Here is a lovely photo showing  Rowland's Wesleyan Methodist Chapel.

The Summerseat Wesleyan prize choir,

1st May 1920.

We only know 1 person in the photo,

front row 4th from left, Emily Haworth (married Daniel Bamford).

If you happen to know any of the choir members, then please contact me

Rowland's Methodist School.

Taken Abt. Mid 1970's, as the church can still be seen just behind the school

Here you can see the rows of brick houses, that were originally built for the mill workers. These have now been modernised, and every other row was demolished, to make garden area's.

Walmersley House, Build in 1847.

In 1886 house then became the Robinson Kay Home For The Incurable Gentlewomen.

The house was presented by Betsy Kay to the trustees for the Northern County Hospitals for Incurables, as a Memorial to her parents.

This is a nice photo of the Brooksbottom Cotton Mill (Joshua Hoyle's).

Date taken is unknown.

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This is a nice picture to supplement the previous very old photo from a similar position around Bass lane side of the village.

This is truly an old print, which shows some of the cotton mills that were owned by the Hamer family.

As you know the first one is Twist Mill, together with the village gas works, in the background you can see Upper Mill, and to the right Robin Road Mill. Between these on the hill you can make out the lovely white building as being Summerseat House, which Richard Hamer had had built for their family.

Now this one is similar to the last one, but as you can see this was taken much later, as the red brick row of terraced houses have now been built on Railway Street, to the left of Twist Mill.

The Gas Towers have now also gone.

Here is a photo showing the Robin Road Mill, taken about 1910.

The cottages on the right of the picture are still there, and can be seen in Gallery 1

This photo of Railway Street, was taken in 1920, the cottages are no longer there.

The row of houses you can see on the left of the photo are still there, you can again see a recent photo of Railway Street in Gallery 1

This photo was taken from the railway, and it shows the old cottages (Long Row) on Railway Street, as well as the remains of Twist Mill.

Possibly taken late 1950's.

Here is a great photo that was taken in 1954, it shows how lovely the small station of Summerseat used to look, complete with flower beds.

This one of Summerseat Station

was taken during the 1960's (In Colour)

The following photos were taken by Eric Bentley

This photo was taken on the

5th of July 1961.

It shows the halfday excursion

to Southport via Bury & Bradley Fold.

Photo taken 30th July 1961, you can see on this

one the sidings that ran into the old goods shed.

This shows the Day Excursion to Blackpool or Morecombe via Accrington & Blackburn.

A good photo of the old station, and notice the wooden walkway across the tracks where passengers had to cross to get to the other platform.

June 1962 -

Another good photo showing the station, and note that now there has been a footbridge made for passengers to change platforms, this was built after a passenger was fatally knocked down by a train whilst using the old footpath across the tracks.

The train leaving Summerseat was for a half day trip to Southport.

23rd September 1963.

This photo shows the diesel

 train running from Bacup to Manchester.

This was taken in April 1964.

Shows the sidings and you can just see the old goods shed.