EXCLUSIVEAs Harry Styles' Cheshire village 開始する，打ち上げるs an 公式の／役人 小旅行する, 地元のs give the Mail a こそこそ動く preview... from the パン屋 where he earned £6 an hour to the restaurant where he 支持を得ようと努めるd Taylor Swift
As left 武器 go, Graham Blake's is a 公正に／かなり 基準 四肢, 覆う？ today in his stationmaster dark pullover, the sleeves of his blue shirt peeking out from under the cuff.
But to Harry Styles fans ― Harries as they are known ― it is a thing of beauty, in the same vein as John Lennon's trademark glasses or Elton John's 署名 （犯罪の）一味s. This arm, you see, has touched ― yes, touched ― the 広大な／多数の／重要な floppy-haired One Direction frontman himself.
'We get fans here from all over the world, from places I've never even heard of. They want to touch the arm that Harry touched, so they can say they've touched someone who has touched Harry Styles,' chuckles 62-year-old Graham, standing in his ticket office next to a life-sized cardboard cutout of the 全世界の 激しく揺する 星／主役にする.
'They ask all sorts of daft questions, like 'What does Harry smell like?' says Graham, who has worked at the 駅／配置する for 23 years. Crikey, what does he tell them?
'I think I told them Lynx ― all lads use Lynx, don't they?'
Fans Molly and Laura 提起する／ポーズをとる with a cardboard cutout of Harry Styles in W. Mandeville パン屋, where a 14-year-old Styles once swept the 床に打ち倒すs for £6 an hour each Saturday
駅／配置する master Graham Blake 提起する／ポーズをとるs with a cardboard cutout of Harry. Fans from all over the world visit him?so they can say they've touched someone who has touched Harry Styles
Welcome to Holmes Chapel, an unremarkable yet quintessentially English village in the heart of Cheshire, that also happens to be the childhood home of the 30-year-old Grammy 勝利者 ― and is now a mecca for teenage fans across the world.
In fact, so many of them alight at the 駅／配置する, desperate to visit their idol's former haunts, that 地元の leaders 発表するd this week they will turn the village's walking 地図／計画する into an 公式の／役人 guided 小旅行する.
Rather aptly, for a singer whose stratospheric rise began when he appeared on the X Factor in 2010, village 長，指導者s 計画（する） to 持つ／拘留する reality-style auditions to 雇う 専門家 guides, who, from June, will lead groupies around the 重要な sights.
Today I am 存在 given a preview by Peter Whiers, 67, the retired 核の engineer and 議長，司会を務める of the Holmes Chapel 共同, who （機の）カム up with the idea of cashing in on Harry-mania to help 保護（する）／緊急輸入制限 the 未来 of the village he has lived in for 30 years.
Some 5,000 diehard fans have already hot-footed it to Holmes Chapel in the last year alone, and 利益／興味, Peter says , has 'gone mad' since news of the 小旅行するs broke ― with TV 乗組員s from Spain and フラン, and even 新聞記者／雑誌記者s from the New York Times, getting in touch.
'The idea is that we will 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 £20 a 小旅行する and use the money to support 小売 and the 組織／基盤／下部構造 of the village,' he says.
'Last year was 悲惨な, what with the cost-of-living 危機 people stopped buying 高級なs such as coffees and cakes so much, and we had several 商売／仕事s go 破産した／（警察が）手入れする. If we can do something Harry-関係のある to support them, then that's the 目的（とする）.'
With 48 million 信奉者s on Instagram, Styles may have been born of the social マスコミ age, but his fans still crave something 有形の ― to visit the place where he once worked, 雑談（する） to someone he once knew, or touch a 塀で囲む where he once wrote his 指名する.?
Then, of course, they can't resist 株ing every 詳細（に述べる） of their visit under the Holmes Chapel hashtag, which has more than 2,750 地位，任命するs on TikTok, 奮起させるing yet more 訪問者s.
