[Acrylic-bob]

Memory can play strange tricks on even the best of us. Happily, we have maps as an aide memoire, so to speak.

This one is of Accrington in 1898 and shows the layout of buildings along Hyndburn Road, shown in pink, the River is shown in blue and the graveyard is shown in green. Accrington town centre is to the right, Blackburn Road is beyond the bottom and Church is to the left. As you can see the buildings to the left as you head out of town towards Church were occupied by the town's Abbatoir, (Ahh happy saturday morning memories of that place)the spot is now occupied by Macdonalds.