1869 - The land was bought by three men - Mr.Constable, Mr.Holmes and Mr.Pullan. It was then split up into smaller sections and re-sold to various developers as building plots. The first was a Mr.Shann, who built Shann Street and Bute Street. He was followed by the Lang family, the Stockdale family and others.
Building started at the bottom of the hill using local stone and bricks. In order to attract buyers the best quality houses were built at the bottom of the hill. These were houses of a superior construction and content.Then as one goes up Bolton Hall Road the quality is less obvious until you reach the back-to-back working class housing. The same applied to Livingstone Road. In Victorian times status counted above all else so the working class houses were placed away up the hill.
By the turn of the century, 1900, the village had an air of permanence about it. In the 60 years that followed there was little shape in the change of the village. As private ownership of individual houses became more fashionable, internal bathrooms and W.Cs became more common, as did electric lighting.
Nothing much changed until the early 1960s when a large number of back-to-back houses were demolished. Up Livingstone Road they were replaced by maisonettes owned by the local authority but in the top area of Bolton Hall Road the land was left empty. The most obvious change came when houses were built in Firths field at the upper end of Bolton Hall Road and flats were constructed on Stanley Road.
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