Accounts of the history of Ashton are available at
Ashton-in-Makerfield Community Forum. However, contributors to the message board felt there was a need for a place to bring together personal accounts of local history from the residents of Ashton, hence this website.
A more detailed account of life in Ashton in the early 1900s has been prepared by Sheila Brown, based on the memories of her mother, Margaret Duddy. It is reproduced
here with her kind permission.
There is also a small collection of photographs of parts of Ashton which have vanished in the past few years.
Feel free to
email us with your memories and family tales of old Ashton, or add your comments to the
message board.
