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Frankie, why is it known as the "Sewing Mill" Bridge? Edited by user 13 January 2010 19:43:45(UTC)
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There was another bridge in the park that went across Todbrook from where the slide now is, and up the clay banking at the side of the reservoir’s boundary wall and met up with the footpath that goes up to the football field.
It was just a square wooden log that started life with handrails, but then it slowly deteriorated. We used to use this path, slope and bridge to get to Sunday School at the Congregational Church. It was possibly removed, never to return, when the reservoir overflow was done in the early 1970s(?).
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Good morning Curious
Thank you for your posting, I ceased working in W.B. in 1960 and left for a few years before coming back to W.B. in1973 so was partly out of touch and didn't know when the bridge was removed. Do you remember the stepping stones across the river behind the tennis courts?
Incidentally thank you for the photos I want to make more enquiries but am hampered by the weather.
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Frankie, why is it known as the "Sewing Mill" Bridge?
Hi Fedup,
It was known as the Sewing Mill Bridge because the old Co-Op building at the side was a sewing mill.
Not a lot of imagination in naming the bridge I know but there you have it.
The mill was demolished and there are now a few houses on the site.
The mill was used by Whaley Bridge Manufacturing Company and prior to that by Branson’s Overalls I think.
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The sewing mill was the Co-op Bakery in the early 1900's, and probably before, I could imagine it being built as such. I have heard stories of Ramsden-Jodrell going to buy cakes to give to the kids living nearby. It continued for many decades, Joe Bagshaw used to look after the coke boiler and would buy an eight pound malt loaf to help feed his hungry football team (Lane End football club) after their matches. In the late forties or early fifties the Co-op also added a red brick single story building to use as a refridgerater in which to store the milk delivered each morning for the milkpersons to deliver on their rounds.
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Great stuff, George.
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An old postcard of the Park.
Unfortunately it is postally unused so I can give you no dates or any other information.
But it’s a nice card all the same.
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Thank you George for the futher information, and R.S-S for the postcard.
As I've said before, for some reason I have a great fondness for our little Park, so I'm always interested in hearing about it's history.
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Hi my good friend Fedup,
People think that the youngsters of today are disrespectful and out of control and I think you share that view.
But in reality nothing has ever changed; if you look at the minutes from the Park Committee and newspaper reports from the 1920’s and even later there were many incidents of vandalism in the Park.
These dreadful juveniles were brought before the ‘Committee’ and warned about there conduct. Their parents were also summoned to stand before the ‘Committee’ to hear of their children’s misdemeanours.
If I get a few minutes over the weekend I’ll try to sort out the various ‘crimes’ that were committed and put them on here.
Hey Fedup, just straying from this topic for a moment, is there any news from our beloved Councillors?
If there is no response by tomorrow I think it will be time to respond to Horwich Ender’s challenge and we must start to ask questions of our representatives.
I’m sure you will join in.
Good for you.
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I do agree with you R.S-S that there have always been juvenile vandals, but can you imagine if some Park Committee were to order the dreadful juveniles of today to appear before them, with their parents? The kids wouldn't "bovver" turning up, "'cos you can't touch me", the parents would arrive with their solicitors and/or baseball bats, and the Human Rights people would be out on the streets waving banners.
That's where the difference lies between those days and now.
Is it a good change or a bad one - I just don't know, although I think I lean towards "bad". 
As for our dear Councillors, let us see what the new week brings - but don't you go holding your breath waiting for a reply from them!
And as usual I shall end up saying what I think - well, what else is there to do at my age! Edited by user 15 January 2010 20:59:15(UTC)
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And better late than never here are the only 2 official entrances to the Park at that time.
Don’t ask me why it has taken me so long Fedup.
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Macclesfield Road Access:
Reservoir Road Access:
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Hi R S-S
Maybe the one in the middle was an exit.
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When I first looked at this picture my guess was taken 1960 –1970 but on enlarging as attached the dress of the two ladies in the distance say pre 1920 I think. Also the wheel tracks say unpaved road to Mac.
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The other picture enlaged a little. umtali attached the following image(s):
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Those photos are quite charming, particularly the Reservoir Road one.
Many thanks R.S-S and**. Edited by user 06 May 2010 19:37:49(UTC)
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Good Grief R. S-S
Nearly five months to respond to a post!
With election fever in the air I initially thought you were planning to put up for Whaley Bridge Town Council, but then again if you were, you would have followed the accepted practice and not bothered replying at all.
Brilliant photo's as usual. Would it be possible to put them into your Photo Library?
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It is a long time since this topic was first aired but something relevant may have come to light.
Part of the deliberations by the Park Committee and The Council in 1924 concerned the placing of captured German guns in various places in the Park.
This was initially agreed upon but then it was thought it might somehow be disrespectful so where the guns ended up I have no idea. But I have got a photo of a gun arriving in Whaley in 1918. It says under the photo that the gun is on its way to the Drill Hall.
Now I am not an expert in guns of any sort so I shall have to rely on Jon, The Whaley One on this occasion for expert information.
Is it German or British and why was it on its way to the Drill Hall in 1918?
Is it possibly one of the German guns that was later in its life going to the Park for our enjoyment? Did several German guns arrive in Whaley that day? There were certainly plenty of spectators to greet them.
And why would we need a large British gun in Whaley in 1918? Where did it end up anyway?
I’m sure we shall get the usual daft answer from G Jackson which we can ignore.
But the 2 people I am relying on here are Jon with his munitions expertise and also Shallcross who will no doubt have the same photo and will also know a lot more about it than I do.
Incidentally, and I had never noticed this until today despite seeing this photo for years, there is just a glimpse of the Gents urinal at the corner of the Railway Hotel. This must have drained into the ‘goat’ that turned the water wheel of the Corn Mill on Bridge Street.
Talk about employers taking the ‘you know what’.
Anyway there you have it.
Anybody any ideas?
And we don’t want ideas like; “Oh it was brought in to wake The Whaley Eleven up” I know they might seem like a bunch of old fossils but they weren’t all in office in 1918.
R. S-S
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