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Old 26-06-2008, 22:23   #61
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Yep, Willow, right round the corner from the young Peter Britcliffe!
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Old 28-06-2008, 20:42   #62
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Recently, in discussing Street Names, Crawshaw St and the blacksmith/farrier Myerscough turned up. I have just learned of a websiste which logs all Myerscoughs, so if you have Myesrcough family, have a looksee at:
www.stevensheila.co.uk/myerscough The site is based at Chorley
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Old 20-07-2008, 19:40   #63
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Any ideas about Banastre St in Clayton? Just googled it and the only ref appears to be some nasty bloodthirsty murdering type from Liverpool.
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Old 20-07-2008, 21:37   #64
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Jack Broderick who did a lot of work on the local parish registers, I think recorded it as an early spelling of Bannister.
I'll check next time I'm in the Library.
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Old 20-07-2008, 21:48   #65
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What’s Lodge Street named after, has to be a lodge I assume but I don’t see any. The obvious spot for an lodge would be the old Volvo garage on Sydney Street. Is that the case, did there used to be a lodge there ?
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Old 20-07-2008, 21:58   #66
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Yep there was a lodge there BB
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Old 20-07-2008, 22:04   #67
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Yep there was a lodge there BB
Dunno why, but I assumed that it was too close to the town centre to be a lodge. Was there any mills in the area...any idea when or why the lodge was drained ??
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Dunno why, but I assumed that it was too close to the town centre to be a lodge. Was there any mills in the area...any idea when or why the lodge was drained ??
No idea sorry but bet some members will have
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Old 20-07-2008, 22:20   #69
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all i can remember BB is when i was a kid there was a stonewall from bottom of lodge street along sydney st n up water st about 8 ft high n over it was just grass n uneven land, used to play there as a sprog, thats were i assume the lodge was, cos back in the day, they were all walled off like that. so it was drained before mid 50s defo.
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Would the building where Karrimor operated from before they moved have been a mill at one time?? It just has the appearance of a mill
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Old 21-07-2008, 10:49   #71
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It was originally Walmsley's Leather Works.

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It was originally Walmsley's Leather Works.

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all i can remember BB is when i was a kid there was a stonewall from bottom of lodge street along sydney st n up water st about 8 ft high n over it was just grass n uneven land, used to play there as a sprog, thats were i assume the lodge was, cos back in the day, they were all walled off like that. so it was drained before mid 50s defo.
i seem to think the lodge was a little bit higher up cashy
was it not opposite and slightly higher up than sydney st club ?
always remembered a rough plot of land around there, when i was a lad
lived in lodge st early fifties
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Old 01-08-2008, 11:35   #74
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Banastre St : I feel sure this will ghave some connection with the family of Banastre which became Bannister whose main residences wwere at Barrowford and Trawden. The 4minute miler Roger Bannister is descended from them. They were big landowners.

Lodge St: The 1909 OS map shows two reservoirs in the Sydney/Water/Lodg streets triangle. Water and lodge go 'well' ( excuse that) together, and I suspect that before there was building there, streams flowed down the area from the Coppice. At the bottom of Burnley rd where it meets Whalley rd there was a public well. The lodges would likely be used by Melbourne Mill , Heifer Bank Mill and Park Mill. Mill Street and Park Street probably owe their names to the building of these mills. There is a note on streams flowing off the Coppice in a book on the history of Accrington Corporation waterworks. Bob Dobson
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Old 24-03-2009, 16:27   #75
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I am very interested in the reasons behind our street names. There is a card index file in the library ( Atarah has done a lot of work on this)

My question now isn't a 'reasons' one, I want to know when Lime Street became Lime Road. It was sometime between 1930 and 1950.
Hello Bob, You don't know me, but I would like to ask you about a particular tunnel, that was used to allow the safe passage of monks, from Accrington to Whalley. My dad Malcolm Pilling (Brother of Kevin, and son of Raymond. Remember him/them? He speaks highly of you.) told me you would be the man to ask. I believe a greater force than serendipity is at work here, as I found you on this site, quite by chance. Dad still lives in Accrington, and says hello! PS, I am facinated by the many tunnels that exist under Church and Accrington I used to play in some of them as a child in the 70s. Cheers Bob. Wayne Pilling, aka Rolling Nome.
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