[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by kikine

Apologies for putting your blood pressure up! I cannot go by previous posts as I am a new member. Am glad that you acknowledge that the stables are under there and Black Abbey street isn't too far away so it wasn't too much garbage, I knew the stables were there. I did work in that building for 13 years but will do my research on the information that I have found for myself and hopefully can share it with you and hopefully you can share yours with me.

Sorry kikine, but the stables were never under the Red Lion, it was the beer cellar accessed internally by stone steps, it would have been nigh on impossible to get horses down there.
If you worked there then you will be aware that the first opening on the left down Black Abbey St leads to the rear of the Red Lion, to your right looking in the direction of Jacob St, you will see a building facing you, that was part of the stable block, the last time I was in there and looked round the boskins were still there, it was being used to store ladders by Pollards Paints in Warner St, they lent me the keys to explore the place. About mid 1985 I made a scale drawing of the whole block, including what was Sauls shop, and took dozens of photographs both internally and externally plus the cellars. Copies of the drawing and the photographs were deposited in Accrington Library. Did you work for P.V. Tubes.
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