tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599481671908734427.post6718056285243054708..comments2024-02-11T00:32:15.093+00:00Comments on Hyde Cheshire Blog: The Maypole DairyTomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04167792394551286975noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599481671908734427.post-36851823606459348622012-08-05T20:04:12.523+01:002012-08-05T20:04:12.523+01:00I should think all the ones that did move to Port ...I should think all the ones that did move to Port Sunlight were well impressed... Thanks for your comments and your time.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04167792394551286975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599481671908734427.post-41753887844214850372012-08-05T18:09:22.700+01:002012-08-05T18:09:22.700+01:00WW1 military records indicate that my great uncle ...WW1 military records indicate that my great uncle Edgar Dobb (later superintendent of Hoviley Brow Primitive Methodist Chapel) was prior to his war service in 1918 a box marker at the Hyde Margarine company. Tameside records indicate that at the end of the war, Lever brothers shifted the Hyde Margarine company to its new complex at Port Sunlight. Consequently my father was born at Bromborough, in a Lever brothers property on the Wirral to which my Hydonian grandparents had moved.<br /><br />I wonder how many people from Hyde made the same move to Port SunlightOptymystichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12377430471927802790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599481671908734427.post-61252115399435871922011-02-03T21:49:00.773+00:002011-02-03T21:49:00.773+00:00Thanks Dave :)Thanks Dave :)Hydonianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14723686770197717456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599481671908734427.post-6464274861048556272011-02-03T20:22:29.975+00:002011-02-03T20:22:29.975+00:00What a stunning building... Otto Monsted had the r...What a stunning building... Otto Monsted had the right idea....Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04167792394551286975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8599481671908734427.post-47628380911056879392011-02-03T15:12:49.148+00:002011-02-03T15:12:49.148+00:00It is the Olive Tree. The booklet 'A History o...It is the Olive Tree. The booklet 'A History of the Pubs of Hyde and District' says: 'The Olive Tree together with some cottages were on the site of the old Walls factory...', and then: 'He (ie Otto Monsted) demolished the cottages and built a new factory on the site with an imposing facade, retaining the Olive Tree as virtually part of the works.'Dave Williamsnoreply@blogger.com