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Great to see this photo The Tawd Bridge hotel my late grandfathers local.The house they lived in 430,ormskirk rd is in he row of houses after the pub.

Just as I recall it in the late 60s,as Im from Old Skem. Looks like a Bedford dormobile with its sliding door open parked near the shed on the left, Correct me if im wrong.

A lot of people think that Skem & Upholland have always looked like they do at the preent time.
Photographs like this tell you that it used to be a decent place to live, before the Developement Corporation destroyed it.

I remember this scene. If you walked on towards the left of the pic, you started to go down hill & there was a lane going off to the right next to a pit/pond & a bridge of sorts. When travelling to school in Ormskirk on the bus there was nothing much after Digmoor till you got to Skelmersdale...am I right ?

This is the way I remember Tawd Bridge. You're right Helen, there was not an awful lot between Holland Moor and Skelmersdale till the 60s, it's hard to recognise the same area now.

If this is the Tawd Bridge Inn I remember visiting in the late 60's. The father of my best friend at school was landlord at the time.

I remember as a little girl going to my cousin (Geoff Kenyon) 21st birthday party ,held in the Tawd Bridge pub,approx 50 years ago !

i used to live in the tawd bridge, its a diffrent world now.

my dad ran the tawdbridge hotel inthe
my dad max lynch ran the pub in the early sixties

My grandparents Joseph and Clara Burns were the licensees for the Tawd Bridge Hotel from 1911. They were landlord and landlady there for several years until they took on the Fox & Goose 'o'er t' bruck' in Skelmersdale.