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585 & 587 Broadway, Chadderton
Classic pre-war semis built around 1938/39 on what was then still a new road, Broadway having been completed in the late 1920s. No road markings are present, since the rarity of private motoring in 1960 meant that parking on the main carriageway was of no issue. All the houses on this part of Broadway were built massively, featuring Accrington brick (so dense that even modern drills have difficulty piercing a hole) and roof timbers of size and quality unobtainable (and unaffordable) post-WW2. The two houses' paint schemes are absolutely typical of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Brown for one, eau-de-nil (aka puke green!) for the other. Both calculated to minimise the visible impact of pervasive pollution from a coal-based economy, including, of course, domestic coal fires. Central heating was 5-10 years in the future for most families.
For a 2010 update picture, see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1675903
Image: © Whatlep
Taken: Unknown
0.10 miles
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585 & 587 Broadway, Chadderton - 50 Years On
Fifty years on from an earlier photograph http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1083455 the two houses exhibit many signs of the intervening years' cultural and societal changes. Double-glazed windows and porches have become standard and in white - a colour unthinkable in the coal-fired 1960s. Television aerials sprout from the chimneys in multiple, but some chimneys have clearly been capped or adapted to take a gas flue, with coal fires replaced by gas central heating. The gas supply pipe for 585 is visible near the front door. Alarms and security lights also feature, reflecting modern concerns. Broadway is now far too busy to permit daytime parking, but several "wheelie" and recycling bins obstruct the pavement.
Image: © Peter Whatley
Taken: 20 Jan 2010
0.11 miles
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The Whitegate public house
Built in 1930s "road house" style, this large pub dominates the junction between Broadway and Hollinwood Avenue. Until the 1970s, a grass bowling green existed to the left of the row of trees in the picture. As is evident, it was removed to provide extra car parking. During the 1990s, the pub's owners had a motel block built with its frontage roughly where the trees are in the photo.
Image: © Peter Whatley
Taken: Unknown
0.11 miles
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Broadway, Chadderton
Taken at an uncharacteristically quiet moment, this section of Broadway lies between St George's Square and the Butterworth Lane/ Owler Lane junctions. Unusually, when laid out in the late 1920s Oldham council retained ownership of the land for six feet beyond the solidly built brick garden walls of houses adjoining the road. The intent was to facilitate widening of Broadway at some future date to 3 lanes in each direction, with the possibility originally of using the central lanes for tram lines on reserved track. The pavement would have been reinstated using the first six feet of land in each house's garden! Over the years, the council's ownership has been successively challenged with each house sale under "squatters' rights" legislation, so compulsory purchase would now be required.
Image: © Peter Whatley
Taken: Unknown
0.12 miles
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Whitegate Inn
The Whitegate Inn public house on the corner of Broadway and Hollinwood Avenue.
Image: © Peter McDermott
Taken: 13 Nov 2015
0.13 miles
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Church of St George, Chadderton.
St George's Church, on Broadway, was founded in 1957.
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 27 Jan 2011
0.13 miles
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St George's Church, Chadderton
St George's Church, on Broadway, in Chadderton, was founded in 1957
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 27 Jan 2011
0.13 miles
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Hollinwood Avenue (A6104)
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 27 Jan 2011
0.13 miles
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Hollinwood Avenue
Looking west down Hollinwood Avenue Chadderton. SD89570288.
Image: © Keith Williamson
Taken: 21 Sep 2005
0.13 miles
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The Whitegate Inn
Image: © Anthony Parkes
Taken: 19 Jul 2012
0.14 miles