Today's view of the world of Ashton under Lyne shows you a brick wall. However, Ashton being an interesting town, you would expect th...

As promised, here is a close-up of some of the detail of the former Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School seen earlier this week .. These ar...

Today's view of the world of Ashton under Lyne shows one of Ashton's splendid old buildings. Sadly it is one that has been disuse...

"I" is for "In The Way" and today's photo shows a building that finds itself in the way of a new road. The buil...

(Click photo for larger version. Press Back button to return here.) Today's photo looks southwards across the railway cutting from Al...

Anyone going to Mossley in recent weeks may well have noticed a rather large blot on the landscape appearing on the Micklehurst side of the...

A few weeks ago we saw a photo of a building known as " The Old School House ". It was called that because the Baguley School wa...

"The Old School House" is situated on Carrhill Road in Mossley. The name is a little misleading , as this building was originally...

Think of Waterloo Road School these days and many people will think of the BBC drama series about a fictional school in Rochdale where the ...

Looking up Adam Street, off Mossley Road, towards the back of the http://ashton-under-lyne.blogspot.com/2009/02/albion-sunday-school.html, ...

As Sunday Schools go, Albion Sunday School in Ashton was pretty big! When it was opened in 1862, it was the largest in England! It was op...

It's not St George's Day yet but today's photo has a lot of St George about it! This is a view of St George's Parish Church...

The former Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School is on the corner of Mill Lane and Crown Street (originally Church Street) in central Ashton. ...

Yesterday's photo showed the "New Charter Academy" sign at the former Hartshead High School. Today we see the sign at the form...

A sign of the times - observant travellers along Lees Road in Ashton may have noticed that the sign that previously announced Hartshead Scho...

Looking east along Latchford Street towards Elgin Street and Canon Johnson school.

Canon Johnson Church of England Primary School, on Elgin Street, is one of the two primary schools that serve Christ Church on Oldham Road.