I've always enjoyed going to Macclesfield. I imagine it would be a nice place to live, with easy access to Manchester by train and on the edge of the Peak District.Macclesfield's traditional local nickname is "Treacle Town"—supposedly from an incident where a merchant spilt a load of treacle on Hibel Road, and the poor rushed out to scoop it off the cobbles.
Macclesfield's got a very good wet fish shop, aptly on Roe Street, but today I thought I would cover Granelli's ice cream centre.
According to the leaflet I picked up at Granelli's, Angelo Granelli came to Macclesfield from Genoa in 1890 to join his uncle who had a sweet shop there.At the Newton Street premises there is a factory shop, open to the public selling over 45 different flavours of ice cream (inclusing a blue aniseed flavour!).
There's also a mini-museum where you can see a Granelli’s restored handcart, a tricycle, a horse cart, a 1919 Dodge ice cream van and a Morris J Type ice cream van they used to deliver ice cream around the streets of Macclesfield.
They get a mention in The Independent's 50 Best Ice-Cream Parlours
Being Macclesfield Granelli's even do a Treacle Town ice cream, made with treacle and marshmallows!
Granellis
74 Newton Street
Macclesfield
SK11 6RJ
Tel: 01625 424391
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