Records of Potts, Robert; Local Historian
1913-1991
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Information relating to the Flixton area; Photographs 1908- 1987; Letters 1991; Original Manuscript 1936-1942 & 1946-1954; Photographs 1913 -1936; Wibbersley Red Cross Hospitals 1914 - 1919; Flixton Parochial School 1861-1975 (original typed copy)
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Title:
Records of Potts, Robert; Local Historian
Date of work:
1913-1991
Reference number:
LHC/564
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Sub-collection from Collection: Local Heritage Collection (LHC)
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Collection: Local Heritage Collection (LHC)
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[Box 1 of 3]Images of FLIXTON EXIBITION 1983rd Flixton Scouts, 1947; Ferryman ERIC TIGHE, Hulme Bridge Ferry, Flixton, 8/04/86; Ferryman ROY SHERRATT, Hulme Bridge Ferry, 1986; MILLAT’S BARN/OLD POST OFFCE, FLITON, c 1898; Miss LUY WILCOX, Hyacinth Cottage, 86 Irlam Road ,Flixton, cottage1716-1930; ALMA BOON of SHAWE VIEW, Flixton, 31/01/1987; FLIXTON VILAAGE scene 1906; Interior of FLIXTN MILL with workers, 1907; FLIXTON STATION x2 , waiting to be demolished 6/04/1986; TOWNS GATE FARM, Irlam Road, Flixton x2, April 1986; CURZON CINEMA and BINGO CLUB, Flixton, picture 21/06/1986; URMSTON BATHS in Flixton opened 1933, picture 21/06/1986; TITHE COTTAGES, 220-222 Church Road ,showing The ROEBUCK; JACK LANE , FLIXTON, ancient track, pictur11/04/1986; THE OLD LINE (CHESHIRE LINES RAIWAY) Flixton picture 11/04 1986; CAKE CREATIONS Shop , x 2 , picture 18/04/1986; SHAW VIEW built C!9, millworker’s houses demolished 1936 x2; OLD STABLES at TOWNS GATE FARM, photo 1986; DATE STONE in situ at TOWNS GATE STABLES (1871) photo taken 1986; Gateway and track leading to grounds of SHAWE HOUSE, photo 18/04/1986; Gateway and Track leading to PENNY BRIDGE LANE, photo 11/04/1986;HULME’S BRIDGE FERRY, (MSC) FLIXTON, photo 8/04/1986; IRLAM LOCKS, (MSC) constructed on FLIXTON land , photo 1963; Wedding at ST MICHAELS, Flixton, ROGER FARRELL AND ELAINE CROSBY, 14/06/1986; Vintage ROLLS ROYCE outside St MICHAELS, Flixton14/06/1986; St Michaels Parish Church, dated 24/08/1907; The CHESHIRE LINES RAILWAY, FLIXTON c1960; FLIXTON on high incline of CLR about to cross bridge over MSC , 1958; STOCKS TERRACE, Flixton Road ,Flixton , April 1959; FLIXTON MILL 1851-1936; FLIXTON MEATS LTD., 262 Flixton Road 18/04.1986; FLIXTON COUNTY SECONDARY SCHOOL sports day 14/07/1950; BOYDS GROCERY SHOP, 328 Flixton road, 21/06/1986; Shop for SOCIETY FOR THE RESCUE OF DESTITUTE ANIMALS, 144 Flixton Road, 21/06/1986; THE BARN, SHAWTOWN FARM, Church Road, Flixton, 1907 photograph, demolished c 1920; PARTINGTONS BARN (The WELFIELD KENNELS) Woodsend Road, Flixton,15//04/1986[Box 2 of 3]Folder of copied photographs of Flixton Parochial School, 1861-1975, with names and details; small plastic packet: photos taken at Urmston Show, 16 August 1913: view from Lodge Avenue towards Urmston Lodge; unidentified spectators; view from Lodge Avenue, lady with pram, and young boys; view of large crowd, with Higher Road in background; marquee and spectators, with Stretford Road extreme R; unidentified spectators. Plastic files: young walkers from Irlam Road Methodist Church; Flixton Secondary Modern School for Boys, class of 1950, with teacher Mr Barrett; reproduced print of postcard view from Western Road (now Milton Street) towards Rothiemay Road, with no. 48; print of card sent to Mrs J Hankey, 13 Hale View, Hale, of Volunteers (1914), 1st City Battalion, Manchester Regiment, in Heaton Park, dated 12 October 1914; Flixton Institute foundation ceremony, 1903. A Flixton Family: original manuscript of biography of Robert M. Potts; “Reminiscences of a Flixton Boyhood” by Robert M Potts, text only, 1982; binder of letters from children of Flixton Junior School, with details from Robert Potts’ talk given to them in 1994.Wibbersley Red Cross Hospital, Flixton 1914-1919, compiled by Bob Potts, 2006, text with copies of photos:The Hooson family group (James Hooson was the caretaker/gardener at Wibbersley before, during and after WW1), 1912; a postcard “The Memory of Florence