Lostock cross roads

This is looking towards Manchester taken from the chip shop, the property on the left is the Blackgreyhound. It was knocked down before the before the first world war behind is Holford Villa they were knocked down in the 1970,s. Look at the chap in the straw hat a dapper  looking character and the Bobbie on his bike     who i reckon is Sergeant Henry Mighall. The white property on the right is Smallwood's creameries. Hope farm todays Motorite is behind the Slow when I was a youngster we would congregate just in front of the council yard leaning against the wall that was the side of Hope farm and you could make out a few cobble stones that were the the back yard of the old Greyhound