Photographed at the Cheshire Hunt Inn on Spuley Lane
Categories 2: Mill
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Mr & Mrs G H Swindells return from honeymoon
Geoffrey Hillier Swindells began work in the Adelphi mill in 1891. He became manager of the mill for the Fine Cotton Spinners and Doublers Association. He married Sybil Maitland Addison in 1908. Served with the Cheshire Regiment, Colonel 4th Batt, and was killed in action on 1st August 1918 in France. See “Looking back at Bollington” for full details. Family history also available on www.happy-valley.org.uk – look under history, families.
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Brewery, Higher Mills
Cotton spinning at Higher Mills had ceased by the 1870s and the mill became a hat works, a manufacturer of wireless valves and a brewery.
