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This is St Peters Laneside in Haslingden. I have the same picture of the School which is now the Community Hall.

Interesting pictures Thank You The last one Unknown 6 looks so young.

As promised the newspaper cutting for you.

Can check tomorrow if there is an obit in the paper for you which may give you some information.

This is the link to the training salon. Seasons Salon | Hair and Beauty

This was probably the college site which was based at the Globe Centre some years ago. Still going but at the main site at sandy Lane now. let me know if you want details and i will send them to you.

In Accrington Cemetery there is a gravestone to Private W A Morton who died on the 15th August 1919 aged 24. If Retlaw does not have the info on him I am happy to look him up in the paper for you next time I am at the Library.

HI Debra Richard Hoyle was at Croft Top Farm Stonefold in 1871 and also a publican at Stonefold in 1881. The pub up in the village was the George & Dragon.

It's from a map (Large Scale) I bought off e.bay some time ago. Someone who owned it has written quite a few interesting bits on it in pencil. The picture is only a small section of the map.

This is from a large scale map of the area dated 1911

Can anyone help with the following query I received last night. Norman Smith married Gladys Rawlins in 1943 at St Pauls Oswaldtwistle and had 2 children Alan born 1944 and Irene born 1946. Does anyone remember Alan or Irene and what happened to them.

Have a couple of old newspaper cuttings about a Methodist Church on Union Street if this is the one you are interested in.

There is an East Lancashire Hospice Shop in Accrington and also one in Great Harwood.

Thanks for the replies. I have had a reply from John Simpson at Accrington Library which states it had stopped being a liberal club in the later 1930's. I also remember it as a petrol station when we came to live in Baxenden.

Can anyone tell me where this was situated and when it was demolished?