Caption For Accrington, Blackburn Road C1915
is now
the East Lancashire Preserved Railway.As well as having three railway
lines, the town also had three turnpike roads.They were the Whalley to
Manchester Road (1790), now Abbey Street; the Blackburn
Caption For Stanhill, Stanhill Lane C1955
At one time, Stanhill was an isolated hamlet on the road between Blackburn and Oswaldtwistle, and it is most famous as being the home of the inventor James Hargreaves.
Caption For Accrington, Composite C1955
The views are of the Town Hall in the centre, the sunken gardens on Broadway, the Parkinson Rock Garden in Oak Hill Park, Blackburn Road and St James' Church.
Caption For Accrington, Town Hall 2004
Blackburn Road has been pedestrianised, enabling improved street furniture and planting.
Caption For Chatburn, The Village 1921
We are at the top of the street seen in photograph no 71178.The Black Bull,
where the people are standing, was built in 1855; it was a Blackburn Brewery
Company pub, and so was The Brown Cow.
Caption For Accrington, Blackburn Road C1965
Beside the imposing
19th-century bank
building, which overlooks
the corner of Blackburn
Road, rises a naked steel
tower, a herald of the
monotonous shopping
developments that have
robbed
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 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.