Mansions in Accrington.
 

Here we have Bank House. Demolished and Queen Elizabeth Crescent (Sandy Lane area) built on the site.

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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.

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Mansions in Accrington.
 

This is for Entwisi, a photo of Laund House, Baxenden.

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Does anyone have a decent picture of Lower Antley Hall? It was formerly owned by my ancestors.
Thanks

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There is still a rather splendid house in Foxhill. It looks like it's been divided into two homes now but it's quite something.

Rhyddings Hall used to be quite special as well and I believe there was one where Catlow Hall St is - called, wait for it..... Catlow Hall.

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Where abouts Gayle, I ain't been in Foxhill for over 30 years, seem to remember that a woman who played Hockey for England Valery something or other, live somewhere in that neck of the woods, I know Brian Barns the Scrap Metal bloke used to have the old gate house, but that was over 25 years ago

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Valerie Walsh Jaysay.

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he still had it a couple of summers back, we was walking up yon n was talking to him.:)

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Like I said cashy I knew he lived there because I sold him some kitchen units quit a while ago, he used to have the Scrap yard on Roe Greave Road, don't even know if that is still there these days:confused:

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When I saw this name kate it didn't ring any bells at all, I do have an old copy of the electoral register, so have just dug it out and its Valerie Robinson Foxhill Bank House, The Coach Road

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Hi, can I just mention that the house was never known as anything other than Elmfield Hall. Its just a case of one of the transcribers reading it incorrectly. Have just looked at the 1871 census, and, because I am a local person, I know it reads Elmfield. Someone outside the area has just put what they "thought" it said.

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It's good stuff reading about these old 'Mansion houses'; most of 'em were built in the early part of the 19th century as homes for local industrial magnates. It would be nice to see a piccy of the old Manor House at Church (hence Manor |Gardens), which I believe was destroyed by fire sometime in the 1940's. That lay on the site roughly opposite where Dill Hall garage now stands. I believe it may well have been a 17th century building, but there is some historical evidence that a building of a similar nature has been on the same site from the 13th century and possibly even before...anyway, it would be nice to see a snap of the building lost in WW2, if one is available....I've never seen one.

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Tealeaf I can remember the house that you refer to but I think the fire was well before the War. Around 1937 if my memory serves me right.I lived opposite and I think that I remember a Thunderbolt dropping onto the roof and setting the building alight. But then I was only about 6 years old so I could be wrong.