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Norman's Butchers occupied what is now the event space at Cuckoo. On the opposite side was a pet shop, now a beauty salo...
09/02/2025

Norman's Butchers occupied what is now the event space at Cuckoo. On the opposite side was a pet shop, now a beauty salon. (1959)

Adverts for 4 Prestwich public houses from 1959
31/01/2025

Adverts for 4 Prestwich public houses from 1959

29/01/2025

Prestwich Co-Operative Industrial Society Ltd was registered in 1861 and within 5 years had 10 outlying stores, plus the central stores on Bury New Road, a bakery on Warwick Street and had built 133 cottages for its members.
prestwich.org.uk/co-op

Present day Rose and Lee Vintage Living
27/01/2025

Present day Rose and Lee Vintage Living

1959 Programme of Prestwich Borough (in yellow) versus Rochdale (b&w checks) at grass motor cycle racing, "moto-ball" an...
26/01/2025

1959 Programme of Prestwich Borough (in yellow) versus Rochdale (b&w checks) at grass motor cycle racing, "moto-ball" and a time trial for the Jackson Cup. Riley, Cooper, Cooper, Anstees and Healey represented Prestwich.

14/01/2025

St Gabriel's Parochial Hall 1924-1984.
You could (if you so desire) read about St Gabriel's at prestwich.org.uk/stgab I'll leave it up to you

in 1990 a metal detectorist found a Bronze Age (2300–800 BC) spear head in Prestwich. Read more about other local find...
01/01/2025

in 1990 a metal detectorist found a Bronze Age (2300–800 BC) spear head in Prestwich. Read more about other local finds and the ancient human history of Prestwich at prestwich.org.uk/ancient

notable that the lower Irwel has gone on flood alert before the upper, usually Radcliffe is first, also...what is that ...
31/12/2024

notable that the lower Irwel has gone on flood alert before the upper, usually Radcliffe is first, also...what is that purple "motorway" trapezoid up near the Simister island??

Chillin' at Helsenborn Ridge
23/12/2024

Chillin' at Helsenborn Ridge

1882 newspapers report on the copping of of Annie Hoey in Dublin, and subsequent appearance in Manchester charged with...
23/12/2024

1882 newspapers report on the copping of of Annie Hoey in Dublin, and subsequent appearance in Manchester charged with stealing jewellry and clothes while in the service of Mrs Keanley of Prestwich Park. In the census of 1881 Mrs Mary Kenley ran a boarding School at Hillside which stood on present day Prestwich Park Road South. Her daughter had been born in Mazagni Bombay and was governess of the school. On that date they had 5 boarders (aged 8-13) and two servants.
prestwich.org.uk/prestwichpark

Happy Solstice ! May your Winter (or Summer if you spend your days walking around upside down) be kind and peaceful.
21/12/2024

Happy Solstice !
May your Winter (or Summer if you spend your days walking around upside down) be kind and peaceful.

20/12/2024

Merry Christmas from the gang at St Mary's Churchyard Action Group
We're always looking for new recruits, if you fancy getting out a bit, having a chat & maybe some exercise, make it a New Years Resolution to pop down from 8:30 on Tuesdays, brew & biscuits in the hall by 10:30.

when you see a post which is clearly fictional (they just want to raise clicks) please *don't* comment on it as it just ...
20/12/2024

when you see a post which is clearly fictional (they just want to raise clicks) please *don't* comment on it as it just raises its profile and puts it on the feeds of all your friends & contacts. Ignore it, mute the origin or mark"not interested" if you want to get less and you'll be doing yourself and all your friends & contacts a favour (including me).
Another tip is to go to you favourites feed (FB) and you'll get the groups and people you're actual interested in rather than the ones hunting for clicks.

19/12/2024

From Neolithic to Roman, Prestwich has it all :-)
BBC footage of an excavation on Rainsough Close in 1983.

14/12/2024

A historic fire station in Prestwich is being unearthed in an archaeological dig and the public is invited to look around this weekend.

Prestwich's Old Fire StationFairfax Rd, Prestwich.Open Day tomorrow !parking may be limited ;-)
13/12/2024

Prestwich's Old Fire Station
Fairfax Rd, Prestwich.
Open Day tomorrow !
parking may be limited ;-)

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Prestwich Co-Operative Industrial Society Ltd was registered in 1861 and within 5 years had 10 outlying stores, plus the central stores on Bury New Road, a bakery on Warwick Street and had built 133 cottages for its members. prestwich.org.uk/co-op

St Gabriel's Parochial Hall 1924-1984. You could (if you so desire) read about St Gabriel's at prestwich.org.uk/stgab I'll leave it up to you

Merry Christmas from the gang at St Mary's Churchyard Action Group We're always looking for new recruits, if you fancy getting out a bit, having a chat & maybe some exercise, make it a New Years Resolution to pop down from 8:30 on Tuesdays, brew & biscuits in the hall by 10:30.

From Neolithic to Roman, Prestwich has it all :-) BBC footage of an excavation on Rainsough Close in 1983.

Rainsough Hill reached around 300 feet at it's top and was once home to a Roman camp. After being excavated for the construction of the M62 (correction : excavated during 1940s}, it became a housing estate standing at about 200 feet. prestwich.org.uk/summerfield

After making a rare appearance in the Welcome Inn last night, which is just down from the Coach & Horses... here are a coach & some horses outside what was the Wilton on Bury New Road :-) Thanks go to Martin Harper for the photo. Hope that's not too mashed up for a Sunday morning :-)

Following on from yesterday's now & then of Rectory Lane...here's an overlay of maps of the area showing how Deyne brook and the footpath down from Orange Hill were smothered by the housing.

Now & then we all like some then & now. Rectory Lane, Prestwich, was for centuries the main route from Prestwich towards Manchester, passing along Bent Lane & Ostrich Lane to reach Bury Old Road. This route avoided the drop down & climb back up out of the steep sided Prestwich Clough [prestwich.org.uk/clough], which was wetter "Carr" landscape, and also made travelers more vulnerable to ambush. When Bury New Road came along in 1827 everything changed, including Rectory Lane.

#onthisday in 1909 workmen in Heaton Park were injured when a shed they had just put up blew down. Worker George Lloyd and an unnamed labourer both had a leg broken and Samuel Whitehead injured his arm and shoulder. The shed was being constructed for the reservoir being built by the Manchester Water Works Committee.

Whittaker Lane Co-op Stores expanded in 1914.... prestwich.org.uk/co-op

#onthisday 1866 James Carter, valued servant to James Ashton of Woodhill, Prestwich,for 35 years, died 55. 1861 census shows James as a coachman, son Robert a groom. Next door Andrew Percival, gardener & beer seller (Friendship Inn) & next door again his father James (a gardener), the "old botanist" that John Buxton, president of Prestwich Botanical Soc. introduced to Richard Buxton after they met by chance in 1826. This is all history. prestwich.org.uk/woodhill prestwich.org.uk/naturalists

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