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Re: Street Names
Banastre St : I feel sure this will ghave some connection with the family of Banastre which became Bannister whose main residences wwere at Barrowford and Trawden. The 4minute miler Roger Bannister is descended from them. They were big landowners.
Lodge St: The 1909 OS map shows two reservoirs in the Sydney/Water/Lodg streets triangle. Water and lodge go 'well' ( excuse that) together, and I suspect that before there was building there, streams flowed down the area from the Coppice. At the bottom of Burnley rd where it meets Whalley rd there was a public well. The lodges would likely be used by Melbourne Mill , Heifer Bank Mill and Park Mill. Mill Street and Park Street probably owe their names to the building of these mills. There is a note on streams flowing off the Coppice in a book on the history of Accrington Corporation waterworks. Bob Dobson
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