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Originally Posted by Retlaw
Its also surprising how many people from Greater Accrington, moved to live in Blackpool & St Annes during WW1. Quite a number of men service papers which show their next of kin address in Acc, are crossed out, and a new address in Blackpool written in. Many ex soldiers from Greater Acc, emigrated to Canada in the 1920's, many of them had returned by 1930's, jobs were just as hard to get in Canada as they were here.
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The attached photo shows my Great-Grandparents and their first 6 children taken outside their Blackpool guest house(you can just see the sign for "Vacancies" in the window. During WW1 while he worked in the mine and lived at Rock Mount (Altham West) she ran the guest house for soldiers (mainly Ghurkas) -my mum still has journals with her accounts. They returned to Accy after the war -presumably she made a nice living there but it must have been hard work with the young ones to look after too! (My Grandad John is the cute little boy center front)