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Out with the Old in with the New - Scholes Late 1960s
Out with the Old in with the New - Scholes Late 1960s
Photo: JohnAlan
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Item #: 21662
What heartache this picture invokes having been brought up in Scholes in the fifties and sixties - the demolition of Scholes and the destruction of a vibrant and parochial community. How I miss the old Scholes!. To me this looks like building works in the Upper Morris St and Lime St vicinity in the late 60s. Greenough St runs across the photo and is that Upper Morris St Working Mens Club to the left? Is that Orchard St you can just see on the left? Central Park has floodlights which I think were installed around 1967. Bradford Northern were invited to play Wigan to officially open the lights. I have the programme.

Comment by: derekb on 18th October 2012 at 15:20

Don't think it is Orchard St which you can see on the left, John. If the shops you can see on Greenough St are the ones I think they are i.e. a chippie, a Lewis's ice cream shop and (I think) a branch of Rushton's, then they are the ones that went up Greenough St from just past it's junction with Windsor St. I think Orchard St was opposite Calderbanks scrap yard and ran through to The Little Theatre. A relative of mine lived in Russell St. which was off Orchard St and it was a dead end against Water Heyes works.

Comment by: John on 18th October 2012 at 17:32

It looks to me that the workmen are working on the Council maisonettes that were on Windmill Close, the recently built Flats known as 1 Morris Street now occupy the site

Comment by: Cyril on 18th October 2012 at 17:45

I remember taking a note to a doctors surgery on Greenhough Street for a colleague from the Co-op on Standishgate in the sixties, I wasn't familiar with the area and had walked past it a couple of times before realising that what resembled an office of sorts was the surgery. Was it Dr Coffey? or something similar, I remember it seemed a strange name to me at the time like a name from a horror film.

Comment by: Tony G on 18th October 2012 at 17:51

John is right!!!! Morris Street club is built! You can see it opposite Greenough St and, Lewis snack bar, what a place!!!!! Always found my mother and Auntie Joan there!!!!

Comment by: Tony G on 18th October 2012 at 18:02

Again!!! I think they are building 'dutch houses'. These are still there. In the initial build they ere between masionsttes: all known a s Windmill Close

Comment by: derekb on 18th October 2012 at 18:45

Just thinking John - I made a mistake in my earlier comment when I mentioned the shops starting just above where Greenough St. met Windsor St. - it should have been where Greenough St met Turner St. St Georges school was in Windsor St - my excuse is it is a long time since I went there!

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