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Originally Posted by Bernard Holden

High Riley Cottages
Old Homesteads of Accrington states;
High Riley rebuilt four times. earliest 1628
Accrington Silver Jubilee publication states
Oldest building in town erected 1628

The building has a date stone on it 1628, which is accepted as fact, but where did Ainsworth get the info that it had been rebuilt four times.
There is nothing in the Public Record Offices at Preston, or Kew to support Ainsworth, no one has been able to find evidence of much of what he wrote in that old homesteads.
Many others have tried to verify his tripe and also come up blank.
The book makes a good read for some, as do books written by Ray Bradbury.

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