Farnworth 2008

Photographs by Elsie Entwistle
(now Elsie Hodgkiss)

Elsie has been out and about with her camera again, this time to photograph some once-familiar places around the centre of Farnworth as they are today. The locations would have been familiar to all pupils of the school, and what has happened to them over the years will no doubt be of interest to fellow-exiles.

Click here to see more of Elsie's recent photographs taken in the immediate vicinity of the school.


>>> Here is King Street, and this sad sight is the Farnworth precinct (or ".A.NWORTH .R..INCT" to quote the remains of the vandalised sign above the entrance). Elsie says that the place is an absolute disgrace and the photo does little to disprove her assertion.
	<<< Farnworth market, looking towards the Britannia pub in King Street. The building next to the Britannia is where Melling's bakery once stood.
>>> This is the former site of York's furniture store...
	<<< ...and this was R.M. Williams' hardware store.
>>> This part of Black Horse hasn't changed much.
	<<< 'Style' and 'EFS' used to be Tognarelli's Ice Cream Parlour. Next door to Tog's was Bowden's chemist.
>>> This is Market Street. AD Sports was Salter's Sports.
	<<< Holland's School, now a retirement home.
>>> The Black Horse itself, one of the town's surviving old buildings...
	<<< ...and here's another one.
>>> Walmesley's furniture store is where the Gas Showrooms were. Grundy's estate agents was a gents' outfitters.
	<<< This part of Market Street doesn't look as if it's changed much...
>>> ...although Morris's butchers is one of the few old shops that remain.
	<<< This is where the Co-op once stood.
>>> And finally these tidy-looking apartments for elderly people occupy the former site of the Moor Hall in Church Street, where no doubt many Old Farnworthians went to dance.

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