Digital Hearing Aids Wilmslow – Cheshire Digital Hearing Aids

Digital Hearing Aids Wilmslow – Cheshire Digital Hearing Aids 

Affluent Wilmslow just 11 miles south of Manchester is famous for its ‘Cheshire lifestyle’.  The expensive houses, designer shops and good restaurants are magnets for famous footballers and of course their wives and families.  This also helps to attract other ‘wannabe’s’ to the area.

In fact Wilmslow lies within the Golden Triangle of well-heeled locations in this area, which also include Alderney Edge and other villages such as Knutsford and Prestbury.  Not surprisingly this is a Conservative stronghold with the current parliamentary representative George Osborne, also holding the post of Chancellor.

When the railways arrived in the area back in Victorian times it made Wilmslow commutable.  This enabled the wealthy businessmen of the time to move out of Manchester and so the bar was set.  It has remained a ‘desirable’ location to live ever since.

Football fever
Back in 1924 before Wilmslow and the surrounding area became the home of choice to our top professional football players, two brothers set up a workshop in the town to produce sports wear.  Harold Humphreys, one of the brothers, had seen the way football was fast becoming a national obsession.  One example being how crowds in excess of 200,000 flocked to the cup final at Wembley in the previous year.  He took his tailoring skills and set up the company, Umbro an acronym of Humphrey Brothers.

Their first football kit was produced for the FA Cup in 1934 between Manchester City and Portsmouth.  Both teams wore kit by Umbro and they became the official FA Cup supplier and sponsor of the Football Association.

Over the years Umbro has provided uniforms for the British Olympic team, tennis and produced other sports gear.  The company started to produce their own football boots in the 1980s.  Umbro has supplied kits globally to a number of different football playing countries.  Having sold to Nike Inc in 2007, they have now been sold onto Iconix.

Umbro has sponsored many footballers over the years including Denis Law (Manchester United and Scotland), Alan Shearer (Newcastle United and England) and Michael Owen  at the age of 14 (Manchester United and England).  Currently they sponsor England players Joe Hart, Andy Caroll, Andre Wisdom and Kevin Nolan.  They also sponsor Peruvian player Juan Vargas and a number of teams in the UK and all around the world.

Earlier residents
Nearby Lindow Moss turned out to be the long-term home of an ancient resident of the area.  The body which had been preserved by the peat bog was found in 1984 when professional peat cutters were going about their work.  The previous year Lindow Woman – or at least her head -had been found in the same area.

Lindow Man has been identified as a healthy male (when he was alive obviously) in his 20s who appears to have met with a violent death.  He was strangled and hit on the head and as if that wasn’t enough, his throat was cut.  Brutal to say the least.  The body and the head have been radiocarbon dated as being around 2000 years old making them from the Iron Age.  Lindow Man who is sometimes referred to as ‘Pete Marsh’ has been preserved by freeze drying.  He is on show at the Manchester Museum if you want to meet him.

Sorry I didn’t catch that
Well one thing’s for certain poor old Lindow Man certainly can’t hear anymore.  Reduced hearing is sometimes caused by the ears being blocked by wax, but we’re guessing it was peat in his case.
How are yours?  Hearing Aids Stoke-on-Trent has all the expertise to assess you.  Failing hearing can be due to many things – though rarely peat blocking – and can happen at any time in your life.  Don’t suffer in silence, let us help you.  We are just at the end of a telephone line (01782 698090) and waiting for your call.

Wilmslow makes the headlines
In 1997 two IRA bombs went off on the rail tracks near Wilmslow railway station; fortunately no one was hurt although there was extensive damage.

Famous residents of Wilmslow
As we’ve said Wilmslow attracts many notable people to this desirable area.  As well as footballers, actors and show business personalities are also fond of the town.  Here’s a few that we know of:

·         Long-serving Coronation Street actor William Roache known for his role as Ken Barlow

·         Sir Alex Ferguson long time manager of Manchester United

·         Kerry Katona who initially made her name as part of girl band Atomic Kitten

·         Tenor Russell Watson who had two brain tumours that interrupted his singing career in 2005 and 2007

·         There’s a blue plaque on the wall outside the former home of Alan Turing here who was instrumental in developing computer science

·         Author Alan Garner famous for his children’s books is a local resident

·         Another Coronation Street  actor who lives here is Simon Gregson famous for his part as Steve MacDonald

·         South Korean footballer Park Ji-Sung made his home here too during his time at Manchester United.  He currently plays for Queens Park Rangers

·         More players living the footballer’s lifestyle in Wilmslow include Manchester United players Nemanja Vidic, Luis Nani, Antonio Valencia, Phil Jones, Federico Macheda, Patrice Evra, Ashley Young and of course, Wayne Rooney

·         Manchester City players living here include Yava Toure, Joleon Lescott, David Silva, Joe Hart and Gareth Barry


Sending up a cheer
Wilmslow is like football city!  Can you hear the cheers from where you live?  If you’re having trouble with that maybe it’s time to get a hearing test.  We can offer you a professional audiologist to test both ears – it’s important to test both – so that we can assess how we can help.  Digital hearing aids for both ears make a world of difference and really help you to hear better.
This has to be tempting.  Give us a call on 01782 698090 or make an online enquiry here so that we can get the ball rolling!