Shows the footpath in the Recreation ground between the river and Palmerston Street. The path follows the course of the mill leat – which is visible to the right of the path – which took water from the river Dean somewhere to the east of the canal aqueduct, under the embankment, and down Wellington Road to just beyond Garden Street, thence to the corn mill which stood on the river’s edge in Riverbank Drive.
The bend in the river, to the left of the picture, was later staightened out to make room for the football pitch.
Categories 2: Footpath
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Recreation Ground
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Field footpath off Hurst Lane
Field footpath from Hurst Lane (foreground) to Gleave Avenue (distance). Prior to Gleave avenue being built the path continued right through to Chancery Lane across what were known as Red Lion fields. Picture taken in 1984 by Bollington Civic Society History Group.
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Footpath off Hurst Lane
Stone squeeze stile off Hurst Lane onto the field foot path to Gleave Avenue. Hurst Lane is an ancient roadway and the piece of hedge in the picture was centuries old. It was destroyed by the owner in the early 21st century in an attempt to move the footpath, without permission, to the edge of the field.
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Footpath off Hurst Lane
This is the field footpath between Hurst Lane (foreground) and Gleave Avenue (distance). The picture was taken in 1984 by Bollington Civic Society History Group.
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Path to White Nancy
Looking up the ‘trodd’ (stone paved) path to Kerridge Hill and White Nancy from close to the bottom of the path at the top of Lord Street, beside the entrance to Cow Lane. The trodd paths were laid on the routes that mill and quarry workers took to work and back each day. This one would have been used by workers in Kerridge quarries who lived in the lower Chancery Lane and Lord Street area of Bollington.
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Macclesfield Canal at Hurst Lane bridge
A beautiful picture of a horse drawn boat load of stone on the Macclesfield Canal approaching Hurst Lane bridge, no.26. Note the lack of overgrowth, the wide clean towpath and the telephone poles and wires. In the distance smoke rises from Oak Bank mill chimney.
