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All posts by Doug Pickford
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Robin Hood, Will Scarlet… and Bob Dylan
Ex Macclesfield Express editor and local historian Doug Pickford does a little digging into connections between Macclesfield and Bob Dylan. It is a long and...
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Billy Who Rivers?
Doug Pickford shares this story of the Grunt and Groan days of World of Sport’s popular weekly wrestling phenomena. He originally wrote it for a...
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Macclesfield lass who married a spy
Research and article by Doug Pickford Previously secret papers released in 2004 by the Foreign Office show British intelligence sent many of its own agents...
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Doug’s Memories of Macc
Above: The year is 1926 and Macclesfield had two local newspapers, the Courier and the Times. The Courier’s printworks were at the corner of Westminster...
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“An unparalleled act of barbarity”
William Stanway, 31, and Ann Mellor, 36, had lived together as man and wife for ten years when this story opens in mid-September, 1880. They...
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Star Wars, the world’s most evil man and the witch of Wincle
Perhaps we should start with, if not the sublime, then the ridiculous. However, who can judge whether what is to follow is either sublime or...
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The largest character in Macclesfield’s history
It was not the most auspicious of arrivals to Macclesfield for such a famed person as he. The celebrity arrived by steam train at Hibel...