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Originally Posted by AccyGirl
Sorry John, but you wouldn't get the old mill in the background from that angle, its definitely on Ellisons Tenement, besides I never went to that end of Accrington until I was much older, about 14 when I started to attend Hyndburn Park night school.
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it is Ellisons Tenement, sometimes I used to walk across it on my way to school (Hyndburn Park 1950's)..cut through a small passage and then The Hippodrome would be there.. That is Hitchen's on Hyndburn Road in the background..close to it there was a graveyard where the sheep went before going into the slaughter house..It was great when Ellisons Tenement was a Fairground....with the black pea stall ..[/quote]
That grave yard was the old Macpelah, they originally came from Clayton, back in the 1700's, it was some times referred to as Gods Little Acre, in what was then Allom Lane (Hyndburn Rd), the congregation built a new church on the west side of the viaduct in Blackburn Rd, they later moved to a new church in Cannon St, that has now closed and the congregation moved to Christ Church, which is now referred to as Trinity.
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