A memorial bench in honour of a nurse who worked in Alderley Edge for more than 40 years will be repaired.

Maud Hatton was district nurse for the village. She took over the job from her mother who also cared for villagers for many years.

Many remember Nurse Hatton riding her bike to patients around the village. She was born in 1911 and never married,Dorothy Newbrook, who was landlady at the now-demolished Royal Oak and later The Wizard, organised a collection to buy her a car and presented her with a Triumph Herald to replace her bike.

Nurse Hatton worked as a nurse until she retired.

When she died in 1992 residents and parish councillors, paid for a bench in her memory outside the Royal Bank of Scotland, on London Road.

The bench has fallen into disrepair with missing wooden slats, rotten wood and moss.

At the recent parish council meeting, Coun Melanie Connor suggested that the council should pay for the bench to be repaired and councillors agreed.

Coun Frank Keegan said it was a useful stop for people walking into the village.

Harold Smith, 76, chairman of Alderley Edge History Society who has always lived in the village, said: “Everyone who has been in village for some time will remember Nurse Hatton.

“She was very highly thought of.

“I remember her riding her  bike around the village. She was at everyone’s beck and call whether dying or being born.

“I imagine most of the babies born in the village after the Second World War were delivered by Nurse Hatton.

“The bench may not mean anything to a lot of people but to people who grew up in the village it means a lot,” Mr Smith added.