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i know most of you will know where this is but what was it used for ?
it seams strange the doors are so large and in the middle of a row of houses ?

sorry they are a bit squewiff but i had been for a pint or two with less

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Where is it Mick? can't place it.

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near the back of sacred heart church that was lower antley st i think its called

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Geez, must walk past with me eyes shut! :D

Possibly a coal yard or Haulage firm originally?

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yep could be but them doors are very big

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Certainly looks like the doors where built to allow the passage of heavy Haulage “High & wide goods”. Is their any evidence of foundry working in the area, Iron moulding or ow’t like that?, what’s the area like behind the building.

Good photo's Mick....

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This isn't an old Fire House at all is it.

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Could they have been stables at some time, maybe?

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Oddly enough the OS map for 1891 shows the site as a vacant lot between the end house and the rest of the terrace. Might it be connected in some way to Coal or freight deliveries on the railway? There were extensive coal sidings on that side of the railway just behind the houses.

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Certainly looks as if it was made big enough for a large vehicle to drive into.

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for elephants? Why would stabel need such high door?

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Stables for elephants Ifty? In Accy? Maybe Wolstenholmes know something we don't!!

I can imagine fire engines there Doug but maybe it's the red colour which gives me that impression.

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I'm pretty sure it was an Engine Shed....
Here are a couple of pictures, see what you think..

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i used to live near there many many moons ago, ive been racking my brains out , but the only thing i keep coming back to is a coal storage place, the doors have always been red, but they are not as nice as wingys NEW vestibule one is /// :p

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Could it have been a tram shed?

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Ifty.
You maybe correct. :rofl38:

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:s_lol: I'd forgotten all about this one. Presumably it wasn't a tram shed then?

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There was simular doors in Waterloo St in Clayton, in Tommy Robsons coal merchants, next to the methodist chapel.

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Why would a coal merchant need such high doors?

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It was a long time ago so maybe I have got it wrong. Busman was there yesterday ( Clayton ) Waterloo St is the one behind Atlas street. Thing always look bigger when your kids.

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I used to live on Lower Antley Street in the 60s about 10 doors away from the picture, that area was busy with steam engines and coal waggons on the railway sidings at the back of the terraced houses. I remember this garage being used for coal storage weghing and bagging to be delivered to houses. The sidings railway track i watched being taken away about 1968 the garage was then taken over by Thompsons removals. Two streets down other side of Sacred Heart Church was Dale Street WMC
real name Stephensons Memorial (Stephensons Rocket ?) a lot of the train drivers used to drink in there, this club is now a mosc, higher up on the junction with Dale Street was a cafe i think it was called Rileys and higher up again was the entrance to the sidings. I remember it was never cold in our house.

I hope this is of some use, sorry about any spelling mistakes my spellcheckers gone shopping.

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So what's the official answer then?

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I can remember the cafe opposite Dale Street WMC, I remember playing in the front part when I was little. Of course it was no longer a cafe then. Can't remember the name of the family who lived there though.

In the sixties, Woodward's used to pick their coal up from the sidings at the back of Lower Antley Street. I know, because my parents used to get Susie Ollet to mind me during the school holidays along with three or four other children, and we used to spend quite a lot of time climbing up and down the piles of coal in Woodward's Yard at the top of Wood Street, where her husband, Tommy, worked. Strange woman, Susie Ollet. She could tap dance and play the Accordian at the same time.

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The doors hav'nt always been that big there was windows so far down to let light in, the windows were taken out early 70s and larger doors put in for taller removal wagons.

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Really ??????

That arch above the door looks a lot older than 30 years.