[Alan Gilmartin]

Love this thread, as we live on Blackburn Rd, up to 1970, I used to watch all the traffic coming up Blackburn Rd to the traffic lights and branch off left & right at the lights, the traffic at that time was unbelievable, on Blackburn - Burnley Rd, with industy such as English Electrc, the Spanyards Mill, Royal Mill, Altham Pit, Gilbraiths, Ironfields, buses coming and going all the time, fond memories of hearing the clogirons on the flags in the mornings of the workers going to there workplaces, that part of Clayton was a very buisy place, three fish & chip shops, two butchers, five or six mixed buisness, tobaconist, three bakers, The CooP, with its various departments, barbers shop, two paper shops, sorry to digress but it was fanastic when I now think about it, a little town like Clayton and all that activity, other industy, Broadleys and Cambridge Press, printing works. Slingers Abotiors, Lens cooked meat factory, Pooles and whitewells icecream. no wonder there was very little unemployment, our parents wouldnt let us sit around, can anybody add to the the indusrty of Clayton, oh I neerly forgot thr Nori, not to mention all the the industry down the bottom end.