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sound of children whispering, are alleged to have been heard also.
At one period there were six alehouses and inns to be found in the
village of Prestbury. In 1881 Sarah Shadwell lived here, and is described as a licensed victualler, with her daughter Ann, who helped at the inn and her son Will, who was a tea dealer, she employed Martha Bracegirdle aged 15 as a servant. Like a lot of properties in the village, The Admiral Rodney had been for some considerable time the property of the Legh Family of Adlington Hall. Prestbury "wakes" were held on the village roads, where roundabouts, Morris |
dancers,
a greasy pole with a leg of mutton on top, swing-boats, coconut
shies, and a performing monkey, between the 11th-17th July. In the
village stood a bake house, where housewives took their own loaves
to be baked in an oven heated by burning logs. Twice a year, Fairs
were held on April 28th and October 22nd. The April Fair is noted
for a large show of cattle. An annual event was the arrival of "Pig
Nellie", an enormous woman, who came from Mobberley. She drove
herself in a donkey cart and usually had six pigs to sell near the
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