EPW016768 ENGLAND (1926). Hare Hill Road and the town centre, Littleborough, 1926

Methodical Piazza chapel

Townhouse Farm

Hollindrake House - used for many years as a surgery by Doctor Jim McGill. He was later succeeded by Dr Peter McGill.

Zion Chapel - used in the 1950's as a workshop by a firm of carpenters/shopfitters.

Dyers Arms Pub

There was a small shop at each end of this row of terraced houses. The shop nearest the junction of Shore Road and Calderbrook Road was known by me as the "Top Shop", the one at the other end of the row, near the Dyers Arms pub, was the "Bottom Shop".

Falcon Hotel

The Roundhouse.Includes The Wheatsheaf Hotel, a newsagents & a Cafe.

Littleborough Square

War Memorial

Congregational Church

Hollingworth Road

Railway Inn

Turf Terrace.Known locally as Long Row

Saint Barnabas church & vicarage

Croft Mill Lodge - used by Littleborough Angling Society when I was a child.

Corrected location for Queens Cinema

Python mill was known locally as the silk mill.The open area at the rear of the mill was originally the tenterground where frames were set up to dry the cloth or make it even or square.The hooks holding the cloth were called tenterhooks.Hence the saying "on tenterhooks"

As a child in the 1950's I knew this area as the "Devil's Rocks"

Queen's Cinema was in one of the buildings I think?

The Tannery sheds to hold the hides

Ambores (?)cable processing works (in 1950's) - caught fire several times.

Allotments

This row of terraced houses was known as "Laneside".

Shore Mill (Home of Shore Sheets)

Python Mill I think?

Littleborough Co-op shops and offices

Victoria Cinema

Location of "School Clinic" in 1950/1960's. Attended there many times for my "jabs" such as polio, TB etc. A dental surgery was also located here.

Victoria Street Methodist Hall

Greenhill

Band Stand in Park

Shore Road

Whitelees Road

Calderbrook Road

Town House

Cricket Ground

Dog & Partridge Pub (The Caldermoor)

Richard Jay Coaches

Council Offices

Council Offices

Gas & Coking Works

Co-op Mill

Central School

Littleborough Parish Church