Yes To YouthYes To Youth
11 – 25-year-olds welcomed to the Lion Salt Works over the May Half-Term. Click the poster for full information.
Senna Lane Shop
A picture of the (last remaining) shop in Senna Lane in the 1950s. The Post Office was originally on Marbury Road but a post by Susan Lamb told that her dad’s mum ran the Post Office and her mothers family a ‘sort of’ chippy in Senna Lane. This shop was a chippy when the yanks […]
Village History
The meaning of Comberbach is the ‘Valley of the Sparkling Stream’, and was part of the Manor of Arley; which belonged to the Warburton Family. “Cheshire Charter of 1180″…. In an early Cheshire Charter of 1180, the land was granted to ‘The Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem’ by ‘John The Constable’. It was previously […]
Homewatch
Comberbach Contact Numbers 01606 892568 / 01606 891005 101 Is The New Police Non-Emergency Number As part of a national programme, the Cheshire Police non-emergency number of 0845 458 0000 has been replaced with 101. This number will provide a single non-emergency number across England and Wales and should be used to report crime and other concerns […]
Mystery Girl of Comberbach
My brother, John found the Comberbach website and he recognised the mystery girl in Ian Iossons archive. The one with his two sisters. It brought back many happy memories of our time in the village in the 1950s and early 60s. We lived next door to the Iossons at Lyndwood on Marbury Road. Our […]
Comberbach Boys in Antrobus
Memories of Antrobus C of E School (Spring 1941 to Summer 1943) Brian Maddock Pointe-Claire, Québec, March 2016 When I returned from Scotland in early 1941 my parents had to choose a new school for me because I was too old to be able to return to Comberbach Infant School. Barnton and Winnington had bigger […]
Memories from Quebec
Comberbach Memories (Late 1930s until early 1950s) Brian Maddock – Pointe-Claire, Québec, April 2015 I was found under a gooseberry bush in the front garden of Chapel House. At least that is what grown-ups told an inquisitive small boy. In fact, I believe Nurse Hankey, the district midwife, had something to do with my arrival […]
Fond Memories
Ian Iosson has contributed more photographs from his archives from the days when he lived in Comberbach. Ian has several other snapshots of our village heritage, some sadly lost like the remarkable photo below of Lilly Millington’s Sweet Shop at the ‘Top O’Town’. Others which have recorded the Comberbach Flood of 1959. Visit our Photo […]
Moss Garage & More
Here is another Comberbach memory for you – when there were two garages in the village. The garage on the Moss. I seem to remember it was run by a Polish chap called Louis or something like that. But before that, I have a vague recollection it was someone called Gee or something like that. […]