Publisher: Alan Godfrey Maps
ISBN:
9780850540840
Date:
1981
Series:
Old Ordnance Survey Maps
Format:
Folded Map
| Our price | £2.50 |
This very detailed and busy map cover the area from Wimberley Street and Brockkhouse southward to Lower Audley Steet and Pringle Street, and from Bradshaw Street and New Park Street eastward to Hole House. They cover the town centre and the many features include the railway station, Daisyfield station, Leeds & Liverpool Canal, Town Hall, Market Place, Cathedral, Audley Mill, Walpole Street Mill, Cicely Bridge Mill, Higher Mill, Parkside Mill, Newton Street Mill, Springfield Mills, Prospect Mill, Furthergate Mill, many other mills, tramways, Higher Audley, St Peter's Ward, St Mary's Ward, St John's Ward, St Matthew's Ward, Trinity Ward, Green Bank, Canal Engineering Works. By the time of the 1929 map some of the mills were disused, an ominous sign that Blackburn's great age of prosperity as a great mill town was over. On the reverse of the map there are extracts from street directories; those for the 1929 map include extracts from a 1918 directory for Bottom Gate, Church Street, Copy Nook, Darwen Street, Eanam, Higher Audley Street, Higher Eanam, Larkhill, Larkhill Street, Mincing Lane, Railway Road, Salford, Scotland Road.
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