WELCOME TO WHEATLEY HILL HERITAGE CENTRE

Wheatley Hill Photo Gallery

 

 

Wheatley Hill Chapel of Rest & Cemetery

in 1907

The Chapel of Rest is now

 The Wheatley Hill Heritage Centre

 

 

Wheatley Hill boys Gym display in 1950

left to right

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George Mason

Jack Carr

Dixon Hitch

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Benny Davis

Jack Banks

Stanley Batty

 

 

 

 

 

Wheatley Hill Royalty Cinema

 

 

 

 

Wheatley Hill

Brownie Group &

Wheatley Hill Guide's Group in

1975

 

 

 

 

 

Lucie Hutton's

Shop at the end of Ashmore Terrace  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11 Plus Winners

1953

 

 

 

 

 

Wheatley Hill Welfare

now known as

Wheatley Hill Community Centre 

 

 

A Coronation Street party at Luke Terrace,

Wheatley Hill on

Coronation Day

in 1953

 

 

 

 

 

Wheatley Hill

Boys School

 

 

Holiday in

Blackpool 1965

 

 

 

left to right

Rita Dowson

Vera Dunn

Judith Turner

Pauline Dowson

Kathy Dunn

 

 

 

3 Shops in Front Street,

 still there,

 but now Chinese Take-away,Fruit & Veg Shop, and Sandwich Bar

 

 

 

Sixty Minute Cleaners,

Embassy Building,

Newmans Shop,

Jenny Carr's

Atkinsons Butchers

Pork Shop

Co-op Building

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wheatley Hill Men With Banner

Outside Welfare Hall 1950

 

 

 

Wheatley Hill Band

Outside New Tavern {1948 ??}

{now closed forever}

 

 

 

 

We've been told that this was the cast of the school play

"Julius Caesar"

 

 

 

 

Wheatley Hill Girls School Choir

 

 

 

 

Wheatley Hill Field Day in the 1960's, held in the  Girls Secondary School field

 

 

 

 

 

Childrens party held in the Welfare Hall, about 1950

 

 

 

A view of Wheatley Hill Pit and aerial flight

 

 

 

Another view of Wheatley Hill Pit, taken from the Welfare grounds, with a game of bowls in progress

 

 

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