were is this ?

ian1 · 28-01-2010, 19:45

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we been lookin at this pic on the wall in the Arden inn and no one seems to know were it is ?? any ideas ,
ian

Atarah · 28-01-2010, 21:34

Its Broadway, well before Marks and Spencers was built.

Atarah · 28-01-2010, 21:38

Hi, this help a bit?

Atarah · 28-01-2010, 21:46

If you want any more photos of that area, I will post some tomorrow.

Wynonie Harris · 28-01-2010, 21:59

Great, look forward to that, Atarah. Is that mill in the first photograph on the site of the cinema?

cashman · 28-01-2010, 22:26

i thought that was the opposite side wyn?

i took the white bit between the two lamps to be the owd culvert cover oer the river stink?

Retlaw · 28-01-2010, 23:01

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Originally Posted by cashman

i thought that was the opposite side wyn?

i took the white bit between the two lamps to be the owd culvert cover oer the river stink?

Got me puzzled the layout seems a bit off.
I thought it was Marquis St at first but now I have my doubts, reposted picture with queries.
Retlaw.

cashman · 28-01-2010, 23:06

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Originally Posted by Retlaw

Got me puzzled the layout seems a bit off.
I thought it was Marquis St at first but now I have my doubts, reposted picture with queries.
Retlaw.

its had me scratching me head.

cashman · 28-01-2010, 23:11

what actually stood were M@S n shops before the sunken gardens? plus what stood on owd broadway car park? can remember streets behind odean but thats it.

Retlaw · 28-01-2010, 23:22

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Originally Posted by cashman

what actually stood were M@S n shops before the sunken gardens? plus what stood on owd broadway car park? can remember streets behind odean but thats it.

Nothing it was a large patch of rough ground,
there was a barrage ballon site on there during WW2, it was fenced off from Broadway with a 7' high wooden fence, the streets behind where the Odeon was were Cobden St & Mason St.
The river stink was open It didn't get culverted till they did the car park, the entrance was in Union St, next to where the Blackburn bus stand was. This was before they built the Arndale.

Retlaw.

cashman · 28-01-2010, 23:31

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Originally Posted by Retlaw

Nothing it was a large patch of rough ground,
there was a barrage ballon site on there during WW2, it was fenced off from Broadway with a 7' high wooden fence, the streets behind where the Odeon was were Cobden St & Mason St.
The river stink was open It didn't get culverted till they did the car park, the entrance was in Union St, next to where the Blackburn bus stand was. This was before they built the Arndale.

Retlaw.

cheers walter, still baffeled wi the layout of photo, thought i was gettin somewhere.

Bob Dobson · 29-01-2010, 10:02

Perhaps it is the picture's quality, but I cannot place this location.I am not recognisiong anywhere/ Do the background buildings give a clue as to which direction we are looking? I will have to visit the Arden and examine the picture whilst sampling a pint of John Willie.

ian1 · 29-01-2010, 10:55

you are having the same conversation we have been having for the last month!
picture is a bit bad ,(cause i don't know how to put pics off iphone on to comp )

so i had to take pic of phone with my old phone !
ian

Wynonie Harris · 29-01-2010, 11:19

Still reckon it's taken from a similar spot and looking in the same direction as the later photograph with the cinema. If you look in the top lefthand corner, you can see the same building with a steeply sloping roof (the church that used to be on Whalley Road?). Could it be taken after Broadway had just been constructed, but before the Regal/Odeon had been built?

cashman · 29-01-2010, 11:28

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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris

Still reckon it's taken from a similar spot and looking in the same direction as the later photograph with the cinema. If you look in the top lefthand corner, you can see the same building with a steeply sloping roof (the church that used to be on Whalley Road?). Could it be taken after Broadway had just been constructed, but before the Regal/Odeon had been built?

yeh may be right, am trying hard to remember the layout of the owd streets,

if the white bit is the river stink though, it must not be the culvert, as wasn't built then, yet it looks raised.

thats throwing me big time.