One 100 years ago this week a festival was held in the village by the School of St. Mary and St Anne to celebrate the new wing of ‘The Crofts’, which was to be known as the ‘West Wing’ in honour of Alderman and Mrs. F. J. West of Manchester,… Read More »Crofts
Richard Clarke School trip to Blithfield Hall. Who was lucky enough to meet Lady Bagot?
The Bagot Monument, showing the previous site of the home of the Bagot family before they moved to Blithfield Hall.
Ashlands Farm. 1911 home of Josiah Ferneyhough and wife Emma, 1921 home of the Preston family and 1939 home of Reginald Bexon and wife Hilda plus daughter.
Uttoxeter Road leading out of the village.
Hillside, Uttoxeter Road – 1961. Photo courtesy of the Holt family.
Goats Lodge. Census records show Mr William Jackson, his wife Isabella living in Goats Lodge in 1911, 1921. In 1939 his daughters Helen (Ellen) and Mary are living there. Mary died in 1962. She was affectionately known as “the goat-woman” after looking after the famous Bagot Goats in the park… Read More »GOAT LODGE.
Beggar’s Oak Tree. Bagots Park. No longer there.
