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Originally Posted by Bazf

Robert Britcliffe eventually became a flannel manufacturer on his own account, and aquired considerable property, among which was Britcliffe Row in Accrington.
Britcliffe Row, situated between Maudsley Street and Meadow Street, Accrington, is an old landmark of Whalley Road. The cottages are examples of a type that were erected in Accrington at the close of the 18th century and during the first 25 years of the nineteenth century. They have throughout their long history ben associated with the Britcliffe family, hence their name The houses still have their gardens in front, a practice similarly followed by the houses that came to be erected in Abbey Street. Stone walls enclose them, with the round-headed flat gateway posts as originally placed there in the last decade of the 18th century. They were erected soon after the construction of the present Whalley Road in 1794. They were then quite in the country, with open fields and meadow behind, from which Meadow Street derives its name. At that time the cottages were more considerably elevated than thay are at the present time and formed a terrace approached from the road by a step or two. At present they are below the level of the road owing to the road surface being raised.

the big house on the corner is where Vinnie Power n his family lived fer many years.