Well Done Tameside

And Well Done Dave

A couple of weeks ago Dave went to Mottram to take photos of the Blue Plaque commemorating Sir Edmund Shaa which the Tameside website said was on Church Brow in Mottram.

Sir Edmund Shaa
Lord Mayor Of London 1482
http://www.tameside.gov.uk/blueplaque/siredmundshaa

The first photo should show the plaque, but the spot was completely covered by foliage. Dave contacted Tameside Council to tell them about this and Friday he had an email saying that they've had the foliage cleared, and the last two photos are what he found when I went there Friday afternoon.

Dave was well pleased and rightly so by another excellent response from Tameside Council!  It was Dave, John Thornley and myself that bought the broken Hyde Lads Club monument to Councillor  Fitzpatrick's attention and he and the council promptly dealt with... well done again to all concerned.

Hyde Public Baths

The following is taken from Tameside's website. tameside.gov.uk

It shows Hyde Baths which stood on Union Street.

To the right of the Baths is the Public Library and Union Street Congregational Church.

The Baths in Union Street were opened on May 4th 1889

They were designed by the Town Hall architect, J.W. Beaumont, but the North Cheshire Herald commented at their opening that they were "not perhaps so handsome externally as could have been desired".

The building contained six slipper baths, a laundry, a men's plunge bath, a smaller ladies plunge bath, thirty-eight dressing boxes and a gallery capable of holding several hundred spectators.

The success of the baths was reflected in the number of champion swimmers produced by the town and in the Hyde Seals Water Polo Team, three times world champions (1904-1906).

Many thanks to Tameside.gov.uk !

The pages below are scanned from the Borough Of Hyde Abstract Of Accounts 1914 - 1915

If you know of any more of the Borough Account Books I'd be most interested in them.