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Stubshaw Cross

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Stubshaw Cross
Stubshaw Cross
Photo: Allan Hughes
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Item #: 10518
corner of Golborne Rd and Edge Green St in c1906, all these houses have gone long ago, the Cross Keys pub in the left backgroud is still there.

Comment by: Karen on 17th April 2009 at 22:44

Great photo Alan! Never pictured it like this. Thanx

Comment by: ol gal on 17th April 2009 at 23:11

Does anyone have any idea of why these people were lined up like this or who they were?

Comment by: Allan Hughes on 18th April 2009 at 19:06

The old photographers would try a get a crowd of people in the picture this way they had a better chance of selling more photos as postcards.

Comment by: John Smith on 22nd April 2009 at 13:09

Between the Cross Keys and the last house was Dawber Street, the place of my birth in 1948

Comment by: Ray Davies on 1st May 2009 at 00:30

Allan that is a fantastic photo. I have a 1906 map that confirms all the comments.. I am just starting to compile a book on the full history of Stubshaw cross and I would love to include this photo in a past and present section. Do you have any more of Stubshie? contact me by e-mail if you can help and we should be able to identify all the inhabitants from the censuses....

Comment by: John Harrison on 18th July 2011 at 09:18

I used to live in Edge Green Street, firstly at Number 11, then down at Number 40. I've posted a couple of photos on the Edge Green Street section of Street Scenes. Maybe you remember, John, me, you and Jim Winstanley used to play together, I think mit was your dad who Christened me Bongo from the Congo! Bongo stuck for years. We are talking around the years 1950 to 1957-the year we all got moved on to make the streets ready for demolition.

Comment by: s beck on 8th March 2014 at 21:39

I have got a photo of the pigeon men outside the cross keys.My uncle peter and grandfather joe beck don,t no when it was taken must have been late 30s or 40s

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