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Scot Lane Aspull
Scot Lane Aspull
Photo: JohnAlan
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Item #: 21157
Probably taken in the late 1800s or ealy 1900s. An atmosheric picture showing the cobbled stone roads of Scot Lane and Stanley Road and gas lamps. The Moorgate Inn which is still there is shown on the corner. To the left is now Moorside with bungalows and shops built in the mid 1960s. The terraced houses at the bottom of Stanley Rd and to the left of scot Lane are long gone. Are those railway lines running along the grassed area and across the road? If so what where they for?

Comment by: Geoff on 1st August 2012 at 19:22

The lines will be the mineral railway from the Aspull Pumping Pit.

Comment by: JohnAlan on 2nd August 2012 at 09:57

Cheers Geoff. I live in one of the houses built on the Moor just to the left of the photo. The road is very busy now.

Comment by: Den s on 2nd August 2012 at 12:24

There is a footpath there now which follows the line of the old railway, it crossed Ratcliffe Road and ran through a cutting pass the Wall Hey Chimney on Haigh road and on to Toddington and Meadow Pit.

Comment by: linda rutter ne hulme on 31st October 2012 at 18:16

i remember coming up crawford avenue and crossing a dirt rook i think ther was an old mine shaft on there my grandmother lived on stanley rd there was some ston cottages further up than the moorgate she also had a shop there

Comment by: linda rutter ne HULME on 5th November 2012 at 21:50

a girl called betty haveln used to live in the seconed house

Comment by: Ken R on 6th November 2012 at 00:00

Hi Linda,
Your name keeps appearing everywhere I look, I am racking my brains (not many left)to try and place you, who was in your family, ma,pa,sis,bros?
Ken Roocroft Ednas Bro.

Comment by: linda rutter ne hulme on 7th November 2012 at 23:07

hi ken i was born on crawford avenue i had sisters elsie kathleen jenny who are now diseased also edward there is only me sally barbara alan left i went to shcool with your Edna what where the houses called you lived in round by the lodge i used to go to your house

Comment by: Dorothy (nee Pendlebury) on 12th February 2014 at 22:00

I used to live Stanley Rd until I was aged 11yrs, we then moved to Holly Road, newly built houses. We used to play in George Marsdens fields and used go potato picking. What an evocative photo, lovely to see. thank you

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