Description
View down Vernon Street of Mossfield Mill. The mill has been demolished and replaced by housing. A memorial stone marks its location.
Mossfield Mill By Humphrey Spender - April 1938
- Copyright Bolton Council
- Image ref. 1993.83.14.12
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Brings back memories of going up Vernon st. on the way to Moss st. baths. At the top of Vernon st, it turned onto Merehall st, There used to be a synagogue on Leicester st. on the right. At the top of Vernon St,on the right was Arkwright St. which led to Stewart st. When you walked up Stewart st. There was a lovely smell when you got near Roocrofts toffee works.
I think the synagogue was actually on Wentworth Street, the next street east of Leicester Street.
The tower of Mossfield Mill was identical to those on Egyptian Mill and Peel Mill no 3. All three mills were owned by Knowles Ltd. Egyptian Mill is the only surviving mill building.
According to the 1891 census, my grandpa (Frank Roper) was being cared for by a Hannah Fryer, a widow, at 39 Leicester St. I presume those houses were demolished to make way for the sheltered housing off Topp Way. Am I correct as I can’t find Leicester St. on any of today’s maps.
Hi,I lived in Leicester Street back in the late 1960’s,at the bottom end,nearest to Gaskell Street.We lived in the corner shop which was compulsary purchased 1968/69.It was then bulldozed to make way for the new build houses..I can remember when they knocked down the mill and all the rats then moved from the mill to the houses in Leicester street,
My dad used to run round the yard killing them with a big spade…I was 4 years old…What great times…
No, Topp Way is further south than the site of Leicester Street. Leicester Street was off Merehall Street, between Nottingham Street and Wentworth Street. It ran on to Fleet Street at the northern end.
Another of the HS photos is taken from Merehall Park looking towards Prospect Mill. Some of the houses of Leicester Street can be seen on the right of the photo, behind Nottingham Street, which is the street next to the park. Brownlow Way now covers the site of Nottingham Street.
Hi I barely remember living in leicester st I think it was number 14 or 21 facing corner shop I was going out with the girl from the shop sure I was only 6 or 7 at the time, I also remember a statue of our lady in some building my memory is really bad
The statue you remember was in a builders yard it was top end of the st the opposite side in the back st at the side of fleet st i lived at number 54
Part of Bolton Transport’s No 1 bus route in the 1950’s and 1960’s on its journey from Green Lane through the town centre to the other terminus at Moss Bank Way. It used to stop at one of the two bus shelters at the foot of the Town Hall steps before turning onto Deansgate, Marsden Road, St. George’s Road and then Vernon Street heading towards Merehall Street which is the view in this photo.