The picture of the pub at 3.15 is actually the Bird-i'th-Hand with the Labour Club on the right of it. The Black Horse is directly to the left of the camera. I was born at the back of it.
Farnworth park was beautiful such a shame it has been neglected over the years. Many of the areas of the town have improved but many are in a mess. Where has our pride gone.
Used to be a huge newsagents/toy shop on Brackley Street, you could enter either from the front, or the rear door on the market. They had a big duck you could sit on and ride (No, not like that..)
Market Street @ 2:41 & 452: Notice the clean air with the view to the moors. Not being from Farnworth I remember my first sight of the moors from the top of a bus at Moses Gate, it was Wakes Week about 1967 before the clean air act. I was amazed as my only knowledge of the area was through the journey from Piccadilly Station & then to Farnworth & back on the No8 bus!
When I was a kid (early 80s), my parents used to take me to a cafe opposite Woolworths on Market Street, and we always sat upstairs near the front, does anybody remember the name of it ?
evolution good or bad if you watch videos like this have we really improved the standard of actually LIVING now its all net and tvs i come from farnwarth lived here all my life and seen with my own eyes how things havent changed for the better in the then pics we had outside life and community now what do we really have ,thanks for the memories
excellent, being a farnworth lad, ex plodder lane school and harper green secondary it brings back memories
Did you go to Harper green in the early 70s Roy ? I was in peel house , live in Essex now 😞
I was at Harper Green from 1977 to 1980...left / moved to London...
some really great pictures on here.some areas i recognise but not
all of them.all those small independent shops that no longer exist.Happy memories
The picture of the pub at 3.15 is actually the Bird-i'th-Hand with the Labour Club on the right of it. The Black Horse is directly to the left of the camera. I was born at the back of it.
Farnworth park was beautiful such a shame it has been neglected over the years. Many of the areas of the town have improved but many are in a mess. Where has our pride gone.
I agree Martin, I used to play football here with Chris Dawson, Cyril Lyndley, John Hinks, Peter Mills, and all the other local lads, great days
So many changes and not for the better.
Used to be a huge newsagents/toy shop on Brackley Street, you could enter either from the front, or the rear door on the market. They had a big duck you could sit on and ride (No, not like that..)
Tognerelas icecream parlour and salters toy shop , and a pasty at King st arcade . great memories , nearly 60 now it was a life time ago
Yep, I remember Salters, it sold sports stuff as well, and they had a vicious cat.
Market Street @ 2:41 & 452: Notice the clean air with the view to the moors.
Not being from Farnworth I remember my first sight of the moors from the top of a bus at Moses Gate, it was Wakes Week about 1967 before the clean air act.
I was amazed as my only knowledge of the area was through the journey from Piccadilly Station & then to Farnworth & back on the No8 bus!
Any of Moses gate???
Hi has anybody got any photos of Perl street farnworth in the 60s namely coulthursts printers near the old cinema on peel street x
Wow this is where my dads dna starts I kept my maiden name whitworth
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When I was a kid (early 80s), my parents used to take me to a cafe opposite Woolworths on Market Street, and we always sat upstairs near the front, does anybody remember the name of it ?
evolution good or bad if you watch videos like this have we really improved the standard of actually LIVING now its all net and tvs i come from farnwarth lived here all my life and seen with my own eyes how things havent changed for the better in the then pics we had outside life and community now what do we really have ,thanks for the memories
First bit
Now a brand new kfc
After crummy old clinic stood out of use 40 years