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| Ashcroft's home, Liverpool Road |
A new pair of semi detached homes have since been built, but Moss Street (albeit somewhat shorter) still exists
For more information about the Ashcrofts, click here |
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| Coronation Park's 'Banana Lake' |
The banana lake - which got its name due to its unique shape - is looking a little dry these days... |
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| Coronation Park bandstand |
Not much music has been played at this spot since they did away with the bandstand... |
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Elson Road, opposite Billy Shaw's cinema |
You wouldn't know it... but long before Sandy Lane Shopping Centre existed, there was a street here called Elson Road - and it even had its own cinema! |
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| Band marching down Clayton Street from School Lane |
This junction was blocked off in the 1960s along with the likes of Sandy Lane |
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| The Congregational Church, Witham Road |
The church may be gone, but the old terraces are holding out! |
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| Elson Road , Old Skelmersdale |
Now the entrance to Sandy Lane Shopping Centre... with Elson Road long gone |
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| T&W Garner Ironmongers, Witham Road |
There's no shifting Skem's longest-established firm! |
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| Top of High Street towards the Skem Arms |
All the old terraces were knocked down to make way for the Waverley flats |
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| Liverpool Road, Old Skelmersdale |
Most of it has gone now - even the cat crossing the road! |
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| Homes on Liverpool Road (High Street side) |
Once the home of Hotter Shoes, it has recently been redeveloped into a housing estate called Regents Gate |
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| Market Street (and Skem Shoe Co) in the snow |
Now used mostly as a car park for the local taxi firm on Liverpool Road |
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| Sandy Lane |
Some buildings gone, but most of this end of the lane remained intact |
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| Looking down Sandy Lane from Elson Road |
New buildings replaced the old in the 1960s |
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| Sherratt Street (junction with Oak Crescent is on the right) |
The old terraces long gone, the site is now home to the Uppingham flats |
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Skelmersdale Arms, 1 High Street
To find out who lived there in 1901, click here
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Now the site of the Whitburn flats |
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| Skem Police Station, Clayton Street |
The old police station and the Welsh Chapel have long gone - infact this end of Clayton Street has been substantially redeveloped.
However, the original terraces can still be seen in the distance
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| Smith Street, off Sandy Lane
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Hardly recognisble from its heyday... Smith Street has effectively been chopped in half |
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| Sunday School Mission, Witham Road |
It's now part of Sandy Lane car park |
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| Skelmersdale Town Hall, Sandy Lane |
The Town Hall site is now someone's back garden in Clayton Mews |
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| Looking up Witham Road from near the Marchbank Road junction |
One of the few little parts of Old Skem that remained untouched - apart from the cobbles, we mean! |
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Witham Road and the junction with Sandy Lane
PS - Does anyone know in which year did Noreen's Milk Bar, which used to be on this site, open and close? Tell us in the Guestbook |
The old terraces long gone, the site is now used as workshops for local businesses |
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| Top of Witham Road (Coronation Park on the left) |
This part of Witham Road has long gone, today it is just a footpath going towards the back of Sandy Lane Health Centre |
