Historical exhibition, Victorian living room.
Categories: Event
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Coronation arch on Albert Road
The residents of Lowerhouse constructed this ceremonial arch on the route of a procession planned for the 1902 coronation. See “Looking back at Bollington” for full details.
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St Johns cubs
Photograph taken in front of the Coach House doors at Oak Bank House (now in Oak Bank Drive). For many years after WWII this building was used as the local scout headquarters. In 1983/4 it was restored by Chesney Orme for domestic accommodation.
Middle row 3rd from L is Granville Egerton
Front row 2nd from R is Fred Ratcliffe -
Stringer family
Edward Stringer and family. He was a wheelwright at 125 Bollington Road, Bollington Cross.
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Water Street School
Original inscribed on back “Miss Leighton, Wellington Road girl guiders about 1910”.
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Gordon and Elsie Needham
Gordon and Elsie Needham (b.1909) nee Longden in front garden of 31 Oak Lane, Kerridge after their wedding on 2nd September 1939. Elsie was daughter of George Percy Longden and worked as a secretary at Adelphi Mill in the 1930s and 1940s. A Gordon Needham is the eldest son of A G Needham who established the firm of A G Needham and sons, the wharf, Hurst Lane.
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Bollington Cross choir, Sherwood Forest
Bollington Cross choir, Sherwood Forest, 19 August 1893.
Man in centre of back row is Herbert Sutton, master of Bollington Cross School.
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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
