Taken from recruiting book
Categories: Mill worker
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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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Cop winding room, Adelphi mill
Cop. A cylindrical yarn package with conical ends. Yarn may be withdrawn from one of the ends without rotation of the package.
Winding. When the yarn spun in wound onto the spindle in the form of a cop -
Mr & Mrs G H Swindells return from honeymoon
Geoffrey Hillier Swindells began work in the Adelphi mill in 1891. He became manager of the mill for the Fine Cotton Spinners and Doublers Association. He married Sybil Maitland Addison in 1908. Served with the Cheshire Regiment, Colonel 4th Batt, and was killed in action on 1st August 1918 in France. See “Looking back at Bollington” for full details. Family history also available on www.happy-valley.org.uk – look under history, families.
