Dr Tony Shaw

  This Philippa Threlfall mural was completed in 2010 and stands on Park Lane on the wall of Waitrose. The scenes are representations of the...

'Aldi Stores Ltd Public Art Commis ' sion "Replaying The Brookfield Hydro" To mark the completion and opening of their Poy...

Disley churchyard, the gravestone of Joel Wainwright (1831-1916). Remembered here are his first wife Ellen and their daughter Annie, who are...

'The Bowstones Two shafts of late Saxon crosses which were probably landmarks or boundary stones as well as objects of devotion, The cro...

  These unfortunate times can have some compensations, such as looking around your local area. Today I discovered the grave of a modest loca...

As shown above, the former Labour Exchange in Armitt Street, Macclesfield, has now been converted into flats. Ian Curtis of the band J...

I normally by-pass Wilmslow, although we had occasion to re-visit it and see the full extent of the council-approved vandalism: Romany...

Alison Uttley (1884–1976) was born near Cromford in Derbyshire and in 1906 received a BA in Physics from the University of Mancheste...

Lawyer Joseph Hibbert, the son of mill owner Randal Hibbert, built this castellated structure just off Mottram Road in Godley around the ...

I had intended to tie in a blog post about Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856 –1923)  with a visit to Bramall Hall, Stockport, Cheshire, but unfo...

'RONALD GOW – DRAMATIST LIVED HERE 1898–1910 PUPIL & MASTER AT ALTRINCHAM COUNTY HIGH FOR BOYS. 1937, MARRIED ACTRESS ...

In Thomas Middleton's remarkably informative Poets, Poems, and Rhymes (1908), he gives clear directions to the grave of minor poet Jos...

Mellor's Gardens – the creation of James Mellor junior (1796–1891) – in Rainow, Cheshire. As I said in a blog post below, Mellor...