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Originally Posted by MrsA
I apologise if this has been answered elsewhere i have checked and found nothing; but I am wondering what happened to the houses on Holland Street in Pendleton... my great grandmother lived at number 9. I have tried viewing the area on google earth and there is nothing there. Can anybody inform me of how the area was? I am very interested to find out where my grandma and her mother and family came from and what kind of lives they led. There were in Pendleton definitely 1954 and possible some years before that.
Many thanks for any help you may be able to give.
Mrs A
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In the mid 60's I used to walk to work every day to Whit Lane.
I came down Laundry Street, over Cock Robin footbridge (over the railway & canal) onto Holland Street. Immediately after the footbridge, on the left, was a factory. On the corner of the first block past the factory was a pub called the Beehive. Farther down on the opposite side was a chipshop where I often got my dinner. As I remember, all the houses were down from Orchard Street, which crossed Holland Street, onwards towards Whit Lane.
When the area was redeveloped, the terraced houses were demolished and the layout of most of the streets/roads was changed.
Holland Street still exists between Cock Robin bridge and where Orchard street was, now Langley Road and continues as Holland Walk.