Postcards from Crossley Collection
Sandiford Cottage, Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, c. 1907, posted to Miss Mary Crossley, Dinowic, Regent Road, Altrincham; 2 postcards of Marbury Hall, Northwich, Cheshire, c. 1904, posted to Miss M. Crossley, Dinowic, Regent Road, Altrincham; 3 postcards of Farndon (Alfred Sinclair’s shop, Barton Road and Chapel Street), Top left c. 1920; top right c 1924; bottom c. 1923, all posted to Miss M.E. Crossley, Dinowic, Regent Road, Altrincham; Photograph of The Crossley Sanatorium, Delamere, Kingswood, Cheshire, 1904 – 5 [Sanatorium opened in March 1905. It was largely funded by Sir William Crossley; 3 postcards of Northwich, Cheshire – The Viaduct from the Old River, c. 1904, The Weir at Northwich, c. 1907, Interior of Salt Works, Northwich, c. 1904; Two postcards of Brereton, Cheshire – Brereton Hall, 28 Jul 1904, to A Crossley , Dinowic, Regent Road, Altrincham and Gatehouse to Brereton Hall 30 Sep; Two postcards of the River Bollin – falls on the Bollin, Near Altrincham, 14 Sep 1904; Four postcards of the Bollin Valley – The Bollin near Castle Mills, c. 1910, posted in Altrincham to Mrs Crossley, c/o Mrs Crook, Arley House, West Beach, Lytham, The River Bollin at Hale, D Rendell, Photographer, Hale c. 1975, The Bollin Valley, Cheshire, Footbridge over the Bollin Valley, Cheshire.
Random – some with one of the postcards connected to the Crossley family and some from H. Wilkinson Collection amongst them:
Christmas card in aid of G.Y.C.A. with view of Bellhouse Farm, Grapenhall, Cheshire; Photograph of painting of children playing in the snow in a street by Salford Artist Edith Le Breton [1912-1992], dated 1968, Photo No.16, Photographer Ralph Frumin, 46 Melbourne Street, Salford 7; Postcard [Top] of the Courtyard, Bramall Hall, Cheshire, c. 1906, [Bottom] Print of half-timbered houses, artist Arthur Hammond; Four postcards of the River Bollin - Bollin at Handforth, c. 1907, Bollin at Mill Farm, Ashley, Bollin near Mill Farm, Ashley, On the Bollin, Bowdon, c. 1903, posted in Altrincham to Miss M. Crossley, East Reach View, Station Road, Lytham; Two postcards of the River Bollin – Bollin Valley, Hale, c. 1935 posted to Miss A Crossley, Afton, Clifton Drive, Farihaven, Lytham, and ‘A Pretty Corner of the Bollin Valley, Hale, Near Altrincham’ S. Butler, Altrincham; Three postcards of Alderley – Castle Rocks, Alderley Edge, The Beacon, Alderley Edge, c. 190?, posted to Miss Crossley, Dinowic, Regent Road, Altrincham, the former Eagle and Child public house, Congleton Road, Nether Alderley; Four postcards of Alderley – Alderley Rectory, Cheshire, C. 1904, posted 10 Sep 1904 to Miss M. Crossley, Alderley Church and Rectory (Bowdon Series), Alderley Church (Bowdon Series), Church and Vicarage Alderley (Bowdon Series);
Three postcards of The Wizard Inn, Alderley Edge, top c. 1905, posted in Alderley Edge 12 Jun 1905 to Miss Crossley, Dinawic, Regent Road, Altrincham; Postcard of village and church, Eastham, Wirral, Cheshire, c. 1908, posted in Altrincham 19 oct 1908 to Miss M.E. Crossley, c/o Miss Banney, 6 Warlen Street, Lytham; Three postcards of the River Dee at Farndon, Cheshire, bottom card c. 1915, all posted in Farndon to Miss M.E. Crossley, two to Dinowic, Regent Road, Altrincham (top), bottom card to her at The manor House, West Beach, Lytham; Four postcards of Farndon – the Boathouse on the River Dee (top two), the old Dee Bridge at Farndon (bottom two), top Right c. 1920, bottom Left c. 1907, bottom right c. 1915.
