Village Memories

Can you remember some of the these village memories from the last 50/60 years ago. Gather your family around and see

if you can recall some real village memories, from decades gone by.

If you can recall some other memories of village life over the years, then please do email them in for inclusion in the below list.

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Local landowner/s providing a christmas tree for the village green where the memorial is. The tree would arrive on a flatbed truck each year. (start and end date unconfirmed!)

Town Lane, before the Bungalows where built

Morgans Field, in the parkland.

The proposed Golf Course being muted/stopped, for the area from the Park, Home Farm, The old Warren, Church Road to Withins Way

The big tin box next to Hale Hall Gardens (in the park),,everyone use to bang to wind-up Mrs Evans

The xanth/flower frames on the Warren at the back of the walled garden

Italian prisoners of war, filling in a bomb pit in the park

The greenhouses being built on the Garden Center/High Street

Harry Woodward, Bill Grace, Harry Bagley, Norman Roberts and Billy Bagley, playing for Hale FC in the good'ole days

Jim Bobbin' from the Alm's Houses, getting the wooden hut for the old schoolhouse to use as extra space for activities-Snooker Club

Candolfers Icecream van that use to come to Hale and park outside the Manor green infront of Ginnie Hitchmoughs

Bobby Southerns hand cart in Ivy Farm

The Bungalows being built on the right handside, up Church Road between the Manor House and St Mary's Church

The small estate iron gate at the top of the park track/drive near Hale Hall was always shut

The Bothy in Hale Hall Gardens with the stone troff under the archway

Arnold Cox planting the Freemens Coppice in the parkland

Tommy Allens (Allen & Evans of Hale Hall) house on the right up Church Road-The Savilles now live in!?

The neatly mown cricket pitch

The shippings in Church End Farm

Turners/Home Farm's Milking Parlour

Jim Robinson, the village bobby

Turners potatoes-cows on the field around the Cricket Pitch opposite the Church

Alf Stonehouses Shed with his mower in, by the Tennis/Cricket

The bench/seat opposite the Church

The helicopter that use to come and aerial spray the crops up Church Road

Ivy Farm Shops being built on Rat Villa

The Prefab houses being built in Carr Lane

Winning the Best Kept Village for 1968

The Limes

The rose bushes in the triangle on the village green

The decorated billboards with balloonson,, on the village green/memorial for the 1999/2000 Carnival

The stained-glass window in St Mary's Church

Billy Allen was always on the hey bailer at Webbs

The two small sets of prefab sheds next to Ivy Farm Court Shops for residents of the flats above

The very first slide and swings in Hale Park with the big tree trunk to sit on

The Cricket Clubs tea's in the Pavilion

Billy Allan, Herbert Bent and Billy Bagley cleaning out the ashes for two weeks after the church burnt down

The Scouts in Hale Youth Club, run by Mr J Rylance

Turners cows in the lean-too's/Sheds next to the walled garden in the park

The big rats in Church End Farm

Yanks during the war, travelling through the village to Burton Wood in their big trucks

The splitting boxes in the old barn on Church Road

Woodcocks Garage

Thwaites Farm at the top of Ramsbrook

H1/H25 double decker Crosville buses

The old hey rake on the green infront of Church End farmhouse

Billy Allans flag-pole

The wooden bench on the war memorial

The Caravan Club in Hale Park,, on the left

Bernard Webbs cows in the Church Field

The motorbike.scrambler races-competitions event down Ramsbrook Lane on the right

Hale Carnivals procession starting off from Burnes Farm/Houghton Towers

The Hot Air Balloon in Hale Park

Billy Allan, Herbert Bent and Billy Bagley riding home from Webbs at 5pm on their bikes around the War Memorial

The fruit trees planted in the bottom walled garden at Hale Hall by Bernard Webb for sale

The first playgroup in the village was held in the Wellington Function Room in the late 60's.

(Playgroup later moved to the old school annexe.)

The Jaycee School of Dance that was held in the Wellington Function Room

Home Farms (Jimmy Pickups) cows grazing the parkland.

Mr Jenkins, the vicar!

The orchard by the stream in the woods, next to the walled garden.

The Air Raid shelter in the park on the right.

