Memories of Hindley Green
If you have any memories of Hindley Green and would like to share them.
Florence Blyth nee Baxendale wrote:
I have been interested in reading about The Boggart Houses On your site , you have a photo of a house built in Swan Lane and a row of houses in the background with a chimney coming out of the top.
I was brought up in those houses ,there was a long row then Johnson Street then a row with 6 houses and a shop at the end I lived in. The middle of this small row. The chimney was Richard Howarths cotton Mill. These houses where not the Boggert Houses, the Boggart Houses were in Alder lane I remember when I was a young child being scared of
going past these houses in Alder Lane.
Lois Best ( ex Hindley Green ) wrote:
I love the photos on your website. I was born at 950 Atherton Rd and moved in 1958 to the bungalow my Dad (Jack Morris) built on Hindley Rd just past the Alex on the right hand side. I remember the long row (Swan Lane) well, the shop at the end was run by a Mr Heaton and his daughter Mary if I remember correctly - I think the row was pulled down around 1971/72. The site that my Dad built his bungalow on had been a pit site and we still had the slag heap in the back field. I don't know the name of the pit but looking at your list I think it may have been Bungle Horn ( actually Bugle Horn ) - the bus that used to run from Westhoughton then up Alder Lane to Hindley was nicknamed the Bungle Flyer ( Bugle Flyer ). Right at the end of Alder Lane opposite the nursery and the Alex there used to be 2 houses built in a yellowish brick, I think it was originally a coaching house. I very vaguely rememeber them so I reckon they were pulled down in the early 60's. My Mum's family lived there when she was very young (around 1927).
Did there used to be a Cotton Mill where Ingersol Rand is? ( according to the previous writer, the mill could be Richard Howarths cotton mill ) I think my Gran and her sisters had worked there (and lost a few fingers in the process).
I have some photos - Sacred Heart School children in the 60s and some of my Dad working at Turner Brothers, cricket teams etc. I also have my Dad's old cine films - some of Walk Day in the late 1950s along Swan Lane and Atherton Rd and Sacred Heart school children in the dinner hall and at the Clay Hole. (It looks too picturesque to be called the Clayhole now).
Eric Turner ( Hindley Green ) wrote: Scowcroft's Colliery, Hindley Green.
The site was used for the storage of cotton bales towards the end of W.W.2 and for a few years after. ( see Hindley Green Old photo's ) There was a slag heap known as the Aerial Flights. The bales were stacked, covered with tarpaulins and corrugated iron sheets until needed. During the War it had been RAF Depot,Hindley Green, not a lot of people know that.