Photograph taken in front of the Coach House doors at Oak Bank House (now in Oak Bank Drive). For many years after WWII this building was used as the local scout headquarters. In 1983/4 it was restored by Chesney Orme for domestic accommodation.
Middle row 3rd from L is Granville Egerton
Front row 2nd from R is Fred Ratcliffe
Collection: Photos
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St Johns cubs
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Stringer family
Edward Stringer and family. He was a wheelwright at 125 Bollington Road, Bollington Cross.
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Water Street School
Original inscribed on back “Miss Leighton, Wellington Road girl guiders about 1910”.
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Maud Mary Sutton
Maud Mary Sutton, first child of Herbert John Sutton. Born May 1878. This photo probably 1879. Maud Mary later ran a milliners business from the small shop at the bottom of Grimshaw Lane, but then trained as a nurse at the Manchester Royal Infirmary (1909-12). Nursed in India and Burma during WWI and afterwards in Egypt, then York and Colchester.
