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Entire village just outside Greater Manchester 'executed' and 'wiped off the map' without a trace
01.10.2023 - 07:17 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
An entire village was wiped from the map to make way for development - but then left as wasteland for years.
The story of Stormy Corner, a little-known hamlet nine miles west of Wigan, is a sad chapter from the post-war 'New Town' era, in which huge new estates were built to house families from the crowded inner cities.
In 1961, the West Lancashire mining village of Skelmersdale was designated as an 'overspill' community for people from Liverpool. The project would spell the end of Stormy Corner, a rural hamlet on its outskirts which dated back to the 19th century, but is remembered by few today.
In its heyday, its cottages were served by shops including Fosters, which sold sweets, Dugdale's grocers, and Drapers, the local Co-op. There was a little school which was disused by the 1950s, two pubs, the Beehive and the Seven Stars, and as typical to an area of West Lancashire influenced by the migration of miners from Wales, a Methodist church.
Its name - which survived in the title of Skelmerdale United FC's one-time ground, itself named Stormy Corner - had a grisly origin, according to local legend.
“It was about half a mile away from Skem (Skelmersdale) and there were about 50 houses," Allan Foster, 73, who grew up in Stormy Corner, told our sister title Lancs Live in 2021.
"It was folklore that it was called Stormy because there was a windy stormy day, in the 1830s and a funeral cortege was going up Summer Street," he added. "As it turned the corner, the wind whipped the coffin lid off. It would have been on a horse and cart. Then it got called Stormy Corner.”
Now all of it is gone, with the Stanley Industrial Estate on the site where the village once stood. The demolition began in 1967, the land earmarked for
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