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.