Old Haslington Photo Gallery
We will be adding a new picture to this gallery each week. The photographs have all been very kindly supplied by David Green from those he has collected with the help of a number of local people. These and many more local views are included in David’s excellent book ‘A Pictorial Journey Down Memory Lane’.
David has recently published a second volume “A Second Journey Down Memory Lane”. (David can be contacted at david.green90[at]btopenworld.com to obtain copies)
Please feel free to add comments and share your memories in the box provided for each photo.
Click the thumbnails below to view enlarged image and further details.
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- Haslington Post Office
The post office was then sited at the top of Park Road.
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- Crewe Cottage
This house stands on the corner of Crewe Road and Slaughter Hill.
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- Hilditch's Garage
Front view of Hilditch's Garage now the One Stop Convenience Store. Proprietor Earnest James Hilditch is standing by the telegraph pole.
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- Palin's Chippy
Brother's George (left) and Arthur Palin outside their fish & chip shop and restaurant in the mid-1920's. This shop was adjacent to the Broughton Arms and is now half of the "Food for Thought" bakery.
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- High Street Haslington
A view of the Cosey Club and Hilditch's Garage with The Fox in the background.
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- High Street - Clough's Drapers
High Street, now Crewe Road. The shop on the right was owned by the Clough family and used as a drapers and post office. The ground floor is now a hairdressing salon, a security company use the first floor.
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- Bus Outside Hilditch's Garage
Vulcan bus, registration number MB 8071 with car parked outside Hilditch's Garage in the 1920s
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- Hilditch Garage & Fox Inn
A fine array of vehicles lined up outside Hilditch's Garage and The Fox Inn. No double yellow lines in those days! Note the two well dressed little boys waiting patiently for their outing.
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- Corner of Mere St
An early picture of the shop on the corner of Mere Street and Crewe Road, selling and repairing motor cycles. This shop eventually changed to a grocers and is now a fast food outlet.
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- Haslington Co-operative Stores in the 1920s
The Co-op still exists today (minus the cat that used to sleep on the fruit and vegitables in the 1970s!). Left to right: Syd Woodhart, Bill Greenwood (Manager), one unknown and Frank Rowley.
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- The Old Vicarage
Haslington Vicarage (now known as The Old Vicarage) where May Day celebrations were held. Mrs Smirk used to choreograph the children's dance arround the maypole in the 1960s. A new vicarage was built on land on the other side of the road which used to belong to Dingle Farm. (The Dingle Farm House is the building on the corner of Crewe Road and The Dingle, and the white mews cottages in The Dingle opposite the Chapel were originally the farm shippons.)
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- High Street Haslington
Haslington High Street was renamed Crewe Road in 1957 when many of the houses had to be renumbered due to the name changes that took place. The lady in the foreground is standing outside the Hawk Inn. The steep apex of the top story of the three story Manor House can just be seen opposite, which was reduced to two stories in the early 60's. A lovely picture frm an age when the pace of life was much slower.
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- The Hawk Inn
A view of the old Hawk Inn with a gate across the rear access. Black Bess was alleged to have leapt over these gates and clipped the wood with her hind leg when Dick Turpin made his escape. At least this was the legend told to village children, totally wrong of course - it was actually her foreleg!
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- Fox's Sweet Shop
Johnny Fox's Sweet Shop and an old building on the corner of Main Road and the Dingle (Fox's Corner), adjacent to 157 Crewe Road. Both buildings are now demolished. The date on the beam is 1612.
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- Old Cottage (1510)
This cottage is on Crewe Road near the junction with Park Road. It was built in 1510 and originally had a thatched roof which, as seen here, had been covered for many years with corrugated sheeting. It was re-thatched in 2006 complete with a cat which was constructed by local artist Jean Crocker.
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- Haslington Manor House
An early photo of Haslington Manor House (nearly opposite the Hawk Inn) showing the original three stories, which was later reduced to a two story building as it is Today. The house was rumoured to have a secret tunnel which lead to the original Haslington Hall in the centre of the village.
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- Main Road PO and Broughton
The Post Office was sited until recently adjacent to the Broughton Arms.
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- Flooded Mere
When the original Haslington Hall fell into decay its moat became a mere in the centre of the Village, giving Mere Street and Mere Bank House their names. Occasionally the mere flooded as can be seen here with Daimler bus (registration M-5779) driving through on it's way to Crewe. Note the lanterns indicating the edge of the road. The mere was filled in and built on in the 1940s.
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- Old World Cottage
This photograph was taken in 1946. Haslington Post Office was located at the top of Park Road at that time, partly in view behind the black and white cottage. The building in the background was Mulcaster's Offices and was converted into a house in the 1990s. The rest of Mulcaster's land became the Ashley Meadow housing development.
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- St Andrews Wesleyan Methodist Church
St Andrews Wesleyan Methodist Church on the corner of Crewe Road and Slaughter Hill. It was built around 1900 to replace the original Wesleyan chapel which was sited in New Street on land now occupied by New Street Garage. The building is no longer used as a church and is currently being converted into residential properties.
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- The Original Fox Inn
The Fox Inn when it was on the opposite side of the road from its present location. The exact position is unclear but believed to have been on the land which is now the school playing fields. Other pubs in the village which no longer exist were "The Gardeners Arms", now a hairdressers adjacent to St Matthews Church, "The Black Lion" in Waterloo Road (now Further Huntscroft Farm), also there was a pub in the old manor house called The Red Lion. Sketchy old documents suggest there was also a "Black Horse" and a "Golden Ball" in or near the Manor House but exactly when and where is not known.
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- Wellesley Avenue 1906
Wellesley Avenue 1906 prior to the bus stop lay-by. Oakland Avenue looks unmade. Note the notice board outside the end house.
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- Unusual House
This unusual house in Crewe Rd still exists today but with several trees surrounding it, including a beautiful oak tree.
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