epw016445 ENGLAND (1926). The town centre, Middleton, 1926

Pleasant Springs

Pleasant Springs demolished in late 1960s

1 Lever Street

I think this is William Street, (Or Billy Brew as we called it") ? I mention it my earlier comment about Schofield Walk.

As a Middletonian bred and born, I remember some paths and roads from my school days. The last time I visited Middleton, there was an overgrown pathway that was called Schofield Walk and I wanted to pin the name to it. To get to it you had to travel up "William Street", that we used to call, lovingly, "Billy Brew", because it was up a slope.

Springvale House - home of Harvey Heywood, Mayor of Middleton

Middleton Building Society - under construction

The moat. The rectory was once a semi-fortified building reputed to have had a draw bridge and loop holes for the discharge of weapons. Part of the moat can clearly be seen on this image. Medieval glass, now in the clerestory and Flodden window of St Leonard's church came from the rectory. Coats of arms are the subject of these glass panels. I believe that, with this and the fortification, the rectory was formerly Middleton's manor house. Probably when the Assheton family became lords of Middleton, they built their new manor house between what is now Market Place, Old Hall St and Tesco.

St Michael's Parish School

Middleton Gasworks.

Lancashire Fold

Wood Street

Commercial Hotel

Pleasant Springs

Tonge Mill (site later used for Spring Vale Dye Works)

Middleton Railway station

Old Boars Head

St Michaels

Middleton Parish Church School

Long St. Methodist Church

Jubilee Park

Lark Hill Works (Dye & Polishers)

Irk Mill

Tonge Mill

Bridge Mill (Dye & Polishing)

Bowling Green (site for Middleton Baths)

Queen Elizabeth Grammar School

St Leonards Church Middleton Parish.

St Leonards Rectory

Dye Works

Park Mill

Town Hall

Empire Theatre

Middleton Gas Works

Townley Mill

Lodge Mills

Brookside Mill

Albany Mills Former site of Middleton Hall

Times Mill Built in two sections.

Neva Mills Formally (Dale Mills)

Warwick Mill

Middleton Library

St Peter's School by Edgar Wood

Durnford Street School by Edgar Wood (1908) - now demolished

Pioneering flat roofed shops 33-37 Manchester Road by Edgar Wood