Littleborough, The Harbour, Hollingworth Lake c.1955
Photo ref: L182006
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Here we see the harbour on Hollingworth Lake. Not only were rowing boats, racing skiffs and dinghies a common sight, but there was even a time when the lake had its own paddle steamer. As can be seen in photograph 36777, Hollingworth supported a number of hotels, one of which, the Beach, featured refreshment rooms that overhung the water and a dancing stage for 2,000 people. Another hotel, The Lake, was designed in the Swiss Chalet style.

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As a young girl in the mid fifties I have fond memories of walking around Hollingworth Lake. Having stories of ghosts living under the lake, the walk seemed never ending, frightnening at times if I lost track of my parents, but beautiful! A child's imagination of a hand rising up from the deeps in the middle of the lake, made unbearable by an older brother, disappeared as I walked amongst spring flowers to the sounds of starlings and magpies.
My grandmother Emma Fielding was born at the Fisherman's Inn in 1893. Her mother lived at Antioch Cottages further along the road so I can only presume that her mother Martha Ann Wild was related to the landlord at that time, also called Wild, and she went into labour whilst she was visiting!   Roslyn Crabtree