Rock Bank House was taken over during both wars for use as a hospital for injured military personnel.
Categories: Building
Building description
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Rock Bank military hospital
Rock Bank House was taken over during both wars for use as a hospital for injured military personnel.
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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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Large Sunday school on Palmerston Street
This huge building was built by the Methodists and served as a Sunday school and meeting room until the early 1970s. It was then demolished, the entry to Hurst Lane was widened, and the Civic Hall and Library were built in its place. It was always known as the Large Sunday school to differentiate it from other, smaller, Sunday schools.
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Wellington Road and Co-operative stores
Part of the Waggon and Horses hotel visible on the extreme left. On the right, at the corner of Albert Road, is part of a unit of three shops built by the Macclesfield Equitable Provident Society in 1903 and demolished about seventy years later.
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Smithy, Wellington Road
L to R Donald Smith (background), Hubert Whitehurst, Jack Faulder.
The Faulders owned the smithy from 1906 to c.1931. Used after that by Bollington Urban District Council to store barrows etc. -
Clarence Lodge, Clarence Mill
Family lived in Clarence Terrace. Father worked at Clarence. Came from Stockport after WWI when spinners wanted.
