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Bolton Street was where Platt Lane now comes out onto Scholes
My uncle & auntie, Fred & Briday Jacobs, lived there

Is this another of the Ball and Boot squad of on holiday again?

Front left Danny Priest, front right Malcolm Holland

Front left Danny Priest, front right Malcolm Holland

i remember david and freddy jacobs from hen st we were matesin our younger days

is that the pub were you two idiots drink

My uncle Jack Monks had the Post Office on the corner of Bolton St

Fabulous photo - nearly all got clogs on and two of them must have been pigeon fanciers. All except the soldiers wearing flat caps.

Tommy, thank you, what a fantastic photo, I don't see anyone I know but that dosn't matter, I love it. I have a few lovely memories of my childhood visits to Bolton St.

Tommy where was Hen Street?
Freddie died in his 20s - David now living in Devon - was up this way the other week for his good mate, Cliff Barker's funeral

A great photo - I had maternal great grandparents living in Bolton Street around this time, I also have posted a photo of 1950's Crispin Arms, Scholes customers that included a Jimmy Priest, wonder if it's any relation to the Danny Priest in this photo.

scholes malc hen st was at the top end of bolton st,The labour picture house was there over the top of the old scholes labour club.I grew grew up with david and freddy.

this picture was taken just of platt lane at the side of the crown pub this is where the pens and pigeon coats where facing the clay pit it would probably be sunday afternoon when the pub shut as that's when they raced the pigeons over a measured mile and the first pigeon to land wins. I don't remember them having anything more elaborate than that the lads would also race each other in pit clogs over platt lane fields and then there was pitch and toss this was all illegal stuff and this is where I came in as I was the trusted look out and paid a princely sum of threpunce I think that's how you spell it its certainly how you say it. this was a time of real austerity as there wasn't any benefit payments back then only family and neighbours which we call the community you even had to pay to call the doctor out they the times when you had nothing but you had everything that you can,t get in this day and age

RT this picture belonged to my grand mother emma white nee shannon she lived in bolton st scholes ,her brother JOHN shannon was k.i.a 1917 also her husband tommy was k.i.a 1918 may be the shannons the whites and bromley family are on the photo

wonderful pic tommy,but I thought Bolton st was on the ince side ? I have commented about it before I have a dear friend linda coyle who came from Bolton st but im'e sure it was in ince over rose bridge, I thought scholes was as you go up from crispin arms but I might be wrong, somebody will know '

There were two Bolton Streets, Josie.

correct Mick
one in Scholes off Platt Lane
one In Higher Ince off Manchester Road (first street after Forge Street going out from the Crispin)

the man sat behind the man with the dog could be one of my winstanleys, he certainly has the look.

just realised that's my father albert far left holding the pigeon, didn't know he was a member of the PEAKY BLINDERS