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Salmesbury Hall Close, BURY, BL0 9FG

Planning permission has been granted for about a year for the demolition of Ramsbottom Cottage Hospital. In the meantime, a new developer has acquired the land and revised plans have been approved. Finally the work is starting to go ahead.

This was until recently the site of Ramsbottom Cottage Hospital. It is expected to be occupied by 13 executive homes fairly soon.

Suddenly visible after the removal of the trees which screened it. The only visibility issue now is the low winter sun. The NHS has decided it doesn't need this facility. It looks like proposals to refurbish and develop the existing building which dates from 1898 are not viable. Is demolition the only option? This option comes before the Planning Authority in April 2013.

Engineers from BT install a new telegraph pole on Nuttall Lane in Ramsbottom. This is the aftermath of an accident which involved a van losing control and mounting the pavement. Not only did it severely damage the telegraph pole but also demolished the lamp post on the right that has also had to be replaced.

Taken during adverse weather conditions in December 2009 as snow continued to fall in the area for the third consecutive day causing many local roads to become impassable. The lack of gritting by the Bury Metropolitan Borough Council was evident as local bus services which use Nuttall Lane were suspended.

Nuttall Close is located just off Nuttall Lane in Ramsbottom. This photograph was taken on New Years Eve 2008 when temperatures in the area dipped to -5. The close is made up of mainly 3 bedroom semi detached houses built in the mid 1970s. For future reference one of these houses was on the market for £142,500 in December 2008.

This well kept hedgerow separates Nuttall Lane from the St Andrews School playing fields. Taken on New Year's Eve 2008; the temperature that day was -5 leaving the hedgerow shrouded in a deep covering of frost. In the distance through the freezing fog and gloom you can just make out the traffic lights on red at the junction of Bolton Road West and Nuttall Lane. Image

View from Park across the Irwell Valley towards Holcombe Hill topped by the Peel Monument erected by public subscription in 1852 to celebrate Sir Robert Peel who had been responsible for the repeal of the Corn Laws and the establishment of a paid police force. The houses are built along Nuttall Lane which was once a main route to Nuttall Hall (now demolished) and Nuttall Village. They are built along a moraine left at the end of the last ice age and blocking the River Irwell which has cut a deep gorge just to the left of the picture towards Summerseat

Taken from Rake Fold, Holcombe, Lancashire, I am looking across Ramsbottom towards Heywood.

Rear of Edgar Street on the left and the rear of Nuttall Lane on the right. Some days you can't see this street for all the washing hung out between the houses.