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WillowTheWhisp · 28-09-2004, 17:59

Perhaps no-one knows who currently owns that land?

From what I can make of the documents from my cupboard it appears that the houses currently known as 123, 125, 127 & 129 Willows Lane (same side as the photos above, where Ormerod St meets Willows Lane) were originally numbered 119, 121, 123 & 125. I only have record of those 4 houses so I'm not sure how many more this affected.

They were built in 1900 but somewhere between November 1901 and December 1902 the numbers were changed. I had thought they were only changed by one number but now I see that they actually moved up by two. So sometime in that 13 month or so period two more houses were added lower down Willows Lane and presumably all those further up had their numbers changed.

The land originally belonged to the Church of England with ground rent payable to the church. On December 12th 1902 Rev Percival Saben, vicar of St. Peter's purchased 129 (the corner house) but his address was St. Peter's Vicarage which must have been the house next to the church (built 1899) which doesn't feature on your 1891 map.

Unless any of the owners have subsequently purchased the leasehold the ground rent is currently payable to Diocese of Blackburn.

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WillowTheWhisp Resident Waffler Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Accrington, Hyndburn Posts: 18,142 Blog Entries: 14 Liked: 14 times Rep Power: 1062	Re: Gate Perhaps no-one knows who currently owns that land? From what I can make of the documents from my cupboard it appears that the houses currently known as 123, 125, 127 & 129 Willows Lane (same side as the photos above, where Ormerod St meets Willows Lane) were originally numbered 119, 121, 123 & 125. I only have record of those 4 houses so I'm not sure how many more this affected. They were built in 1900 but somewhere between November 1901 and December 1902 the numbers were changed. I had thought they were only changed by one number but now I see that they actually moved up by two. So sometime in that 13 month or so period two more houses were added lower down Willows Lane and presumably all those further up had their numbers changed. The land originally belonged to the Church of England with ground rent payable to the church. On December 12th 1902 Rev Percival Saben, vicar of St. Peter's purchased 129 (the corner house) but his address was St. Peter's Vicarage which must have been the house next to the church (built 1899) which doesn't feature on your 1891 map. Unless any of the owners have subsequently purchased the leasehold the ground rent is currently payable to Diocese of Blackburn. __________________