Harry took former girlfriend Taylor Swift to Fortune City Chinese Restaurant for tea on her 23rd birthday 12 years ago, which is a few doors 負かす／撃墜する from his childhood home
Harry and Taylor 株d a 簡潔な／要約する romance between 2012 and 2013
Peter and I 会合，会う at the first stop on the 小旅行する, Holmes Chapel Train 駅／配置する, where most Harries arrive on the twice-hourly trains from Manchester, and stationmaster Graham is 迎える／歓迎するd like 王族.
Unlike Peter ― whose closest 小衝突 with the singer is that his daughter once went ten-pin bowling with him when he was first starting out in One Direction ― Graham (and his arm) have 提起する／ポーズをとるd for pictures with the young Styles on the 駅／配置する 壇・綱領・公約. （映画の）フィート数 of the 会合 is 利用できる on the fan Facebook page Graham runs.
'I can still picture Harry pulling his trolley-dolly behind him, wearing his floppy hat and scarf, as he travelled to and from London during the X Factor live shows,' Graham tells me. And it is this sort of insight he 株 with fans who arrive at the 駅／配置する ― 25 on 普通の／平均（する） per day ―from as far afield as Peru, Argentina, Australia and Mexico.
'They feel 特権d to 会合，会う someone that knows and has met Harry,' he says. 'Some of them really are in awe when they come in.'
For those able to 鎮圧する the excitement long enough to しっかり掴む a pen there is even a 'Say Hi to Harry' vistors' 調書をとる／予約する they can 調印する (最大限 length four lines).
'Harry isn't just another arrogant pop 星／主役にする. I think people love him because he does care,' Graham explains. 'If you read some of the stories in the 訪問者 調書をとる／予約する it's （疑いを）晴らす that a lot of people have been to the 辛勝する／優位. They say Harry and his music has brought them 支援する.'
One young fan I met summed up the 控訴，上告. 'When you are here you feel the 関係, he feels so real,' says Olivia Gouldthorp, a 17-year-old 'Harry-mad' A-level student from Middlesbrough, who is on her third visit to the village.?
Leaving the 駅／配置する we 長，率いる to stop number two, the Twemlow Viaduct and 'Harry's 塀で囲む', いわゆる because Styles famously wrote his 指名する on the brickwork during the 2013 One Direction 文書の This Is Us. He also enjoyed his first kiss at the 目印.
The half-mile walk to the viaduct, across a boggy field that runs と一緒に the River Dene, has 証明するd challenging for some Harries.
Graham, who tries to 警告する fans about the Cheshire 天候 recounts a tale of two Danish girls in white ジーンズs and trainers who returned to the 駅／配置する 'caked in mud'.
Harry, dressed in Mandeville パン屋's burgundy branded apron and 持つ／拘留するing up a white loaf, worked at the パン屋 when he was 14 years old
'Harry's 塀で囲む' at?the Twemlow Viaduct where fans leave?colourful messages of love and support, written on bricks that 包む around the base of one of the viaduct's 23 arches
'They didn't mind, they were chuffed tha t they were taking Harry's mud home with them to Denmark,' he laughs.
Peter 追加するs: 'The trouble is, if you are coming here from Peru there is probably not much space in your スーツケース for wellies for the mud flats of Holmes Chapel.'
The cross-country 大勝する deliberately 避けるs the busy A535 trunk road ― safety 関心s were behind the 初期の 決定／判定勝ち（する） to start printing 地図／計画するs for fans last year.
Luckily the only hazard we have to 競う with is the mud and a trio of feisty cows, who aren't too pleased to see us.
Today it is impossible to 選ぶ out Styles' 初めの graffiti, which has been rubbed away or obscured by the colourful messages of love and support, written on bricks that 包む around the base of one of the viaduct's 23 arches. Peter says: 'The 塀で囲む is like a 神社. Harry is a 宗教 to these fans.'
Certainly, friends Lauren Platt, 20, Beth Barons, 19, Beth Poley, 20, and Isabel Cooper, 20, 扱う／治療する Styles like a deity. They travelled to Holmes Chapel from Stafford, clutching a picture of the pop 星／主役にする 描写するd as Jesus.
'We're not going to leave it here but we will take some selfies at the 塀で囲む,' student Isabel says.
