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Appley Bridge

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THE OLD THATCH
THE OLD THATCH
Photo: RON HUNT
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Item #: 30771
It stood roughly where the car park is today for the Nursery Complex on Back Lane and was called “the Old Thatch’. I believe it was demolished around the beginning of the Twentieth Century.

Comment by: Cordy on 8th October 2018 at 10:20

Which Back Lane Ron ?

Comment by: Wiganer on 8th October 2018 at 10:44

Cordy if you look at the heading you will see it's Appley Bridge and as Ron said, it was where the Garden Centre is now.

Comment by: Cordy on 8th October 2018 at 12:07

Quite right too Wiganer; I should have had a proper look !

In the 1960s is was The Woods Nursery

Comment by: Veronica on 8th October 2018 at 12:45

This photo would make a lovely pencil sketch! Love it! (In fact I will give it a go)

Comment by: Hugh Wilson on 8th October 2018 at 15:51

To be absolutely correct, it's 181 Back Lane, Shevington Moor and not Appley Bridge. The cottage was named Littlewoods. In 1948, my parents bought the cottage that was built after the one shown in the picture had been demolished and I was born there in 1949. My father started the nursery and sold it in 1959, when we moved to Haigh.

Comment by: Maureen on 9th October 2018 at 11:40

Veronica,if you do,can you please show us the finished sketch.

Comment by: Veronica on 9th October 2018 at 13:20

It may take a while but I will. I have been doing a few pencil drawings lately. I have lost your email Maureen - if you would drop me a line I will show them to you and explain what has happened. x

Comment by: From Where on 9th October 2018 at 17:35

Did you know little girl, that one day , others would ask where you lived , put crayon and pencil they did . Doubt there’ll be chickens in the frame , bet you knew them , not by guess ... but lovingly , each by name ..

Comment by: Philip G. on 9th October 2018 at 21:07

A highly probable situation described wonderfully-well by yourself FW.
The situation reminds me of the time I had chosen to paint 'a vase of flowers' at Junior School during the 50s, and how I had included a purple iris; recalled from those sometimes used in my mother's vases.
I still have the painting, and can point directly to the particular leaf for which my teacher had encouraged colour- variation.
Great Days.
"Bet you knew then, not by guess . . . .

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