Nightingale” marking the death of FN in 1910; HM Queen Alexandra in 1905 “She was affectionately known as the nurses’ queen” and was president of the British Red Cross from 1905 to 1925; 2 photos of the carriage carrying the king, Queen Alexandra and Lord Stanley during the royal visit to Manchester and Salford. In one Miss Hickman, the head girl of the Royal Deaf and Dumb Schools, presents a bouquet to the queen at Old Trafford. In the second photo the queen is seen smiling after the presentation, 13 July 1905; photo of the memorial to Nurse (Edith) Cavell, “patriot and martyr”, London, undated; map of Flixton showing the location of the Wibbersley grounds, undated; Wibbersley Red Cross, showing a large group of nurses, featuring Gertrude Stott and the Lady Superintendent Mrs Hand, Flixton 1918, on retro is copy of Gertrude Stott’s obituary dated 17 February 1923; photo of “Wibbersely” (no 1) and the grounds, Flixton, with a group of wounded British soldiers outside the house, among the Red Cross nurses. A Union flag flies alongside the British Red Cross flag, 1915; photo of Mrs Shaw, the Lady Commandant at Wibbersley, who was presented to the queen in Manchester on 16 May 1917; Mr Fleltcher, the headmaster of Urmston Higher Grade School, stands among Belgian soldiers (in civilian clothes) on the porch at Wibbersley, 1914; wounded Belgian soldiers from Antwerp in civilian clothes outside the house among Red Cross nurses and male Red Cross orderlies in uniform, Wibbersley, 1914; wounded Belgian soldiers with the Flixton Silver Band and some nurses, Wibbersley, 1914; staff in a “team” photo in the grounds, featuring Arthur Foster, Gertrude Stott, James Stott, Mrs Shaw the Lady Commandant, Dr Fryer, Mrs Hand the Lady Superintendent, Dr Wolstenholme the Assistant County Director, Wibbersley, 1915; Red Cross orderlies’ officers, with Commandant James Stott of Abbotsfield, Flixton, Wibbersley, c1915; a few of the officers and staff at Wibbersley no 1, with most of the hospital committee present, 1915; a copy of the front page of a programme for a Grand Concert given by the Urmston & Flixton Ladies’ choir in aid of the Urmston, Flixton and Davyhulme branch of the British Red Cross (admission one shilling) on Saturday 09 October 1915; a side aspect of Wibbersley no 1 Red Cross Hospital with patients outside, along with Mrs Shaw, the Lady Commandant, 1915; a motor car carries patients on a day trip. Mrs Shaw is standing next to the car, Wibbersley, 1915; patients arrive by BRCS motor ambulance (which appears to have a woman driver) and are carried on stretchers into the hospital. Other patients look on from the windows. Wibbersley owned one motor ambulance so this could be the one, 1915; inside the hospital, downstairs ground floor, medication trolley (?) on the ward, with Mrs Hand seated and patients around her, 1916; upstairs first floor ward scene with medication trolley, patients on or near beds and Mrs Hand seated, 1916; wounded British soldiers in the grounds with nurses and orderlies, Wibbersley, 1915; recruitment poster for the VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) – trained Red Cross nurses and others were recruited by the RAMC for service in military hospitals abroad 1914-1919; nurses and orderlies on the porch with Mrs Shaw the Lady Commandant and Georgina Stott, Wibbersley 1915; “A few of our British heroes” – wounded British soldiers and nurses, Wibbersley, 1916; an enlarged version of the previous photo; staff and guests at the fete, showing George Bolton Stott and nurse Gladys Stott who is a daughter of James Stott (Commandant) who is standing behind her, 1918; nurses and orderlies by a stand at the garden fete, Wibbersley, 1918; Wibbersley Hospital no 2 (Flixton Institute), Delamere Road, Flixton 1915; the Flixton Institute, converted to Wibbersley no 2 and opened on 09 May 191[Box 3 of 3]Black Folder containing images and notes for exhibition ‘Images of Flixton, 1987’ to mark the centenary year of the Jubilee Tree, by Bob Potts. The folder contains monochrome copies of photos, some of which are available in colour in the same box (LHC/564, box 3/3). It also has copies of maps of Flixton and an information sheet on old Flixton pubs