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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

I've just been round there taking a few more photos in follow up to the query about the Hall on the 1938 map. It is indeed still there as can be seen in the photos. It's now a Cash & Carry. (Photos 1 & 2)

Photo3 is what is now the bottom end of Albion St but this looks like it originally continued further on if you look at the pavement which disappears under the brick wall.

Photos 4/5 are the end of Taylor St West.

Photos 6/7 is the Co-op, which someone mentioned earlier as being at the top of Ellison Street but this is actually at the top of Oxford Street and is still there. It doesn't look like a relocated building.


This was quite fun. I got chatting to the woman who owns the Cash & Carry about the oldHippodrome and what the area used to look like. She was telling me that a coiple of elderly gentlemen, now deceased, who used to live on Blackburn Road had told her all about the Hippodrome and where it used to be, next to their warehouse.

It isn’t a relocated building WillowTheWhisp - that photo of the Co-op is of what used to be the clothes store next door to where I used to live. If you look on that map and find Blackburn Road it is just above the “K”. The white bit is the shared backyard leading to a gate onto Blake Street. There used to be a weeping willow tree off to one side.

If you look closely the cartographer has even drawn in the tiny front garden at 148 and it also shows the larger front garden of Myrtle House.