Tippin Snape 5th from left back row. On Cheshire Hunt Ground. Cheshire Hunt team.
Locations 2: Rainow
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Bar at the Cheshire Hunt
Curly Hough (real name Horace) lived at 9 Ingersley Road all his life. Hedley Snape was the landlord of the Cheshire Hunt. In 1952 married Nancy Warrinder whose parents were previously landlords of the Cheshire Hunt.
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The Leigh Family, Orme Smithy
Mr and Mrs Leigh in the centre. Lived in first house on the right going up Orme’s Smithy. Mr Leigh born 1856, died 1934 and worked for the Gaskell family at Ingersley Hall.
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Ford family, Oakenbank
Three members of the Ford family of Oakenbank, Rainow, taken 15th March 1906. Later emigrated to Canada.
Inscribed on front “Oaken Bank Wanderers Pip Pip”
On the back “Now we sharn’t [sic] be long. What do you think about this. So long Jack. (My word Dic). Have a drop of gin old dear. Kindest regards to all XX Chummy” and addressed to Mr R Stubbs, Sowcar Farm, Bollington, Local. But apparently not sent through post – no stamp. -
Percy Stubbs at Sowcar Farm
Percy Stubbs mowing grass, probably for hay making, in the fields at Sowcar Farm, Smithy Brow. Percy was the son of Henshaw Stubbs who tenanted Sowcar Farm probably up to c.1932, after which son John took the farm.
Notice how lean they kept their work horses in those days!
The mower is of an American design from the 1860s in common use up to the 1960s. They were often converted to be pulled by tractors from the 1920s/30s when farm horses were replaced by tractors. -
Stubbs family
Inscribed on the back “Stubbs and family at Billinge Farm, Hedgerow. The lender, Len Stubbss said it was Bay Tree Farm, Hedgerow.
