Landmarks 8

A page for the notable local landmarks of Kersal

 

 

Agecroft Cooling Towers

A series of pictures which show how they dominated the landscape for miles around.

 

The cooling towers from across Littleton Road fields in 1986. You can see Kersal Cell on the left.

 

An earlier picture of the Cooling towers from across Littleton Road playing fields with a clear view of Kersal Cells. Thanks to Alan Fides.

 

Rowers on the Irwell, and Littleton Road fields to the right with the towers in the background on the 5th July 1967. Roll your mouse over the image for the same spot 46 years later on the 2nd February 2013.

 

The towers seen from the football fields near Duchy Road.

 

The Cooling Towers from Prestwich Golf Course in 1982. In the centre you can just see the Staff of Life public house. Thanks to John Munford.

 

 

Roll your mouse over the image for a later view of the same spot

 

 

The cooling towers from Littleton Road playing fields

 

The Cooling Towers from the junction between Cromwell Road and Langley Road

 

The cooling towers on the 21st September 1975.

 

A view of the Cooling Towers from 1974.

 

 

The cooling towers from Littleton Road 1974. If you roll your mouse over the image you can see the same spot 39 years later on the 23rd January 2013.

 

A view from the top of Agecroft Rod sometime in the 1970s

A later view from the top of Agecroft Road approximately 1980.

 

The 1960s from Rainsough Brew