A Cotton Ball

Albert Brown. Albert Brown (on the right) was leader of the Whaley Bridge voluntary fire brigade in the 1940s & 50s (I don't know the exact years). This is the presentation on his retirement from the fire brigade (date unknown).

He worked as a plumber for Mr Sidebotham and lived in Wharf Road.

I have found this photo on the Picture The Past archive. This group outside Bridgemont Mission includes Miss Mellor(Amy Turnock) third from the right. Looks like our Aunt Amy.

This photograph is credited to Miss Frances Webb. The copyright is North East Midland Photographic Record. We hope they don't mind us putting it here. They can copy the photograph of Amy if they wish.

The Architect of Sunny Lea

Plans of Sunny Lea

Left by Alan Boothby on the 8th September 2015

I must be getting old, I thought someone in my age group would have remembered Arthur Braddock. I knew Arthur as a builders labourer who worked for my cousin E.A. Boothby, before that he had worked on various farms in the area. I recall he could neither read nor write, he would use a cross to sign his name.

I first met Arthur when I started work in 1957 and he stayed with us till around 1964 when he retired through ill health.

Arthur lodged with the Etchells family at Blackhill Gate Farm, his only interests were playing Whist and watching Football, especially Whaley.

Arthur had no teeth, yet he could eat almost anything, I have seen him bite into a apple no trouble.

He always wore a cap, a thick army overcoat and Wellingtons and smoked thick twist in his pipe, does this ring any bells to anyone.

This photograph and photograph 1679 relate to Bridgemont Mission. They both relate to the wedding of GEORGE POTTER BAGSHAW to SARAH ELIZABETH DOWNS, both of Whaley Bridge, on 16 July 1913.

Joint family outside Mission –

front row:- Phebe Bagshaw(Potter), Lily Bagshaw, Agnes Bagshaw, Ruby Bagshaw, Sarah Bagshaw(Downs), George P Bagshaw, Rachel Downs, NK, Emily Downs(Parsons),

Back row:- Charles Bagshaw, NK, Percy Bagshaw, Leonard Bagshaw, John Goodwin Downs, Edmund Bagshaw?

At the wedding of GEORGE POTTER BAGSHAW to SARAH ELIZABETH DOWNS, both of Whaley Bridge, on 16 July 1913. Bridgemont Mission

Bill Jones - Whaley born (Bridge Street) - on the left next to Billy Liddell. Probably taken around 1946/7 when Liverpool won the first Football League cup after the war.

A photograph from the late 1970's by Adrian Wilson. Bingo at Furness Vale Community Centre. The man in the foreground appears to have won a tin of tomatoes!

Bingswood Printworks Workers

Botany bleachworks

The woman with her hand on the basket is Mabel Eyre. Mabel Eyre later became Mable Cottrell when she married Herbert Cottrell.

Bowling Club

by Jim Wilson on the 1st October 2015

Whaley Bridge bowling club 1966 Fred Lee who was a village postman his wife Annie and daughter Maureen also Bill Boston ex village Bobby. They held a Good Olde Day's music hall.

Bowls.

by G. Jackson on the 21st March 2013

The gentleman on the right with the moustache MAY be a member of the Jones family.

The first Bridgemont Mission Mrs Kaye outside the Mission housed in her husband's canalside paintshop

Bridgemont Mission.

by G. Jackson

Robert and Hanah Marshall (C1900)

An excursion bus pauses at the top of Station Road, Furness vale in 1912.

C. P. A. Bingswood workers

The boilerhouse at C.P.A., Bingswood, Arnold Lomas stoking in the foreground,behind him left to right are Fred Thomasson (chargehand), Harry Holt, Albert King and Dennis Whiteman.

