All Entries in the "Local/Interest News" Category

Visit Local Museums – Stockport Hat Museum

This award winning visitor attraction offers two floors of interactive exhibits taking you on a journey through the history of Stockport’s once thriving hatting industry.  Hat Works is located i… Read More

Visit Local Museums – Stockport Air Raid Shelters

If you are looking for somewhere to visit locally this summer why not visit the Stockport Air Raid Shelters.

Built in Stockport they were carved into the natural sandstone cliffs and opened… Read More

Visit Local Museums – Anson Engine Museum in Higher Poynton

This unusual and fascinating museum used to be one of the best kept secrets among Cheshire’s many attractions.  Over the past few years it has undergone some major changes and is now recognised … Read More

Inspired by India at the Macclesfield Silk Museum from 17th June to 8th September

Celebrating UK/India year of culture, artist Nikki Parmenter has worked with local community groups and schools to illustrate the colour and imagery of the countries’ creative relationship.

Jean Alexander – Becoming Hilda – New Exhibition at the Old Sunday School

From Monday 3rd July 2017 – Saturday 23rd September 2017

Born Jean Hodgkinson in 1926, she went on to become one of the most beloved characters of our longest running TV soap, and it a… Read More

Something Borrowed, Something Blue

A wonderful selection of wedding dresses and trousseau from the Macclesfield Museums collection will be on display at the The Old Sunday School, Roe Street, Macclesfield SK11 6UT from 9th April … Read More

Famous Names from Macclesfield

Thank you to local historian, Ian Storer for reminding us of some of Macclesfield’s famous people of yesteryear –

Glancing through the pages of a book dedicated to illustrations… Read More

Waters Green Tales

Thank you to local historian, Ian Storer for his thoughts of yesteryear –

In October of 2008 it was one hundred years since the first Model T rolled off the revolutionary production l… Read More

Macclesfield and Memories of 1969

Thank you to Ian Storer, local historian, for his report of what was in the local papers in 1969

Some pupils returning to school after the Christmas Holidays were welcomed to Macclesfield… Read More

Macclesfield Museums – Something For Everybody

The Silk Museum and Paradise Mill

The elegant, spacious Silk Industry Museum at Paradise Mill and the old Art School reveal the story of how silk was made and prepared to meet the needs of t… Read More