By Tom Newton M.B.E.

•(With the Odd Step Over the Borders)

The Old Parsonage, Westhoughton 1719 - 1937

‘The Sunny Side of the Street’

St Bartholomews,

Parish Church of

Westhoughton

1870 – 1990

The Tower was the

only part of the

building saved in the

fire of 1990.

St Bartholomew’s Old Lych

Gate & Parochial School

Westhoughton Railway Station – opened 1848 by the

Liverpool & Bury Railway Company

Manchester Road, Wingates. Two pubs on left -

Greyhound & Horse Shoe.

Wingates Parish Church - St John the Evangelist, built 1859

Snydle Water Tower & Tram

1939

Chew Moor Sidings c.1950

Old Postbox

on wall of

Bethel

Churchyard

Old Corn Mill, Daisy Hill 1960’s (Charnley’s Pickle Works)

Hart Common Farm (Old Georgian Farm demolished 1980s)

Crow Nest Farm, Jacks Lane, off Wigan Road.

Treacle Row (pronounced ‘Thraykel’)

Church Lane, Wingates

Chequerbent, Crossing Keeper’s house for the Bolton-Leigh

Railway which was built in 1828

Ten Houses, Turner Street, Daisy Hill (Pungle)

Green Vale: Built for the Owners of the Calico Print

Works Leigh Road, Daisy Hill

The Grey Man, Hindley Road – Daisy Hill

Daisy Hill ‘Old’

School

St James’s, Daisy Hill Parish Church

The Bay Horse – Hindley Road, Daisy Hill

Lostock Grange off Wingates Lane

Chequerbent Park (junction of Park Rd/Manchester Rd)

Market Street in Snow

White Horse Cross Roads - 1947

‘The band played on’ at Wingates

The Old Market Place, Deansgate, Bolton

Daisy Hill Parish Church, St James the Great

View of St Bartholomews & Ditchfield Family Home

THE LION ROARETH NO MORE….

Bi-Centenary

of the Luddite

Riot1812

Mill Square

2012