21, 2011

Submitted by
Name: Mrs Mason
From: Somerset (originally Nantwich)
E-mail: Contact

Comments:
We are looking to move to the area and we would greatly appreciate information such as what it is like to live in Caverswall, nearby amenities, schools, Gp surgery, etc.

We would also be grateful for information about walks around the area (public access to fields perhaps) for dog walks.

Is Caverswall a friendly place to live? Do people living in the area tend to help each other?

Many thanks for any feedback.

Added: April 18, 2011

Submitted by
Name: John Holroyd
From: Longton
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Comments:
Good local site. I am interested in the lady who described the Y station in 1944-47 at Woodhead Hall Cheadle. My family history inclludes an uncle Cyril Dale, aged 20 in 1946, from Fenton who started there on enlistment around 1943. He later moved down south to Wiltshire as an traffic interceptor, where he unfortunately died in a m/c accident in 1946 aged 21 after de-mobbing. Would hse or anyone else have known him?

Added: March 3, 2011