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The houses do look older than a lot of the housing in Scholes. Whether they are the actual houses of 1857 I couldn't say. I remember them when passing down Scholes from the Amy Lane.

Many thanks, Keith.

This row of houses were at the back of what was the Ritz Cinema, close to where the course of the River Douglas ran before being re routed. I think it was when they built the Central Station. The old River Douglas bridge can still be seen at the side of the Spiritualist Church. I have a picture from the late 1800'somewhere.

I think I may be getting mixed up with Swan Terrace....I know it was a street looking on to the Douglas ( if it was Swan Terrace even) The photo reminds of there.

Ron, I think your identification is spot on.

I remember the houses now -the penny has dropped- you could see them from Crompton St - facing the Douglas. They would have stood where the flats are now and the road at the side of the river, or thereabouts. I had completely forgotten about them! They did look older than a lot of the terraces in Scholes. Its hard work stretching a memory that is already failing - it just came back suddenly! Oh! Dreary me!

Douglas Terrace rings a bell but cannot place it.
Could it have been that road that ran down from Central Station to Crompton Street at the side of the Ritz and well before the Ritz was built? The slope of the road and the staggered nature of the houses put it on a slope which would indicate that or similar. Can't think of what that road was called, it's on the tip of my tongue but now buried beneath the Grand Arcade. The road that is, not my tongue!!!!!

Colin, Douglas Terrace ran more or less along the same route as the alleyway that ran from the back of the RITZ i.e. Watkin St. to Standishgate. The photograph was probably taken on the bank of the River Douglas, before it was re routed, to facilitate the building of the Central Station. The houses you can make out on the right would have been on CROMPTON ST.