On 1 Dec 2009 at 10:40, Lynne Mayers wrote:
> This maybe slightly off subject, but we have just acquired a very old
> postcard (the sort that fades yellow with age) entitled 'Open Air
> Swimming Bath, Kinder' and I have not been able to find out what it
> depicts. It is not a swimming bath as we would know it - just the
> dammed water supply/filled quarry relating to the industrial complex
> behind. This looks ot have been recently flooded as there is a half
> submerged hawthorn shrub in the foreground. The buildings are quite
> extensive (mixture of single, double and triple storey) - with railway
> (and three engine sheds?), three chimneys (2 tall, other shorter). We
> would be grateful for any help in identifying this industry. We wonder
> if the site is now under the current reservoir?
This card is one of two views that I know of with the same caption. The pool is
a reservoir that served the Kinder Printworks at Hayfield. Your image shows
the pool with the (textile) printworks in the background.
The book - "The Kinder Reservoir And Railway" by Derek Brumhead, Jean
Rangeley and Ken Rangeley, states that the lower pool was 'used as a
swimming bath by Hayfield Swimming Club after the printworks was closed in
1902 (demolished in 1908). After two boys were drowned here, swimming was
prohibited.'
The printworks was established in 1855 and was eventually taken over by the
Calico Printers Association. The site of the works is now the Hayfield campsite.
Cheers,
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David Kitching
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