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Hatworks The Stockport Hat Museum

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 19 Feb 18

A museum dedicated to hats might strike most people as rather dull, but the Hatworks has a lot of very interesting and genuinely educational stuff to see. Stockport, Cheshire, in the UK was once a central operator in the hat...

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Photo white Deer in Dunham Massey

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 20 Jan 18

I am always thrilled to come across woodland deer and deer in public parks. Sometimes they can be seen in the distance but getting close enough to get photographs is tricky as they retreat and avoid contact. I remember a school...

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Comic Strip Review – Charles M Schulz – The Complete Peanuts 1967-1968

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 31 Oct 16

I always loved the Peanuts strips I read in syndication and in various anthology collections. This collection is part of the most comprehensive set of all, and from the strip at its height of inventiveness and originality. This...

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Pub Sign Study The Bakers Vaults Stockport

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 18 Jul 16

Nothing to do with food and catering, Bakers is a family name in this case. A pub has existed on this site since at least the 1770’s though the original inn was called The George And Dragon, and twice the size of the 19th century...

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Pub Sign Photo Study The Old Hall Timperley Cheshire

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 17 Jul 16

This beautiful sign depicts a mansion-like country house which is not surprising given that it adorns what was just such a property and proves to be a very good likeness of the house, now serving both a public bar and as the 19th...

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Pub Sign Study – The Sportsman – Hyde, Cheshire

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 22 Jun 16

One of the funniest signs I have seen in my quest. Many sports related pubs have a bias for one sport or another, with football pubs dominating the scene. Hyde’s Sportsman in Tameside, Cheshire, wants to play every sport at once,...

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Photo Study - The Geese Statues Of Altrincham

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 14 Mar 16

An unusual site I found on a photo walk is this pair of metal geese in the Altrincham, Cheshire district known appropriately as Goose Green. They remind me of the iron Chicken in The Clangers cartoons on children’s TV. The name...

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Pub Sign Photo Study – The Swan With Two Nicks – Dunham Massey

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 12 Mar 16

There are quite a few pubs called The Swan With Two ‘Necks’, suggesting a mutant swan caught up in a nuclear waste leak, but all such pubs actually get the name slightly wrong as the correct word is ‘Nicks’ not necks. The pub at...

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Photo Study - The Cheadle War Memorial, Cheshire

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 10 Sep 15

A tall war memorial that looks as if it has been recently cleaned with a rather foamy looking stone. What I dislike and don’t understand is the ankle high chain fence round its base. I appreciate putting fences round to deter...

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Pub sign study – The George And Dragon – Cheadle – Stockport

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 10 Sep 15

An iron carving sign with some artistry, depicting George lancing an endangered species to death to get himself a sainthood. It is a beautiful work of craftsmanship on a sign for a pub closed for many years but recently...

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Statue of a sea lion outside Hyde Town Hall

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 7 Sep 15

Not quite sure why Hyde in Tameside / Cheshire has a large statue of a sea-lion outside the magnificent Town Hall building. It is quite striking. At least they haven't carved a beach-ball to balance on its nose.

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cheshire cheese like or lump

shelagh77 @shelagh77 (3643) 1 Feb 07

I have just discovered this cheese and I am absolutely surprised. After years of using only cheddar, I tried a small slice of cheshire cheese bought by my partner. WOW! It is very crumbly so you have to be careful that it...

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