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Lancashire / Re: Pendlebury Railway Station? Also about the Acme Mill
« on: Monday 11 July 05 21:54 BST (UK)  »
Keith

So glad to hear that I have done my good deed for the day.

The Acme was of course on Swinton Hall Road. This road is, like Station Road, partly in Swinton and partly in Pendlebury. In the 19th century the Swinton section was called JANE LANE whilst the Pendlebury section (where the Acme was) was known as BURY LANE. This is not to be confused with BURYING LANE which was the original name of Station Road before the railway was built.

Dyson. There used to be a large family called Dyson not far from where I grew up in the Rake Lane district of Clifton. Many families from this particular estate came from Pendlebury when the houses were built in the 1930s. Pendlebury Station. Trains leaving the station and heading towards Wigan went through the tunnel which starts on Bolton Road and comes out on Swinton Hall Road.

As you can see, I am very eager to put my local knowledge at your disposal.

Tallboy (real name Keith too)

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Lancashire / Re: Pendlebury Railway Station? Also about the Acme Mill
« on: Monday 11 July 05 15:02 BST (UK)  »
Pendlebury Railway Station, the Acme Mill and Railway Terrace.

This is your lucky day.... as I am about as local as you can get in Swinton and Pendlebury (former borough). I was born in Clifton (1946) which is one of the 3 districts which make up the Borough of Swinton and Pendlebury (M27). I have lived for the past 30 years in Pendlebury and went to three different schools in Pendlebury and I am VERY familiar with the station, the mill and Railway Terrace. All three place have now been gone quite some time. My parents and 3 out of 4 grandparents were all born in Pendlebury too. Well let us begin shall we?

Pendlebury Station was on Bolton Road (A666) opposite St Augustine's CE School and Church and what is now called the Isis Restaurant which was the Station Hotel pub. Swinton station is much nearer to where Lowry lived. Swinton station is on Station Road of course. But Station Road is partly in Swinton and partly in Pendlebury. Swinton station is, believe it or not, actually in Pendlebury. At the side of the station is Boundary Road which is normally thought as being part of the boundary between Swinton and Pendlebury, at least Royal Mail go by this rule. In fact the Swinton Parish boundary is actually even further down the road than Boundary Road. The only railway station actually in Swinton itself is Moorside station (Moorside Road) and this used to be called Moorside and Wardley station. Pendlebury station closed about 40 odd years ago.

The Acme Mill was the first spinning mill in the country run exclusively by electricity when it opened about 1905. It was one of Lowry's favourite subject in his many local paintings. It was demolished about 1984. I remember seeing it come down at the time.

Railway Terrace. I went to school with a boy who lived in this street. It went many years ago in the clearances in the 1960s. It was just of Bridge Street, Pendlebury and was off the western side of Bridge Street on the northern side of the railway line very close to where the bottom of Union Street is now if you look on your A-Z map.
It only had houses on one side and faced the railings at the top of the railway cutting.

If there is anything else you wish to know just shout. Hope this is helpful.

Good luck.

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