Residents of the small West Lancashire village wanted to stay but their houses were razed to the ground
An entire village was wiped from the map to make way for development - but then left as wasteland for years.
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. Writing for the Ormskirk Advertiser in 1969, journalist Clifford Birchall depicted its desolation after the bulldozers first moved in. Miss Heaton's anger and sadness is palpable as she is quoted as saying: "I would sooner die here before I will move. I have nowhere to go. I don't want to live in an old people's home.
"It was sad," Allan said. "People had been born there and lived there for 70-years and they had to get out.
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