Events Spotlight

PICTURE FROM THE PAST

This Edwardian postcard shows the first Grove Lane Baptist chapel that was really situated on Pingate Lane, but only a few yards from the junction with Grove Lane. The date stone below the gable shows the date of 1840. Attached at the rear you can see the caretaker’s residence which may have been added at a later date. In the 1840s the chapel would have been quite isolated within a largely farming community.

The chapel must have quickly grown for by 1846 a day and Sunday school was built on Grove Lane where today you can still see the date stone. The chapel had a very simple interior and people will remember in the 1940s, 50s and 60s the congregation sat on long hard benches! The chapel was demolished in the 1990s to make way for today’s new church.

Readers who remember this area will have memories of Lucy Brunt’s tiny grocer’s shop, Mr. & Mrs. Baldwin’s post office and Bob Burrows’ timber yard. Those were the days when this area was still very much a little community.

Peter Crummett, Stockport Historical Society.

PAINT CHEADLE HULME & BRAMHALL PINK

Jo Hoddes from Bramhall, together with three more ambassadors, Emma Riley, Jenny Rodger and Emma Riley (yes there really are two Emma Riley’s) are planning to PAINT CHEADLE HULME & BRAMHALL PINK.

From the end of April, and throughout May, they want the whole of the community to be awash in pink! It’s about holding a range of exciting, fun and sometimes wacky fundraising activities and events, all with a pink theme. We’re talking special pink events , pink shop windows, pink cake sales, pink cocktails the posibilities are endless. As ambassadors for the charity, which is based at The Nightingale Centre at Wythenshawe Hospital, they are all super passionate about Prevent Breast Cancer especially as it’s the only charity in the UK entirely dedicated to predicting and preventing this devastating disease. They are just waiting for our information packs to be printed and then will be making their way round Bramhall & Cheadle Hulme with them. So if you’re a household, shop, restaurant or business and would like a pack, window sticker and details on how you can register and get involved, please drop Jo a message on 07540 221806 or johoddes1@gmail.com and she or one of the team will drop you one off.