This photograph of a group of men with the famous Major Oak, was found in the Cutting Room at Nutclough Mill in June or July 1968, when the works on Valley Road were being cleared prior to vacating the premises. As Leonard Stocks is not on the photo…
Pictured here with the Major Oak, a large English oak tree near the village of Edwinstowe in the heart of Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire. According to local folklore, it was Robin Hood's shelter where he and his merry men slept. It weighs an…
Workers' outings to Blackpool. The stopping off place for photographs and liquid refreshment was the Fielden Arms at Mellor Brook. 'Broken Picks' was the title of the tacklers' outing from Joshua Smith's, Cornholme.
This was just one of several refreshment facilities at the Crags catering for the vast numbers of visitors who came from the mill towns on both sides of the Pennines. A little below it is Gibson Mill 'entertainment emporium'.