Hyde Name Origins.

The name "HYDE" is derived from the hide, a measure of land for taxation purposes, taken to be that area of land necessary to support a peasant family. In later times it was taken to be equivalent to 120 acres .

Tuesday, 30 October 2012

The Green Guide.

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A regular sight in many houses in the 1960's.
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3 comments:

Tom said...

I've never heard of this one before..

Wednesday, 31 October, 2012
Dave Williams said...

I don't recall it either, but then I didn't live in what later became known as the Tameside area at that time. I did work for BT though, and if memory serves me right, there was an attempt from various quarters to rival the monopoly of the Thomson Yellow Pages local business telephone directory at around that time.

Wednesday, 31 October, 2012
Werneth Low said...

I've never heard of this either but it's interesting that Hyde, Denton and Ashton were grouped together long before the boundary reshuffle of 1974. I'd have thought it would have made more sense to keep Cheshire towns in a group. Still, it's all history now!

Wednesday, 31 October, 2012

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