'We've been to WH Smith for some chalk pens. I'm going to draw a sunflower because Sunflower, Vol. 6 is my favourite song.'
Olivia, from Middlesbrough, and her friend Lucy Newman, 17, also waded through the mud and dodged the cows to reach the 塀で囲む today.
'I cry every time I go,' says Olivia. 'There is something so 慰安ing about it, to think that there are other people that feel the same way as you do [about Styles]. When you come here it is just so 実証するing.'
Lucy wrote the date she had seen Styles in concert and 'thank you' の上に the brickwork. Olivia said she penne d 'you saved my life'.
Asked why, she replies: 'Because when you are our age you go through a lot of hard times, everything is changing, and he makes me feel seen. His music is something I can 落ちる 支援する on. I feel like I know him, even though I don't.'
'It's really personal,' agrees Lucy, who has been a fan since she was four. 'We've grown up with Harry,' she says, reminiscing about the One Direction pyjamas she had when she was at 最初の／主要な school.
From the 塀で囲む, we re-trace our steps along the river until we reach Macclesfield Road for the third 目印 on the 小旅行する, W. Mandeville パン屋, where a 14-year-old Styles (now 価値（がある） £150 million) once swept the 床に打ち倒すs for the heady sum of £6 an hour each Saturday.
The building, with its old-fashioned Hovis 調印する on the exterior 塀で囲む and red telephone box next door, 供給するs the perfect 背景 for overseas fans. They arrive in a 安定した stream, clutching their iPhones and 地位，任命するing about their visit on social マスコミ.
Inside, another cardboard 削減（する）-out of Styles, dressed in the パン屋's burgundy branded apron and 持つ／拘留するing up a white loaf, 迎える／歓迎するs selfie-mad fans.
Owner Simon Wakefield, a fourth-世代 パン職人 at the family 商売／仕事 his grandfather 設立するd in 1900, has been up kneading dough since 3am, but 主張するs he never tires of the Harries.
'The people are all really nice who come here ― they want to buy one of our aprons, 木造の spoons or jams and chutneys with our 指名する on.
'Last year, when Harry was on 小旅行する in the UK, we had people 列ing out the door.'
I 会合，会う student Laura Mulry, 18, and her friend Molly Bailey, 19, from Walsall, inside the shop.
'A lot of celebrities are so out there, you don't feel の近くに to them because they are so big, they are unrelatable, but Harry just seems so human,' says Laura.
The last stop on the 小旅行する takes us past Fortune City Chinese Restaurant, a few doors 負かす／撃墜する from Styles' childhood home, where he took one-time squeeze Taylor Swift for tea on her 23rd birthday, 12 years ago.?
It has been の近くにd for the past eight months because of a family bereavement and Styles' former London Road home ― which won't be part of the 公式の／役人 小旅行する ―is also empty and を待つing new tenants.
One 隣人 says: 'Most of the fans that come are very polite but you do get the 半端物 one that tries to come on to the 所有物／資産／財産 or looks through the window, which can be upsetting.' Peter agrees. 'They can have 300 girls outside in the summer, literally （軍の）野営地，陣営ing outside. We've got to strike a balance and keep the 地元のs on board 同様に.'
So far, he says, 38 people have 適用するd for the 15 小旅行する guide 職業s on 申し込む／申し出. They will be 'auditioned' in spring and 推定する／予想するd to answer questions on St yles and tell jokes as part of the 選択 過程.
So will it be the 十分な X Factor blunt feedback?
'I'm not sure I'm as 汚い as Simon Cowell,' Peter laughs, before 勧めるing us 支援する 負かす／撃墜する the road に向かって the 駅／配置する.
Inside, Graham delights us with one final Harry nugget as he tells the story of a conversation he had with the singer's father, Des, a few weeks ago.
'He （機の）カム and took five 訪問者 調書をとる／予約するs for Harry's 30th birthday [on February 1], because he 手配中の，お尋ね者 them to give to his son as a 現在の. He said to me: 'What can I get him, he's 30 and he has everything already?'
Maybe next year he'll buy him a ticket for a guided 小旅行する.
