title	A Trip Around Macclesfield and Sandbach, Cheshire - 10th September 2005
intro	The weekend had started on Sunday Morning with a trip to Hazel Grove, near Stockport, to pick up a vintage Commodore PET 4016 purchased off eBay. After Sunday afternoon's trip up to the Pennines, Nosher and The Old Chap head off into Macclesfield on the following Monday - Dad to do a few errands, me to take photos. There's a stop-off to the shop of dad's late chum Jim the Butcher to get some sausages, followed by a roam around some of the sights of Macclesfield. Ordinarily, as you drive down into town from the Buxton direction on a winter's day, you get a real sense of bleak mill town, although even then it's nothing like as black as it was in the 80s. However, today's sunny, so the effect isn't quite as grim. Finally, on the way home back to Suffolk, there's a visit to one-time home Sandbach to see what's changed, and to glimpse again the favourite old school - Sandbach Grammar.
imgp2190	A Commodore PET in the old man's kitchen
imgp2191	The Old Chap scratches his head in the kitchen
imgp2192	The Old Man tries to finish the crossword
imgp2193	The back garden
imgp2194	Rob, Jim's colleague, who now runs the butcher's
imgp2195	Rob and The Old Chap chat about stuff
imgp2197	The old man in Cotterill and Hill, Macclesfield
imgp2198	Sausages are weighed
imgp2199	The Old Man at the counter
imgp2200	Dad checks a list
imgp2202	Rob chats to the old man
imgp2203	The Cheshire Building Society
imgp2204	An alleyway opposite HSBC
imgp2205	The Old Chap heads off to the town hall
imgp2206	Macclesfield Town Hall
imgp2207	St. Michael's church, black from mill soot
imgp2208	Church Street
imgp2209	St. Michael's Church, Macclesfield
imgp2210	The churchyard of St. Michael's
imgp2212	The Castle Inn, one of The Old Chap's boozers
imgp2213	Window cleaners in action
imgp2215	The Old Man wanders past "Carpet House"
imgp2216	The doorway of a small fabric emporium
imgp2217	A kid spins a sign around
imgp2218	The Macclesfield indoor market
imgp2219	Some dude looks at a cold meats chiller
imgp2220	The Old Man hangs his washing out
imgp2221	A mill, from the top of Clowes Lane
imgp2223	A mill near Clowes Lane
imgp2226	Clowes Lane, Macclesfield
imgp2228	The Saxon Crosses, Sandbach, Cheshire
imgp2229	The red-brick building was a model shop in the 70s
imgp2230	The Lower Chequer Pub, unchanged from the 70s,
imgp2231	The Lower Chequer pub
imgp2232	More Saxon Crosses
imgp2233	Another view of the Saxon Crosses
imgp2235	Market Square
imgp2236	Sandbach Town Hall and Indoor Market
imgp2237	Monument on the roundabout on the way to Wheelock
imgp2238	Sandbach Grammar, dating from 1677
imgp2239	Nosher's old form room is top right
imgp2243	The view from Crewe Road, like on the walk to school
imgp2245	The cricket pavillion
imgp2246	Nearly home: Sunset near Wickham Skeith, Suffolk