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Longfellow Crescent, OLDHAM, OL1 4QW

A view down Swift Road in the Sholver area of Oldham, in Greater Manchester, England. In the mid-20th century, Sholver (a pleasant and ancient hillside) was converted in to one of Oldham's largest social housing estates. It's isolation and low-specification flats and town houses cemented it as one of Oldham's least desirable suburbs.

Sholver Lane is the road seen right of shot as it climbs from Sholver Green to its junction with the A672, Ripponden Road. Sholver parish church can be seen in the distance.

Built in 1966 ,on what had been farm pastureland, the County Borough of Oldham made a start on its huge Sholver housing estates. On elevated wind swept land, some 1,000 ft. high above sea level and open to all the elements, the local authority began its scheme to provide nearly 1,700 housing units. Today only about half that amount remain due to redevelopment at Bottom Sholver lower down the hillside. On the horizon behind the telegraph pole is Image For the complete history of Sholver and surrounding area click on http://www.stthomasmoorside.org.uk/History/Local_History.htm

This is the main estate pub situated on Sholver Green.

The original Sholver estate was a concrete jungle of flats and maisonettes, and acquired a reputation as a no-go area. Most of the old estate was demolished and now has been rebuilt with modern housing and better, more open aspects.