Since c.1986 this has been the Bollington Arts Centre.
Locations: Wellington Road
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Wellington Road and Co-operative stores
Part of the Waggon and Horses hotel visible on the extreme left. On the right, at the corner of Albert Road, is part of a unit of three shops built by the Macclesfield Equitable Provident Society in 1903 and demolished about seventy years later.
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Smithy, Wellington Road
L to R Donald Smith (background), Hubert Whitehurst, Jack Faulder.
The Faulders owned the smithy from 1906 to c.1931. Used after that by Bollington Urban District Council to store barrows etc. -
Wesleyan methodist chapel and manse
This was the third church built by the Weslyan Methodists on this site.
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Horticultural show
Mr G W Rowbotham (wearing cap) points out some of the chrysanthemum exhibits to Mr G M Swindells at the horticultural show held in the Fine Cotton Spinners & Doublers Association pavillion (to the right of Waterhouse mill).
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Day nursery at Kay Metzeler, Wellington Road
Kay Metzeler, but known in 1960 as Kay Brothers Plastics Ltd.
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Friendly Society procession on Wellington Road
Bollington has had a band almost continuously since the mid 19thC. There may have been a gap in the mid 20thC, until it was revived by Dr John Coope in the early 1960s. From then the band has improved year by year until its admission to the First Section (equiv. Premier League!) in or about 2012..
