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Crewe

The two major towns of South Cheshire are Nantwich, with a history stretching back beyond Roman times, and Crewe, with no history at all until 1837. That was when the Grand Junction Railway arrived and five years later moved all its construction and repair workshops to this green field site. A workforce of nine hundred had to be housed so the company rapidly built cottages, each one shared by four of the lowest paid workers, and detached “mansions” which accommodated four families of the more highly skilled. At one time, seven out of every ten men in Crewe worked on the railways.

Later, in 1887, the railway company also provided the town with one of the most splendid parks in the north of England, Queens Park, some 40 acres of lawns and flowerbeds together with an ornamental lake. Rolls Royce’s engineering works brought further prosperity to the town, but it is as a railway centre that Crewe is best known. Even today, the station offers a choice of six different routes to all points of the compass. Located in the former LMS railway yard of Crewe station, Crewe Heritage Centre, (formerly The Railway Age) offers a fascinating insight into Crewe’s place in railway history with hands-on exhibits, working signal boxes, the prototype tilting Advanced Passenger Train, steam locomotive rides, model railway displays and a children’s playground. Tel: 01270 212130. Also worth a visit is the Lyceum Theatre, built in 1902 and with its glorious Edwardian opulence undimmed.

A couple of miles north of Crewe, Lakemore Farm Park is home to a wide variety of animals – llamas, miniature donkeys, pygmy goats, Gloucester Old Spot pigs, Shetland ponies, owls, waterfowl and poultry.Children can feed the farm animals, visit the pets corner and enjoy both the indoor and outdoor play areas. Within the 36 acre site are five fishing lakes and a log cabin coffee shop.