Westhoughton Local History Presentations and Photos

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List of all Local History Photos of aspects of Westhoughton

Photos beginning with letter A – 1) Adverts from Market Street shops 1914 2) Aerial view of Cricketer’s Way.

Photos beginning with letter B – 1) Blue Bell Cottages, Chorley Road. 2) Blackpool Trip. 3) Blundell’s Farm Daisy Hill. 4) Barn Hill. 5) Bay Horse Pub, Daisy Hill. 6) Beccols Coach Builders, Chequerbent 1947. 7) Boiler Works off Church Street, Demolished. 8) Bolton Coop Society, Four Lane Ends 1968. 9) Beechwood. 10) Bolton Road. 11) Bolton Road, White Horse. 12) Bolton Road 1972. 13) Bolton Road, Rose and Crown 1935. 14) Police Sergeant Brown 1910. 15) Bellhouse Higson Dec 1946. 16) Bethel from Leigh Road. 17) Bethel from Park Road. 18) Brancker Street, Chequerbent 1961. 19) British Gypsum 1947. 20) British Legion Parades 1970. 21) Broome House Farm 1950.

Photos beginning with letter C – 1) Westhoughton Charity Cup Competition. 2) Cemetery Street. 3) Cenotaph. 4) Central Park. 5) Charnley’s Pickle Works. 6) Chew Moor Sidings. 7) Chorley Road. 8) Church Street. 9) Chorley Road, Wingates. 10) Clog Making 1940. 11) Carnegie Library. 12) Chadwick’s Silk Mill. 13) Chequerbent Post Office 1980. 14) Chequerbent Roundabout 1947,1960,1976,

Photos beginning with letter D – 1) Dr. Unsworth’s Surgery, Leigh Road. 2) Dam’s Head Fold. 3) Dobb Brow. 4) Dame School. 5) Dovecote at Hulton Park – a grade 2 listed building.

Photos beginning with letter E – 1) British Legion. 2) Great War Victory Parade. 3) Eatock Pit. 4) Refugee Children. 5) Ernie Ford.

Photos beginning with letter F – 1) Factory Nook. 2) Bill Farrimond, Cricketer. 3) Fairhaven Avenue. 4) Fan Pit. 5) Forshaw’s Demolition. 6) Drinking Fountain. 7) Fourgates Road Widening. 7) Fourgates Textiles. 8) Four Lane Ends Shop. 9) Friends Meeting House.

Photos beginning with letter G – 1) Glebe Mill. 2) Goodman’s Raincoats. 3) Grey Man. 4) Grove Lane Methodists. 5) Grove house. 6) Green Vale House.

Photos beginning with letter H – 1) Hall Lee Bank Park. 2) Boiler at Bolton Road Mill. 3) Hart Common.4) Hart Common School. 5) Hampson Twins. 6) Hewlett Pits. 7) Hilton Gravel. 8) Hilton House. 9) Hindley Road. 10) Houghton Weavers. 11) Howarth’s Mill Fire. 12) Hulton Collieries. 13) Horwich and Westhoughton Journal Office. 14) Hulton’s Coal Lorry. 15) Hilton house Station.

Photos beginning with letter J – 1) Jack Bruton, England Footballer. 2) James Street.

Photos beginning with letter K – 1) Kroto Balloons. 2) Knocker Upper. 3) Keawyed Tradition. 4) Kearsley Street.

Photos beginning with letter L – 1) Lower Leigh Road. 2) Leigh Road. 3) Library Centenary. 4) Barbara Castle, labour MP. 5) Francis Lee.

Photos beginning with letter M (M1) – 1) Mill Street. 2) Musgrave Boiler. 3) Motor Van. 4) Motor Cycling. 5) Moss Brothers. 6) Mining Recruitment.7) Molyneux (Edward). 8) Metal Box. 9) Methody Row.

Photos beginning with letter M (M2) – 1) Mercury Motel Veteran Car Rally 1964. 2) Marsh’s Farm. 3) Market Street. 4) McCallister’s Chemist.

Photos beginning with letter O – 1) Old Town Hall. 2) Overspill Enquiry. 3) Ox Roasting. 4) Old Newspaper Photo 1940. 5) Old Sirs.

Photos beginning with letter P – 1) Primitive Methodist Church, Daisy Hill. 2) Pymott ( Harold). 3) Pretoria Booklet. 4) Pentecostal Church White Horse. 5) Pendlebury Fold 1935. 6) Peel Terrace. 7) Peel Street. 8) Pollard ( Dick), England Cricketer. 9) Park Road.

Photos beginning with letter R – 1) Red Lion. 2) Railway Station. 3) Rose and Crown. 4) Roscoe (Joe). 5) Road Accident. 6) Rigby’s Queen Street Smithy. 7) Rigby, charabanc. 8) Roberts (Barbara). 9) Robert Ratcliffe. 10) Sydney Ratcliffe.

Photos beginning with letter S – 1) Shambley(Job). 2) Sacred Heart. 3) St James. 4) St Bart’s Tower. 5) Sundial. 6) School (Wingates). 7) Sir Geoffrey Hulton. 9) Sunny Villa.

Photos beginning with letter T – 1) Tinniswood’s Heads. 2) Town Hall. 3) Trams. 4) Trinity Weslyan Chapel. 5) Trinity Weslyan Church. 6) Tom Newton’s Westhoughton Montage. 7) Townsfield Map.

Photos beginning with letter W – 1) Westhoughton Memorials.

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