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.
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.
An outing to Ingleton of the Unitarian Choir, 1920s. The man sitting on the bonnet of the charabanc is Albion Barker, organist. Just behind him is the choirmaster, Harold Lees.
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…