30-12-2010, 15:21
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Re: Mansions in Accrington.
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Originally Posted by Atarah
Sorry the photo of Bank House was not very good. This one is clearer I believe. The second photo shows some of the remaining driveway wall, still there, on the old track by the Ambulance Station. If you also look at the top of Adelaide Street, you can still see the remaining gate posts of Bank House.
T'was a lovely house, and was auctioned off in 1957. Lady Higham was the last owner of the property.
Here are a list of all the rooms which were mentioned in the Sales Catalogue:-Garage, Wash-House, Butlers Pantry, Kitchen, Boot Room, Main Hall, Billiard Room, Dining Room, Drawing Room, Morning Room, Conseratory, Library, Domestic Sitting Room, Bedroom, 8 in total.
Atarah
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Lived on Barnfield Street in the fifties and used to climb in/ break in to what was probably a garage at Bank House Sandy Lane. Remember there being a wooden plane propeller on the wall. Anyone else remember it?
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