Return to Macclesfield

It is very strange that the same stretches of canals look quite different going when going one way  then the other. You see things that were missed heading one way and views look entirely different heading back the other way. A change in weather conditions also make a big difference . With this in mind it has been a delight to return back down the Maccie .

Our return to Macclesfield was to  visit the Heritage Museum and to explore a little more of this famous silk town. Sid, having not recognised anything on our previous visit was delighted to find streets and buildings that he remembered from years ago. We learnt a lot about the town from the 1800's when silk production was at it's height and  there were over a hundred mills in the town to it's demise in the early 1900s. The  looked very different  from the town we see today not only with the grime in the air but also the huge number of chimneys that no longer exists.