Mount Hermon Chapel (above) was built in 1861 with a Sunday School below the Chapel. The Choir was so good it was asked to sing at the Crystal Palace. The building on the left (on the corner of Bolton Road) became a branch of Martins Bank but was demolished to improve the road junction.

The building in the above picture (centre) was Crown Cottage in front of the pub. It was demolished in the 1960s for the same reason as the bank.

The Sawmill (below) is situated behind High House Mews (adjacent to the Fleece), entrance beside carpet shop. The mill was built in the 1790s as Anthony Fentiman & Sons' cotton spinning mill and was taken over by William Brear & Sons as a sawmill in 1860. It remained in the same family business until closing in 2001. It has now been rebuilt as housing.

The Crown Inn (above) was built in 1769, it was built to serve the travellers and locals, because of its situation it was the first Inn any body would come to from Bolton Road.

The Crown and Mount Hermon today.

The Fleece Inn was probably built in 1760, the barn had accommodation for two cows in the East Gables, the barn was built onto the Inn at a later date. The village Stocks were placed there before the Inn was built.

The old sawmill after closure