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Old 26-08-2020, 14:47   #26
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Originally Posted by Atarah View Post
Absolutely correct Cashman. It was indeed a very old Baptist Chapel known as Machpelah. It was on Hyndburn Rd, near to where we once had the old gasworks (Electricity St area of town). Hyndburn Road used to be Hagg Lane in past times. I dont remember the chapel, just the grounds full of lovely old "table top" graves. The graveyard was known as "God's Acre". Many old inhabitants apparently referred to it as "The Baptists in Gas House Lane" (being the area where the gas works also was). And yes, there's where the poor sheep and cattle had their last nibble of grass before "being taken across the road".

Homebase on Hyndburn Road now built on the same site.
I remember the graveyard, my uncle Raymond used to work at the abattoirs, he once chased a bull up King Street that had escaped. Also there were holding pens on Paxton Street at the railway station.
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