[Tony]

After very extensive research on t'internet, the photo of Pendlebury station was taken after 1902. If you look carefully above the pub roof, you can see the carriers for the tramwires which were erected after 1903. Salford trams reached Irlams o'th Height (top of Swinton Park Road) in 1903 and Bolton trams reached Clifton the same year, but I cannot find who built and operated the trams up Bolton Road. I remember trams passing grandma's house at No 306.
The little house between the station and the pub used to be a barber shop. The barber was a little Irishman who fancied himself as a great tenor. He would constantly sing "Take me home again Kathleen" as he cut your hair!
For some local history, type in "Clifton Hall Tunnel" into google. I went through that tunnel when my mates and I were about 9 years old, very dark, very wet and full of rats! Only a few trains ran through it although there was a Saturday passenger train from Colne to LLandudno until the disaster occurred.