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I think this photo' was taken about 25 yards down Leigh Road after you come out of Thomas Street,just after the pub on the left is a large gap where car sales have been for a long time and then the railway ran under the road with Hindley Green station on the left. I think the pub was "The Railway". In the late 1980's I delivered a test load of crushed concrete, backing my lorry between the old platforms of the station and tipping it under the bridge to infill it to make the bridge stronger for road traffic. E.T.

Correction to pub name. This was known as the "Farmyard". The "Railway"was next to the railway station. E.T.

I live very close to the bridge and remember it being filled. It was very noisy as they tamped the ground to compact it. the railway pub is no longer there just flats.

Yes you are correct Eric,the pub on the left was The Farmyard Hotel down Leigh Road.We lived there in the late sixties,it was a Magee Marshall Pub then.The Railway was the next pub down and next to Hindley Green Railway Station.

In the late sixties,just past the Farmyard Hotel was a Garage and Petrol Station,this was owned by Russ Rigby.The Hindley Green Homing Society used to meet every Friday Night in the Farmyard Hotel.

Russ Rigby, bought the garage and petrol station in 1969. At that time it was commonly known as 'Clayhole'

I am proud to say that my Grandad James Hughes was the Victualler of The Farmyard Hotel in the early 1930's and his daughter, my Mum, Margaret DELANEY and her sisters worked in the Pub when it was sawdust and spittoons they had to deal with! I went on to run Franchised Pubs through Greenalls in Lower Ince, Widnes, Runcorn, North Wales, Chester and Wrightington and today I still train prospective Licensees through the Law to enable them to apply for their Personal Licence to run the modern day Pub. My cousin Tony Foster also formerly of Hindley Green, ran a Pub in Yorkshire, so Grandad certainly started the trend all those years ago. It was great to see the picture as we have been researching and this is the first time we have found any reference to it on the Internet - thank you!

I was born at 304 Leigh Road, in 1954 - - I`m pretty sure that the house is no longer there, it has been a long time since I was back there.

My Auntie Josie still lives at 344 Leigh Road, my cousin owns the chip shop half way down Leigh Road and my grandad Crosby lived at 257 Leigh Road, so these houses have not changed, I know there are a few new ones on the road. We still go back to visit now and again.

the licence for the "Farmyard" was transferred in 1937 to John Thomas Milner -my great uncle .He later lived in Swan Lane . Any information about him would be useful

picture was taken just from the entrance to Baxters Row.

This is (almost) the same angle and view on Google Streetmaps today

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.5219271,-2.5439947,3a,45.9y,190.32h,102.92t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sAFWc1-hp3EKXBZlEjNj7Rw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192

Hi
I am tracing my ancestors and found an address of Engine Pit House Hindley.
Does anyone know where this was?any information or photos would be great

he garage at the side of the Farmyard pub was a blacksmith I remember my dad telling me he used to get 3d for holding the horses head as a child in the late 30s/40s. He was born at 235 Leigh Road opposite Turners.