EPW016038 ENGLAND (1926). Mumps, Oldham, 1926

The old bank, mumps

The Royal Oak public house. 178 Union Street, OL1 1EN Still going strong 2016,

Mumps no.3 signal box

Cosy cinema

Gas Meter Works

Victory cinema (from 1920); previously a theatre under a variety of names (Adelphi, Prince's, Gaiety, Hippodrome)

King's Picture Hall, Fairbottom Street

Palace Theatre (later Odeon Cinema)

Colosseum Theatre, Fairbottom Street - from 1938 to present (2013) Oldham Repertory Theatre

Ramp leading to footbridge over railway (to Churchill St)

Rhodes Bank Works (Bobbin and Skewer)

Bridge Street Christadelphian Hall (still exists - 2013)

Rhodes Bank Electricity Generating Station (Oldham Corporation)

Corporation Yard

Cattle Pens

Roscoe Street

Oldham Hide, Skin and Fat Depot

Cabmen's Shelter

Mumps Railway Station

Mumps Mill (cotton) - also known as Cleggs Mill after the owners

Roscoe Mill (cotton)

Regent Street

Congregational Sunday School (built on site of a former burial ground)

Congregational Church

Wallshaw Place

Oldham Chronicle Offices and Printing Works, 172 Union Street - moved there in 1923

Rhodes Bank

Rock st

This is Beechey st.I was born here in 1950 lovely street knocked down 69/70

Jagger's lodging House Beever Street, Rhodes Bank

Mumps Bridge - demolished between 2010-2011 to make way for the Metrolink expansion, was an iconic Oldham landmark. It's name 'Mumps' was apparently derived from the word 'Mumper', which etymogically translates as 'Beggar'.

Mumps Bazzar was the precursor to the modern superstore in the fact that it sold everything under one roof.

Railway & Commercial Inn

Mumps Hotel

Albert Hotel

Coronation Inn

Friendship inn

royal theater

st marys rc school later to have a playground on the roof

beaver street school

Oldham Corporation tram depot

the railway pub lees rd mumps was cut off by the new roundabout

This is Wallshaw Mill, demolished in 1933. The site was then cleared for a massive new bus garage built for Oldham Corporation and officially opened in 1938, a building which still exists today.