DORIS ALDRIDGE, widow of former Journal reporter George Aldridge, loaned us this wonderful aerial picture of Atherton's Hag Fold Estate from - we think - the late 40s or early 50s.

Note the railway track running behind the estate (along the route of Oxford Road) from, to the left, Bag Lane Station, through to Bolton.

The playing fields on the right (facing Somerset Road, Devonshire Road and Norfolk Road, are still used for football.

Great memories!

Converted for the new archive on 14 July 2000. Some images and formatting may have been lost in the conversion.