C. P. A. Bingswood

by G.Jackson

I put this photo and a lot more and also information about the CPA at Bingswood from a CPA magazine, I seem to remember it was dated 1951 but not very sure.

by Orrijender

Standing left to right.Arthur Theyer,Percy Arnfield, Frank Platt,Mr Macauley,Norman Wood,Brian Lomas,Unknown,Unknown,Robert Eastwood,Russel Bennett,Harold Theyer Unknown,,Brian Bennett,

Front row left to right. Les Fox,Barry Hinds,Geof Whittiker,Eric Mort,Joe doyle, Brian Hall,Unknown,Unknown,Unknown,Ronnie Hulme.

by Jack Tarr

I think the cadet between Barry Hinds and Geof Wittiker is Wilf Boothby

by Bob Morten

The chap 2nd. from left in the long row is Colin Hough,Clerk to the Urban Disrict Council of Whaley Bridge. A works outing possibly - it looks like Skipton Castle.

by Paul Charnley

Sitting 2 second from right - My farther - Fred Charnley, lived on Jodrell Road.

Standing - Bob Charnley ( uncle ) lived on Bingswood Ave.

Sitting 3rd from left - Tom Walsh, also lived on Jodrell Road.

I should know many more, but can not remember their names yet !!!

Left by Paul Cooper

The chap standing with his hands in his pockets is Adam Cooper, my father. Incidentally, the castle is not Skipton. It's Lancaster.

Calico Printer's Association.

Calico Printer's Association.

Calico Printer's Association. Photographed at Lancaster Castle

The Dranfields chip shop in 1935

Carnival. Cecil Turner believed to be the driver

Carnival

Carnival Float

Nicola Christie (Heathcote) with her mum Margaret. With Mable Sidebottom walking behind them

Whaley Bridge Parish Council new chairman

by Lou Lomas

School trip to Switzerland. I was in my last year at secondary school so I think it must have been 1965. That's my brother Jeff Lomas and me in the far left window of the coach. The man with the dark top and the woman with the light top waving on the left of the photograph, are my Mum and Dad Freesia and Charley Lomas. The trip was organised by the then Whaley Bridge school headmaster, Mr Eliot.

Children's Gala 1905. On Buxton. Road, heading towards Horwich End, just past the Cock

Chilworth Gunpowder Works staff

Chilworth Gunpowder Works staff

Chilworth Gunpowder Works staff and van

Chilworth Gunpowder Works staff

Chilworth Gunpowder Works staff

Chilworth Gunpowder Works fire brigade

Coach trip

Doreen Pearson on the left. She worked for WB&B Co-Op ladies wear. Photo taken upstairs at the Cock Hotel at RSPCA dinner.

George VI Coronation, 1937

Coronation

Coronation 1911

Coronation 1911

Coronation 1911

Coronation 1911

Coronation 1911

Coronation 1911

Coronation 1911

Coronation Parade

Countess Haig, widow of Field Marshal Haig, visited Whaley Bridge, in June, and presented standards to the British Legion. Over 1,000 ex-service men took part in the proceedings.

Whaley Bridge Cricket team from the Buxton Advertiser 4th May 1988

1935

Cubs parade in Market Street 1933

Photo sent in by Dave Hartley with the following :-

Linglongs Avenue.

Taxal Edge School in the background, 1962 1963 ?

Am on the right. Dave Hartley with brother John.

by Jim Wilson

Cycling proficiency test 1969. The gent with the glasses is called Armstrong

Dinner Ladies -

by Brenda Whelan

Mrs Bailey Mrs Chappell ?. ?Mrs Bennett ??

Dr Allan

Dr. Allan's dog, Reservoir Road

Edith Alice Brooks

Drumhead Service

A photograph by Adrian Wilson shows Eric Hinde bowling at Furness Vale

Errwood Hall Estate Gang

Evacuees from Westcliff High, Southend, taken outside Bank Hall, Chapel where some of the girls had their lessons

Evacuees from Westcliff High School, Southend arrive in Chapel.

Evacuees from Westcliff High School, Southend on a walk above Coombs

Guernsey evacuees who lived at Whitehall during the war.

