epw016039 ENGLAND (1926). The town centre, Oldham, from the south, 1926

Grosvenor cinema

Grosvenor cinema, now job centre. Picture taken from outside buck and union, facing towards mumps, Prudential building with its pointed roof spires behind cinema

Grosvenor cinema, now job centre. Picture taken from outside buck and union, facing towards mumps, Prudential building with its pointed roof spires behind cinema

number 3 st marys street were iwas born 1947 trevor sykes

Independent Methodist Church, King Street, between Connaught Street and Park Street??

Thomas Dornan Printers

There was an archway here that gave entrance to the houses at rear of this Street.

Pub next to the Ginnel (Tunnel/Archway) may have been called The Clarence Hotel. At rear of tunnel was a small courtyard containing a few dwellings and the cortyard was known as "Back ??? Street".

Brunswick Street

Star Inn

Morton Street.

Ritz Ballroom, run by Ken Naylor before he got the Candlelight

Now Spindles Shopping Centre

Electroceum Cinema known as The Lec or by the kids as The Leccy. Often the projector broke or the lamp failed and all the kids would stamp their feet until the film was brought back to life.

King Street.

Chaucer Street.

Clegg Street.

Wellington Street.

Road bridge across the railway line leading to the Railway Stock Yards of which there were two. One to the left that had a metal footbridge leading to Woodstock Street and one to the right that had a cobbled surface for lorries and a footpath to Park Road.

This area was demolished in the 1950's and became the North Western Bus Depot and adjacent was the Clegg Street Community Centre that was officially opened around 1955 by Wilfred Pickles.

Clayton's Scrap Metal Works with horse drawn carts.

Railway Embankment with Traffic Signal mounted on stone abutment 30 feet above railway line leading to Oldham Mumps Railway Station and the famous Mumps Bridge.

Railway & Central Public House.

Greaves Street Gas Works.

McAvady's Sweet Shop

Jacksons Pit, following on from Water Street, one of the oldest streets in Oldham. Originally the main road to Manchester

Water Street, one of the oldest streets in Oldham. Originally the main road to Manchester

Peter Street

The Museum pub

Methodist Chapel

Billington's Dancing School, Ascroft Street,It's Still standing today

Wellington Street School, later to become School of Commerce. It was demolished in 1970.

The view from the top of tower Oldham church

Union Street

King street

The Old Cheshire cheese, Market Place.

Unitarian Chapel, Lord Street

Deaf and Dumb Institute Corner of Union St & George St, Founded through the efforts Richard Hesltine himself being a deaf mute.

Alfonso Hotel Manchester Street, First licensed in 1779 named the Spread Eagle as it was on the corner of Spread Eagle St, It was renamed the Alfonso in1909 and demolished in 1971. The shop next door was a Post Office.

St.Peter's Church I remember a bloke called Jack, he walked with a limp,had the job of digging the graves up to relocate them.

Old Bent Hollow Middleton road, around 1920

Roller skating, I used to go skating there in the 1950's , no health and safety rubbish then always went home full of cuts and bumps.

The Green There was a fairground on the Green most of the year, Just like in the song by Dire Straits (Spanish City) Every time I hear it, It's just like being there.

The demolition of St Mary's ward started c1963 as part of the national slum clearance program. Over the next few years *1,014 houses were demolished and 931 families (2,431 people) were displaced . Sadly this had a devastating effect on a once vibrant community and caused a lot of resentment with local people. The clearances were subject to intense study, with the Ministry of Housing and Local Government commissioning and publishing two reports 'Living in a Slum' and '*Moving Out of a Slum'. However the real impact of the clearances was best captured in a long forgotten 1963/64 documentary by Granada Television called 'The End of a Street' which gives a unique social insight from the residents themselves.

Ice Manufacturer

Primitive Methodist Church

Weights and Measures Department, Ascroft Street

Gas Meter Testing Office, Ascroft Street

Victoria Market Hall

Fish Market

Unitarian Chapel

The Albion (public house), 1-3 High Street

Market Hotel, 17-19 Curzon Street

Albion Street

Britannia Hotel, 63 Henshaw Street

Northmoor Library

Robin Hill Swimming Baths & Public Wash House

Oldham Parish Church (St Mary's)

Oldham Drill Hall

Alfonso (public house) - 48 Manchester Street

United Methodist Church

Baptist Church

Temperance Billiard Hall

Chaucer Street School

Congregational Chapel

Municipal Technical School

Prudential Insurance Building

Salvation Army - Junior Hall

Salvation Army Citadel

Bath Hotel - 93 Union Street

My Grandma lived here - at this time it was apparently a well regarded chip shop. I remember the outside toilets in the back courtyard and the two inch gap underneath the back door.

25 Charlotte Street

1 Brunswick St

The house I was born in

Chaucer St, showing a trolleybus at the terminus. The trolleybus service only operated from 26.8.25. to 4.9.26. It was cut back to Hathershaw and ran to Ashton until complete closure in Feb 1939.

Friends Meeting House, Greaves Street

Old Post Office (2012 Oldham Local Studies and Archives)

Masonic Hall

Central Library

Henley's Garage

Newland Mill

County Court

Brewery

Central station

Municipal School of Commerce

Wellington Works

Wellington Mill

Phoenix Street Mill

Fire Station

Vale Mills

Vale Mills

Olypia Skating Rink

St Peters School

Public Baths

Lyceum

Twn Hall

St Peters church

TommyField Market

radcliffe arms pub

egerton end pub

parish church school burnly street

fishermans rest

cheapside now the bus station

oldham brewery coldhurst street

rose weatherproof raincoat man 1960s

The Astoria

GREAVES ARMS

CANDLELIGHT NIGHT CLUB

MAYS PAWN SHOP ROCHDALE ROAD

THE NELSON INN NOW CALLED THE BUCK & UNION

THE GREY HORSE INN NOW CALLED THE CASTLE

bulls head george st

miners arms

cats whiskers

star inn