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Taken from No. 500, Bolton Road.
Taken from No. 500, Bolton Road.
Photo: Joan Harrison (nee Shrigley)
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Item #: 961
Taken from No. 500, Bolton Road. St.Elizabeths School seen across the road. Possibly 1950s.

Comment by: Cyril Ashurst on 9th March 2008 at 21:57

A nice old picture which brings back memories.
The building left of the school was Ste Whitfield's paper shop.
I knew him well when I was a lad

Comment by: Jimmy Whitfield on 28th April 2009 at 13:17

Great to see this old picture up here. I am Ste Whitfield's son Jimmy and have happy memories of living in the paper shop mentioned by Cyril above.

Comment by: Ken R on 11th February 2010 at 00:45

Good shot of the school, I used to be in the scouts and we had meetings in there.

Comment by: Gary Leece on 13th February 2011 at 18:57

I was brought up in what became Whitfieds' paper shop - St and Maggie bought it from my parents in 1955. The photo dates from 1958/59 as the street lamps attached to the telegraph pole were smaller before that date.

Comment by: linda rutter ne hulme on 12th November 2012 at 18:58

i remember your mum delivering papers to our house on Crawford Ave i was only a young girl then how time flies

Comment by: Lynn Moore (nee Calland) on 25th April 2015 at 00:20

I used to live at 600 Bolton Road - now flattened- this was on my way to Scholl at St Lizzies

Comment by: Allan Hilton on 14th January 2016 at 20:17

Great Picture grew up in that area, new Jimmy and Gary very well hope you are both fine

Comment by: Joan Harrison nee Shrigley on 7th October 2016 at 17:32

This photo was taken from our front garden at 500 Bolton Road.
We lived next door to Miss Esther Higham who was a teacher at St. Elizabeth's School.Mr. John Hesketh was the Headmaster. I remember Steve and Maggie Whitfield at the paper shop.

Comment by: Frank Lee on 5th November 2018 at 11:01

I seem to remember the paper shop (no longer there)being across Bolton Road near to Higham's shop. It then moved next to the school in the 1950's

Comment by: Roy Pilkington on 11th March 2019 at 14:21

Lived at 489 before moving to 491 on grandfathers demise and so Whitfields took over later and turned it into a shop
I remember Joan and younger brother at 500

Comment by: Julie on 18th July 2020 at 09:18

I. can remember Maggie and Ste delivering papers to my grandads on st marys road and every sunday evening he had a white mini which he used to have toffee in the back and we used to wait for him to come round.

Comment by: Alan Lenton on 31st December 2023 at 13:15

Yes Maggie and Ste Whitfield were wonderful to me and Jimmy was like my brother, thank you Jim for taking good care of me. I remember the fab hols we had in Blackpool and all the adventures in Boresdane woods, smashing times all those years ago. I lived in the Reservoir House with parents Colin Lenton and Emma Lenton (both passed around 2018) with sisters Janet, Eileen and Sandra - and our brother Ken. Janet and Ken live in Torquay, Sandra in Liverpool, Ei and me in Cape Town. I remember so many people amongst them - Alan Winrow and Brian his brother, Paul Halliwell (he lived close to where the picture was taken) Alan Ainscow, Alan Birchall, Fred Adeniji, Tony Cross, William Brookes and his brother Eric, Ian Bold (lived in Gerard Arm pub on Bolton Road) - Lots of good memories brought back by the above photo!
On a tragic note- anyone remember Ken Wolfendale? He lived in wingates and was in the same year as me in Aspull Secondary Modern (circa 1965) - he emigrated to South Africa and was sadly shot in John Orrs department store in Johannesburg (think 1977?) he was on lunch break when armed guys trying to escape the police ran through the John Orrs tea room and Ken was caught in crossfire. Ken was married and had a child - I think his wife went back to UK? All the best to anyone who remembers me and apologies if I was annoying to you!! Cheers Alan Lenton

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