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

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nah just sayin it as it is Bernie.:p

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You see, I didn't know that and when the barber asked me that question, I asked for a quarter of jelly babies and a bottle of sarsaparilla! :eek:

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Obviously you've led very sheltered life TM:D:D

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cashy,
i think the pub on king st was the cattel market, not cattelmens.
i may be wrong.

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yeh may be right with name tosh, was talking about the lodging house though.;)

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Not King St itself, but some of the side streets off it, in the one way system. We used to see some of the girls touting for business when I was taking my daughter to netball at Witton Park. Many of them couldn't have been more than 16yrs. Years ago, in the mid 70's, one of the girls used to work out of Yates Wine Lodge (the old one) Flo she was called. She used to have us in stitches with the stories she told about her 'clients'.

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I worked on King Street, BLACKBURN during the 70s and that area including Clayton Street and Mincing Lane was the "Red Light" district, however a few months ago I went to Blackburn with a mate to pick up a car and suprise, suprise it's still the same!

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Hi Cashy
As I remember the Cattle Market on King Street in Accy was a pub and a lodging house, so named for it's proximity to the slaughter house and market on Hyndburn Road.
The Landlord at one time was Mat Ellison who went on to be a sawdust merchant in Church.
I got a red card from one of our grannies for mentioning a local butcher, but I know when I was eating hovis as a young lad, the same butcher made an excuse every Friday when the Golden Eagle arrived in a packet, he would make his excuses and appear full of health and rosy cheeks on Monday a 'Made Man'

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ta fer that Roy mate.;)