MASTHEADS FOR JUNE 2017

Our masthead from 1st June - 18th June 2017. Middlewich Town Council/Bare Bones Marketing

Here's our Masthead for the rest of the month, featuring a photo by Stephen Green which we think sums up the spirit of the FAB Festival so well.

Photo: Stephen Green

Stephen Green took many photos of this year's incredible Middlewich FAB Festival, and he kindly allowed us to borrow one in particular which, we feel, sums up the spirit of the Festival, its sheer exuberance and sense of fun. 

Here's the original photo which we incorporated into our Masthead from the end of the Festival until the end of June.

 With many thanks to Stephen and to all who work so hard to put this event on each year and make sure it runs smoothly. There's something about the 'Folk & Boat' which is indefinable and makes it unique. Others have tried to replicate it, and failed. That's Middlewich for you, though! Dave Roberts, Editor

FAB FESTIVAL 2014 MIDDLEWICH DIARY MASTHEAD

The Middlewich Diary's masthead for June 2014, featuring a photo by Cliff Astles

MIDDLEWICH DIARY MASTHEAD: SUMMER 2013 , CANAL IDYLL

Our masthead for Summer 2013 featured a photograph by local photographer Bill Armsden taken on the Middlewich Branch of the Shropshire Union Canal.
The bridge, one of many of this style in the district is, unusually, not whitewashed like most such structures. It carries the back road, Coal Pit Lane, which runs from Chester Road to Stanthorne Crossroads near Wimboldsley.
Many people have remarked on the beauty of Britain's canals in modern times and the contrast between their appearance during the industrial era and in the present day.
But in fact, the SUC Middlewich Branch has always been almost completely rural in character. It was built to link the Shropshire Union and Trent & Mersey canals together  (the link , of course, only being properly completed in 1829 with the building of the Wardle Canal at the Middlewich end).
The only industry we can think of on the banks of the branch canal is the tannery in Sutton Lane which later became home to Sutton Lane Engineering and is now the site of Waterside Mews, and it is doubtful if this made much, if any, use of the canal.

Here's the original photograph, courtesy of Bill:

MIDDLEWICH DIARY MASTHEAD: JULY 2016 DOUBLE RAINBOW

Our masthead for July 2016 features one of those 'once in a lifetime' photos as a double rainbow over Middlewich is captured by Jennifer Jane Snelson.

A typical English summer evening, the 1st of  July, and the usual  combination of driving rain and sunny intervals brought the familiar phenomenon about. 

Jennifer Jane was in the right place at the right time and managed to capture the rainbows arching over the  Parish Church in the leaden  Middlewich skies, while evening sunshine bathes the town centre in light.