Locations 2: Harrop

Locations 2: Harrop

  • Bowerclough Farm, Harrop

    Bowerclough Farm, Harrop

    Stated in Macclesfield Times of 16/8/51to be former schoolhouse. For reminiscences of which see macclesfield Courier 16 September 1843.

  • Harrop Coal Mine

    Harrop Coal Mine

    At the coal mine below Harrop Wood. A Daily Mirror photograph. Joseph and Caleb Jodrell, father and son.

  • Harrop Coal Mine

    Harrop Coal Mine

    At the coal mine below Harrop Wood, inside the level or “footerell” as the donor called it. Father and son. A Daily Mail photograph.

  • Harrop

    Harrop

    Commercial postcard showing Harrop. Is made from glass negative, apparently. that, plus the lettering ( “Pott Shrigley” ) might imply c1920’s or earlier.Is a Bullock Bros. card.
    white markings on soil heap (left) may be from the whitw clay mines here for tile making from late C18th.