THE old photographs of Cox Green we recently published have triggered the memory of reader Ann Soar.

One of the pictures included a house called Pleasant View. This is the building seen second from the right on the photograph.

Mrs Soar said: “This was my mother, Alice Walsh’s house. She was the daughter of the owner, J.J. Walsh, who also owned the quarry.”

Mrs Soar said Herbert C. Walsh was his nephew and made a bust of J.J. Walsh which can still be seen on the gable end of the house.

She added: “It was very interesting to see all the old pictures you published . They brought back many memories.”

The photograph was part of a hoard discovered by Angela Wharmby as she sorted through her elderly mother’s belongings.

Her 93-year-old mother Alice Brooks, nee Hammond, now lives in Withins Residential Home, in Breightmet, but she spent the majority of her life living in Cox Green.

The family home was the white cottage which can be seen to the right of the photograph on the left.

Mrs Wharmby and her sister, Christine, spent an idyllic childhood there enjoying the rural splendour.