Old Macclesfield

(Castle Inn)
1961

Reference Number:-	Sprake Number:-	Godden Number:-
obk 56	not listed	recorded without number

Brocklehurst-Whiston (BWA) silk picture view of Castle Inn in medieval times

Words:

Woven on silk:-
	B.W.A. Ltd Macclesfield	Woven in silk 1961
Printed at bottom of card mount:-
	Old Macclesfield

Legend printed on inside cover of card mount:-
Seen through a mullioned window of the old castle is the ancient Parish Church of St. Michael, the Guildhall, Ye Olde Castle Inn and the old town well as they appeared in Stuart times.

The old castle, the last remains of which were removed in 1933, stood in what is now Backwallgate. The earliest reference to a building on this site is 1260, and it is known to have been the princely residence of Humphrey Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, who was slain at Northampton in the Wars of the Roses in 1460.

Size:

Card mount:
cm deep by cm wide

silk:
16.7 cm high by 11.2 cm wide

Technical Details supplied by Lewis Cowen:

First Sketch: (Figures:)	Mr Cyril Holland Miss M Hine
Design Draft:	Mr Wm Hine
Card Cutter:	Mr William Stubbs
Weavers:	Mr Charles Broadhead Mrs Annie Lowndes
Design No:	Z.14617

Comments:

by Lewis Cowen:
1961 saw the production of OLD MACCLESFIELD, featuring the old castle, the last remains of which were removed in 1933.

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Old Macclesfield

(Castle Inn) 1961

(Castle Inn)
1961