Craftsmen pose whilst building the extension to the Clarence Mill. See “Looking back at Bollington” for full details.
Categories: Mill
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Mr and 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 and was killed in action in August 1918. See “Looking back at Bollington” for full details.
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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 Yarn may be withdrawn from one of the ends without rotation of the package.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 -
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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View over Higher Mill as a brewery
Cotton spinning at the Higher Mills ceased in the 1870’s. When this photo was taken the mill was in use as a brewery. It burnt down in 1931.
