100 years since Penwortham Priory was demolished - here's what's there now - video Dailymotion

100 years since Penwortham Priory was demolished - here's what's there now

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00:00I'm here in Penrhythyrm in a very very recognisable location, Church Avenue, possibly the most

00:09historic road in Penrhythyrm and I'm in search of something that would have been equally

00:18as recognisable but it was demolished a hundred years ago or a hundred years ago next year

00:24in 2025. So I always thought that Penrhythyrm Priory, stupidly perhaps, was built where

00:34the high school is now, Priory Academy I think it's called now. It was Penrhythyrm Priory

00:40High School when I went there quite a few years ago. I always thought it was built there,

00:46apparently not. A local expert has put on social media a drawing showing exactly where

00:54it would have been. So I've come down to the location to have a look at where it would

00:59have been and the main driveway to the Priory would have been roughly where a public footpath

01:07would have been now. So I'm going to go down that public footpath and show you what is

01:12there now. Let's go and have a look. Okay so this is the public footpath that runs from

01:18Church Avenue to Hollinghurst Avenue and it's roughly where the driveway would have

01:25taken you. So let's go.

01:34So this is where the public footpath has brought me out onto Hollinghurst Avenue. Very, very

01:43nice residential road now. But these houses weren't here 100 years ago. This is where

01:54Penrhythyrm Priory stood.

02:13And I'm told by our local expert that the area around it, around this Priory Crescent

02:22area, all the way back to where the school is now and beyond, that was all part of the

02:28grounds of the Priory. Lots of woodland that was taken down and converted into a housing

02:35estate and most of the housing stock is from the 1930s. So if you were around in that period

02:42you would have seen an enormous change in this area.