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This is on Northgate, just before North Bridge, where the traffic lights are now, across from the end of North Bridge Street. The road that the van and car are heading towards is Cross Hills

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Landscaping by the Civic Trust with David Fletcher on the right. The buildings, including Bridge Gale Mill on the left, long demolished to make way for the St Pol Car Park and riverside walkway.

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LYRS 6064 - 1963.- Viaduct carrying the 'up' platform with its massive iron supports viewed from ground level. The viaduct platforms are no longer used and the overhang has been dismantled.

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The Charter Day procession, 22nd August 1896. The procession, headed by the county police, is passing under the railway viaduct on Burnley Road. The building on the right is Ormerod's Mill.

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The horse-drawn fire tender with its crew are photographed on Rochdale Road before joining a procession, about 1905. The man holding the horse is John Hamer Hollinrake who, in 1911, became the Chief Fire Officer.

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Greenlees Saddlers 1912 - Thomas William Greenlees, standing on the left, with his assistant Mr Taylor, took over the family business at 13 Church Street when his uncle, Anthony Greenlees, died in 1910. His work making and repairing harnesses and…

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Blackburn's Ironmongers shop can be seen at the end of this block of shops on the corner of Holme Street. Photograph taken before New Road was widened at the junction with Bridge Gate.

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Where Old Gate meets the main road.

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The shops on the left have since been demolished.
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