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Buildings at Clayton
Wandering around the other day, as you do, I came across this collection of buildings. I was surprised to see them having thought that they had been demolished. They stand on the Leeds Liverpool Canal adjacent to the Blackburn Road bridge at Clayton-le-Moors. A trawl through the first edition OS map shows them in situ in 1844-45. They look to be in a pretty bad way, especially the part (not shown here) that fronts the main road, which is in an advanced state of collapse.
The building on the opposite side of the Canal is described on the 1844 map as ‘The Weighing Machine’. I know that Accrington Sea Cadets used it for a while. It is in a similar state of disrepair.
Any one any ideas what they were used for, or of any plans for them?
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