EAW004437 ENGLAND (1947). The Sun Cotton Mill, Chadderton, 1947. This image was marked by Aerofilms Ltd for photo editing.

crown pub walsh street

berne close chadderton

Dog Inn

Middleton Road

Sports and Recreation Club House

Fields New Road

Stock Lane Mill (cotton); from 1926 Forge Mill (cotton); from 1940 Brown's Stores (grocery warehouse) until 1976; demolished 1978.

Site of Springfield Mill, Lansdowne Road (cotton until 1937, then demolished)

Blackridings Iron Works (Electrical Engineering)

Chadderton Mill (cotton)

Osborne Mill (cotton) - Robinson Street, Chadderton

Hartford Mill (cotton)

Glenby Mill (cotton)

Cowhill Iron Works

Sun Mill (cotton)

Textile Mill (cotton)

Site of old brick works

Site of Avon Mill (originally Lansdowne Mill - cotton). Demolished 1937.

Vale Mill (cotton)

Chadderton Public Library

Chadderton Swimming Baths

Chadderton Town Hall

General engineers, they had lots of metal turning lathes. Workers stood on duck boards the whole floor covered in congealed oil. Loads of men stood over lathes dimly lit by a small lamp, constantly smoking "Woodbines" or "Senior Service" cigarettes. As a young boy it was interesting to watch the door was always open. You always made the odd penny going to the shop for them, usually for cigarettes.

The Werneth Incline - 1 mile 1,383 yards (3 km) long - was the steepest passenger worked railway line in Britain, with a gradient of 1:27 for about a mile. Closed to passenger traffic 1958 & goods traffic 1963.

Air-raid shelter