Hoghton School Football Team 1932

 

Photo courtesy of Gareth Maddock.

Gareth's maternal grandfather was Stanley Hitchen, (who lived at Stanley Coppice Farm, Roach Road as a child). Stanley is on the back row third from the right. He had a brother called Alfred.

Not many of theses faces are known, but the back of the photo mentions F Clayton, Holden and R Clayton on the back row. Perhaps someone could name a few more?

Alfred and Stanley Hitchen 

Traveller's Rest

 

 The Traveller's Rest is a shelter built into the front wall of Hoghton School, directly opposite the entrance to Hoghton Church.  It has a bench and traces of what seems to have been a drinking fountain.  Over the headstone we see the words "Traveller's Rest" and the initials C de H for Charles de Hoghton and the year 1877.  I've rested there many a time after walking up the hill!

I originally posted this photo in 2012. Taken by my grandfather, Thomas Miller-Crook, in 1932, it shows my Grandmother, Mabel (née Windle) with her two children sitting in the Traveller's Rest. My Uncle Herbert would be around seven year's old, sitting next to Mabel and my father Eric, aged, 3, standing to the right on the pavement.  This would be the original stone seat. When the roadway was raised a wooden platform was placed on the stone seat to compensate the height.  

They would walk on Sunday mornings from their home at 5 Bell Villas, Gib Lane, to Riley Green, Horrobin Fold cottage, to visit their Aunty Rachel Miller-Crook, who lived there alone.  

Hoghton School 1932 - whole school

 

Photo courtesy of Gareth Maddock.
Year is approximately 1932.

The final photo is a large group shot of what is presumed to be the entire Hoghton School.  Alfred Hitchen should be somewhere on this photo, but Lilian Hitchen, his sister, is towards the middle of the photo in the second row from the back wearing her hair in pigtails and with a bow in her hair. Gareth's maternal grandfather, Stanley Hitchen, is sat at the far right of the front row.

Class of 1928

 

Names to be added soon

Motorcyclists outside the Smithy

Early motorcyclists outside the Smithy, Chapel Lane

This photo would have been taken around 1956

My father, Eric Miller-Crook, is on the left, centre, John Wilmer, followed by Fred Ormerod on the right (from Hoghton Tower Cottages).  The three were good friends and would go out riding together.  Judging from the white line they have painted on the ground, perhaps they were going to have a race?

Brennan's Farm, Station Road, can be seen in the background and the entrace to the Boar's Head and Gib Lane on the right.

The "Shuttle Shop"

 

Vale House Farm is shown here in the foreground.  Livesey's factory is further along the road, in the centre of the photograph.  This factory manufactured shuttles for the cotton industry and was known as "the Shuttle Shop"!  See also the postings on Higher and Lower Mills.

Hoghton Bottoms Signalbox

The signalbox was located at the footcrossing near the sidings leading into the quarry. It would have served Hoghton Tower, the cottages in the woods and also Tower Cottages.  I believe this where people would have alighted to to go up to the Tower. A footpath led up through the woods, which I took as a child with my brothers, and emerged near the barn where they now hold the Farmers' Market. 

The sidings leading into the quarry can be seen on the other side of the line.