Newton Le Willows, Crow Lane East c.1960
Photo ref: N149024
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Photo ref: N149024
Photo of Newton Le Willows, Crow Lane East c.1960

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Another of the town's important roads, Crow Lane East was extended in the 1960s with the addition of a library, the original Technical School and a large estate of social housing. Now much busier than portrayed in our picture, this junction has acquired all the additional street furniture that is apparently so vital to a modern lifestyle. What would the 21st century make of the blatant cigarette advertising?

Memories of Newton-le-Willows, Crow Lane East c1960

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. These memories are of Newton Le Willows, Crow Lane East c.1960

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Every school holiday from 1959 onwards, my brothers Tony, Brian, and later my sister Karen and I stayed with my grandmother Sarah Stones & Harold Stones. Gran owned the Stones greengrocers shop in High Street (number 65) next to Cunliffes chip shop and the bakers the other side. I loved staying with my grandmother. I learned how to become very independent at an early age. My gran was ...see more
I was born in the old cottage on the left, 175 High Street, in 1948, as June Glencross, my parents squatted there after the war, my dad became the local builder. In 1956 we moved up the road to the old congregational church manse, next-door to the headmaster of the grammar school, I think we called him the Gaffer when I was at the school. I used to get into trouble for going to school over the playing ...see more