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
Places 2: Bollington
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St Johns cubs
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Water Street School
Original inscribed on back “Miss Leighton, Wellington Road girl guiders about 1910”.
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Herbert John Sutton
Late 1870s? Herbert John Sutton (1855-1909). Son of a Bollington cotton spinner who trained as a teacher at St Marks College, Chelsea from 1875. From 1877 to 1908 was the master of Bollington Cross School. Schoolroom was used then as a church on Sundays and Herbert John was responsible for the arrangements and was organist and choir master. Father of Joseph Sutton. Lived at 14 Bollington Road.
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Jumble sale at Bollington Cross school
25th April 1903.
Second from right is Hannah Sutton, wife of H J Sutton the headmaster. See “Looking back at Bollington” for full details -
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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Water Street school athletic sports day
C Hayman who broke the school record for the junior javelin at the Bollington secondary school sports.