Maud and "Big Jim Leather"

Webbs burning stubble after harvesting

The tennis courts and tennis club down the park/Hall

Turners farm, mowing silage/cutting the grass in the park and storing it next to the walled garden in the park

Air Raid shelter at Ivy Farm Court

Ned Huyton cleaning the village

Annual bonfire in the park, 5th November.

The petrol pumps infront of the old Smithy on the High St

Mark Stonehouse/Almond mowing the cricket pitch

Christmas tree on the village green

Playing in the ruins of Hale Hall before they were demolished, especially the couple of cellars

The Home of Hale Football Club down Carr Lane, first field on the right.

The curb painted black and white all around the War Memorial

Doug StoneHouse mowing the grass in the Church

Mrs Edith and the Church Pram Club

The daffodil fields behind the park/hall

Mrs Claytons shop on the High St near the old Smithy

Italian prisoners of war cleaning out the ladypool brook in the park

The frozen ice in winter down Carr Lane on the right

The Wellington field, before the Curlender was built

Webbs Nursery on the land now built on-Wimpy Estate

Bernard Webbs potatoes and cows in the walled garden down the park/Hale Hall

Barrage Balloons down Withins Way at the bottom on the left

Bernard Webbs estate shoot

Mrs Allan stood at the gate on Town Lane/Ivy Farm

When Pheasant Filed estate was built

The bushes spaced around the war memorials iron fencing

Hemmings Garage/Hale Carrage Company

Molly Huyton with her cut flowers for sale on the High St opposite the garden center

Mr Heskeths vintage car parked up in front of the Manor House

Hale Church being burnt out

Horses in their paddocks in the park

Hale Cricket Clubs Wooden Pavilion

Mr and Mrs Cox who lived down the old Hall/Hale Hall Gardens

Rat Villa

Hale School being burnt down

Webbs little red fergies collecting wood around the village for bonfire night in Hale Park

Playing in and around the Ice House woods

Turners cows down the shore on the Warren

Jan and the Sparr shop

The original width of the red shailed-park track

The orchard were the Poco homes now are

Cut flowers from Dick and Bernard Webbs greenhouses

The greenhouses in the walled garden

Mr Scott the vicar

Church End Farm during the height of harvesting the wheat/barley

Hale Park before people were aloud in

Billy Allans whitewashed wall by the war memorial

Alf Stonehouse taking care of the war memorial and green

Home farm tipping manure on the old tennis courts.

The Queens Visit to Hale

The original mock cannon off the war memorial, in Mrs Rogers garden by the drill hall

Poplar trees next to Ivy Farm

Unexploded incendiary bombs in Hale Park dropped during the war

The Poco Homes being built

The old conker tree in the park on the right, with the rope swing on it, tied to one of the branches

Jeff Grimes the village Bobbie

Mr Dolan, Mrs Watkinson, Mr Smith, Mrs Littler, Mr Wall and Mrs Todd from Hale School

The village playgroup in the old wooden hut next to the Top School

Mrs Evans in her cottage down the old Hall, Hale Hall Gardens

The red telephone box on the High St next to the garage

The aeroplane crashing in the brook down Carr Lane

The Coffee shop in Lucy's Cottage

The thresher at Ivy Farm and Hale Hall Gardens

Bonfire night in Hale Park and the fireworks exploded on the trailer

The parkland/estate gates opposite the war memorial, to Hale Hall, were always closed to the public

Webbs Onions down the shore

Mr Jenkins who had the old Smithy

Sitting on the small stone wall next to the Blackburnes gates/Park Lodge, opposite the war memorial

Mrs Belcher, Billy Howell and Mrs Boydell

The Tea Rooms on Town Lane

The "Grey Lady" (ghost) down the park

The Village Hall being built

The old cottages in Cocklaid Lane before the new houses were built

Cordwells grass team who use to cut the airport airfield, carting cut grass through the village

Brenda and Norman Nuttalls milk/round float

Manchester Airport going on strike and jumbo jets/747's flying over the village and landing at Liverpool Airport,

Billy Allans Geese

Allan & Evans Nursery in the parkland of Hale Hall

When Mr Arnold Cox secured the park for public use

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