What have you done today with your Austin Seven

[Bruce Nicholls]

One of the happiest times of my life was travelling on the Macclesfield canal one Easter and getting snowed in. I was moored at the time at 'The Bird in Hand' (pronounced Bird in'tHand') at Mow Cop (Scholar Green) and spent the evening with the landlady and the chap that lived in the cottage next door. A proper 'ale house'  with a roaring fire and the landlady lifting a trap door to descend to the cellar every now and then to return with a large enamel jug full of foaming beer straight from the barrel.

Happy days...

Remember the Bird in Hand well and moored there many times, a great favourite of ours. I seem to remember it as Kent Green though, but undoubtedly the same place. I am led to believe it became derelict though.