and some other documents:‘Flixton As I Remember Over 75 Years Ago’ by Thomas Booth, 1974‘German Bombs hit Flixton in the Second World War’ by Bob Potts 1989‘Our Cottage in Irlam Road, Flixton’ by Irene Norman, 1986‘Flixton Memories’ by Edith Johnson, 1986Photo 1 - Flixton Village, The Jubilee Tree is centre right. Left is The Grove. Right is Stocks Terrace. Foreground is Carrington Road. Booth’s Butcher’s shop left of centre, Flixton, c.1908; Photo 1B - Stocks Terrace, Flixton Road, shop and two adjoining houses built 1893, rest of Stocks Terrace, 1890. Tree planted 1887 for Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, cut down in 1987. Stocks Terrace demolished 1961, Flixton, Apr 1959; Press cutting, The Grove, Flixton early 20th century and 1938/1947(from Then and Now, The Journal, 1961), Flixton, 1961; Photo 2 - Flixton Village, view towards Flixton Road, Stocks Terrace on RH side with Booths butcher’s shop, Stocks view on LH side, Flixton, c.1906; Photo 3 – Church Road, near Jubilee Tree, Flixton Village, Flixton, 1906; Photo 3b – The Hollies (built 1781), Flixton, c.1910; Photo 4 – Church Road viewed from Carrington Road, Flixton, c.1906; Photo 5 – Post Office and Staff, probably Edwin Mather, sub-postmaster in centre, Flixton, c.1900; Photo 6 – The Old parsonage (15th century, demolished after 1900), Carrington Road, Flixton, 1883; Photo 6B - De Brook Farm (17th century, demolished 1969, now site of Longworth Close), Flixton, 1939; Photo 7 – De Brook Farm, (farmer John Johnson and daughter Lilian are pictured), Flixton, c. 1889; photo 8 - Shaw Hall (demolished 1955), Flixton, 1850; Photo 9 – Mrs Annie Bamford at door of her grocery shop, 1 Woodsend Road, Flixton, c.1920; Photo 10 – Miss Lucy Wilcox at front door of Hyacinth Cottage ( Built 1716, pulled down 1938), 86 Irlam Road, Flixton, 1920s; Photo 11 – 3rd Flixton Scout Troop (founded 1936) outside HQ on field of St Michael’s School, Flixton, 1947; Photo 12 – Millatt’s Barn/Old Post Office (demolished 1961),Flixton Road, Flixton, 1880s; Photo 12B - Millatt’s Barn, 435 Flixton Road, 1939; Photo 13 - Millatt’s Barn, 435 Flixton Road, Flixton, 1939; Church Road, Flixton village, 1957; Photo 13B – Church Road, Flixton village, 1950s; Photo 14 – Old St Michael’s School, Church Road, Flixton village, 1957; Photo 15 – near Jubilee Tree, Carrington Road, Aldcroft’s hairdressers shop at 5 Stocks Terrace, next to The Grove, Flixton, 1957; Photo 16 – The Brown Family (Back row L to R Mrs Ena Brown, Mrs Ethel Scott, Percy Morris; Middle, Bob Scott, Wilf Brown, Front, Bernard Brown) of 6 the Grove, Flixton, 1957; Photo 17 - St Michael’s School, (Built 1861), Church Road, Flixton, 1974; Photo 18 - Jubilee Tree, Flixton Village, 21 Jun 1986; Photo 19 - The great beech tree in grounds of Flixton House, Flixton, 24 Feb 1986; Photo 20 - 18/20 The Village (Built 1672), Church Road, Flixton, 8 Jun 1986; Photo 21 - Greyhound Hotel (Built 1920s on site of pub licensed to sell ale in 1772), Church Road, Flixton, 14 Jun 1986; Photo 22 - Church Inn (Formerly the Dog and Partridge), Church Road, Flixton, 15 Jun 1986; St Michael’s Church, Flixton, Dog and Partridge visible, Flixton, 1731 (Picture from Lawson’s History of Flixton); Photo 23 – The Roebuck, Church Road/Chassen Road, Flixton, 15 Jun 1986; Photo 24 – The Old Rectory (Built 1825), Carrington Road, Flixton, 21 Jun 1986; Press cutting of Flixton Rectory (from Then and Now, The Journal, 1961), 1961; Press Cutting of Flixton House, (from Then and Now, The Journal, 1961),Flixton, 1961; Photo 25 – Flixton House (Built by Ralph Wright J.P. 1806), Flixton, 21 Jun 1986; Photo 25B – The Smithy (demolished 1953), 372, Flixton Road, Flixton, 1939; Photo 26 – Shawe House, Penny Bridge Lane, Flixton, 21 Jun 1986; Photo 27 Christian Tomlinson and Stephanie Powell on horseback, Church Road, Flixton, next to land belonging to Shawe Hey Farm, Flixton, 8 Jun 1986; Photo 28 – Pony riders passing the cottage ‘Larkrise’, 18/20, Church Road, Flixton, 1986; Photo 28B - Demolition of the Jubilee Tree, Flixton, 28 Jan 1987; Photo 28C – The end of the Jubilee Tree, Flixton, 28 Jan 1987; Photo 29 – Flixton Village and The Grove from the Golf Course, Flixton, 7 Jun 1986; Photo 30 – Municipal Golf Course near Flixton HousePhotographic Display Cards – many are colour or monochrome copies of those above.Carrington Road near the Jubilee Tree – see Photo 15 above for details – Flixton 1957; The Brown Family at 6 The Grove, Flixton – see Photo 16 above for details – Flixton 1957; The Jubilee Tree, Flixton Village – see Photo 1 above – Flixton, c. 1908; Shawtown Farm, Church Road, Flixton, - see Photo 61 above – Flixton, 3 May 1986; Shawtown Farm from the back – see Photo 62 above – Flixton, 5 May 1986; St Michael’s Parish Church – see Photo 33 above – Flixton, Jan 1986; A Flixton Footpath known as the Cinder Path – see Photo 59, Flixton 8 Jun 1986; A Flixton Footpath – see Photo 60 above – Flixton, 8 Jun 1986; View of St Michael’s Church – see Photo 67C above – Flixton 1 Feb 1987; Church Fields (Shawe Hey Farmland) – see Photo 67B above – Flixton, 1 Feb 1987; Date stone (1782) from grounds of Shawtown House – see Photo 63 above - Flixton, 1986Back Door of Shawtown Farm, Church Road, Flixton, - see Photo 64 above – Flixton, 5 May 1986; Church Road, Flixton Village, c.1950s – see photo 13B above; Church Road, Flixton Village, c.1957, with Annie Hardman’s drapery shop, the sweet shop, Foster’s (formerly Birtwell’s) and the Greyhound – see photo 13; Church Road, Flixton village, c. 1957, with St Michael’s School and the sweet shop – see photo 13B; Shawe Hey Farm, Flixton, seen from Church Road – see photo 66; view of rural Flixton at Shawe Hey Farm – see photo 67; cutting down the Jubilee Tree at Flixton, 28th January 1987 – see photo 28B; the end of the Jubilee Tree, 28th January 1987 – see photo 28C; Flixton Village and The Grove, across the golf course, from the cinder track, June 1986 – see photo 29; municipal golf course from vicinity of Flixton House, June 1986 – see photo 30; River Mersey from Carrington, with Flixton Parish Church in distance, and Shawe Hey Farm, 24 Feb. 1986 – see photo 31; River Mersey, Flixton, with St Michael’s Church and the Church Inn, 24 February1986 –see photo 32; demolition of 29 and 31 Carrington Road, 1985 – see photo 43; imminent demolition of 29 and 31 Carrington Road, September 1985 – see photo 44; Carrington Road Bridge from Carrington, 1987 – see photo 32B; Flixton Secondary School for Girls, 21 June 1986 – see photo 45; Flixton Junior School, Delamere Road, 21 June 1986 – see photo 46; the Jubilee Tree, painted 1887 on site of village stocks – see photo 18; beech tree in gardens of Flixton House, golf course in background – see photo 19; 18/20 The Village, Church Road, Flixton – see photo 20; Greyhound Hotel, Church Road, Flixton, 14 June 1986 – see photo 21; Church Inn, Church Road, Flixton, 15 June 1986 – see photo 22; The Roebuck, Church Road/Chassen Road, Flixton, 15 June 1986 – see photo 23; The Old Rectory, Carrington Road, Flixton, built 1825 – see photo 24; Flixton House, 21 June 1986 – see photo 25; Shawe House, Penny Bridge Lane, 21 June 1986 – see photo 26; The Smithy, 372 Flixton Road, Flixton, 1939 (demolished 1953) – see photo 25B; Christine Tomlinson and Stephanie Powell on horses in Church Road, Flixton, beside Shawe Hey Farm, 8 June 1986 – see photo 27; pony riders Christian Tomlinson, Joanne Dunn, Julie Powell, Debbie Woods, Jane Barrows, Stephanie Powell and Alexandra Powell in front of Larkrise Cottage, Church Road, Flixton Village, 1986 – see photo 28; copy of Edwardian postcard c.1906, of Flixton Village, view towards Flixton Road, with Stocks Terrace (R), the Old Grove,(centre), Stocks View (L) – see photo 2; Church Road, Flixton Village, c1906, viewed from Carrington Road, with Stocks Terrace in background – see photo 4; Flixton Post Office, 448 Flixton Road, and staff, with Edwin Mather, sub-postmaster, and postman Joe Green, c. 1900 – see photo 5; The Old Parsonage, Carrington Road, Flixton, 1883 – see photo 6; De Brook Farm, Flixton, where Longworth Close and De Brook Court now stand – see photo 6B; De Brook Farm, c. 1889, with probably John Johnson, farmer, and daughter Lilian – see photo 7; Shawe Hall, 1850, demolished 1955 – see photo 8; Miss Annie Bamford at
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Record number:
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