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Have labelled Atarah`s photo -- put names on before I do.

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Hey Bert...good job there's only 26 letters in the alphabet.

Anyway, my mum's on the case.

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Come on Tealeaf, with your great humour I would have at least expected you to come up with "R" -- Slates on a Roof. :D

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I really want to join in the intellectual threads - but these are too hard. When do we get clues? i.e. Area???

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Owd Bert, I didn't understand your message. Do I gather you meant let us have a go before fill the answers in?
Ok, I will start it off
O = Castle Street

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Hi, M = Weir Street

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OK..here goes:

A dunno
B Melbourne Mill chimney
C Odeon Cinema
D Fire on Hill (Early example of Accy Arsonism)
E Church
F Park Mill Chimney
G Market Hall
H Methodist Chapel
I Sunday School
J Black Bull pub
K Korrugated Iron Roof
L Culvert outlet for River Stink
M Kenyon Street
N a classic Gable End
O Castle Street
P terraced houses
Q House (dunno who lived there)

Now my brains starting to hurt.

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Hello Tealeaf, do I say .... welcome back to Lancashire for the Easter Break?
Well done on answering some of the questions, I love your sense of humour! K = corrugated iron roof indeed! :) That is probably the engineering works, where the entrance was actually on Hyndburn Road, cant think of its name for this minute. They then moved up Ossy! R shows the roofs of the 4 houses numbered 1,3,5 and 7 Milnshaw I believe. Our famous Tiffany glass at the Haworth Art Gallery was donated by Mr Joseph Briggs, who lived at no. 1.
Will leave others for members to have a guess.
Off to work now.

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Stuart Engineering, they have closed down now

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Ah now -- did Stuart Engineering exist when that photo was taken and will Atarah tell us the year ? Surprised that the Pub (N) at the corner of Weir St hasn`t been named.

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I doubt it, but its the only name I know of that used to be in that building:)

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Forgot to mention that Weir St led to Kenyon St.

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The Weir:rolleyes:
Wasnt there when I was a lad LOL

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tea wot church is it, be precise please/

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The pub, Owd Bert is the Australian ("N" on the photo)

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Dunno..........I was a catholic, and it was'nt one of our's!

But two interesting points about the postings above:

1) Weir Street.
- As this leads on to the river, does it not suggest that at some point there was a weir here? A weir, is of course, a form of artificial dam - possibly to provide channeled water for a water mill. If so, where could this have been?

2) The Australian pub
- This is an unusual name. I wonder if it could have been a 20th century naming (just as pubs are often renamed today). Does anyone have any idea as to why this pub could have been named that? (Gallipoli/Lancashire Fusiliers connection? 1901 Australian Constitution? Transportation of convicts from Accy to Australia? Cricketing connection?). I know the Blockade Pub round the corner on Edgar Street is named after a Crimean War Blockade (Sevastopol)...but any ideas on the Australian. I must admit, I'd never heard of this pub before.

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Hi Tealeaf, good questions! Australian Inn - dunno the reason for its name. I only know that lots of the actors who were playing the Hippodrome used to stay there. Dont think I have ever heard why it got its name. Secondly, yep, surprise surprise, there actually WAS a weir, hence the name Weir Street. Am adding a photo, although unfortunately taken the other side of the photo we are "talking" about at Bull Bridge. Imagine you were stood at "L" on the photo, looking towards "R" - The terraced property you can see (with 3 chimneys showing) is the block of terraced labelled "R" at the bottom of the photo.
I have drawn a rough map, trying to explain the situation of the weir.

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Is F Oak Street Congregational Church?

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If someone would have used their imagination a little bit in the 1930's, we could have had a nice boating lake in the centre of Accy by now (see piccy above)...there could have been a little island in the middle...with a clock in it..with old father time at the top.

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Hi Atarah, yes it is and there is a piccy of it in my Website Quiz. The chimney next to it was the cause of discussion quite some time ago and if I remember correctly it was decided that it was connected with the extensive Co-Op premises around Abbey St-Oak St-Black Abbey and Bank St.

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One more specifically for Atarah, -- do you know the answer to the question I asked (see Page 1 of thread) ? Answers of course from anyone who can date the piccy to a year or so.

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I'll have a go...1952

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Hi Owd Bert, am just home from work. Guessing the date of the photo .... er....pre 1950





As you came from Croft Street, you passed the 4 houses on Milnshaw Lane (‘R’ on photo),

then a shop called The Pals Dining Room’s. The drill hall was on Argyle street, and would have been handy for men who had finished their drill, to call in for pie and peas

The building you are mentioning (red brick) was on the corner of Hyndburn Road and King Street and had a window on each side, there was a sweet shop at one side and then going along Hyndburn Rod was Whittakers Agriculatural Impliment’s, makers of pitch forks, spades etc., then was the entrance and the staircase up to the Alexander Billiard Hall.


The view I am showing is, I belive of Croft Street, and the beginning of the block of 4 terraced houses which you would pass to get to the corner of King Street and Hyndburn Road.

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Brilliant Atarah -- keep going and fill us in with more detail like that.

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Right, my guesses for today are ....
A dunno (just as Tealeaf said)
B Broad Oak chimney?
C Odeon Cinema
D Cant even make out whats there!
E Peel Street church? Dunno really.
F Oak Street Cong.
G Market Hall
H Union Street Methodist Chapel
I Where is "I" on the photo? Cant even see it! :-)
J Black Bull
K Billiard Hall/Stuart Engineering
L Culvert outlet for river Hyndburn
M Weir Street
N The Australian Inn
O Castle Street
P Cant think
Q Dunno what it first was, but was this where The Cavern was?
R The 4 terraced houses nos 1,3,5 and 7 Milnshaw Lane
S Not sure, workshops behind Union Street

There! Thats my offering for today.

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What a naughty egg, it just hit me.

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I can't see an "I" either....yet I put it on my list. I think I messed up there....anyway, are we ready for the answers yet?

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Atarah started this Thread and unknown to me said I would identify the various builbings etc. Here are my recollections.
A-Was Melbourne Mill in Water St- later BEL Fitments.
B-Park Shed -- later site of Dairy - now Retail Outlets on Eastgate.
C-Odeon
D-Broad Oak Chimney -- or Steamer on River Hyndburn.
E-Roof of New Jerusalem in Abbey St -- Next to Swan Pub.
F-Co-Op Chimney & Spire of Oak St Congregational Church.
G-Market Hall.
H-Union St Methodist Chapel.
I- Underground passage from old Court in Town Hall to Police Station in Union St.
J-Black Bull Pub.
K-Whittaker Bros -- Agriculturall Machinery Makers -- later Stuart Eng.
L-Culvert outlet.
M-Weir St -- leading to Kenyon St.
N-Australian Pub.
O-Castle St.
P-Houses at bottom end of Mole St
Q&R-Just buildings at start(or end) of Milnshaw Lane.
S- I was curious about this building in Back Union St so labelled it thinking someone may know what it was.
T- Backs of houses in Mason St.
Someone mentioned a name "Ernie Ipecs" -- more info please.

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Hey! Owd Bert! Of course I asked you if you would post the answers!!!!!!!!
Thanks anyway, its good to see them up!

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There is the wood "firm" on the Factory Bottoms (Victoria Street) called IPEC. One of my lads once worked there for a short time

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Mentioned it in the other thread about the chimney.

Yep, Victoria St, they make a lot of office furniture. One of the few remaining chimneys, but somewhat shorter than it was originally.