Original inscribed on back “Miss Leighton, Wellington Road girl guiders about 1910”.
Categories: Building
Building description
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Herbert John Sutton
Late 1870s? Herbert John Sutton (1855-1909). Son of a Bollington cotton spinner who trained as a teacher at St Marks College, Chelsea from 1875. From 1877 to 1908 was the master of Bollington Cross School. Schoolroom was used then as a church on Sundays and Herbert John was responsible for the arrangements and was organist and choir master. Father of Joseph Sutton. Lived at 14 Bollington Road.
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Jumble sale at Bollington Cross school
25th April 1903.
Second from right is Hannah Sutton, wife of H J Sutton the headmaster. See “Looking back at Bollington” for full details -
Kerridge canal dock
Location is Kerridge wharf on the canal. Could be 1936. The wharf and the associated tramway were out of use by 1870. This water is today Kerridge Dry Dock.
