[WillowTheWhisp]

Perhaps the "Whinside post" was there when the old farm house was?

I noticed that pic is also titled Green Gates Farm - is that a connection to "Greengates" which is the name I knew the back street by which leads up from the corner of Whalley Road/Owen Street into Ramsbottom Street? The builders' merchant up there (which I believe used to be called "Evan's" now goes by the name of "Greengates" and there is still a large old house in the "grounds" which functions as the offices for the builders 'merchant.