Sydney lodge was located down Sydney gully about half way through.
Go along Sydney Road and where they have built the power station by Sydney bridge in the 1960s go down the gully and it comes out at the field in Lime tree Avenue.
Across from the lodge is a small field.
There was also a bull 🐂 tethered to a metal spike fixed in the ground.
Later on in years Lime Tree Avenue and the surrounding estate was built.
The dirt track or gully ran along the side of the railway line and came to the end at Woodbridge the builder's supplier.
Looking back in early 1900s my mother in law Joyce Gregory lived there as a child.
I remember also a family called Edwards lived there,
Later they were moved to Queen Street as the lodge was to be demolished.
Also down the Gully was and still is partly an Orchard a Mr Dawson owned it and also ran a pig farm across the road from his bungalow,
Now bungalows have been built on the pig farm,
Mr Dawson also had a pig farm across the field in Lime Tree Avenue at the back of the Air cadets.
We as children used to say if he catches you he will put you in the large swill bin he cooked the swill in.
Also do you remember in the 1950s 1960s when the council had there own pig farms and apart from the dustbin they gave you ( by the way then a council worker would collect the bin from the side of the house empty it and replace it back NOT TODAY).
Also you had a pig bin for your food left overs.
Do you remember the police station in Ford Lane.

Good morning Steve.
It's been lovely having messages going back and too about the life of Crewe I've really appreciate the conversations.
But one thing that you will never find anywhere in books Etc is,
Do you know where A house called Sydney lodge was it also had a smithy next to it .
It was believe to have been a toll gate lodge where you paid money to take your cattle through.
Crewe council demolished the property in 1963 to 1964.
The is food for Thought.🤔

Do you remember the big freeze in 1962,
Scraping the frost off the inside of the bedroom window,
Going for NHS baby milk with mother in Liverpool terrace (now Vernon way) .
Dad used to take us to Butchers white the dentist in Edliston Road ( with the gas mask yuk)
The town hall unfortunately I was a bit young then to go in.
The chapel in Herbert street we used to go to run by a family called Bispham from Richmond road now a house,
After service on a Sunday we would go to the orchard in Sydney Road opposite the Sydney arms pub.
The building of the Drury Estate where the flying lady is back in the 1960s
On school holidays and weekends myself and Johnny Beasley use to help the Bricklayer take the Breeze upstairs for them,
We got paid Half a Crown for every house ( a lot of money in them days)
The old fire station next to the council yard.
The roundabout in the corner by the council back gate.
The old Crewe manorial hospital.
The isolation hospital in Middlewich street.
Crewe cattle market on a Monday mornings.
Ernie Hughes plumber in Earl street.
County cars run by Mr Beckett.
The list is endless I could reminis all day.
And of course one of my 1st Employers FL and G Spode Queens street,
Sub contractor to the council highways department.

I would just like to say to the people who have read my comments and gave me a thumbs up a big THANK YOU.
Have yourselves a happy and prosperous new year from my self, my wife and family wishing you all the very best for the new year.
May all your wishes and dreams come true.

What a shambles. The video snippet linked to has been on Youtube for 10 years, the full video it was taken from was recently reposted by someone from Crewe and is 41 minutes (so 40 minutes longer than this). Search for "crewe the way we were" in Youtube.

Pcornes has a rose tinted view of the past. Crewe could never be described as beautiful, too much had been built on the cheap and showed it. Many people were still living in homes with no indoor toilets or bathrooms into the 70's (so after the first flight of Concorde). Who remembers the nit nurse? Or TB? Or the litter in the streets? Or the clouds of smoke pollution until the Clean Air Act was brought in? Why not got and look at any other town which was based on manufacturing industry and see what it looks like today, they are all a mix of warehouses, large spaces with no use, call centres and out of centre retail parks selling 95% imported goods. All with the same range of national chain shops which drove out the local independents, with plastic fronts instead of the old handmade signage. You can trace all the decline back to one get rich quick era - Thatcher's!

I remember Crewe from years ago like so many people of my age born in the 1950s.
Crewe then was a thriving town to live in,
And had so much going for it,
There was mass employment at Crewe Works and Rolls Royce not Forgetting Roller makers and Chester Barrie in Western Road.
Crewe was a thriving town and community.
It was once said you cannot leave Crewe from the square without having to go over a Railway Bridge.
The days when Crewe Carnival was a Big responsibility and troop bands would line up starting at the top of Richmond road and ending up in Lime Tree Avenue.
A lot of the bands people and Troopers would practice there routine in the park in Richmond road and also on the field in Lime Tree Avenue.
Always remember saltys and booths chippy must of had good trade that day.
Remember helping out on a Friday night after school and Saturday morning helping the market traders in all weathers,
The butchers shops in the market Hall with a Pig in the door way hanging up being cut down the middle sawdust by the buckets on the floor to catch the blood,
Food standards Agency would be Horrified by this today 🤔😂😂.
Crewe was a beautiful town so much Heritage proud to say I'm from Crewe.
Unfortunately these days when people say where are you from I just say Cheshire,to be honest I find it Embarrassing to let people know that I come from Crewe.
It's no longer the Town I was born and Raised in.
I suppose a lot of people in my age group may feel the same way.