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Tealeaf · 19-10-2004, 17:15

Cheers A-B....the maps a big help. What it does show is that, with the exception of what was then the 20 year old Blackburn & Whalley Turnpike Road (Blackburn Road today), there is a splattering of roads & lanes which appear to defy the normal logic of a straight line being the quickest route from A to B. However, for now I wish to say no more about that, other than it's a clue.

What I would like to comment upon is the obsession with Stagecoaches that everyone appears to have. Maybe it's with Christmas coming up that people have been out buying their greetings cards, as usual containing a fair selection of Victorian images of Georgian top-hatted men thrashing their coach through a white winter scene......well, you may have that on the brain, but it's no good here. While the Stag may well once have been a Coaching Inn, that is not the answer to the question above. As I'm sure you know, Stagecoach services (private, fee paying passengers and mail) only evolved after the Civil War and the Restoration. This is some 60 years after the first recorded meeting in the Stag! While it is common now for a building to be designed to allow for technological change, I doubt very much if 15th/16th builders would have had this as their prime consideration.

Given that we've got the map now, I'll give a second clue, and that lies on the far left of the map at a point directly east of the junction Church Lane and Maden street. So, have a good think. Forensic history can be so much fun, what?

19-10-2004, 17:15	#10
Tealeaf God Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Paradise Lost Posts: 7,220 Liked: 11 times Rep Power: 4264	Re: Why does the Stag face the way it does? Cheers A-B....the maps a big help. What it does show is that, with the exception of what was then the 20 year old Blackburn & Whalley Turnpike Road (Blackburn Road today), there is a splattering of roads & lanes which appear to defy the normal logic of a straight line being the quickest route from A to B. However, for now I wish to say no more about that, other than it's a clue. What I would like to comment upon is the obsession with Stagecoaches that everyone appears to have. Maybe it's with Christmas coming up that people have been out buying their greetings cards, as usual containing a fair selection of Victorian images of Georgian top-hatted men thrashing their coach through a white winter scene......well, you may have that on the brain, but it's no good here. While the Stag may well once have been a Coaching Inn, that is not the answer to the question above. As I'm sure you know, Stagecoach services (private, fee paying passengers and mail) only evolved after the Civil War and the Restoration. *This is some 60 years* after the first recorded meeting in the Stag! While it is common now for a building to be designed to allow for technological change, I doubt very much if 15th/16th builders would have had this as their prime consideration. Given that we've got the map now, I'll give a second clue, and that lies on the far left of the map at a point directly east of the junction Church Lane and Maden street. So, have a good think. Forensic history can be so much fun, what?