Photographed at Ingersley Hall. See Bollington in Old Picture Postcards no. 58 for full details.
Horatio Tate (extreme left) Bollington baker of Water Street who was the founder and superintendent of the division.
Back row 3rd from right is Hettie Parrott of Beech House, Palmerston Street. Two Tate boys on far right
Collection: Photos
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St Johns Ambulance Brigade
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Ingersley Road from Beeston Brow
Probably pre 1914. The large building to the right is the Catholic St Gregory’s chapel, since demolished, with the Catholic school next to it, now cottages.
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Palmerston Street
The first building on the left was the Post Office. On the right, the Meridian Inn. The car was one of the first two in Bollington.
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Footpath from Clarke Lane to Kerridge
Early Autumn 1930. One of the many paved footpaths around Bollington and Kerridge, know as trodd paths.
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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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Bollington scout gang show
Back row 3rd from right David Normington
3rd row, 3rd from left John Pleeth. Far right Harry Pleeth, a Londoner who moved to Bollington during WWII, and who became very prominent in the development of the local scout movement, devoting much of his life to them, he died aged 97, still engaged in public activities. His son John Pleeth was for many years a magistrate on the Macclesfield bench.
