Boy at the back is identified as George Potts, who lived on a farm in Adlington.
Categories: Industry
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Calender machine
As the photograph was taken by Frank Mayers, this machine is probably the calender machine on which he worked at H & L Slaters. Originally a cotton mill, Lower Mill was taken over in 1875 by Henry and leigh Slater, paper stainers and pasteboard manufacturers.
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Mill workers, Oak Bank
This photograph was given to the Society among many photographs taken by Frank Mayers in the late 1940s and early 1950s. This is earlier, probably late 1920s and could be in the Print Works, Oak Bank
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Carpenter at work
Details not known, but could be Oak Bank next to the coal hole with wooden awning. Donors great uncle Fred Whittle worked at Oak Bank.
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Harvesting corn, freak snow during late summer
Mr Frank Benett and Mr Pickford harvesting corn during snow in a freak year in 1962 on land near Rainow
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Frank Bennett tending his cows
Land in photograph is now Greenbank Drive. The Bennetts farm was on Hawthorn Road.
