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14-05-2011, 05:57 PM
Corporal Clegg St Railway Warehouse.
Visited with Clough(nofowle) on our tour of the West Yorkshire / Greater Manchester border region.
The Park Road, or more correctly Clegg Street, Railway Warehouse at Oldham was built in 1876 and although it often know as the London & North Western Railway warehouse it was actually built by the Oldham, Ashton & Guide Bridge Railway which was jointly owned by the London & North Western and the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway (later the Great Central Railway). It was last used in the 1960s and since then has stood empty and becoming increasingly derelict. It owes its survival to the fact of being listed grade 2 on the basis of its unusual curved layout. Over the years there have been many proposals for the re-use of this building but none have succeeded.
Not much left here and we found our ascent further than the first floor scuppered by the fact that someone had kindly removed the wooden staircases.
Here are a couple of photos:
http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae321/jjstenson/Clegg%20St/IMG_3842.jpg
http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae321/jjstenson/Clegg%20St/IMG_3852.jpg http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae321/jjstenson/Clegg%20St/IMG_3834.jpg
http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae321/jjstenson/Clegg%20St/IMG_3831.jpg
http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae321/jjstenson/Clegg%20St/IMG_3819.jpg
Cheers :thumb
Visited with Clough(nofowle) on our tour of the West Yorkshire / Greater Manchester border region.
The Park Road, or more correctly Clegg Street, Railway Warehouse at Oldham was built in 1876 and although it often know as the London & North Western Railway warehouse it was actually built by the Oldham, Ashton & Guide Bridge Railway which was jointly owned by the London & North Western and the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway (later the Great Central Railway). It was last used in the 1960s and since then has stood empty and becoming increasingly derelict. It owes its survival to the fact of being listed grade 2 on the basis of its unusual curved layout. Over the years there have been many proposals for the re-use of this building but none have succeeded.
Not much left here and we found our ascent further than the first floor scuppered by the fact that someone had kindly removed the wooden staircases.
Here are a couple of photos:
http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae321/jjstenson/Clegg%20St/IMG_3842.jpg
http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae321/jjstenson/Clegg%20St/IMG_3852.jpg http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae321/jjstenson/Clegg%20St/IMG_3834.jpg
http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae321/jjstenson/Clegg%20St/IMG_3831.jpg
http://i984.photobucket.com/albums/ae321/jjstenson/Clegg%20St/IMG_3819.jpg
Cheers :thumb