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: Industry
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Brick at Sowcar Farm
Brick inscribed G.L. Shrigley – presumed to be the maker. Shrigley may refer to Pott Shrigley in which case it could be from Hammond’s brick yard at Pott Shrigley.
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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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Canal Boat at 1974 Festival
Narrowboat ‘Jupiter’ coming through. Needham’s woodyard in the background.
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Bollington Road with the Salt Box
Looking North towards Bollington Cross. On the right is the Salt Box, demolished when Kingsway was built in the 1930s. On the left is Stringers’s Wheelwrights Shop.
