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Bentinck Street, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL6 7SS

Tile Giant was established in 2003 and after an early period of growth was acquired by Travis Perkins in late 2007. Since then it has grown from 29 to over 100 stores. This branch is on Cavendish Street, Ashton under Lyne. Update (November 2015): Now closed Image

The yard of the former Tile Giant store Image has been marked out with new car parking spaces. Whether or not this will become yet another private car park or is indicative of a new tenant moving in only time will tell.

The former Tile Giant outlet Image on Cavendish Street.

A popular music venue on Old Street. It lies on the edge of the St Petersfield development and (unlike the Friendship Image) was threatened with a CPO and demolition. It fought to be retained and was successful. The pub was known in 1850 as the Painters Arms and was a meeting place for local masons. It was sold to Oldham Brewery in 1897. Between 1886 and 1893 it was called the Rifle Brigade before reverting to the Painters Arms. In 1897 to became the Globe Inn. In 1985 it became one of the "Fighting Cock" group of free houses and renamed the Gamecock. In 1988 it was bought by John Dyson who renamed it the Witchwood.

The Witchwood is a public house and has been a hub for live indie and rock music since the 1960s. In 2004, Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council served a compulsory purchase order on The Witchwood as plans for the regeneration of the surrounding area required the building to be removed. After a campaign to save The Witchwood, supported by regular customers, local amateur musicians, businesses and live venues, live music fans from across the country, Ask Developments – the company regenerating the surrounding area – agreed that The Witchwood would not be demolished on condition that "the exterior would be re-rendered and new windows put in". Witchwood website: http://www.thewitchwood.net/

The Cavendish Street side of Ashton Armoury.

Signs on the side of the TA Centre on Cavendish Street for Greater Manchester Army Cadet Force (Ashton Detachment) http://armycadetsgreatermanchester.wordpress.com/ and 247 Squadron http://web.archive.org/web/20140721030446/http://247squadron.com/about/ Note: Photograph is for record purposes only and the description refers to the situation at the time the photograph was taken. The photographer has no personal connection to any organisations depicted.

The Witchwood, a bar and live music venue on Old Street, appears to have survived as the new St Petersfield development grows around it.

New housing on Bentinck Street.