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Originally Posted by Marie Ball
Lovely to see Bell Lane. John Broadley born 1816 who started the printing firm is buried in the graveyard. An earlier John Broadley had a shop on Bell Lane. He was the one who murdered his first wife, Ellen Strange but he lived to his late eighties so no guilty conscience it seems.
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I will have a look for his grave the next time I am mooching the area, I know nothing of the history of Bell Lane, Altham, and it comes as some surprise when you say there was a shop located on it. It is at the moment a short lane with a dilapidated house at the bottom, and some remnant of a building at the top. It must have been busier in the past as there was a Church located at the top of the lane, and they located churches where the people were.