Caption For Blackburn, Exchange 1899
The premises on the right advertising Whittle
Springs Ales was W H Gregson's brewers' agents, later to become an office
for Grant's whisky, the only one they had outside Scotland - a tribute to
Blackburn's
Caption For Ickham, The Church 1903
This fine Early English church, set back from the village and behind a narrow green, boasts a raised 13th-century
chancel and a tapering, shingled broach spire.
Caption For Accrington, Blackburn Road C1965
Garth Dawson's
Camera Cabin, located
behind the clock
(centre, behind the
bus), has had several
locations around the
centre of Accrington,
and is now sited
round the corner on
Blackburn
Caption For Hoghton, Bottoms Viaduct 1895
This splendid photograph of this beauty spot was taken from a point on what is now called Witton Weavers Way, the Beamers Trail in picturesque Witton Park close to Blackburn.
Caption For Bridport, West Road 1909
These were the last buildings on the western edge of the town, on the Exeter
road, where Foundry House is now flats and the metal-working premises of J I Blackburn Limited and an entire new
housing
Caption For Bridport, St Mary's Rectory 1906
Farrer's second son, Major Henry William Francis Blackburne Farrer if the Royal Field Artillery, would be killed at the age of 24 by a German shell in France, only days before the end of the Great War
Caption For Pleasington, Priory Church 1894
Pleasington Priory, a Roman Catholic church dedicated to St Mary and John the Baptist and built in 1819, is set on a hill on Pleasington Lane, close to the River Dunsop and Witton Park, Blackburn.