This was located at the bottom of Hurst Lane, where the Civic Hall and Library are today.
Categories: School
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Water Street School
Original inscribed on back “Miss Leighton, Wellington Road girl guiders about 1910”.
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Herbert John Sutton
Late 1870s? Herbert John Sutton (1855-1909). Son of a Bollington cotton spinner who trained as a teacher at St Marks College, Chelsea from 1875. From 1877 to 1908 was the master of Bollington Cross School. Schoolroom was used then as a church on Sundays and Herbert John was responsible for the arrangements and was organist and choir master. Father of Joseph Sutton. Lived at 14 Bollington Road.
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Jumble sale at Bollington Cross school
25th April 1903.
Second from right is Hannah Sutton, wife of H J Sutton the headmaster. See “Looking back at Bollington” for full details -
Mary Ellen Sutton with sunday school teachers
Mary Ellen Sutton, possibly with group of Sunday School teachers.
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Ingersley Road from Beeston Brow
Probably pre 1914. The large building to the right is the Catholic St Gregory’s chapel, since demolished, with the Catholic school next to it, now cottages.
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Day nursery at Kay Metzeler, Wellington Road
Kay Metzeler, but known in 1960 as Kay Brothers Plastics Ltd.