In June 1940, the boys were evacuated from Elizabeth College in Guernsey, to Oldham then to Whitehall. This photo is some of the boys on Home Guard duty.

Photo sent in by Gillian Mawson

Guernsey evacuees who lived at Whitehall during the war.

In June 1940, the boys were evacuated from Elizabeth College in Guernsey, to Oldham then to Whitehall. This photo is some of the boys playing in the snow, it was the first time that they had seen snow. Possibly taken in December 1940.

Photo sent in by Gillian Mawson

photograph sent in by Roy Priest, Southend on Sea

This photo is of 3 siblings who were evacuated from Southend on Sea, Essex to Whaley Bridge early in WW2. On the right is my late father, Victor Priest born 1930. In the middle is his sister Dorothy born abt 1928, then his sister Daphne born abt 1932. The photo was taken in Whaley Bridge and sent to their parents in Southend.

The Southend evacuees were taken to a local hall where they were then paired with families. My father was the last one left in the hall. His two sisters had already been taken by a family. It was at that point that a Mrs Cannon asked to take my Dad. On hearing that his two sisters had already been assigned she made enquiries and managed to take them as well so that the three were not split up.

Photograph sent in by Roy Priest, Southend on Sea

This photo was taken outside the Cannon's house circa 1948. It was sent to my Dad who by then had returned to Southend and joined the army, serving in Malaya. The house was 'Halcyon' Buxton Road, Whaley Bridge. It is still there. My Dad had very happy memories of the Cannons and Whaley Bridge. At wars end the Cannon's asked if they could adopt my Dad and Daphne, they had no children of their own (Dorothy by war's end was an adult and back in Southend). My Dad’s parents understandably declined the request.

There are so many tales and good memories my Dad related, too many for this email. He called Mr Cannon 'Sarge', apparently because he was a sergeant in the Home Guard. He had been in the 1st war and told my Dad how he had been wounded and fell in to a German trench (which we presumably captured). He called Mrs Cannon 'Auntie'. They kept in touch and visited the Cannon’s when they could. In the photo Mrs Cannon (Lois, maiden name Irving) is on the left. In front of her is her Auntie (Sarah Gertrude Jolly (a spinster, sister of Mrs Cannon’s mum) who lived with them when my Dad was there. Middle back row is a relative of the Cannon's called Barbara. She sometimes stayed and was there when my Dad lived with them. Mr Cannon (Francis) is back row, right. I don’t know who the other two ladies are.

Roy Priest

Photograph sent in by Roy Priest, Southend on Sea

This photo is in front of the same house (see 1639) but taken around 1971 on a visit by my Dad and his family. I remember it well as a twelve year old, especially Mr Cannon giving me a glass of home made ginger beer, which I had never tasted before.

Mrs Cannon had died in 1961. My Dad is far left, then Mr Cannon, then Daphne's husband Tom. I don't know the gentleman on the right. Mr Cannon passed away in 1974. In the 1939 register Mr Cannon is recorded as a calico printer.

Albert Leonard Brooks, his wife Edith Alice Brooks, and children Margaret Winifred, William (Bill) and Alice.

The little boy in the centre is Bill Brooks in photograph 120 - Footballer on right-hand side of back row, late of Wharf Road. (In the football photograph, you can see strong family resemblance to Dad !)

This photo was sent in by Gnats, from the forum, with the following email

These four ladies are dressed up for some sort of occasion/show, and the one dressed in the playing cards outfit (back-right) I believe to be Winifred Brooks. There appears to be a tie-in with picture 132 "Mechanics Show" because someone on front row (centre-right) appears to be wearing the same Red Riding Hood cloak as the young lady in this picture, but I don't believe it to be the same person. Did the Mechanics have a "dressing-up" box? Winifred Brooks went on to be Mrs Winterbottom in picture 133 !!

The opening of The Village Hall with The Grimshaw sisters in the doorway, the little boy third from left is Bill Lomas and Janet Mc Bean is there as well.

