High Street circa 1905 showing children posing for the camera. Some shops and a horse drawn cart are visible in the background. The Market Place is halfway along the row of buildings shown on the left
Categories 2: Cart
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Timber merchants at Whaley Bridge
James and Downing Lomas were the sons of a timber merchant at Chapel en le Frith and were the uncles of the donor. They used to cut timber in the Goyt Valley and this may have been taken to Whaley Bridge Station for transport to their customers by rail.
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Nesset Farm, Macclesfield Forest
William and Millie Waller, at Nesset Farm (which was lost to the new Macclesfield Forest and Reservoir). William had been at Nesset since he was a young man. The farm was previously his uncle’s. In the cart , the couple are setting off for Macclesfield Market.
William Waller took Mount Farm, Bollington, c1935. Albert, his sone, took over from him; Gordon, his grandson, is there now (1990).
