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This is the junction of Anderton Street and Manchester Road NOT Ince Green Lane

Evelyn,your right threw me for a minute.

Quite so, Evelyn. The bridge is that over the canal.

Sorry, wrong again. My apologies. I really must get a grip. This is what happens when you post other people's photos. Sorry.

Eddie theres a clue in the Anderton st sign.

Not too sure of the date, but the Audi 80 car was in production from 1978-1986. The poster on the building just over the canal was the Rose Bridge inn, later it became a small printing works known as Clarrington press.
I'm not too sure if the Empress Mill had closed down by then, it was located down Anderton Street on the right.

Eddie, you are right about the invalid cars they were serviced and repaired here, those little blue three wheeler cars with handlebar steering, the throttle was operated by twisting a grip similar to a motorcycle. I would often deliver spare parts here way back in the early 1960s. Wasn't Empress mill also in Anderton Street ?.

There was a church, or a religious building on the ther side of the bridge, left hand side, was it the Salvation Army?. Higher Ince Labour Club, was in Anderson Street. I believe it has now gone, like everything else, I could be wrong though.

You had ME going a bit potty then, Eddie! If it wasn't for the Anderton Street sign I would have been trying to get my bearings! Yes, The Empress Mill was in Anderton Street. I love these photos of Ince; apart from the Rose Bridge one I hadn't seen them before.

Albert, it was Rose Bridge Methodists just over the bridge on the left. You can see it on one of the other recently posted photos. It had a lot of steps going up to it, and it was where I was christened. Mr. Stoneley, the vicar at Ince Parish, wouldn't christen me, (I have since learned that he was a very awkward man), but I was welcomed with open arms at Rose Bridge and found them lovely people in subsequent years when I attended Sunday School.

Like Mick says, the clue's in the sign. I'll have to start putting a drop more water in the whiskey. The approach to the bridge does look a bit like the one at Ince station though. Well it does to me at any rate, but then I'm not from round here, I'm from the sticks.

We used to run up and down those steps Irene as children -wish I could do that now. (the Rose Bridge Methodist CHapel)

Irene, to say that Rev. Stoneley was an awkward man is the biggest understatement that you can make. He could be a monster at times. He might have thought that he was God.What he said was the law.. He wouldn't,t christen my niece either so she was taken to St Catherine's.

Eddie your getting like me..forgetting things.

i have been over the bridge many times 50or more years ago looks so small now

The only difference Cliff is a Zebbra crossing on the bridge, nothing else has changed. Oh and you can't turn left down Anderton st.

hi alan if i remember i used to turn in to that st past a mill and home to plattbridge

That's right Cliff, then on to Ince Green Lane.