[WillowTheWhisp]

Yes and yes. In answer to both the above posts.

The gentleman who died there was the man who had the embroidery shop as I said and his name was Jack Wilkinson. The lady we spoke to last night knew him and so did I. Until that conversation I had never actually known the circumstances of his death.

The viaduct in question, the one we photographed not being there, is named if you look at my first photo. You can see the name Show Mill Viaduct and in the second photo you see the carving which represents it. There were apparently four arches to this viaduct so it wasn't a big one like the one which runs through the town centre crossing various main roads (Whalley Road, Blackburn Rd, Hyndburn Rd) and is the main backdrop to the landscaped roundabout with floral features. Also, or so the lady told us, there was another bridge further downstream but she said you couldn't call that a viaduct because it only had one arch so she called it a bridge.

On the subject of bridges the Manchester line also went over a lodge behind Victoria St didn't it? I think the bridge supports are still there.