epw019406 ENGLAND (1927). Bank Square, Wilmslow, 1927

Cleggs department store

Wilmslow police station

The George and Dragon public house

General Post Office

Chancel Lane Church of England School demolished in 1960 because it had developed serious structural problems.Some of our classrooms had coal fires and on cold days we were allowed to take turns in sitting by them whilst doing our reading.

Town's Gasworks.

Church Street

Swan Street

Bank Square, named for the Riverbank, although some commercial banks have opened branches nearby.

St Teresa's Roman Catholic Church, built between 1911 and 1914 to a design by William Gillow. The church is in the Diocese of Shrewsbury.

Green Lane, which joins the other end of Grove Street, forming an early by pass to the shopping street. On this road a small washing house formed the foundations of the Umbro sportswear brand.

Grove Street, now pedestrianised, the main shopping street.

Hawthorn Lane

This grassy river meadow remains parkland and a pleasant walk to Styal on the left. The area is here known as The Carrs, from that well known Norse word Kjarr - meadow recovered from bog. Parts of the lower land can still be boggy.

This is the River Bollin slowly meandering off to the left towards Quarry Bank Mill at Styal.

Later this garden had a police station and magistrates court built on it- they are now closed and demolished and the area is open once more, but without the lovely garden.

This building became Williams and Glyns Bank, later Williams Deacons Bank, later Royal Bank of Scotland, soon to be Santander.

Midland Bank, now HSBC. This building is readily identifiable in 2012.

St Bartholomews, 16th Century, modified 19th Century