John Street in Bolton
WE know this photograph was taken decades ago but exactly when we are unsure of.
Apparently six people were made homeless when two houses collapsed in John Street, off Deane Road.
Thankfully no-one was injured but a building inspector who went to the houses to turn off electricity after the families had been evacuated had only just returned to the street when the houses collapsed in a pile of rubble and dust.
Mr Patrick Welsh saw a large crack in the wall of his living room at number 13 before he and his family got out.
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