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never seen this photo before- could be St Cats church but where were those houses - there were none the other side of the canal for the Rabbit Rocks??

I'm not saying it is but it looks like 3 photographs combined. The edges of the foreground rocks look too clean. Could be wrong of course

Scholes Malc. Wasn't it in this area, where later, N.C.B. Workshops, Kirkless was situated?.

St catherines church steeple in the background.7rubl

Perhaps there's a bit of poetic licence being employed here. The housing behind the tips, and the distance between the tips and what I think must be St Cath's church at the back, leads me to think that the Kirklees/ Kirkstone Pass joke was too good to miss - but the view is more likely to be towards Kirkless, rather than from it. There is a church with a small spire to the right among the terraces - the only church in the area with such an arrangement was the old St Mary's at Lower Ince. The view also appears to be looking up at St Cath's - which you would do from Lower Ince, but not from Kirkless, where you'd be looking down on it. I think the tips were at the Moss Pits, with the housing being on Henry Street etc and Warrington Road, Spring View.

Looks like St Pats there in the middle, looking towards town, The houses could be Platt Lane off Scholes

Most local RC churches don't have spires or towers - just a simple structure at their West end to carry a small bell. St Pat's is like that.
Assuming that is St Cath's church, we're looking at it from the south-west - its spire is at its west end, with the nave roof going off to the east - as can be seen here.

Was there not a small church or school with a spire on Belle Green Lane? The he old houses could be before Battersby St and like was built? Big chimney, ?Empress.

Barry, agree with you. Big chimney is the Empress mill and the church is Ince Parish Church.

I would say its St Catherines It's on a slight hill as is St. Catherines church.

If this was the mass of land at the top of Belle Green Lane. It was used as a rubber dump, in 1945. Many, many tons, of rubber articles were deposited there. A lot of locals were employed there, until the site was all cleared away, sometime, towards the end of 1948.

looks to its barons woodyard (house)at the bottom of hemfield rd at the back is old belle green school ??