Knutsford

I've gone back to my roots for my parish news, the parish that I'm from.

This is from the Knutsford and Wilmslow Guardian.

Wilmslow grandad Harold, 106, still enjoys a glass of wine.

Chirpy Harold Goodall loves to celebrate his birthday in style.

... further bill, you-

I say, do you get free breakfast with that? 'Cause we stopped at one, uh, at Knutsford when we did Truckfest North West, and the restaurant had closed there, and they were like, "Uh, as a goodwill gesture, we'll be serving breakfast for free." So in the reception they had little bowls of cereal-

Oh

... um, and, and a big bowl of fruit and some croissants.

You know, they've, they've, [chuckles] they've lost to a lot of people.

Got battered by Knutsford, a home defeat style.

And, you know, it was only through our mistakes they drew with us.

Realistically, you know, we should've beaten them, either with a clutch winner or just generally not conceding the sloppy goals we did.

Featuring voices from Suffolk, Norfolk, Manchester and Scotland, as well as the capital.

Today's conversation features James Gulliver Cameron, Head of Wine Portfolio at Hammonds of Knutsford.

There are some really great takeaways from this episode and I'll be giving my top three after the interview.

James has an incredible diversity of experience that we explore today.

And that brings us right up to date then.

So yeah, give us a sense of... uh your current role and what that entails now on the

other side yeah absolutely so working for a family owned and run wine and spirits importer and wholesaler so we're called Hammonds of Knutsford we're based uh well in Knutsford believe it or not as the name suggests so just south of Manchester started by our current MD Johnny Hammond started by his dad's Tony Hammond MBE back in 1960 and and yeah family owned and run and and fiercely independent ever since really Hammonds has gone through many guises over the years, but this is the first time in a while we've really had that kind of focus on shipping our own wines, building our own wine portfolio and being as competitive as we can be.

And we're very lucky to have a very loyal customer base in the Northwest.

Mm.

Yeah, and I think that's the reality, isn't it? Of, uh, and hopefully the audience has enjoyed that, is as the show goes on, you know, JP goes in with this ridiculously arrogant attitude, Knutsford, and-

[laughs]

... slagging off Howard in series one repeatedly, and then-

Congleton upon Dane, a twenty miles from Chester, plain east out of Chester and six miles out of Northwich.

Knutsford market, eighteen miles by northeast.

It hath but a chapel.

The parish church is at Asbury, a mile off.

Irene Breton married William Hanford of Hanford Eyre, but she had a son afore by Sir John Stanley, bastard to Stanley, Bishop of Healy.

Sir Richard Breton, a younger son to Sir Randall of Breton, married the only daughter of Wilkin Stanley and heir to Sir Geoffrey Massey of Tatton Manor and Park.

Mere of the Mere, two mile from Knutsford, a man of a hundred mark land.

Lee of High Lee, the ancientest of the Lees of this country, a mile from Knutsford.