For regular readers of this blog, you may be interested to know that my grandfather was wearing his Macclesfield tie deliberately at my wedding this summer (see posting on 31 December 2007). 

The traditions we read about do live on. See photo above for a shot of his particular take on the Macclesfield. 

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