[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by susie123

Yes I would imagine they knocked those down when they made the Broadway Gardens in the fifties.

That side of Union St was cleared, circa 1950's and the area of land now occupied by most of the Arndale was used as a car park, the Blackburn bus stop was approx where the arcade entrance is now, there was a red brick toilet block built there as well. During the last war that site was surrounded by a wooden boarded fence & was used as a barrage balloon site. The balloon was struck by lightning twice during that time, because they didn't get the dammed thing down in time, saw it burning once, think the remnants landed some where near Park St, Plantation St area, plus 1/2 mile of wire cable drapped across all the roof tops. Broadway has been remodelled 4 times during my life time.