Photo Gallery 1

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Welcome to our Summerseat photo gallery 1

 

We have placed a selection of photo's here that we have taken from around the village of Summerseat, in Lancashire, and more can be seen in the Photo Gallery 1a, there are now 84 photo's.  We do hope that you enjoy your tour of Summerseat. Just click on the thumbnail to see the enlarged version of the photo, this will open in a new window.

Many thanks to Paul Anderson for sending in many photo's that he has taken of the area, and for letting me place some of them on this site. If you happen to have any photo's of the Summerseat area that you would like to send to me, whether they are of days gone by or new ones, I would be happy to place them on this section of the Summerseat Site.

Don't forget to visit our Photo Gallery 2, as we have placed some interesting pictures of Yesteryear Summerseat.

 

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Rowland's Methodist Church.

Built 2005.

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Church Entrance

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View inside the church

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Summerseat station.

 

 

 

Photo taken by

Paul Anderson.

 

Platform at

Summerseat Station

 

 

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Steps to station

and bridge.

 

 

Photo taken by

Paul Anderson.

 

Railway Street from the station.

 

 

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Another one of Railway

Street from the station.

 

 

 

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The river Irwell

taken from the station.

 

 

 

Click here for more Information & photos of this building.

 

This one shows the

old railway goods shed on Rowlands road

next to the station.

This building was made a Grade II Listed Building on the

27th November 2007.

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Train going over

viaduct in Summerseat.

Train_Passing_through_Summerseat.JPG (74720 bytes) Train passing through Summerseat
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Station bridge and river Irwell.

 

 

 

The Flying Scotsman coming into Summerseat Station in 1993

 

The Flying Scotsman

at the platform of Summerseat Station - 1993

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Cottages on Robin Road.

 

 

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Another one of the

cottages on Robin Road.

 

 

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Footballers Inn

Public House.

 

 

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Hamers Arms

Public House.

 

Summerseat House -

Built in 1836 for

Richard Hamer.

Summerseat House

Front Entrance

This shows the rear of Summerseat House

 

 

Building at the rear of Summerseat House  Peel_Hall.JPG (35215 bytes)

 

Peel Hall.

Grade II Listed Building

 

Part of the lovely

gardens of Peel Hall

 

This shows the rear of

Peel Hall

 

This shows a date stone

at Pell Hall dated 1706

 

John Robinson Kay Home, Front Entrance.

This is just off Walmersley Road

at the top of Bass Lane.

 

 

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Rows of brick terraced houses,

originally mill

workers housing

 

 

 

Photo taken by

Paul Anderson.

Lovely photo showing the back pathway between the rows of brick houses.

 

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Another view of the brick terraced houses.

Photo taken by

Paul Anderson

 

Another photo showing the rows of brick houses in the village.

 

 

Photo taken by

Paul Anderson.

 

This photo shows part of the cobbled pathway that goes from Brooksbottom and Nuttall at Ramsbottom.

 

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Railway viaduct,

Spinning's in the background.

 

 

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Hamer Terrace.

 

Photo taken by

Paul Anderson.

 

Photo of Hamer Terrace, you can see the rows of Brick Houses in the background.

 

 

Photo taken by

Paul Anderson.

 

 

Lovely photo showing Hamer Terrace, the row

of four cottages on the

left of the photo were

built on the site that the

old St. Wilfred's Mission Chapel once stood.

 

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The Spinning's apartments, formerly Brooksbottom cotton mill.

The Spinning's is a grade II listed building.

 

 

Photo taken by

Paul Anderson.

 

The Spinning's apartments, formerly Brooksbottom cotton mill.

 

 

Photo taken by

Paul Anderson.

 

 

Front Entrance to the Spinnings Apartments Image226.jpg (32909 bytes) Spinning's Apartments, Looking from Bass Lane. (Used to be Joshua Hoyles Cotton Mill).
 

Photo taken by

Paul Anderson.

A great photo

showing the rear of

 the Spinnings Apartments, where they back on to the river Irwell.

 

 

Photo taken by

Paul Anderson.

 

 

Waterside Kay Bridge.

I can remember attending the nursery that was once located in this section of

the cotton mill, it also used to be the canteen area.

 

Waterside_-_Kay_Bridge.JPG (41937 bytes) Waterside Kay bridge.

 

 

 Waterside_This_used_to_be_part_of_Joshua_Hoyles_Cotton_Mill..JPG (40106 bytes)

 

The Waterside,

This used to be the canteen of Joshua Hoyles Cotton Mill.

Luxury cottages

Formerly railway siding sheds

 
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Luxury apartments

Formerly railway engine sheds.

 

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View towards the

railway from the hill behind the Brick Houses.

You can see an old photo of this scene

in Gallery 2

 

Photo taken by

Paul Anderson.

Another view towards Rowlands, you can see the rows of brick houses just behind the trees, also on the left of the photo you can see the Spinnings Apartments.

 

Here is a lovely photo of the station at Summerseat taken from a great angle. The red brick properties in the background are the houses on Queens Place.

 

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Don't forget to visit our Old Maps Page, as there are 3 maps showing Summerseat.

1)-  1818 map of Summerseat, Holcombe Brook and Tottington.
2)-  1894 map of Summerseat, this is quite detailed.
3)-  2004 map showing how Summerseat is today.

 

 

 

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