Chaigley Manor
 

Is it open or closed?  My kids used to love going there for a week.

I note theres a meeting to be held of the Chaigley trust on the 3rd of November and its open to all. Its in the Queen Elizebeth rooms at Scathcliffe house (f you go then look out in the foyer for my accy stanley pics)

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It's now a private house.I to spent a good holiday there went three times in early sixties.

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Wonder why theers an AGM for the chaigley trust and its a public agm.. strange.

Pity there not doing the weeks for the kids any more.. Mine now go to PGL ? or summat like that organised by the school.. bit of a trek and only long weekend once a year

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Went there 2 or 3 times in the 70's.Was quite enjoyable and met many a new person there.Shame now that it is apparently a private house

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Found this Harry, if it's what you're after.

Chaigley Manor

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Perfect. Thank you....Take an applaud:)

Whoops

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Looks like i was misinformed, sorry about that.

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Janet as far as I can see you got it right.. You said its now a private house and thats what the article says.. business man bought it for 600k and turned it into a private house..

The AGM is because the trust is still going...and it would seem at least 600k in the kitty :)

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with all this money, could the trust not reopen somewere else or would it take more money than the 600k. they must have made a fair amount of interest on the money by now.

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hey Mik, my brothers where there regularly in the 70's as well

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went in the 60s a few times, one time a guy i used to know, fell from a tree n hurt himself, wouldn,t be you beechy would it? was gonna start a thread on Chaigley, but did a search n up popped this lol, used to donate weekly from me wage for the home, pity more didn't could still possibly be open.

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I went a couple of times in the 80's, we had a laugh, saw a ghost there too.

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went with school about 10 years back - hated it but many loved it

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when i went to chaigley in the 80s we went for two weeks loved the matron and warden shame it got sold

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:Dmight well have been cashman
whent evey year for years
lived on laneside and a next door neighbour
died of polio way back in the 50s
we were quaranteened down at chaigley for
three months
great times yet again progress!!!

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well its quite possible we were mates for a while,knew 2 brothers,;)

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:o2 brothers
paul & layton
both played football clayton way

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Hello Beechy, can't remember yr first name (age....lol) but I was the youngest member of that family next door, Mick, used to mate roung with your Leb

Bleedin' great years them round laneside !!!! - they talk about great Bonfire Nights now eh, but nothin today comes near to the bonfires at the back of our houses eh ??

Yep I loved going Chaigly Manor too... superb fun and lots of mischief to be had

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hi mick
you can only be a brother of george & family
stuarts the name
splendid laneside days
anyone out there remember the great bonfires of old
long before health $ safety just good common sense

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It was really creepy actually but our room all saw a lady and young boy walk through, then in the morning when we reported it, the other dorms had all reported the same thing. I've seen several things since this experience and it freaks me out every time, my other half thinks I just have an over active imagination but I'm wide awake every time and it happens when I least expect it:eek:

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yep used to go to the one on the Donkey Field,lol always had a "Den" in the middle to guard the wood.;)

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Yes i went there with my brother when we was at school he thowt it was good but i found it naff so i never whent again.

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that was the same with many kids, a love/hate thing lol, but the original concept of chaigly was to give kids whose parents couldnt afford to take em. a holiday so on that basis alone it stands as a great place for kids.;)

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i also remember another venue for under privaliged kids
a village in north wales DYSERTH its kept my love of
north wales ever since
it was a big holiday camp type of
place wooden huts and straw matresses

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What used to p**s me of was that all my friends used to go there and yours truly had to stop at home, why because they used to send bed wetters home.:mad:

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Tis I, yep remember you Stuart, think I once babysat for you when you lived off Cotton St, I think....

You would remember more George, Vinny (sadly no longer with us) Brenda, Marilyn, David - I was at the younger end and obviously me old Dad

Thats when it was a pleasure to be growing up !!! no playstations etc but plenty of good old fashioned outdoor fun (and some mischief every now and then)

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you did daughter just gone 40
i remember your mum and sister dorothy
good days
and dam good bonfires
laneside always had the best ones
unless someone knows better

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40, Jeez I am gettin old...lol.....

Mum - yea wish I'd'a known her but have no memories of her, being 1 when she passed. Dorothy lives in Nottingham

Still - th'owd father did a fine job bringin us lot up and still worked too

You still local, I'm living in water st

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splended family
as was all lanesiders
council house latch key kids
snotty noses
raggy breeches
jam butties
cream of the earth

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i love chaigley! i went there when i was about 10 stayed there for a few days and it was when nicole and stephen had it too, they were a fab couple and even had kids of there own so we used to play with them, they bought a lamb and a kid goat for us and we named and cleaned them, we went for walks over the hills and even to camelot theme park, that was when they bought that big red bus! one of the helpers made a rope swing and he used to swing us high and we always thought we would get in trouble as we thought it was dangerous.
i also remember when i was in the brownies, back in the day, they used to have like a fun day, were there would be lots of stalls and games for everyone. as a brownie i would help out on different stalls. it was also the time when chris sutton used to play for blackburn rovers and he had a house not far from chaigley and every time we went past it on the bus we would be in awe simply because he was a famous footballer, we would pick the familiy up from school and they would take us all to a local park, they painted the big play room with huge drawings of disney characters and power rangers etc made it bright and fun.
they were fab days i was so upset when they closed it down, give me chaigley over living abroad anyday!!

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i never went to chaigley, most of the kids from school went though