C Hayman who broke the school record for the junior javelin at the Bollington secondary school sports.
Categories 2: School
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Large Sunday School on Palmerston Street
Built by the Methodists, this huge building at the bottom of School Brow (Hurst Lane) was demolished in the early 1970s and replaced by the Civic Hall and Library.
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Elementary schools walking race
Bollington elementary schoolboys walking race held on 8 August 1903. There were 31 contestants; 11 from Bollington Cross, 12 from St John’s, 7 from the Wesleyan (Methodist) School and 1 from St Gregory’s.
see ‘Looking Back at Bollington’ for full details.
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Sunday School trip on LNER Engineer’s work boat
Locations of named persons available on catalogue card 53/74. Please ask Volunteer staff for contact details.
At that time, 1945, the Macclesfield Canal was owned by the London North Eastern Railway Co. (LNER). This was because the original owners, the Manchester Sheffield & Lincoln Railway Co. (MSLR), went to the LNER at amalgamation in 1923. The MSLR had bought the canal, together with the Peak Forest and Ashton canals, in 1847.
