A nurse at Parkside, Macclesfield. See also 14/41
Categories 2: Industry
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Joseph Gardiner
Eldest son of Charles Gardiner and Jane Ainsworth. Farmed Moss Lane Farm, Lowerhouse.
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Canal looking towards Hurst Lane bridge
Before Highfield Road was built, hay was made in this field across the canal from Blue Sheds farm, at the top of Hawthorn Road.
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Quarry tramway
See “Looking back at Bollington” for full details. The ‘Rally Road’, as it was called, connected Endon quarry to the Macclesfield canal. Constructed soon after the opening of the canal but closed by the 1870s.
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Brewery fire Higher Mills
3rd March 1931. Cotton spinning at Higher Mills had ceased by the 1870s. The low part of the mill then became a brewery until approximately 1920, after which it was used only for bottling Ind Coope beer. This activity was never restarted after the fire. See “Bollington in old picture postcards” for full details. Also www.happyvalley.org.uk/breweries .
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Coal mining Pott Shrigley
One of the last coal mines in Cheshire, at Hammond’s Brickworks, Pott Shrigley.
