Memories of Hazel Grove

Posted by Administrator, 10th May 2007 at 6:36PM

This page is a collection of people's memories of Hazel Grove.

Posted by Michael R. Dobbs, 10th May 2007 at 6:38PM

I remember living at No: 2 St.Anns Road from the time I was 4 until I turned 19. I will always have a fondness for Hazel Grove and Bramhall. I am now 52 and live in upstate New York, USA in a small country town, not unlike the town where I grew up. Some day I would like to return with my wife and children for a holiday and enjoy again, a pint of 'Robbies' bitter in the Cock Hotel.

Posted by guest, 22nd May 2007 at 3:37PM

Belive me h/g is not as you remember it, unfortunatly the cock is not the place to take your wife & children. there are not many pubs you can go to without seeing drugs or fighting.does that sound like the h/g you remember? you would be better off staying put and keep your memories in tact.

Posted by Guest, 23rd May 2007 at 12:05PM

^ one of the funniest things iv read in a while

Posted by Blue Grover, 30th May 2007 at 3:12PM

Mr Pinks Gent Hair dressers.
Markdown supermarket.
Andersons VW Garage where Wyndsors is now.
Bennisons chippy.
The Red Lion.
The Lithopak wall(a must for the under fives and the PU coming home from the Boo).
"Tater Joe".
North East Cheshire Show.

Any more?

Posted by Positive person, 14th June 2007 at 4:38PM

The michelin man at the tyre place.... kept my son amused for ages.

Posted by Nice One Fred, 21st June 2007 at 11:05PM

Hiderleys Television and Radio Shop - was that real stubble?

The Golden Door - great cakes!

The Black Cat Restuarant(?) - yer, not quite a restaurant but I have some good memories of it

Frank Browne's the Barber - mmmh?

The old Co-Op with air assisted money transfers system - great idea. Great bank - I still have an old Co-op bank book with 7 shillings and 4 pence in.

Vernons fruit and veg shop - sadly missed.

Browne's the fish shop - smelly?

...and of course the Bamboo Night Club. Question: will my 1979 membership card still get me in?

Good memories - but not as it used to be!

Now, I live many hundreds of miles away in a town which is everything I wish Hazel Grove could be.

Posted by Blue Grover, 27th June 2007 at 12:55PM

Frank Browns,how could anyone forget!

The original "only g-y in the village"!

Posted by frank, 22nd July 2007 at 6:57PM

What about Reg and Eric, the only gay greengrocers at the fiveways?

Posted by David Sumner, 24th July 2007 at 3:28PM

I lived in Bowerfield Avenue from 1960 to 1964 when I left and joined the Royal Navy.
I rember
Jacksons Jailhouse (school)
Little Black & White shop on Chester Road
Coop at Fiveways
Fiveways Pub
Neal & Hardy record shop
The swing on Torky Park over the stream
The girl that lived at the "Black Cat" cafe
Harry Worth filming part of his show at the railway station one bombfire night
The Grove Show
The Manor Lounge(beat club)and coffee bar next door, nearer Stockport and Osbourne-Bently School of Dancing, and the Youth Club down Dialstone Lane and working on Saturdays in the new Coop Supermarket on London Road near the Golden Door Cake Shop for £2.10s.
Now I live back in my home town of Southport after spending 25 years living in the North East. I will always have very happy memories of Hazel Grove.

Posted by Lesley, 17th August 2007 at 1:29PM

Hi, I remember drinking in the Cock with you, I lived "across the pond" at the end of St Anns Rd. I left Hazel Grove in 1975 after I got married and went to live in Berlin, Have been back for quite some time now living just down the road from Hazel Grove.Chris is in Australia and re-married. Hazel Grove has changed quite considerabley but there is still the old place lurking beneath the surface. Hope you are well