EAW039836 ENGLAND (1951). Thatcham Leach Lane and environs, Whitefield, 1951

School

Sunday School

Church

Charles Street

Victoria Mill

Progress Mill

Travelling Fairground on the site of the Besses o' th' Barn Inn. Now Ambulance Station.

Junction Hotel

Hardman's Green Mill

The burnt out Mayfair cinema, the building next door has 'Palace' painted on the roof; was this the predecessor to the Mayfair?

Coach and Horses public house

Besses o' th Barn station (BR in 1951)

46 Ridge Crescent

Pipe line from Haweswater, in the Lake District, to Manchester terminates at Heaton Park Reservoir. The aqueduct was inaugurated in June 1955, is 82 miles (132 km) in length and carries up to 100 million imperial gallons (450,000 m3) of water per day under the force of gravity

Lived here from 1941 to about 1954

11 Prestfield Road I used to live there

The Railway Line, for the Heaton Park reservoir, that connected to the Bury line ;)

Is this the line of the temporary construction railway for the Heaton Park reservoirs, that connected to the Bury line? Info by Barney Rubble.

Thatch Leach lane (not Thatcham as in the title)

This was Yorkshire Road,I always wondered why,and why it was so wide.This became the M62 about seventeen years later. i wonder how long it was planned.