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Just a few views from roughly the same spot in the town centre.

Just look at that black cloud!

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What a great idea once a week views of Accy, in a few years you will be able to see the changes wish I had thought about it 3oyrs ago.:alright:

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Well done Willow. When you see accy in this kind of light, it not a bad looking place is it?

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Nice photos!

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The clouds look lovely...just as I remember it!!

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Willow. Could you please tell me where these streets are on these pics. I have the distinct feeling that if I were to be suddenly deported from here and dumped in the middle of Accy during the night, and not knowing where I was, I would be spending the whole of the next day knocking on peoples doors and asking where Accy was. It is totally ALIEN. It's not Accy. It's a conspiracy. They are all fake photo's.:confused:

Seriously, is that the coppice in the background of one of the pics? Looks like an Amazon jungle.

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Photo One is Warner Street - that red brick building is the end of the Arcade.
Photo Two is looking down Peel Street at what is now left of the bus station with what HBC refer to as "the new market development" hidden behind it and a hideous new building on the old market site which houses a few little shops and a Wilkinson's supermarket.
Photo Three - I did an about turn and pointed my lens up Avenue Parade and that is indeed the poor old coppoce covered in alien vegetation (nasty little trees) which totally spoils the whole appearance and completely obliterates the familiar old "eagle"
Photo Four is from the same spot but this time looking up Whalley Road.
Photo Five is the top end of Peel Street - the buildings are more or less what were there in the 60s but the Blackburn Trustee savings Bank is now Lloyds TSB and many years ago it expanded into the next shop.(where you see the scaffolding)

Pleck Road has more or less disappeared now - at the Peel Street end are gates which now lead round to the back of the new and old shops and these are kept locked.

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Yes that's right Terry...totally Alien....But that's progress

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Willow. In reference to the shot looking up Whalley Rd. Is that the railway bridge in the far distance. My uncle David Martin lived in the top house on the right next to the bridge for a long time. 'Till about 91 or so. He is now deceased. There is/was a sort of lime pit thingy under the bridge. Still There?

Avenue Parade. What can I say. Not what I remember. The others are totally unrecognisble . Thanks for the info though. I remember Peel St. Is that where the Ribble busus left from to Whalley and Gt.Harwood?

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Sorry my mistake. Melbourne st was the Ribble buses. Can anyone remember at the Burnley rd end of Melbourne St. a toy shop come news agency in Burnley rd on the opposite side. I used to buy all my wessex fireworks there. Can anyone recall a huge thermometer on the wall of the shop showing the temp in F. I remember at the top it had a mark that said 'blood heat' I used to think it'll never get that hot:)

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Great photos Willow, Used to go out with a girl who lived in the first house on the other side of the railway bridge, on the right hand side. Is it still there, I spent a lot of time there.

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Now I know what's different about Accy. It used to be in black and white. Black buildings white sky. Now it's in glorious technicolor. :D

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These where taken a while ago but i thought you might like them anyway

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Hey mick, what did you do with all the people in some of those pics?. hehe
It's like a ghost town.

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He got up early :)

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I really enjoyed seeing those shots of the town Mick ... made me want to walk around there so bad :) I think it must be about 8 years since i last did that.
I had no idea the old Grammer School had been levelled and that the side of the Market Hall had been covered by a 'New Market'. I did feel that moving the clock from the Arndale to replace it with a cafe? was a travesty. Is the space remaining actually big anough for that purpose?

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They could have left the clock where it was and built the cafe round it

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Len some of them were taken at 7am hehe could not sleep

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I have loads of pics of accy and when they were pulling down the old market if anyone would like a CD with them on just pm me with your address and i will put 1 in the post for you.....FREE

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I have some pics here.. Again taken in 1988. No doubt more changes since. The third pic I took and don't know where it is.:o Can any one tell me where please. First two are obvious.

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I think in the 3rd pic you were on a bus, coming from Blackburn to Accy. You are at the traffic lights at the junction of Blackburn Rd and Henry St, about to turn right onto Blackburn Rd to come into Accy. If you turn down Henry St you have Church Kirk, Hyndburn Sports Centre and of course The Stag..:D

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So that's where it is. Thanks Lettie. I would never have guessed the place for myself. Yes I was on a bus. Front seat upstairs of course for the benefit of my wife who had never travelled on a double decker. Henry st. that's why I probably took the pic.That intersection (totally different to the 50's) I Used to walk from Dill Hall up Henry st to Church and catch the bus to Blackburn to go to work.:)

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Same route as I used Terry when I lived up Meadoway and worked at Mullards.

6.0 clock starts, trip down Dill Hall Lane, up Henry Street and catch'd bus opposite Commercial. Going home was all up-hill though!!!

In them days Church had shops, and 2 Banks (maybe 3 if you counted Building Society on Market Street). Now they've made it into a traffic island!!!

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I used to work in one of those banks. There was a confectioner's on Blackburn Road which did absolutely superb butties, customised to order. The Post Office looks odd these days, the end of a terrace but standing there all alone.

The area around the junction of Union Street and Broadway has changed a lot since your photos Terry. We've now got a roundabout - if you drive in on Blackburn Road basically all you can do is go round the roundabout and drive out again.

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The photo of Warner St, on first sight, could be a little village in the Ribble Valley.

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and just around the corner from there....................the river just asking to be made a feature of.

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The pictures are great, keep them coming

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Lettie as usual i believe you are totally correct on that one