Re: Why does the Stag face the way it does?
 

:drink:what puzzles me is that what is the front of the stag now, may have been up for a lot of years....but.....did they build two storey buildings that long ago???? if you look at the stag from henry street...its on two levels so this brings me to believe that the lower part of the stag is the original building ,with the front being put on in later years.

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Now I'll have to go and have a serious study of the outside of the building so if you see a strange woman with a camera round there in the next couple of days you'll know it's me.

Re: Why does the Stag face the way it does?
 

It's not at the junction itself....it's directly west, the other side of the canal, on the very edge of the map.

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You said it was directly East before.

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Does this help?

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Who are these two? A-B has paid homage in the past to that dynamic crime fighting duo Doug and Sandra Hayes. Is the poor old chap becoming confused in his dotage?

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One would have thought it obvious why The Stag faces in the direction it does. If 'twas turned through ninety degrees to the left it would be facing toward Henry St. Thereby placing the inebriated residents of Church at great risk of staggering under passing vehicles as they wobbled out of the door at last orders, incapacitated due to the copious amounts of alcohol consumed.

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:o Thanks yerself, it's been a long and difficult day, good job one of us is awake.

Re: Why does the Stag face the way it does?
 

:drink:JUST FOUND WHAT COULD BE THE ANSWER...TEALEAF...the stag as you look from the front is the youngest part of the buiding,if you look from henry street at the lower roof that is the origanal building!how does he know you ask yourself! well i staggered into the loft with my torch and had a look at the beams holding the roof up, yes the ones at the front are old, but the attic in the lower part of the building are ancient.they are shaped like dogs back legs,its as if they cut a tree down and split it in half and used them to hold the roof up.......cant find my camera to take some pics but when i do i will show you its amazing what is holding that roof up, and for so many years.

Re: Why does the Stag face the way it does?
 

I feel a definite urge to go and look at the Stag today.

Looking at that old map of A-b's The front of the Stag seems to be facing towards the back of the Commercial across a field.

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There was a road from Church Lane to Dunkenhalgh, not a very good one, but you could drive down it to Rishton - have done so, and have less than happy memories of getting the back wheels of an MG stuck down between two bars of a loose cattle grid at midnight! It has now all been closed off to through traffic, but you can still walk it.

Willow - I will look at the outside, although so far my close inspections of the Stag have been from the inside!

Re: Why does the Stag face the way it does?
 

I keep meaning to go over there and take a look but I always seem to have a dozen and one other things to do.

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Did we ever get to the bottom of this question?

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No, I don't think we ever did but I believe Tealeaf knows something about it.

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I'll give the answer later on this week.....but it is an answer that is very simple. Guesses, anyone?