Shows the footpath in the Recreation ground between the river and Palmerston Street. The path follows the course of the mill leat – which is visible to the right of the path – which took water from the river Dean somewhere to the east of the canal aqueduct, under the embankment, and down Wellington Road to just beyond Garden Street, thence to the corn mill which stood on the river’s edge in Riverbank Drive.
The bend in the river, to the left of the picture, was later staightened out to make room for the football pitch.
Categories: River Dean
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Recreation Ground
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Recreation Ground
The rough wooden lattice bridge providing access from Round Gardens to the Recreation ground. There is a large audience sitting along the far side of the river, no doubt watching sport.
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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.
