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Originally Posted by katex

Eeew hek ... Clash of the Titans going on here ...

The Railway was also called this in 1849 too Bob ... according to maps.


Thing is .. this George Kendall was listed as an Inn Keeper in 1841 on Blackburn Street. Not sure how much of this was built though before became Blackburn Road .. he seems to be the only one ... more research I guess..

Luvs ya' Ret Babe (he'll hate me for that) x

Hate you B***h.
An example of wearing your 1840 glasses when doing research.
In 1841 there were just 20 properties from the end of Union St along Blackburn St, to Hyndburn House (where Freddy Steiner lived)
In 1851 there were 70 properties from Union St along Blackburn Rd, to Hyndburn House.

Now take your 2009 glasses off when you look at Blackburn Rd from Broadway to the railway viaduct, firstly very few of them were the shops and businesses that they are today, they were mostly houses, what you see today is the result of donkeys years of alterations, in both frontages and height.
If those properties had'nt been there along part of Blackburn St when the started to bring puffer trains to Acc, then there would not have been that dammed big S bend in the line running towards Burnley.

Switch on your mental time machine, and see things as they were, from the written evidence in the Census returns and other records.

And by the way back in 1841 there were two Accringtons, Old & New, the present day Railway Pub was in OLD Accrington, and there were no such thing as planning boards or the need for special planning permission to alter buildings and change names.
Read the Burgess report on the health of Accrington in the 1850's, about open sewers inadequate water supplies, cellar and other buildings unfit for habitation

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