Northern Pics

Images of Handforth, Stockport, Wilmslow, Styal, Heald Green, Alderley Edge and the wider NW & N Wales. Present-day photos taken by me, unless otherwise stated

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Lapwings take flight at Stanley Green.

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@HandforthStatio Great local volunteer/community group 👏

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Lindow Moss (@LindowMoss ) looking gorgeous in the late afternoon sunshine (after the rain), yesterday. It’s fantastic news that the area is now under a restoration scheme.

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Lindow Moss (@LindowMoss ) - February 2021.
Great to see the exiting work underway to restore this precious peat bog in Wilmslow.
Congratulations to @TransitionWilms and many others

[Cheshire East Countryside Rangers @CECRangers]

Upcoming event: Battling the Birch 2, Wednesday 20th March at Lindow Common SSSI, Wilmslow. Help Bollin Valley Partnership Rangers to clear the birch trees from the site & make birch bundles for use on other sites as riverbank protection. Booking essential https://t.co/6aQLOGDgRO

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Stockport, looking down on Underbanks, towards Merseyway, in 2024 and 1972.

[Lindow Moss @LindowMoss]

Lots to update on @lindowmoss! Check out https://t.co/tfX8cJ1mYH for details of this year’s incredible celebrations of the 40th anniversary of #lindowman

[Underbanks Stockport @underbanks_sk]

Fancy yourself as a bit of a historian?🕵

Join Stockport Heritage Trust for a walking tour around the Underbanks for the @SKTownOfCulture weekender!

The tour runs 12-1pm on Saturday 23rd March🥳

Tickers available at https://t.co/1RFeQhdS7P

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Stockport now and then.
Images of Little Underbank, taken in 2024 and very early 1970s.

[Friends of Handforth Station @HandforthStatio]

The wooden sculptures are aging well in our Rotary Garden on the down platform at Handforth.

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Winter wonderland (in miniature) in Alderley Edge

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View of Manchester from the Edge at Alderley at dusk, yesterday. An Easyjet Airbus is on final approach to @manairport

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More from Lindow Common - ⁦@LindowCommon⁩

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Black Lake, Lindow Common (⁦@LindowCommon⁩ ) - July 2023

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One for Handforth residents - with the former Subway outlet at The Paddock being debranded, evidence of previous leaseholders has been revealed. What was the unit previously used for?

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Alderley, near The Edge. 4 July 2023

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Crossed wires at @lindowmoss - June 2023

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St Catherine’s Church in Over Alderley

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Welcome to Mac__esfield
Footbridge at ⁦@AvantiWestCoast⁩ Macclesfield Station

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Handforth, 1980s and 2023