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Images of Handforth, Stockport, Wilmslow, Styal, Heald Green, Alderley Edge and the wider NW & N Wales. Present-day photos taken by me, unless otherwise stated

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Upcoming event: Battling the Birch 2, Wednesday 20th March at Lindow Common SSSI, Wilmslow. Help Bollin Valley Partnership Rangers to clear the birch trees from the site & make birch bundles for use on other sites as riverbank protection. Booking essential eventbrite.co.uk/e/battling-…
Battling the Birch Two

Battling the Birch Two

Join us on our battle to conserve the special habitat within the Common. We'll be removing self-seeded Birch and making birch bundles.

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Lindow Moss@LindowMoss1 Mar 2024
Lots to update on @lindowmoss! Check out discoverlindow.org for details of this year’s incredible celebrations of the 40th anniversary of #lindowman
Discover Lindow | Lindow Moss

Discover Lindow | Lindow Moss

Lindow Moss is one of the largest lowland peat bogs in Cheshire. It came to prominence in 1984 with the discover of an almost intact Iron Age Bog Body - Lindow Man.

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Fancy yourself as a bit of a historian?🕵 Join Stockport Heritage Trust for a walking tour around the Underbanks for the @SKTownOfCulture weekender! The tour runs 12-1pm on Saturday 23rd March🥳 Tickers available at orlo.uk/tickets_6N4aY
Photographs of Winters Jewellers taken from a newspaper. Photos courtesy of Stockport Heritage Library.

ALT Photographs of Winters Jewellers taken from a newspaper. Photos courtesy of Stockport Heritage Library.

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The wooden sculptures are aging well in our Rotary Garden on the down platform at Handforth.
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Lindow Moss@LindowMoss10 Jun 2023
Crossed wires at @lindowmoss - June 2023
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Sunny spring evening in Handforth as a @northernassist service pulls into the station
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Handforth Station, early 1960s, not long after electrification of the line
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The @HandforthStatio #Easter Quiz is now available to enter. knutsfordguardian.co.uk/news…
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Rob Sawyer@robsawyer7031 Mar 2023
Macclesfield
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Handforth in bloom @northernassist
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Daffodils + Handforth Station 🌼
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Signs of spring at ⁦@HandforthStatio⁩ ⁦@C2MCRP⁩ ⁦@northernassist⁩
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ManchesterHist@McrHistory7 Dec 2022
Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester. December 1947.
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Rob Sawyer@robsawyer7026 Oct 2022
Ainsdale, 25 October 2022
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Visit the @HandforthStatio @exvista_eamonn Station Connections art trail in #Handforth before the 11th September for a chance to win a prize!
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This weekend we see the start of a series of tours of the #Underbanks led by Stockport Heritage Trust! May has sold out, but there are some tickets left for June, July and August. Be quick before they sell out! Visit orlo.uk/events_KcAh0 for tickets. 😁 @HeritageFundUK
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My 40th year of knowing Manchester, it's changed so much over four decades. #Manchester #northwest #ENGLAND #uk #city
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Photos from inside and outside the old abandoned "Toast Rack" - the Hollings Building, Fallowfield, Manchester. For more head over here; facebook.com/Abandonend/post…
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Psst! It's Repair Café...5th March, 10am-1pm, St Chad's, Handforth. Pass it on! #FixItDontBinIt Wilmslow's Repair Café - wilmslow.co.uk wilmslow.co.uk/events/detail…
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Stockport Market 😍 #stockport 📷 @heidiaalexander
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