white -50 Posted June 25, 2011 Posted June 25, 2011 Who remembers the number of Mills, factories there used to be. I'll start with these, Dart Mill,Ryders on Folds rd, Marsden radiators,Ainsworths paper mill.
Churchill Posted June 26, 2011 Posted June 26, 2011 Didn't know where it was but every Sunday walking to my Grandmas in G/L,i used to see in big giant letters on the side of a building 'Pike Mill Mafia'
leigh white Posted June 26, 2011 Posted June 26, 2011 Down at the Lower Nags Head, when some bozo wazzed a pint pot at me in 77, because i was dressed in my punk gear.
aberwhite Posted June 26, 2011 Posted June 26, 2011 Left the Bolton area nearly 40 years ago - does the Lower Nags Head still exist?
aberwhite Posted June 26, 2011 Posted June 26, 2011 (edited) Had a summer job back in 1973 at Beehive Mill on Crescent Road. It was part of Great Universal Stores and was a distribution centre for its catalogue sales. There was another mill next door but I can't remember the name. Also had a summer job the following year at a company called Hargreaves Hamilton which was in a mill (can't remember the name) somewhere off St Georges Road/Chorley Old Road. They dismantled cotton machinery from various mills around Lancashire, stripped them down, cleaned them up and exported them to the far east. Edited June 26, 2011 by aberwhite
little whitt Posted June 26, 2011 Posted June 26, 2011 Didn't know where it was but every Sunday walking to my Grandmas in G/L,i used to see in big giant letters on the side of a building 'Pike Mill Mafia' was on settle st watched fred drop the chimeny there mid 80s
bolty58 Posted June 26, 2011 Posted June 26, 2011 Who remembers the number of Mills, factories there used to be. I'll start with these, Dart Mill,Ryders on Folds rd, Marsden radiators,Ainsworths paper mill. Denvale Mill - became Walmsleys training school and R&D facility. Doing me ed in thinking of the one on Blackburn Rd near Sharples? My grandmothers last job but fooked if I can remember it's name.
bolty58 Posted June 26, 2011 Posted June 26, 2011 Holdens? Thank you, sir. That would have driven me fooking mad toneet.
THunter Posted June 26, 2011 Posted June 26, 2011 Holdens? Correct. Worked for Littlewoods there before going to Uni.
little whitt Posted June 26, 2011 Posted June 26, 2011 Denvale Mill - became Walmsleys training school and R&D facility. Doing me ed in thinking of the one on Blackburn Rd near Sharples? My grandmothers last job but fooked if I can remember it's name. now flats
TrickyTrotter Posted June 26, 2011 Posted June 26, 2011 Fishing in Great Holme and Little Holme lodges back of Rishton Lane
white -50 Posted June 26, 2011 Author Posted June 26, 2011 (edited) Left the Bolton area nearly 40 years ago - does the Lower Nags Head still exist? No, "it's gone now" used to go in the 70's, wasn't that keen on the steps. Edited June 26, 2011 by white -50
fishbulb Posted June 26, 2011 Posted June 26, 2011 Holdens? we always knew it as Wigfalls when I lived up there.
white -50 Posted June 26, 2011 Author Posted June 26, 2011 Cottonfields, I think. Did they make Eagley mills into flats? not been up that way for years.
white -50 Posted June 26, 2011 Author Posted June 26, 2011 Some more. Walmsley's Forge. Walkers Tannery. This horrible place Bolton Hide Skin and Fat company.
fishbulb Posted June 27, 2011 Posted June 27, 2011 Did they make Eagley mills into flats? not been up that way for years. Yeah, they demolished a fair chunk and then turned the rest into poncey apartments. Apparently when new players come to the Reebok they often have digs there til they get settled.
floyd Posted June 27, 2011 Posted June 27, 2011 we always knew it as Wigfalls when I lived up there. Aye Was Wigfalls when I lived up there too.
SatanGreavsie Posted June 27, 2011 Posted June 27, 2011 What was the name of the bone rendering place outside of Wingates that used to stink the area out every so often (including, local legend had it, a really bad event caused by them trying to render down a dead elephant)?
floyd Posted June 27, 2011 Posted June 27, 2011 Is the Falcon in Halliwell still going? My mum worked there in the seventies. Used to meet her outside on a Friday night and get Pudding Chips Peas and gravy for my tea from Thorpe's on Eskrick Street.
cureforsanity Posted June 27, 2011 Posted June 27, 2011 Is the Falcon in Halliwell still going? My mum worked there in the seventies. Used to meet her outside on a Friday night and get Pudding Chips Peas and gravy for my tea from Thorpe's on Eskrick Street. It is indeed, though not as a mill anymore! DHL depot and a few workshops
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