See “Looking back at Bollington” for full details.
Categories: Landscape
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Recreation ground, river and bridge
Showing the path in the Recreation Ground that once ran alongside the leat taking water to Bollington corn mill. The latter was located behind Bollington Hall Farm, approximately where the car park is in Riverside Close today. Water was taken from the river at Bridgend, though the exact spot has yet to be determined. It travelled in a culvert beside and under Palmerston Street, under the very bottom end of Clarence Road, under the canal embankment and then over the small aqueduct (today a footbridge) by the tunnel mouth. Notice also the curve in the river. This was later straightened out to make the field wide enough for the football pitch.
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Canal burst, Tinkers Clough
One of a series. This view is taken from Beehive bridge 28 looking north towards Adelphi Mill. After the breach the canal was stanked at this point and refilled with water. Fill was brought by boat to here and off-loaded into tramway trucks (bottom right) to be carried to the breach. In the group of boats in the background that in the front left appears to be the directors’ inspection boat with its clearstory roof. The townspeople have turned out in large numbers in their Sunday best to see what they can of this unusual incident.








