The visit was part of a partnership programme launched five years ago, following the Knutsford school’s discovery of an African Egerton School in Njoro. Both schools were founded by the Egerton family, the first for children on the family’s home ground in Cheshire and the second for children of workers on Maurice Egerton’s Kenyan estate. [...]
Knutsford Musical Theatre Company present ‘Scooge’s Christmas Carol – the Panto’. Did you know Scrooge had a housekeeper? He does now. And the Ghost of Christmas Present drives a Rolls Royce? The cast have been rehearsing for the last couple of months, and now it is all coming together. Tony Barrow, who plays Scrooge [...]
Mark McLoughlin is literally in his dream job. The 31 year old sales executive works at the new McLaren Manchester showroom in Knutsford, Cheshire where he has been selling the new McLaren MP4 -12C supercar to the North West elite. The MP4 -12C is the first production car wholly designed and built by McLaren since [...]
Roberts Bakery Band will be raising the roof at Tatton this Christmas and cooking up a seasonal selection of brass band music. Their concert in Tatton’s stately Tenants’ Hall on Saturday, December 17 is the last of a series of Christmas concerts taking place at Tatton this year. Guaranteed to banish those winter blues, Tatton’s [...]
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The Knutsford based Fit4life Pilates and Fitness Studio held an all day event in aid of MacMillan on Saturday, raising a very worthwhile £1560 from all of the days class activity, raffle and donations. Fit4lifeKnutsford owner, Linda Marshall commented “This was a fantastic result from everyone who participated and I’m so pleased that we exceeded [...]
Knutsford Scout District has been celebrating the achievement of 20 young people who have received their Chief Scout’s Gold award. A presentation ceremony was held at Warrington’s Parr Hall at which more than 250 Scouts from across the county attended, watched by their proud families. The awards were handed out by David Briggs, Lord Lieutenant [...]
How fortunate we chose electric pink for the key colour of Tatton Park Biennial 2012! Ultimate Holding Company, an artist collective based in Manchester, has been selected to create a new work for Tatton Park Biennial 2012, partly inspired by the life and work of Barbara Cartland. Their proposal, ‘Colditz Cock’, is a collaborative work [...]
The origins of the name Knutsford have been disputed by historians but there is an ancient and popular explanation. After one of his victories, King Canute crossed the brook known as Birken and the village became known as ‘Canute’s ford’ later to be changed to Knutsford. The Domesday Book gives some credence to this by [...]
A CAR believed to be the only one of its kind in the world has been created at Mangoletsi in Knutsford. The hot pink Alfa Romeo MiTo has been described by workers at the Mangoletsi dealership in London Road as a ‘marmite’ car. “You’re either going to love it or hate it, but we always [...]
