EPW016046 ENGLAND (1926). Rochdale Road and environs, Royton, 1926

See http://www.disused-stations.org.uk/r/royton/index.shtml for details of the Royton Station

55 park street charlie strivens slaughterhouse

fred stirupp butchers shop

At around 6:12 am on 8 February 1961 when the driver of a diesel multiple-unit passenger train lost control on the gradient down to Royton Station. The train was being run empty, although there was one railway employee on board as a passenger. Neither the passenger nor the train guard was injured. The driver of the train was slightly injured when he leapt from the cab of the train just before it collided with the buffer stop at Royton. The train came to rest 30 yards beyond the buffer stop, crossing High Barn Street and crashing into some houses. Three houses were slightly damaged, and two severely damaged. No fatal or severe injuries to the public resulted in these two houses since one of them was a lock up shop, and in the other the occupants were upstairs at the time. Five people from the damaged houses were however taken to hospital suffering from shock and bruises, and in one case also a fractured clavicle. All were eventually discharged.

I remember the road being closed in this vicinity in the mid-1970's due to a couple of 4-wheeled railway goods trucks having run off the tracks & through the retaining wall into the street.

Albion Club

Mission Hall

Police Station & Court House

Unicorn Inn, 3 High Street (demolished 1940s)

Spread Eagle Inn, 9 Croft Head (demolished 1941)

Blue Bell (public house), 1 St Paul's Street - closed 1970

Shoulder of Mutton Inn, 23 High Street (demolished 1941)

Sunday School

Sunday School

Goods Shed

Primitive Methodist Chapel

Sunday School

Congregational Church

Baptist Church

Royal Pavillon Cinema

Tram travelling in the direction of Oldham.

Railway Station

Dogford Road

Bleasdale Street

Park Street

Highbarn Street

Park Lane

WW1 Tank presented to Royton after the war

Railway(Public House)

St Johns Meth Church

Market Hall

Swimming Baths

Library

Town Hall

Royton Hall

Park & Sandy Mill (site 1)

Park & sandy Lane Mill (Later Known as Sandy Mill)

Larch Mill

Park Mill