DO you recognise where today’s Looking Back picture was taken?
This is Ridgmont Cemetery Chapel in Horwich and the photograph was taken in May 1983.
The future of the chapel, and unusual Victorian building off Chorley Old Road, was in doubt at this time.
If the council was not able to find a new use for it the building was set to be demolished.
A decision to know down the “austere cubic neo-classical” style building was taken in private by five councillors on an interim sub-committee nearly a year before.
The chapel was regarded as a “financial liability” to Bolton’s Parks’ Department.
Since then the Government had given the go-ahead for the demolition and that is when the council had second thoughts.
The Planning Committee blocked the demolition plan and asked the Environmental Services Committee to find a new use for the building. So was a new use found for the building or was it demolished? Contact Gayle McBain on 01204 537269 or email gayle.mcbain@nqnw.co.uk
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