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Re: Pendlebury Railway Station? Also about the Acme Mill
« Reply #90 on: Monday 24 December 12 09:50 GMT (UK) »
Dear All especially Wallie

Here is a picture taken at Pendlebury station. 
The two sisters shown are my grandmother's (Annie LEES) maiden aunts Betsy and Ellen ROYLE. They were voluntary lady porters there during the first world war. Annie's father knew Lowry and the extended family lived in Station Road. 

In particular their mother's side were Greenhalghs from "Dumb Hill Farm" Does that mean anything to anyone?

Betsy and Ellen's grandmother was Elizabeth WALLWORK 1811 - 1865


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Re: Pendlebury Railway Station? Also about the Acme Mill
« Reply #91 on: Monday 24 December 12 13:46 GMT (UK) »
lol...It took me a while to find the reply button!
WOW! what an amazing photo...love it. It is a fabulous piece of history too
Merry Christmas
Lizzie (Wallie) :D :)
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Re: Pendlebury Railway Station? Also about the Acme Mill
« Reply #92 on: Monday 07 January 13 14:14 GMT (UK) »
I have just been out for a walk with my camera to get some snaps of Pendlebury Station as it stands now. I gained access to the railway embankment, I really shouldn't have I know, but it's all for the sake of local history :)





I took this picture from roughly the same perspective as the old picture, you can clearly see where the door once was, and if you look carefully you see a difference in the colour of bricks where the post box to the left of the station once was.



This picture is from the rear of the station, on the embankment, it is what is left of what supported the steps down to the platform by the looks of it.

This next one is took looking towards what would have been the back of the station, it looks to me that this was what would have been the top of the steps leading to the platform.



This was towards the bottom of what would have been the steps, looks like an old notice board.



Here is another one of the staircase support, from a different perspective.



Here is a picture taken from the bridge off Ethel Avenue, you can clearly see where the platform once once between the two tracks.



And finally, this is taken from the side of what was the main building of the station.



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Re: Pendlebury Railway Station? Also about the Acme Mill
« Reply #93 on: Monday 07 January 13 18:17 GMT (UK) »
Fabulous photo's!
Wallwork – Swinton/Worsley/Pendleton

Moss & Farrish & Kennedy & Latchford – Swinton/Macclesfield/Cheshire

Cheer – Manchester

Tildesley – Worsley/Manchester

Rourke & Fallon - Kearsley/Farnworth/Bolton/Yorkshire/Ireland Dublin

Gooden & Duckworth & Pasquile & Atkinson – Bolton/Blackburn/Westmorland

Wilson – Swinton/Salford

Quinn – Swinton/Salford/Newcastle u Tyne/Gateshead/Ireland/USA

Mc Donough & Bickers - Salford/Ireland


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Re: Pendlebury Railway Station? Also about the Acme Mill
« Reply #94 on: Tuesday 26 March 13 21:06 GMT (UK) »
I just found this site by googleing Acme cotton mill. I live in USA but was born in Salford. My maternal grandfather was an engineer at Acme. Also lived at 479 Bolton Rd.,Pendlebury. My mother had a hair salon at same address and grandmother had a little hardware shop. My Mom passed last year and I'm trying to find cemetery where grandmother is buried to place some of Mom's ashes with her. Also since I was little was told about the bombing of factory during WWII. We have a piano with shrapnel from that bombing. My Mom attended Clairemount School, 1928. Any advice where I should start to find correct cemetery.
Thank you in for any help.
ElsieUSA

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Re: Pendlebury Railway Station? Also about the Acme Mill
« Reply #95 on: Saturday 25 May 13 14:53 BST (UK) »
Hi, Henry,
Thanks very much for that lovely clear picture of the Acme Mill.  I don't suppose you know how recently it was demolished, do you?
And I take it now that a station called Pendlebury never existed, that Swinton station was/is  the only one in the area...
Very best wishes,
Keith
Well acctually there was a pendlebury station near the isis and there also was an irlams o th height station in the area as well. And there are remains of pendlebury station where it was. so to find out more go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendlebury_railway_station

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Re: Pendlebury Railway Station? Also about the Acme Mill
« Reply #96 on: Tuesday 19 November 13 16:07 GMT (UK) »
Re Elsie USA my 93 year old mum remembers your grandmother and gave me a newspaper cutting of her wedding. I am not sure how to get that to you as I am a total novice!

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Re: Pendlebury Railway Station? Also about the Acme Mill
« Reply #97 on: Tuesday 19 November 13 16:29 GMT (UK) »
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Re: Pendlebury Railway Station? Also about the Acme Mill
« Reply #98 on: Tuesday 19 November 13 16:47 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for that hopefully she will come back on line if she gets an email