A class at Lowther Street when it was being used by the old (Church Street) St John’s school.
Locations: Bollington
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St John’s school
Peter King is 7th from left back row. All the names are given on the next picture (269-001).
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War memorial
The war memorial was built in 1920. The picture shows its adornment of flowers on the day of its inauguration.
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Recreation Ground
Shows the footpath in the Recreation ground between the river and Palmerston Street. The path follows the course of the mill leat – which is visible to the right of the path – which took water from the river Dean somewhere to the east of the canal aqueduct, under the embankment, and down Wellington Road to just beyond Garden Street, thence to the corn mill which stood on the river’s edge in Riverbank Drive.
The bend in the river, to the left of the picture, was later staightened out to make room for the football pitch. -
Water Street School class
This appears to be a Victorian school class, and is believed to be at Water Street. Looks like an interesting exercise in building with small bricks!
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Marriage of Mr G H Swindells & Miss S L Maitland-Addison
On their return from honeymoon, Mr & Mrs Geoffrey Swindells, director at Adelphi mill, were paraded by the workers at the mill. It was not a long marriage – Geoffrey Swindells was killed on 1st August 1918 in France during his service in WWI. The couple lived at Clough Bank House, behind Adelphi mill.
