The former Mountain Rescue Post at the rear of Ladbrokes and AJs Fish & Chip Shop at West End. Prior to the Rescur Post it housed the stables for Westbourne house. Converted into a dwelling in 2011. The plaque reads "Rescue Post".
The steps lead to the upper floor of this building which is currently (2019) a tea rooms. Down stairs used to be a fish and chip shop. The building backs onto Lees Yard.
West End at the junction with Bridge Gate, left, and New Road, right. Chambers shop on the right later becomes Blackburn Ironmongers and Greaves Draper and Hosiery was later Z Spence florist who later moved to the corner of New Road and Crown…
West End at the junction with Bridge Gate, left, and New Road, right. Chambers shop on the right later becomes Blackburn Ironmongers and Greaves Draper and Hosiery was later Z Spence florist who later moved to the corner of New Road and Crown…
The timber bridge which gave its name to the town probably stood a little further upstream than the present stone structure which dates from about 1510. Legacies financed the construction: for example, James Grenewode of Wadsworth left 3s. 4d to the…