lancashire
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What a colourful advert from 1950 for the Blackpool based coachbuilder H V Buringham. Formed in 1928/30 Burlingham gained a reputation for quality and although they produced for many operators they were often most associated with local operators Blackpool Corporation and Ribble Motor Services (down the road in Preston) for whom they constructed some very…
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I sat and proudly listened to the BBC tonight as the chimes and bells of my hometown’s town hall were broadcast to replace the stilled bells of the Palace of Westminster (aka Big Ben). Rochdale’s Town Hall is one of the UK’s great Victorian Gothic Revival buildings. Opened in 1871 and as shown here it…
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The Eagle Mill was on Queen Victoria St a short distance from my grandparents house on Charlotte St in Rochdale – and my grandfather Bill Clegg worked here from the 1930s on until the late 1950s when ill-heath forced him to leave – the cotton industry was eventually to play a role in his death…
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The Eagle Mill was on Queen Victoria St a short distance from my grandparents house on Charlotte St in Rochdale – and my grandfather Bill Clegg worked here from the 1930s on until the late 1950s when ill-heath forced him to leave – the cotton industry was eventually to play a role in his death…
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A scan – so a little grainy – of the Market place in the small Lancashire borough of Heywood, c1955. Probably taken on a Sunday this junction was where the Rochdale – Bury road (A58) met that coming up from Middleton. The high street has the usual small shops, including a branch of Timothy Whites…
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