Whaley Bridge Football Team

by Gnatalee

Footballer on right-hand side of back row is Bill Brooks, late of Wharf Road.

by Wendy Milling

I'm sure the one third from the right holding the cup is my uncle, Louis Oldham

by Paul Cooper on the 14th November 2013

The player front row, second from right is Adam Cooper, my father. He lived on Chapel Road.

Bugsworth F.C. 1928-1929

back row - Joe Hughes, Fred Winterbottom, Jess Rowley, Frank Gee.

Middle Row - Bill Holford, Jack Winterbottom, Jim Hill.

Front row:- Sam Pine, Frank Holford, Fred Parker, Bill Winterbottom.

I think we may require confirmation of whether the names above are left to right or right to left as we seem to have a contradiction in the messages.

by Gnatalee

I believe the three Winterbottom brothers from Bugsworth (Bill, Fred and Jack) all played football for Bugsworth. I know that Jack is the player in the middle of the photo, just in front of the goalkeeper (who I suspect may be either Bill or Fred !)

by Davs

First row left is Sam Pine

by Mick Carr

Frank Gee back row left was my Grand Father I still have his winners medal

Horwich End 1926

by Gnatalee

The man on the front row with his knee resting on the football is Jack Winterbottom who was from Barren Clough, Bugsworth but spent his married life in Whaley Bridge - mainly in Macclesfield Road.

His brothers Fred and Bill also played football in local teams.

Football Team at Bridgemont Mission

Whaley Bridge F.C. Taken 7th January 1956.

Back Gordon Eaton Brian Jackson,Malcolm Holland, Albert Hoggins,graham Hallam, Frank Fletcher, Johnny Willets (Manager)

Front .Terry Prior,Peter Whelan,George Bennett,?, Harry Hall.

Whaley Bridge F.C. 1961-1962

Horwich End F.C. 1933/34 Winners of the Reporter Cup

Horwich End F.C. 1938/39 League Winners - Hospital Cup Winners

Sent in by Gnatalee. she added:-

Photo of Frank Proudlove (on the right) who ran The Shady Oak pub with his wife Margaret in the 70s/80s – not sure how long for. The man on the left is Ray Bunker who was on a family visit from Ontario, Canada.

Furness Vale Rose Queen with Betty Driver

the 1910 Children's Gala

At The Cock Inn. Behind the bar (left to right)

Jonnie Allen, Betty Driver, her sister.

Customers (left to right)

Bob Charnley, Marion Charnley, Unknown, Unknown.

Jack Gould

MANCHESTER DISTRICT OMNIBUS CO

In 1906 the Manchester District Motor Omnibus Company Limited was formed by a group of London businessmen. The company office was in John Dalton Street and the garage in Trafford Park.

In March of that year they ran a series of free public demonstration trips from Albert Square.

The first public services were in Chorlton cum Hardy, Didsbury and Withington, Stretford, Cheadle and Alderley. These were prosperous areas and the residents didn't like the sight of motor buses on their quiet residential streets and soon caused problems. By Autumn 1906 services ceased and the company went into voluntary liquidation.

Manchester District did not operate a service through Furness Vale where the photograph was taken so the bus in this photo is probably on an excursion, maybe to Buxton. It is obviously posed for the cameraman and is on the wrong side of the road perhaps to take advantage of the light. The bus is probably a Milnes Daimler. In the nineteen hundreds this was the most popular manufacturer of motor buses and by 1907 over 600 were in service; the double deck model having been introduced in 1902. The company was formed as the result of an agreement between Milnes and Co of Hadley, Shropshire, and Daimler Motoren-Gesellschaft in Germany to construct motor buses and had no connection with the better known Daimler of Coventry. Milnes were well known as builders of tramcars and horse buses.

Close examination of the original print (not a digital copy) suggests that it was tampered with in the photographers studio. (an early form of photoshopping)

Photograph Furness Vale History Society, digitally coloured.

