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Richmond Street, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL7 0AR

In the middle of the one-way system that is Richmond Street and Margaret Street and there is a small open space with benches around some standing stones. Behind it on Richmond Street is The Masjid Hamza Mosque, also known as the Madrassa Arabia Taleemul Qur'an and Mosque, which has space for 1,300 male worshippers. Katherine Street on the right is named after the wife of George Henry Grey, the Seventh Earl of Stamford. His wife, whom George married on the 29 August 1855, was a circus bareback rider. https://mancunian1001.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/down-our-street-6-katherine-street-and-penny-meadow-ashton-under-lyne/

See http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3809423 for location view

In the middle of the one-way system that is Margaret Street and Richmond Street there is a small open space with benches around some standing stones. The estate on the right is Richmond Park. The tower blocks and maisonettes were built in 1965, using the BISON prefabricated building system. Along with the West End estate, they are owned by Ashton Pioneer Homes http://www.ashtonpioneerhomes.co.uk/ an arms length management organisation formed in 1999, that took over operations hitherto carried out by Tameside MBC's housing department. Katherine Street on the left is named after the wife of George Henry Grey, the Seventh Earl of Stamford. His wife, whom George married on the 29 August 1855, was a circus bareback rider. https://mancunian1001.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/down-our-street-6-katherine-street-and-penny-meadow-ashton-under-lyne/

At the corner of Katherine Street and Richmond Street.

The area is not quite as prosperous as it was around 1870 when these houses were built. The coping stone lying on the pavement carries a bench mark http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3809420 which is now clearly out of position!

Originally the #12 store of the Ashton-under-Lyne Working Men's Co-operative Society Ltd. Now used by Target Fashion (UK) Ltd, wholesale manufacturers of women's underwear. It dates from 1907 Image

The Ring o Bells Image on the corner of Moss Street and Margaret Street. Once surrounded by terraced house, by the 1980s it was surrounded by light industry. Now Margaret Street is part of the one-way system at the West End of Ashton between Katherine Street and Chester Square. The now somewhat isolated pub was originally a beerhouse owned by James Wood from 1863 to 1882. It became a Bents and Gartside's pub in 1939 and granted a full licence in 1953. It became a Bass pub in 1967 but is now a free house.