ORIGINS OF STREET NAMES - Page 2

Atarah · 02-10-2003, 07:37

Just dashing to work, but will be back.  Paxton is something to do with The Great Exhibition in the mid 1800's, will sort that one for you.   Nuttall is named after the owner of the land.
Be back later though.
Atarah

Hey, who is pinching stuff of my site?  :-)  Will tell you more about old Steiner when I come home.

Atarah · 03-10-2003, 10:42

Hi, here are some answers to questions from earlier.  Of course, no one knows for sure the real explanation of our local street names.  Some are obvious, but some will just have to be guesswork.

RUSSELL ST - "May" be named after Lord John Russell, Prime Minister, who daughter married one of the local Peel family.

CHARTER ST - could be named after the granting of the charter to Accrington

PAXTON ST - Paxton was the designer for the Crystal Palace (Great Exhibition of 1851)

KNOWLMERE ST - Named after Knowlmere Hall, in the Ribble Valley, home of the Peel family of this area.

Hope this helps

PS  No. I did not know there are two Nuttall Streets here in Accy.  I dont think there are actually, cos I live in that area.  There USED to be a Robert Nuttall Street, but that is now Belfield Road.

Tealeaf · 03-10-2003, 11:04

OK Atarah....here's one for you. Why was Church Lane (the part that goes up the hill) renamed Dill Hall Lane....and when?

happyone · 03-10-2003, 11:05

i been told there is a nuttall street on the accrington map which is up burnley rd area

janet · 03-10-2003, 12:18

do you not mean nutter road happy one.

happyone · 03-10-2003, 13:53

dont know but i know people  when coming here somtimes ring me from  burnley road and say they cant find my nuttall street

janet · 03-10-2003, 15:09

only know one nuttall street,near belfield road

Mik Dickinson · 04-10-2003, 08:51

Willows lane, Exchange street.Slaidburn Drive now where did they all come from

Atarah · 06-10-2003, 23:06

Hi Mik, Slaidburn Drive must  be named after the Lancashire village, as must Downham, Malham, Worston, Pendleton
As for Willows Lane  - must have been plenty of Willow Trees in the area when it was first constructed I guess)
Exchange Street, have racked my brains, but .... have to admit defeat on that one.  Sorry.

littlemo · 07-10-2003, 01:22

I know there used to be  a resovoir at the bottom of the coppice that now has houses on it, don't know any of the address but wondered if it was called anything like resovior drive or stuff like that? and yes I can't spell resovior!

lettie · 07-10-2003, 07:12

;D  Mo Do you mean at the top of Avenue Parade?? If so. it's Pinewood Drive, Sprucewood, etc. No mention of the reservoir up there. :-*

Dizzy D · 07-10-2003, 07:17

I used to live on Water street and got told it was called that because water used to run down from the coppice.  Anyone else hear that story?  Is it true?  Cos i have believed it all my childhood life  :-/

Caz · 07-10-2003, 08:26

Re Exchange St - maybe there was a Corn Exchange there at one time. Anyone know?

Re Slaidburn - are there any other streets with place names around Slaidburn Drive?

What tends to happen a lot, particularly with newer estates is that they pick fairly generic groups of names & often they don't have any particular connection with the area, or any particular reason.

In Blackburn I lived on an estate which had Leicester, Worcester, Gloucester, Hereford etc.

Similar groups of streets in Clayton & Accy

Whether this is the case with Slaidburn I don't know.

Jo · 07-10-2003, 12:00

When we lived on Lodge St as young kids, we used to play out on the Lodge, a grassy piece of spare land next to the carwash (think ther're houses there now.
Why was it called a lodge if their was no water in it? (suppose all the water was on water st, two streets across? ???

littlemo · 07-10-2003, 15:02

No, you used to get to it from Burnley road, facing Huncoat