First summer event: Richard Scaife's Treasure Hunt

Summary from Jill Hargreaves

The first summer event (at the end of May) was a Treasure Hunt organized by Richard Scaife. He also managed to arrange lovely weather!

Eight members enjoyed a walk round Poynton "looking up" for answers to the clues. Which date has the mason's symbols? Is Mayfield a cottage, terrace or view? We all learnt more about the history of the village, had some exercise and a few even managed to remember to take photos!

Postscript from Richard Scaife

We all ended the evening in the pub!

One or two interesting points that came up while I was photographing the unusual number of name and date plaques in Poynton:

• Did you know that Greggs the Bakers is in “The Forge”, dated 1877?
• The old Vernon School crest (now the Community Centre where we used to hold our digital meetings) is dated 1838. This is very difficult to read but can be made easier by playing with it in Photoshop.
• While I was photographing the crest on the old police houses near the Centre in Park Lane one of Poynton’s older residents come over and said that he remembered when, before the houses were built, the fair used to come and set up there, in the fields. This was apparently quite a big event at the time. Can anyone in the club remember this?
• The oldest and one of the most decorative date plaques is dated 1810.