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This old mill, formerly Knoll Spinning, is to be demolished to make way for a new Tesco store in Greenfield [[279200]]
http://www.oldhamadvertiser.co.uk/news/s/207/207158_knoll_mill_plan_will_destroy_our_villages.html

©Paul Anderson

To see two pictures of this exact location on the 24th March 1972 click on http://saddleworthbuses.fotopic.net/p32227675.html or
http://saddleworthbuses.fotopic.net/p32227676.html

©Paul Anderson

Dist:0.1km<br/>The Wellington pub is on the right and Wharmton Hill beyond. Chew Valley Road originated in the first half of the nineteenth century as a branch of the main turnpike road between Oldham and Uppermill.

©Michael Fox

Dist:0.1km<br/>Wellington Mill, Greenfield, in the final stages of demolition to make way for a 'TESCO' store.

©Michael Fox

Dist:0.1km<br/>This mill on the left of Wellington Road is to be demolished to make way for new housing and a Tesco store [[279203]]
'Knoll Mill plan will destroy our villages'see http://www.oldhamadvertiser.co.uk/news/s/207/207158_knoll_mill_plan_will_destroy_our_villages.html

©Paul Anderson

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©David Watson

Dist:0.1km<br/>This site is now the location of a public house called The Kingfisher and a marina which were completed in late 2008.
Also due to be built at this location during 2010 is a new Tesco store [[279203]]

©Paul Anderson

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©Glyn Drury

Dist:0.2km<br/>This building, on the edge of a Wimpey housing estate, is designed to look like the other houses. The fence is the give-away.

©David Watson

Dist:0.2km<br/>This is the main road through the centre of Greenfield.
The mill on the left is [[279203]] which is to be demolished
and a new Tesco store built in its place.
To see a picture of this location in June 1971 click http://saddleworthbuses.fotopic.net/p36416644,html

©Paul Anderson

Dist:0.2km<br/>This store was opened in December 2010. A relic of the Wellington Mills, on whose site it was built, is visible on the right.

©Michael Fox

Dist:0.2km<br/>The Tesco suoermarket at Greenfield.

©David Dixon

Dist:0.2km<br/>A residential street, with widely differing ages and styles of housing.

©Bill Boaden

Dist:0.2km<br/>This old fuel pump stands at the corner of what used to be Butterworths Road End Garage Greenfield
To see this location on 3rd June 1972 click http://saddleworthbuses.fotopic.net/p32241334.html

©Paul Anderson

Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking upstream from the bridge at Chew Valley Road, Greenfield.

©David Dixon

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