August 26, 20169 yr With the hundreds of terraced streets dotted all over Bolton, just wondering when the slum clearance started and the estates started to get erected.
August 27, 20169 yr Johnson Fold was built in the 1950's, most of the knackered terrace housing was cleared in Halliwell in the early 70's. I had a copy of a map of the west side of Bolton from 1900 and most housing was around the town centre, the suburbs were mainly still countryside.
August 27, 20169 yr I was looking through some stuff of my dads and found his first ever rent book for a new council house up Hag Fold, November 1957
August 27, 20169 yr Looking through Bolton, most areas have council estates. Morris Green bucks the trend though......
August 27, 20169 yr Looking through Bolton, most areas have council estates. Morris Green bucks the trend though...... Georgina court?
August 27, 20169 yr Most of MG looks like its a council estate anyway I hear people live in garages there.
August 27, 20169 yr When I met my wife, she lived in a council house in Lynton Road, Morris Green. It was identical to the council house that I grew up in, in Little Hulton. Working class snobbery is the worst kind of snobbery.
August 27, 20169 yr Author I remember a new bus route from Leigh to Bolton in the 60s, via L/H New Bury and Harper Green, and I thought our estate looked rough.
August 27, 20169 yr Wasn't the Flower Estate in Farnworth one of the first council estates around here - apparently Farnworth folk aspired to live there in it's early days...
August 27, 20169 yr Wasn't the Flower Estate in Farnworth one of the first council estates around here - apparently Farnworth folk aspired to live there in it's early days... In the 80s we had council estates that were police 'no go' areas unless emergency, we've come a long way in my opinion. not Flower Estate, think School Hill was the only place in Bolton. Edited August 27, 20169 yr by Alf Hartigan
August 27, 20169 yr I lived on a rough estate in the late nineties, the girl who I was with at the time, who also lived there, had led a sheltered life, she thought it was akin to downtown Sarajevo - especially when it frequently featured in the BEN, usually accompanied by their stock photo of the area, which was our (graffiti-covered) corner shop... We had already arrangements in place to buy a house when we suffered the ignominy of being evicted when (due to raising a deposit) we fell behind on the rent...We were two of perhaps ten folk on the whole estate who worked and WE were the ones hastily packing our stuff into a minibus whilst all the neighbours watched from their garden bound sofas, swigging Barnstormer and smoking spliffs. Good times though Walked through the area recently, some of the houses have been knocked into single units - those giant dosser mansions, dunno if the rest of the place has 'improved' at all.
August 28, 20169 yr I was brought up on the "Bird Estate" on Highfield, Farnworth. To the West was the "Lakes Estate", to the East the New Bury "Poets Estate" and to the South, Little Hulton. All as rough as fuck, but a brilliant place to live in the 70's and 80's. Edited August 28, 20169 yr by Traf
August 28, 20169 yr I was brought up on the "Bird Estate" on Highfield, Farnworth. To the West was the "Lakes Estate", to the East the New Bury "Poets Estate" and to the South, Little Hulton. All as rough as fuck, but a brilliant place to live in the 70's and 80's. Did you aspire to live on the racecourse estate in Little Lever?
August 28, 20169 yr I was brought up on the "Bird Estate" on Highfield, Farnworth. To the West was the "Lakes Estate", to the East the New Bury "Poets Estate" and to the South, Little Hulton. All as rough as fuck, but a brilliant place to live in the 70's and 80's. Harper Green school by any chance?
August 29, 20169 yr Harper Green school by any chance? All my mates did, but I went to Bolton School.
August 29, 20169 yr All my mates did, but I went to Bolton School. Bollocks...you went to a "school in Bolton" .......
August 29, 20169 yr Author I remember all the streets around Mount Skip in L/H being named after districts in Salford to make the newcomers feel at home, " Shooter's Close " and " Watch Your Back Alley " would be more up to date now if they decided to extend it.
September 3, 20169 yr Pretty sure Mancroft Avenue and surrounding streets were council houses when I was going to primary school - late 50s
With the hundreds of terraced streets dotted all over Bolton, just wondering when the slum clearance started and the estates started to get erected.