View over Adlington Road to the canal showing coal shutes on the embankment. The recreation ground is in the foreground and the Large Sunday School is the prominent building to the right of centre of the photograph.
Categories: Coalmining
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Harrop Coal Mine
At the coal mine below Harrop Wood. A Daily Mirror photograph. Joseph and Caleb Jodrell, father and son.
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Harrop Coal Mine
At the coal mine below Harrop Wood, inside the level or “footerell” as the donor called it. Father and son. A Daily Mail photograph.
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Harry and Elsie Forrest
Harry and Elsie Forrest on holiday at Scarborough. Lived at Shrigley Road, Bollington. Harry was a miner at Danebower coal mine on the Buxton to Congleton road, along with Jack Kirk of Bollington. They lived with a friend at Flash, and came home on bikes at the weekend.
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Decorated coal lorry, Coronation
Kirks coal delivery lorry decorated for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. Parked outside Woodbine Cottage, Pott Shrigley. The driver is probably one of the Kirk family.
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Coal mining Pott Shrigley
One of the last coal mines in Cheshire, at Hammond’s Brickworks, Pott Shrigley.
