[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by cashman

what actually stood were M@S n shops before the sunken gardens? plus what stood on owd broadway car park? can remember streets behind odean but thats it.

Nothing it was a large patch of rough ground,
there was a barrage ballon site on there during WW2, it was fenced off from Broadway with a 7' high wooden fence, the streets behind where the Odeon was were Cobden St & Mason St.
The river stink was open It didn't get culverted till they did the car park, the entrance was in Union St, next to where the Blackburn bus stand was. This was before they built the Arndale.

Retlaw.