Thread: were is this ?
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Old 30-01-2010, 11:49   #53
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Re: were is this ?

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Originally Posted by Tetti View Post
Hi.
Thanks Atarah for the photo of the construction of Broadway with a view directly up Burnley Rd. showing the white gable end of the house next to petrol station at the end of Windsor St., to the left is St.Johns Church on the skyline. At first I thought the photo had been taken from roof of the Town Hall but now I agree with Retlaw that it was taken a little bit further back, probably the roof of the bank, showing the roof of the pub or the old Police Station (bottom left).
Tetti
If you put a ruler on the 1909 map the line of Burnley Road and the realignment of Marquis St thro Spring Mill, it comes out nearer to Boots than to the bank, I don't think they went up on the roof, more like from an upstairs window.

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