were is this ?
- Thread starter ian1
- Start date
Great, look forward to that, Atarah. Is that mill in the first photograph on the site of the cinema?
Got me puzzled the layout seems a bit off.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?
I thought it was Marquis St at first but now I have my doubts, reposted picture with queries.
Retlaw.
Attachments
its had me scratching me head.
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.
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.
so i had to take pic of phone with my old phone !
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.
yeh may be right, am trying hard to remember the layout of the owd streets,
I can't understand that bit, either, but those rows of houses look like the ones that were behind the cinema. What about the building in the top righthand corner? Is that not the works that was (and maybe still is) near the bottom of Dowry Street?
don't think so, whittakers foundry was on next row up, opposite side, but it dont look like that to me.
Oh well, maybe not, then. Still reckon that mill is on the site of what became the cinema. The identical church (?) building in the background clinches it for me. Wonder if anyone like Atarah or Retlaw can confirm that Broadway was built before the Regal?
if it is that section,i reckon the mill is were the top gardens were, on basis that the river stink was not that high up? assume it ran under the odean?