Mevril Workers

Mr Ashmore with Co-op donated wagon

Mrs Winterbottom of Macclesfield Road, c 1951, with grandson Peter

Mr Hurst's Retirement

This photograph was published in the Advertiser and High Peak News on Friday 10th March 1972 and the text that accompanied it was:

I'VE WORKED for 40-odd years with Elliot; what he's done has been a hard job but he's done it with the mill at heart and he's done it properly, said Mr. Eric Hadfield on the occasion of Mr. Elliot Hurst's retirement from Goyt Mill, Whaley Bridge, last Thursday.Mr. Hurst (65), of 3 Orchard Road, Whaley Bridge, has worked for the past 20 years as works manager. He has been with the firm 48 years, starting as a weaver.Married with three children one in Geneva whom he hopes to visit soon. Mr. Hurst is interested in watch making and bowling, two hobbies he hopes to pursue.Mr. Hadfield, foreman in charge of the knotting room and another long service candidate with 43 years behind him, presented him with a clock and shaving set from his workmates.Thanking the colourful crowd gathered in the warehouse, Mr. Hurst spoke of some of the changes he had seen in his time as works manager.The re-spacing, the increase in the number of looms from eight to 12, which had been one of the salvations of Goyt Mill, and the movement of the stairs were all remembered.Pictured above are (left to right) Mr. Peter Whelan, the new works manager, Mr. Hurst and Mr. Hadfield.

Photograph sent in by Derek Boothby

Derek added :

This is a print of a press photo. On the back is inscribed 'Chapel old folks birthday party' but I think this might be incorrect.The 4th from the right in the back row looks very much like my grandfather, Sam Mycock who lived in Wharf Road and was a regular at the Whaley Pensioners club. The person on his left looks familiar, but I can't remember who he is. I do not recognize anyone else. Probably this is Whaley Bridge Pensioners Party. Picture 111 'coach trip' I think he is the gent in the middle in front of the coach radiator.

left by Sarah Cooper

I don't know what the date is but is that Dorothy Shuker (second from right)and possibly George Shuker (fifth from left, back row).

Left by Curious

3rd from the left is Barbara Waller, sister of Dorothy Shuker - there's another of their sisters on the photo too

Left by Marjorie Mourne nee Hartle on the 31st January 2015

The man in front is Mr Ferguson from Macclesfield Road - he was a Special Constable.

Left by Brenda Whelan on the 31st January 2015

Dorothy Vere the lady at the front of photo, I worked with her at goyt mill before she moved down south

by Mike Goddard

Tha lady with glasses and the balding man are my Aunt and Uncle. Florrie (Goddard) and Frank Winnington

Poll Tax Protest

Left by Bob Morten

It's in Whaley Bridge at the bottom of the station approach.The suited fellow is the late Don Cooper with wife Pauline next to him. Don and Wife lived in Furness Vale. Don was a long time employee of Z&W Wade.

Left by Deacon

The lady in the black hat is the late Mrs Cheryl from Old Road and the lady behind with dark hair is Carol Jamison.

Gunpowder Mill Float

Pram Race 1966

Pram race 1980

Whaley Bridge Printworks Team 1907

The Regimental mascot leads a parade through Bridgemont

This photo was sent in by Gnats, from the forum, with the following email

Picture of Rene Brooks - she would have been about 10 years old (picture dated 1930). Rene was the youngest of the four Brooks children and eventually married Raymond Bunker (from Disley) and emigrated to Canada in 1948 with her husband and 2 year old son

Left by Jim Wilson

At Horwich End school Rev. Davies presenting Mr.Lomas the caretaker maybe with a retirement gift.

Left by Brenda Whelan on the 12th October 2015

Mrs Lomas sat behind, Vivienne's mother and father

Rose Queen

Rose Queen

Rose Queen

Rose Queen.

comment by Lou. Lomas 15

The rose queen is Freesia May Lockett later to become Freesia Lomas when she Married Charles Lomas. Freesia and Charlie were my Mum and Dad. The photograph was taken on July the 4th 1931. Mum would have been 11 years old.

