Geoff and Alan Worth planting potatoes at Blue Bell Farm, Tytherington.
Categories: Transport
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Blue Bell Farm, Tytherington
One of a collection of pictures taken on and around Blue Bell Farm, Tytherington, during the 1930s,40s and 50s. Leslie Hayes riding the implement with Geoff Worth age 4 in 1934.
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Trip to the Circus
Staff from Room 3 Winding Room at Clarence mill setting off to Manchester to visit the circus. They are boarding the charabanc (coach) outside the Turners Arms in Ingersley Road. Aunt Annie organised the trip (3rd from left with hat, glasses, open coat and necklace). Oss Nolan, their Overlooker, is second from right.
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Palmerston Street Aqueduct
The finest structure on the Macclesfield Canal, the aqueduct carries the canal high over the town. It was built in 1829-31 together with the unique, all stone constructed, embankment. Notice the setts paving the street; these were only removed when the road was reconstructed in the early 2000s. Look closely at the left of the picture and you may see the ghostly image of a lady in a wide brimmed hat! The photographer wanted for soime unknown reason to remove this lady from the picture. Another has also been removed from the right side.
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Wellington Road & railway viaduct
A Vickers postcard, no.12, looking east along Wellington Road, outside the Waterhouse mill, towards the railway viaduct.
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Bollington railway station
Postcard postmarked 1950! Must have been re-issued many times. View along northbound platform looking south across Grimshaw Lane bridge and the goods yard where Clough Bank is today. Bridge in far distance is that over the Middlewood Way today by the ramps. Notice corner of Adelphi mill in top left corner. Notice advertisement board for Pear’s soap on southbound platform building. The sign board facing the camera says ‘Tr to Stockport’.
Railway closed 3rd January 1971. In 1985 converted to Middlewood Way recreational area.
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Cartoon railway postcard
This comic card was prepared with the names of many places where it might sell and Bollington was just one of those. The dialect at the top says (in plain English!) “All you with clogs on get in the guard’s van.” The cartoon was a reflection of the overcrowded nature of the railways in those days.
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