IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Hightown, SANDBACH, CW11 1AD
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Hightown, CW11 1AD by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
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Image Map
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Notes
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Image Listing (382 Images Found)
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Shops on Hightown, Sandbach
These premises (5-7 Hightown) are 19th century in date and together listed grade II (List entry 1130350). Present occupiers of the shop units are Swift Services (shoe repairs) and Erika Pear Home Interiors.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 28 Dec 2021
0.01 miles
2
Shops on Hightown, Sandbach
The short street west of the town hall carries all through traffic in the town centre (there is a bypass for longer distance traffic). Shops in this view currently comprise (from right) an estate agent, vape shop, Salvation Army charity shop, and Costa coffee.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 15 Oct 2022
0.01 miles
3
Vacant shop unit, Sandbach High Street
Formerly the Nationwide Building Society - see Image
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 28 Dec 2014
0.02 miles
4
The heart of Sandbach
This junction outside the town hall used to be very congested, but has become somewhat quieter since the bypass was constructed and High Street made one-way. It was even quieter on this occasion as through traffic was being diverted for the annual Transport Festival, allowing for an uninterrupted view of the shops on the junction - Chatwins bakers, which has expanded into the unit vacated by Welsbys Image, William R Shoes, and between them a recently closed shop that had most recently been Badged (school uniforms).
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 13 Apr 2019
0.02 miles
5
Shops at the north end of the High Street
This photo shows the Nationwide building society (with the only cash dispenser on the high street since the HSBC closed in 2012), Thomas Cook travel, Chatwins bakery and Welsby photographic (two long established local names).
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 31 Dec 2012
0.02 miles
6
Sandbach, Swan & Chequers
Large Victorian pub on Hightown, dating from 1898. Back bar, with drinking areas left, front and right; TV, darts, sound system, games machine, jukebox. Cask ale on offer at my visit: Robinsons Unicorn.
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 24 Jan 2017
0.02 miles
7
Detail of the Swan Hotel, Sandbach
The pub is now called the Swan and Chequers Image which may have been its historic name, but at one time it was the Swan Hotel. Stewart Green's local history page indicates it dates from 1834 or earlier, and had this name until at least the First World War. The terracotta detailing of the swan itself suggests it may have been rebuilt or at least adapted in the late 19th century when this was a popular material.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 15 Oct 2022
0.02 miles
9
Sandbach, Literary Institute
On Hightown; built 1857, listed by Historic England: http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=56205&mode=adv
Image: © Mike Faherty
Taken: 24 Jan 2017
0.03 miles
10
Drinking fountain, Hightown, Sandbach
The grade II listed structure (list entry 1330396) was introduced in 1897, by Thomas Bower who also designed the nearby town hall. It is now isolated on a busy roundabout and probably no longer operational anyway.
Image: © Stephen Craven
Taken: 15 Oct 2022
0.03 miles