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We welcome you to this page of our website. We have changed the layout a little on this update, and are sure that you will prefer it. All the photo's are in thumbnails, just click on them to view the full size image. You can view some pictures of various places of long ago and now, we have added a few more pictures in our update.
If you are interested in seeing only one place in this section. You can use the bookmark links below, but please try to browse through them all. As there are many interesting places to see.
Best wishes to you all, Peter & Family.
I would really welcome copies of any old photo's that you may have from any of the area's of Lancashire listed below. Even if they are of old buildings / mills or factory's.
I could then match them up with a recent photo that I can take.
Then place them on our Then & Now section.
The photo's must be free from any copyright.
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Pre 1970's & 2003 Now this is looking out across the village of Summerseat, which is just North of Bury, Lancashire. It was taken looking towards Rowlands Church, which is sadly no longer there, you can see how the new housing estates have taken over the fields.
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1920's & 2003 This is Railway Street, Summerseat, Nr Bury, Lancashire.UK. I well remember staying with my cousin in one of the cottages on the right when I used to visit during my school holidays. You can just make out the chimney in the distance, this has also long gone.
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Abt 1920 & 2004 Clitheroe centre, The buildings are still all there, shame they had scaffold all around the building in the middle on the day I managed to get in a trip to Clitheroe.
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Abt 1920 & 2004 Looking the other way up Church Street in Clitheroe, the castle remains are facing at the top of the street. The keep of the old castle is still there.
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Early 1900's & 2004 This shows the picturesque village of Waddington, and things in the village are much the same today, as yesteryear, apart from it gets a lot more traffic. Many bushes have grown since the early photo, but the layout remains the same.
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Early 1900's & 2004 Another lovely village North of waddington in The Trough-of Bowland, you can see that on the left of the picture, that the wall has gone and the area is now grassed, this leads down to the river, most of the old cottages are still there, the single storey building half way up on the right of the photo, is a small chapel, this is still there.
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Eccles Library 1950's and 2004. As you can see most of the buildings on the right of the picture have long gone, but you can still just see the church tower.
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Eccles Town Hall. Pictures taken 1950's and 2004
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we are trying to keep with the theme of ‘Then and Now’
Lancashire County ‘Yates Map of Lancashire 1786’
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