Looking north east along Wellington Road, taken from approx in front of Bollington Hall Farm. The houses in the middle distance are in Hawthorn Road. The buildings on the left house the pharmacy and the Post Office today (2015). Notice Clarence mill in the distance. The street is paved with setts.
Locations 2: Wellington Road
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FCSDA Pavilion at Waterhouse mill
Pictures shows a Long Service Dinner being held in the recreation room at Oliver’s Waterhouse mill.
Back row: 1 Jack Vickers; 6 Mrs Worthington; 7 ? Taylor; 8 Mrs Blackley
Middle row: 1 ? Goodwin; 4 George Duffield; 12 Gertie Brooks
Two above right hand end of middle row: 2 Mrs Mouet
Front row: 6 G Swindells (Director); 8 Ian Oliver (Director); 9 ? Ingham (Mill Manager); 11Fred Broome (Engineer at Clarence mill)
To the left in front of the table, the lady in spectacles is Mrs Potts; the gentleman in front of her is Mr Blackley
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Boiler being taken to Adelphi Mill
Inscribed on the back “New Boiler being taken to Adelphi Mill” in recent hand. Also Mrs Whitehurst 107 Bollington Road (in recent hand). Possibly taken on Wellington Road.
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Nursery Buildings near Viaduct
Taken by Bollington Civic Society History Group April 1984. This asbestos building was demolished in c.1980s and the site became a car park. In 2014 the new Co-op foodstore was built here coincident with the housing development at Waterhouse mill site.
