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Locations 2: Sowcar Fields

Locations 2: Sowcar Fields

  • Sowcar Brook

    Sowcar Brook

    This area of land on Sowcar Brook has now disappeared, washed away by the river.

  • View over Sowcar Brook

    View over Sowcar Brook

    Photograph by Frank Mayers showing Sowcar Brook and houses on Shrigley Road.

  • Stubbs Family of Sowcar

    Stubbs Family of Sowcar

    Sarah was wife of Henshaw Stubbs, farmer of Sowcar. Len and mary were two of their many children. Len was killed at Salonica and is on the Rainow War memorial, Sowcar being within the Rainow boundary.

  • Private Henshaw Stubbs

    Private Henshaw Stubbs

    Len Stubbs, the donor of the picture, said henshaw lived at the Homestead, Pott Shrigley and was a small farmer. He also worked at Pott Shrigley Brickworks sorting pit props for the mine there.