Photo-a-Day  (Monday, 31st August, 2020)

I love this scene; there is something special about it. I worked in Standish 50 years ago as a young girl and have always had a soft spot for it.

Makes me think of all the folk who clattered over the cobbles in their clogs...

You can imagine the crowd of women that would be around the well waiting to get their water for the day, long before the mains supply was piped into houses.

I just love this photo. Surprising it hasnt been knocked about & ....the dreaded word...modernised !
Thanks Poet.

The Americans knocked the well down when they reversed a lorry into it during the war, and its only been restored and re erected a few years ago.
Shame about how many weeds there are along the church wall, dose Standish not a have a group of volunteers gardeners and litter picker uppers like we do up here in Shevy

I love Standish,it's what I call a proper village and with so much history..it always has a good feel about the place.

Mick Standish doesn't have a village idiot either.

Drift through the shades of memories dream ,
Cobbled and tethered of once where themes ,
Pointing looks fresh now , the past has been cleaned ,
coal man is history in gas light dreams .
At least we have colours , the textures not grey ,
My name is progress , I’m fresh faced today ...





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Mick, I think the wild flowers add a certain charm and give a place character with the different species that grow there, they wouldn't be pulling them up around the Churches, Abbey's and Cathedrals in the past as the monks would be tending and using them as effective medicines.

Many years ago when I walked the dogs who was at Gilmore's vets I would use that first bit of wall for a rest and to give them a few treats before heading back, it was just the right height to perch on.

Cyril, it didn't used to be the right height to perch on, I lived 50 yards from the cross for the first 24 years of my life 1941 - 1965, during that time the wall was reduced in height by at least 2 feet.

God's little acre, I remember that wall being a lot higher, then it being reduced to create a matching wall at the front of the car park to the right of the Peace Gates. Might have a few weeds at the moment but it's still the only Grade 1 listed building in the area, Shevvy included !!

Standish nice place except for the traffic morning and teatime nightmare.

i lived in the middle house when i first got married from 1975 frank and vi aspey had it i married their daughter susan.
this photo must have been taken a while ago because there are no weeds there now.