Description
This is the Daubhill railway crossing on the original line of the railway from Bolton to Chequerbent (later Leigh and Kenyon Junction). This is 200 yards east of Daubhill station closed in 1952. The terrace in the middle of the picture is Southend Street. The gable end at the left is the end of Nixon Road. The line of the railway is now occupied by a swimming school. The smaller notice board refer to the Holiness Tabernacle – renamed Church of the Nazarene in 1952 and still going strong. The chimney and tower with the flagpole are part of the Sunnyside / Tootal Broadhurst Lee complex. The chimney is long gone. The tower is still visible alongside the Lantor mill.
Thank you to David Collier for the caption.
Lantor Mill is actually Rumworth Mill on St Helens Road. The tower and part of the adjoining building are all that remains of Sunnyside Mills, which was a very large site. I remember the chimney being dismantled in 1962.
I was once travelling on a bus on St Helens Road and had a shock when we had to stop at this level crossing and a goods steam train chugged through! That would be about 1963.
According to a survey map from 1927 that must be a coal sidings railway line going towards the mills probably as a transport railway connection meeting the main railway line somewhere on Daubhill station.
yep the tower and flagpole on the mill are no longer there .was taken down deemed unsafe last year sept 2016 .can see from my house on Ellesmere road