A History Exhibition was a main attraction at the first Bollington Festival in 1964.
Categories: Festival
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Repainting White Nancy
2nd Bollington Senior Scouts with leader Richard Wright repainted White Nacy ready for the 1964 Festival.
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Repainting White Nancy
2nd Bollington Scouts repainting White Nancy prior to the 1964 Festival. Leader of the scouts, Richard Wright.
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Bollington Festival Parade
Methodist Young Wives Group carrying a line of nappies in the parade showing Bollington Today, Edie Thompson looking on. Other groups include Young Farmers, Kerridge Methodists, and Bollington Angling Society.
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Bollington Festival Parade
H & L Slater float showing the building of the Aqueduct as part of the Pageant of Bollington’s History. Unfortunately the date on the aqueduct was wrong! It was built between 1827 and 1831.
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Bollington Festival Parade
Bollington Printing Company float showing Fashion Through the Ages. Shows range of fabrics, predominantly summer dress fabrics, printed at the Oak Bank Print mill. Leaflets were given out about the history of the company. Fabric was for sale in the Industry Exhibition at the festival.
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Bollington Festival Parade 1964
Young Wives and Youth Club float representing the Gaskell Family and the building of White Nancy, part of the Pageant on Bollington’s History. The character with the telescope at the front is the Gaskell son, a naval officer who , it was said, would look for White nancy when coming into the Mersey Estuary on his way back to Liverpool.
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Bollington Festival Parade
Congregational Church and Sunday School Float representing Samuel Greg’s Sunday School at Lowerhouse as part of a Pageant on the History of Bollington.
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Bollington Festival Parade
Float representing Rock Bank Hospital during the First World War as part of a Pageant on the History of Bollington. The Mothers’ Union was responsible for the float.
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Bollington Festival Parade
Representation of Tudor Scene in Pageant on History of Bollington. Bollington Methodist Sisterhood were responsible for this float. The truck belonged to Lewis Tute, coal merchant.