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Originally Posted by garinda
If it is late Georgian, circa 1830, it makes sense the front of the property would have been on Bridge Street.
Perhaps it turned, so to speak, with a front made on the gable end, as the importance of Little Blackburn Road grew commercially?
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That makes absolute sense!
Here is a copy of an advert from a 1927 local newspaper showing E J Rileys
And ... here is something you might not know. Dont know if true, but ...the shop next door, ALTHAMS Travel Agents as we know it - apparently Althams started by selling tea in 1864, and then began taking their customers on trips. Thus began a travel agency which developed branches over a wide area, and continues today.