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20-03-2009, 18:36
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Blackburn Road, Church
How things change, the A697 at it's junction with the B6231 (Market Street)
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20-03-2009, 18:38
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Re: Blackburn Road, Church
looked a sight better back then
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20-03-2009, 18:46
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Re: Blackburn Road, Church
Well i prefer the old pic, lol
Now its looks bloody awful.
WONDER IF ANYONE HAS A PIC OF THE PALADIUM BEFORE IT WENT TO RUIN....A PICTURE OF IT IN ITS PRIME
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20-03-2009, 19:08
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Re: Blackburn Road, Church
That old picture takes me right back, that's how I remember Church Commercial. There's the green wooden bus shelter with the little garden next door and the public loos on the other side. The shops on the other side of the road, past the traffic lights, I remember Snell's the chemists being there.
It wasn't beautiful but it was a thriving community and it was alive. The modern picture looks like a waste-land.
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20-03-2009, 19:27
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Re: Blackburn Road, Church
Didnt even know Church had a blue sky like that.....rare!
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20-03-2009, 20:50
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Re: Blackburn Road, Church
I remember that the double decker buses used to lean precariously as they turned right from Ossie onto Blackburn Rd going to Accy
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20-03-2009, 21:31
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Re: Blackburn Road, Church
Have put some photos in the Gallery
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20-03-2009, 21:44
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Re: Blackburn Road, Church
I actually think they are making quite a decent job of this junction. Still work to be done, but looking quite pleasant.
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20-03-2009, 22:19
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Re: Blackburn Road, Church
Quote:
Originally Posted by panther
Didnt even know Church had a blue sky like that.....rare!
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When I was a kid...way back when, it was a thick yellow cloudy smog smelling of sulpher.
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20-03-2009, 22:58
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Re: Blackburn Road, Church
Quote:
Originally Posted by West Ender
That old picture takes me right back, that's how I remember Church Commercial. There's the green wooden bus shelter with the little garden next door and the public loos on the other side. The shops on the other side of the road, past the traffic lights, I remember Snell's the chemists being there.
It wasn't beautiful but it was a thriving community and it was alive. The modern picture looks like a waste-land.
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me classmates dad had a little furniture shop across from snells chemist, aint seen him since i left in 63, was a good little community back then, sadly gone now.
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21-03-2009, 10:33
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Re: Blackburn Road, Church
lived in church in the early eighties
the smell of the tannery was orrid
but the community was great all the pubs busy
good times
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