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Forum: Church 11-07-2011, 09:18
Replies: 78
Views: 12,398
Posted By WillowTheWhisp
Re: church

Yes it was the TSB. It was number 10 Market Street. I worked there. It was originally Blackburn Trustee Savings Bank and then later amalgamated with others to become Lancashire and Cumbria TSB. In...
Forum: Church 17-09-2004, 07:05
Replies: 78
Views: 12,398
Posted By WillowTheWhisp
Re: church

There are steps up to the level of the railway line at either side of the bridge on opposite sides of the road, but the ones at the Accrington side have been (long ago) walled off at the top.

Is...
Forum: Church 16-09-2004, 09:43
Replies: 78
Views: 12,398
Posted By WillowTheWhisp
Re: church

Would that be the coke ovens? I used to get there by going along the canal bank from the back of the Hare & Hounds.
Forum: Church 16-09-2004, 09:41
Replies: 78
Views: 12,398
Posted By WillowTheWhisp
Re: church

LOL
More often than not I'm as woolly as they come. I have vague memories of things but I think my brain cells have siezed up. I was reading this week that human brain cells start to die off once...
Forum: Church 16-09-2004, 07:09
Replies: 78
Views: 12,398
Posted By WillowTheWhisp
Re: church

Yes that's the Navigation!

My arched window is slightly round the bend. (Busman will probably tell you that it's like me in that case!! Out there yesterday evening photographing walls whilst...
Forum: Church 15-09-2004, 18:33
Replies: 78
Views: 12,398
Posted By WillowTheWhisp
Re: church

Here's my bricked up double arched window again and you can see it is a window as the window sill is clearly visible. You can also see there seem to be corner stones of a building but then the...
Forum: Church 15-09-2004, 18:26
Replies: 78
Views: 12,398
Posted By WillowTheWhisp
Re: church

If the first pic here is the road you are referring to I think we're in the right place. There is another entry but that just seems to lead to a private area.(see second photo)

I took a few more...
Forum: Church 15-09-2004, 13:38
Replies: 78
Views: 12,398
Posted By WillowTheWhisp
Re: church

Well that certainly doesn't have any arched windows.
Forum: Church 15-09-2004, 11:32
Replies: 78
Views: 12,398
Posted By WillowTheWhisp
Re: church

I'm not sure about that because I transferred to another branch and never went back there. It's been demolished since and is now the site of "Alleytroyds" I don't know if they still get the same...
Forum: Church 15-09-2004, 07:38
Replies: 78
Views: 12,398
Posted By WillowTheWhisp
Re: church

There was another Bank in Market Street, by the bus stop, opposite the Post Office. I worked there.It was great fun. The cellar was liable to flooding and we constantly had to have a pump running to...
Forum: Church 14-09-2004, 21:54
Replies: 78
Views: 12,398
Posted By WillowTheWhisp
Re: church

Navigation Arms named after the canal I presume? Could that have been the building with the double arched windows? I can't see too clearly on the photograph I'm afraid.
Forum: Church 14-09-2004, 08:57
Replies: 78
Views: 12,398
Posted By WillowTheWhisp
Re: church

That is a brilliant photograph Atarah. Any idea when it was taken?

Of course I recognise the building on the right but not much else. All those different sizes and shapes of buildings explain why...
Forum: Church 07-08-2004, 13:08
Replies: 78
Views: 12,398
Posted By WillowTheWhisp
Re: church

I remember when Church had shops.
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