[Henry Mantell]

My main memory of Holland Street was the Public Wash House which I think was built in the mid to late fifties. It was unusual as not many towns or cities had a public wash house and I remember it was quite an experience. Council owned it had banks of washing machines, spin driers and large ironing machines and presses. Very female of course and most women were accustomed to high noise levels in factories so communicated silently by lip reading, as Les Dawson/ Roy Barraclough, Cissie and Ada. The noise levels were high!
I don't know what happened to houses in Holland Street but the whole area seemed to have been demolished and urban planned to be a mix of light industrial and some housing. I imagine this was the fate of the houses you are interested in. I can't recall the numbering which end was Number 9?
My 1960's memory was of terraced housing with outside loos built to house factory workers ;I think more than one pub and of course mills and the Wash House, one of the biggest buildings there. In the area most terraces lacked the ability to accommodate washing machines although I think that the yards had a shed type area which pre wash house would have been called wash houses and housed a mangle for squeezing water from clothes on wash days.
The Municipal wash house clearly provided laundry facilities for the whole area because terraced housing post war (Pendleton had many bomb sites) clearly lacked facilities needed for laundry in terraces.
Generally that side of Pendleton had some of the more basic terraces which by the 1950's were probably reaching the end of their lives and the Council was rehousing to high rise in the 1960's.
The Local History Library at Peel Park will probably hold some information about redevelopment of Holland Street. I imagine the Wash House has long since gone.