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St. Johns built 1879 at a cost of £24,000. Obelisk erected in market place 1781 by Robert Vernon Atherton, rebuilt 1867 and renovated 1960.
©Margaret Clough
©Margaret Clough
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©Alex McGregor
Dist:0.1km<br/>ENA Mill, Atherton
©Dave Green
Dist:0.2km<br/>Atherton fire station, Gloucester Street, Atherton, Manchester, Greater Manchester
©Kevin Hale
Dist:0.2km<br/>A large complex of cotton spinning mills developed from the 1870s to the 1920s and remaining in textile production until 1999. Also on site is Unit 1 from 1978 that was probably the only new building for cotton spinning since the 1920s but not distinguishable from other modern industrial buildings.
©Chris Allen
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©Alex McGregor
Dist:0.2km<br/>A grade II listed building built in 1908 and unusually intact.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.2km<br/>Photographed across the surviving mill lodge (cooling water pond). A very complete Edwardian spinning mill built in 1908 of red and yellow brick with terracotta decoration. This is a spectacular survivor that is now in other usage. It is a grade II listed building.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.2km<br/>Mill being restored with scaffolding alongside the engine house. The chimney is still to receive its name in large white letters but is mighty fine with an oversailing cap. The engine house was obviously for a horizontal engine, presumably with rope drive. It's a gorgeous example but I've seen little about it in print. The silver Cougar was my wheels at the time.
©Chris Allen
Dist:0.3km<br/>On Bolton Road; seat of Atherton Urban District Council until 1974; now municipal buildings for Wigan MBC.
©Mike Faherty
Dist:0.3km<br/>In Alma Street, Atherton.
©Phil Platt
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©Dave Green
Dist:0.3km<br/>Bus used for wedding party viewed from top deck of double decker bus
©Raymond Knapman
Dist:0.3km<br/>The brown coloured fledgling is demanding food from a rather bemused looking adult male blackbird.
©Phil Platt

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