Photo taken in Paradise St, adjacent to 13/15 Shrigley Road – house & grocery/drapery shop, opposite Beeston Mount. Richard & Martha Ann Wright owned shop & cornmill. Their sons Clifford & Leslie took over the corn business when Richard died in April 1920. Martha Ann & daughter Mary ran grocery/drapery shop.
Billy Kirkham lived in an old cottage on Grimshaw Lane
Categories 2: Lorry
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Leslie Wright & Billy Kirkham with R Wright grocer’s lorry
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Leslie Wright & unknown man
With lorry loaded with sacks of corn at Prestbury Mill. Clifford & Leslie took over corn mill when their father died in April 1926. They sold the Bollington one in Watson’s Yard & concentrated on the Prestbury Mill, behind the church. 1930’s
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Albert Edward Weate and milk lorry
Albert Weate who drove the milk collection lorry. b.8 Dec 1897, d.10 Dec 1984. Pictured adjacent to Pott Shrigley school.
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Leslie Wright leaning on lorry ‘R Wright, grocer, Bollington’
Lorry parked in Paradise Street adjacent to Shrigley Road shop
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J C Broadhead
John Charles Broadhead 1898-1985. Joined up in 1914 when he was 16. Served as a staff driver in England, Bought the garage business in 1931 from Mary Bunting & Co.
Born in no.6, Bull Hill, Rainow. Family moved to Coronation Builings at the end of WWI. Went to work half-time at Oliver’s Mill at the age of 10 or 11. Went to school in Rainow in the afternoons after 6 o’clock shift at Olivers. Worked as a chauffeur to Oliver. -
Billy Leonard with Harry and Jack Hough, Church Street
In doorway are Mr and Mrs Alf Hough, mother and father of Jack and Harry
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Decorated milk lorry, Coronation
Milk collection lorry decorated for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. Parked outside Woodbine Cottage, Pott Shrigley.
