EPW016727 ENGLAND (1926). Shaw and Crompton Railway Station and environs, Shaw, 1926

In the war it turned over to producing active carbon granules. I think for Gas masks and other war uses, was locally known as the coal mine in the sky. The mill engine and all its ancillary equipment survived until about 1983. The northen mill engine society rescued it and its in their museum in Bolton

Tudor Street

Library

Salt street junction with Glebe street

Hungerhill

Co-oprative

post office

King Albert street

High Crompton PO

Greaves Street

River Beal

Railway goods warehouse

BEAL MOOR STREET THESE FOUR COTTAGES ARE ON THE STREET ABOVE BOUT THE HOUSES BELOW FROM 1889 ARE ON CROSSLEY STREET

BEAL LANE

ROCHDALE ROAD

FOUR LANE ENDS

MILNROW ROAD

CROSSLEY STREET

TRAVIS STREET

Oak Street

Shaw Spinning (cotton).

Market Place.

Wye Mills (cotton).

Infant School.

School.

St James's Church.

Pineapple pub.

Railway Station.

Sandy Lane Mill (cotton).

Fern Mill (cotton).

Moorfield Mill (cotton).

Ash Mill (cotton).

Vale Mills (cotton).

Dawn Mill (cotton).

Briar Mill (cotton).