Address in Hale

[LizzieW]

Hi Mikezcooler

Lucky you, I have fond memories of Hale where I lived until I was 13.  My cousin who lives in Lymm tells me I wouldn't recognize the place now.  My mum had a shop on Ashley Road, opposite the bottom of Westgate.  I know there was a dairy on the corner of Westgate, Ware's Dairy which also made ice cream.  I believe that it's a bistro or something now.  I have very very fond memories connected with Ware's Dairy, which have nothing to do with the dairy.   I'm talking 1950s now, so a whole lifetime away.

Lizzie

[Mikezcooler]

Thanks Lizzie.

I was just doing some research, and sick as a parrot as just found there was a war memorial of the school that sold on ebay 3 yrs ago. Had I known about it, would have been nice to have bought it and put it closer to where the students & masters actually studied / lived.

http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Cheshire/HaleWadhamHouseSchool.html

[Maximus64]

Wadham House was a private school between Arthog Road and Park Road Hale. Lightoaks was a detached house next door where the boarders slept. It closed down in the early 1960s. The Blazers and School Caps were Black with 2 parallel light blue striped. The school motto was "Age Viriliter."

The last headmaster was John Horsfall Turner, who suffered Alcoholism probably made worse when I believe 2 boys died in a fire on a school trip to France.

The school and playing fields were sold for around £25,000 in the 1960s and developed into Wadham Way off Park Road (a number of detached homes) and about 2 more on Arthog Road.

There were three Houses - White House, Red House and Blue House - pupils were enlisted into one of these. Turner the headmaster ran White House and the Summer Sports Day was one of the things he did best.

From Egg and Spoon, Sack Race, throwing of the cricket ball, to 100 yards, 220 yards and half mile, long and high jump, it was fun.

There was a Tuck Shop in one if the two roads off Park Road.

Hope this is of some help

[Maximus57523]

All correct

[athel_cb]

I lived in Hale from 1954 to 1965. I found the area we lived in very little changed when I was driving back from Manchester to Birmingham in about 1975 and decided to make an excursion through Hale to see if I recognized anything. Judging from photos on the Internet our house in Riddings Road is still easily recognizable, though they've built an extension over the garage. However, its estimated value today is about a million pounds, whereas in 1954 it cost about £2000.

Arthog Road has been mentioned a couple of times. I met John Polanyi long before he won the Nobel Prize, and when I told him I lived in Hale he said that he had lived in Arthog Road as a child.

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