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Mary and Len Stubbs

Brother and sister, Mary and Len Stubbs who then lived at Bay Tree Farm, Hedgerow, and later moved to Sowcar Farm.

Haymaking on Billinge, on Sowcar farmland. Spots on the original photograph. Martha Stubbs, nee Lomas.

Not absolutely certain about the location

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

Looking down from Orme’s Smithy to the Masons’ Arms, later the Masonic Inn then the Poachers Inn. Ken Gratton born there in 1923.

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

Grandmother of Ken Gratton.