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I dont know if my memory is all it was, but was there a dentist somewhere near, or just behind the library,I seem to remember going to one in the 50s. ??

Yes there was a dentist up the road to the left of the library (Old Road) It was in the big house by the police station. I used to go to the school on the right of the picture

Is the tall post on the right for tram wires ?
Nice clean streets.

Helen :
Yes, if you enlarge the picture you can clearly see the tramlines.

Doesn't it look lovely and clean, wish it looked like that now... I only know it with shops there, never gave a thought that at one time they were just houses and that Dentist..... Good Lord it makes me shiver even now just thinking of that place...It was torture !!!

I went to that school in the 1970's just before it closed. I also remember how there would always be a couple of older gents standing just in front of the library having a chat.

Wasn't the building just past the Police Station the old clinic before it moved to Queens Road ? I remember my mother taking me there for an injection (I think). There were nurses in proper uniforms.

Wasn't the Dentist and the clinic all in the same building? I remember going there for the polio jab... kids were lined up all along Old Rd....

Yes the clinic/dentist was just past the police station and I remember going through a gate up some steps and along a path that cut through the lawn, certainly not a case of " three steps to heaven ". Thinking of having gas there has made me all dizzy, I'll have to have a beer!
Now that's better, but regarding those shops, what a sight they look, not a good advert for Ashton.

Ha ha sagaman, that's exactly how it was, it looked ever so nice until you got inside the door.....then .....WHAM!!!

Besides having to go to the dentists I remember those bottles of orange flavoured cod liver oil that were given out here ugh!

What terrible teeth you lot used to have! I must have been lucky with mine, never went to a dentist until my mid twenties. I’m making up for it now though.

The ‘British’ School closed because it was structurally unsound (subsidence). There was an alarming crack in the front wall on the right hand side. It was sold and partially rebuilt and extended, It’s a care home now. There were arches under the school which would take horses and carts, in later times this space was used to store jam jars or old clothes that the kids collected. See, recycling is nothing new, is it?

Evans County Primary School to the right of the picture,Does anyone remember collecting jam jars for a Charity Project?We would hunt everywhere for jars to take! Health and safety would have a field day with that nowadays.Evans was my 1st school so I remember little. Are here any old class photos out there?:)