Scouts in Taxal.

comment by R. S-S on the 5th October 2014The Scouts camp at this spot, just below Taxal Duck Pond, every year.The right was given to them by the Jodrell family.They are the 161st Manchester Scout Group and also officially known as Jodrell's Own.

Sledging on Elnor Lane

by Megaroc on the 15th December 2019im afraid I can no longer remember the names of the younger children here but there will be some Foxes, some Jarvis family. Standing up extreme left is Les Fox, next standing Brian Hall, or George Fletcher, Robert Eastwood, Frank Platt (sitting with white scarf), Eric Mort (with military cap on) Betty Ashby, left, kneeling.

Two miners at Furness Clough Colliery. Taken in 1963 before it closed.

Left by Alan Boothby

Cyril Hinde is on the left, and Arthur Williamson on the right

St. John's Ambulance

Taxal Churchyard

Taxal Queen July 1970

Taxal Scout Band

Taken from an article in The Reporter dated 18th August 1967 showing the ladies who were operating the Whaley Bridge Telephone Exchange before it closed.

John Thornhill and the Plant Family. Hedley & Dorothy Plant and their two children Godfrey and Gill and ? outside their shop on Wharf Road.

Tommy and Betty Bagshaw

Unveiling the war Memorial

Unveiling the War Memorial

Tree planting 1968

Taxal Village Bazaar. The Hon. Mrs. Legh is seen purchasing a chicken. On the right is Mrs. Ramsden-Jodrell.

Wade's first crane

Captain Mostyn-Owen and his bride, Miss Susan Dorothy Ramsden-Jodrell, of Taxal Lodge, leaving Taxal Church after their wedding.

Whaley Bridge band

The Whaley Bridge Band outside the Mechanics

Whaley Bridge Band

Comment by Marjorie Mourne nee Hartle on the 18th October 2015

I know quite a few on this photo - the conductor is Frank Wood, front row 2nd in from the left is Leslie Thorp, 2nd row 1st in is Dennis Mackay, 2nd row 4th in from the right Shirley Thorp and 2nd row 2nd in from the right is her father Joe Thorp. Next to Joe holding his trombone is Henry King. On the back row 3rd in from the right is Leslie Keen. The time I reckon is about 1954-1956. back row 1st left is Brian Taylor who went on to play with the famous CWS Band.

by Anne Pierce (Nee Mackey) on the 7th November 2015

My Dad Bill Mackey is on the back row on the right. I have names for the whole band. My Brother Tony Mackey got them for me from someone in Whaley Band.

Back Row: George Boyt: Jack Bamford: Ken Grace: Ralph Bradbury: Alan Turner: Bernard Clarke: Les Keens: Sam Hill: Bill Mackey:2nd Row: Denis Mackey: Trevor Nadin: Les Goddard: Arthur Bennett: Bert Bush: Mary Stead: Shirley Thorpe: Tommy Hinde: Joe Thorpe: Henry King:Front Row: David Thorpe: Les Thorpe: Neville Stafford: Jimmy Ruehorn: Laurie Walton: Jean Lomas: Harry Stafford: Conductor: Mr Frank Wood. omment 2 above from Marjorie says the 1st on the left on back row is Brian Taylor. We were given Jack Bamford so sorry can't confirm.

Whaley Bridge Carnival and Rose Queen

Whaley Hall

Whaley Hall

by S. Cooper.

Top Row L to R

Christine Woodward, ?, Dorothy Worsencroft, Joyce Hibbert.

Middle Row L to R

Olive Bradley , Jean Houson (Peach)

Front Row L to R

Jean Rosenberg (Hill), Marjorie Howe (Simpson), Heather Charnley (Burgess), Joan Slack (Eaton)

Heather Burgess is my Mum. Not on this picture is Sheila Porter (Cooper) who emigrated to Canada and is now my Mother-in-law.

by E. Vernon

The person on the front row, far right is Barbara White (Mottershead)

Youth Club 1964