Was King St Accy a Red Light area?
 

Many years ago, I remember my dad telling me that King St in Accrington was where 'ladies of the night' would ply their trade, I guess he was talking about the '40's & 50's.:eek: According to him, there were a lot of lodging houses down there that were used for this purpose. He also said that the (Big) Crown, (later Afrikas & Funnies, now Illumia beauty salon) was also a place the girls worked from, and he wouldn't ever take my mother in.
Has anyone else heard this?

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was a lodging house down King St, right hand side going down from Blackburn rd, around were the car park now is, think it was called the "Cattlemens" that would be 50s/60s, know for sure that the Big Crown, Spread Eagle,were used by working girls,couple of em are still about, but aint doing the business nowadays, probably cos they got Mirrors.:D

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others worked out of the "Market Room" in the commercial -(Regency Now) so wether King St was called a Red Light Area, cant say, i never heard it.:confused:

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King Street in Blackburn is a red light area isn't it?

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Ive been led to believe that too, never really ventured that way to find out though lol

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Musgraves at the top of Albion Street was the place where you could get "something for the weekend", so it would be quite handy really! :D

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Something for the weekend, can you explain please?:rolleyes:

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I think he means a bit of how's your father, Bernadette. ;)

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Or something to ensure you didn't become a father more like Lilly:p

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Back in the old days, "something for the weekend" was a coded phrase for condoms (when barbers' shops used to sell such things, the hairdresser would finish scalping you and then ask "would you like a little something for the weekend, sir?"). Musgraves was a chemist/herbalist where a likely lad could buy such things (or so I'm told. ;)). Obviously, the phrase has fallen into disuse these days, now you can just pick them up on the shelves of any supermarket.

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musgraves theres a forgotten shop.

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Aaaaah, I was nearly right then. :D

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most barbers used to ask that in 50s, didn't know what they meant at the time:) now i reckon our dads musta bin randy owd gits.:D

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think he also had large sign in the window that he also supplied truss's , (never knew what one was though , something old blokes used) and other surgical aids .

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You trying to kid yourself here Cashy?:p