Here we are looking down Moorside Road in this undated picture

 

 

 

Bolton Road - 1965. Here we see the old housing on Bolton Road. The bottom picture shows the Gents Hairdressers wich is now the Bilash Balti House which is opposite the CO-OP.

 

 

 

The White Swan on Worsley Road. This pictures is from around the 1920's

 

 

 

The Royal Oak pub - Undated but probably around the 1970's

 

 

 

The Robin Hood Pub in the 1920's which still looks very similar today.

 

 

 

Lower Sutherland Street, Swinton in 1959, a scheme of 51 houses completed in 1947

 

 

 

Partington Lane in 1963, the site later used for the Police Station which is now demolished.

 

 

 

Swinton Post Office (slightly different to today but still a fantastic old building) - Thanks to Les NOAR

 

 

 

 

Moorside (Council) School before the East Lancs Road (A580) was built - Thanks to Les NOAR

 

 

 

 

Swinton Parish Church on the corner of Chorley Road and Partington Lane - Thanks to Les NOAR

 

 

 

 

Swinton War Memorial. This picture of the war memorial is in Victoria Park with Victoria House in the background, and the Acme mill behind that, both now demolished and a residential home: 'The Fountains' now stands where Victoria house once stood - Thanks to Les NOAR

 

 

 

St Mary's Church, Swinton Hall Road - Now demolished

 

 

 

St Annes Church, Manchester Road, Clifton

 

 

 

Moorside Methodist Church, Moorside Road.

 

 

 

Pendlebury Railway Station and how the site currently stands. The station closed in 1960 due to low usage.

 

 

 

 

Many thanks to Dave Heathcote for the brilliant before and after pictures of the site of the old safeways in Swinton on Swinton Hall Road which is now Morrisons and the newspaper advert (possibly Salford Advertiser) from the opening of Yates' in Swinton on Chorley Road.

 

 

 

Chorley Road, Swinton - Undated

 

 

 

The construction in 1966 of Swinton Precinct can be seen in the picture above. This picture was taken looking to Station Road from Wardley Street (which used to join Station Rd). Half of Wardley Street was blocked to make way for the precinct.

 

 

 

The corner of Barton Road and Manchester Road in 1952. Note Donnelly's grocers and Lavina's Ladies Hair Stylist before Carriages Funeral Directors moved into the building.

 

 

 

The above 4 pictures are of Swinton Rugby ground, now demolished but was off Station Road, Swinton. Many thanks to Dave Heathcote for these pictures.

 

 

 

 

Swinton Precinct in the late 1970s / early 1980s. The only diffenerce to today is Fountain Square with actual fountains! Now sadly not there. Note the shops which were replaced by Yates's Wine Lodge which closed and was replaced by 'Chopsticks' Restaurant.

 

 

 

Clifton Marina situated off Queensway at the top of Station Road.

 

 

 

The Football Pub on Swinton Hall Road in between B&Q and Morrisons - 1920's and now. And we can see very little has changed, except the price of a pint!

 

 

 

Agecroft Hall. The hall was, for hundreds of years, the distinguished home of England's Langley and Dauntesey families. At the end of the 19th century, however, Agecroft fell into disrepair, and in 1925 it was sold at auction. Thomas C. Williams, Jr. purchased the structure, and had it dismantled, crated, and shipped across the Atlantic to Virginia and then painstakingly reassembled.

 

 

 

 

Yates Bros Chemist on the corner of Chorley Road and Station Road (to the left). Now demolished.

 

 

 

 

'Burtons' on the East Lancashire Road (A580). Opened in 1938, closed in 1973 and later demolished in 1975.

 

 

 

 

Critchleys on the corner of Worsley Rd and the East Lancs Road (A580) Pictures from the 1960's and 1986 before it became Charlie Browns garage and then went on more recently within the past couple of years to be Motor World, as seen in the last of the 3 pictures, notice that the old main entrance is now closed off as entry is now gained through a small side door to the left of the building and also the first floor windows are now all covered up with the sign.

 

 

 

 

The above picture shows the elegant Ellesmere Cinema, Restaurant and Dance Hall. This was later demolished and the New Ellesmere and Total Petrol Station now stand on the East Lancs Rd heading towards Leigh.

 

 

 

 

Note the shops to the left, opposite St Augustines on Bolton Road in this picture from February 1980.

 

 

 

 

The Swinton Palais on Station Road.

 

 

 

Swintons Old Police Station in the 1960's

 

 

 

The old, old Police Station on Manchester Road, now houses.

 

 

 

The old shops on the corner of Worsley Road and the East Lancs Road. The newsagents on the right was recently converted back to a house after the newsagents closed and the shop on the left has remained closed for a number of years now. Top picture - 1970, bottom picture - 1978

 

 

 

 

The Old Mobil garage on Worsley road opposite the White Horse Hotel In the 1970's then the 1980's and now.

 

 

 

 

Swinton Industrial School - 1926. Swinton Town Hall, pictured here in 1960 was built in 1936 and officially opened in 1938

 

 

 

Who can forget Hirsts on Chorley Road, Swinton? Not me, it was the only place to get my bike fixed when I was a lad. Now a convenience store. Pictures from 1978 and 2008

 

 

 

Manchester Road, Clifton, 1969, very similar to today

 

 

 

Chorley Road, before Swinton Precinct

 

 

 

The junction of Manchester Road and Worsley Road. The Scandanavian Sauna was built later but then demolished. The new health centre now occupies this space. The road on the left of the second picture shows Worsley Road heading towards what is now the East Lancs Road.

 

 

 

These excellent pictures show the same scene, one in 1966 and then 1970. The Lancastrian Hall and library replaced the row of shops seen in the first picture.

 

 

 

The three pictures above show the same stretch of road in different periods. Dorchester Road is to the left of the picture and Park Street is to the right. The Hydes Anvil shop became the Thresher shop and is now the NSPCC Charity Shop.

 

 

 

The above picture shows the devastation caused at 5.35am on 28 April 1953 when a section of Clifton Hall Tunnel, also called Black Harry Tunnel, which ran under under Temple drive collapsed. Houses 22 and 24 suddenly collapsed into the ground killing five occupants and the end wall of another (number 26) fell outwards though the occupants of this house were rescued. A gap still remains today as a reminder of the tragedy. A link to the official report can be found on the 'links' page of this site