Bridgeman St

photo courtesy of Bolton Revisited

photo courtesy of Bolton Revisited

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Updated December 10, 2008 7:59 PM

Pupils who once lived in Bridgeman St

Teacher Miss Harriet Horrocks 1910-1919
Teacher Miss Annie Mitchell 1907-1943

444 Veda Lynn Armitage
131 Jean Alexandra Bell
202 Alan Bovin
363 Robin Constantine
117 Joan Crowther
349 June Curley
117 Joan Diggle
268 Sandra Giles
125 Derek Gregory
127 Paul Haslam
121 Jack Howarth
354 Brenda Howcroft
354 Mary Howcroft
435 Joan Latchford
365 James Leach
410 Keith Lloyd
323 Myra Lloyd
343 Peter Robert Lomax
198 Lily Mather
247 Jean Middleton
247 Joyce Middleton
195 Geraldine Monks
195 Norma Sandra Monks
034 Joyce Peake
245 Irene Sharples
371 Hugh Swain
239 Alan Swinburne
239 Anita Swinburne
239 Heather Waring
239 Pamela Waring
239 Philip Waring
??? Edna Eatock (White Horse Inn)

 

Bridgeman St was the longest street in Bolton, before the building of the railway station at Trinity St.
In 1838 it ran in a continuous line from near Tanners Hole in the west to Bradford Bridge in the east
The latter end from Manchester Rd is now named Lower Bridgeman St and Bridgeman Place connects it's lower end with Trinity St.
It's name comes from one of the Lords of the Manor of Great Bolton
The Manor and estates were purchased from Sir Ralph Assheton by John Bridgeman, Bishop of Chester, in which diocese Bolton then was in 1629, and the Bishop resided partly at Great Lever Hall, which he rebuilt.
1884 September 27, Bridgeman Street bridge was demolished to make way for railway improvements