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School Lane
School Lane
Photo: RON HUNT
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Item #: 27796
Will Smiths Series postcard showing School Lane

Comment by: Mick on 17th April 2016 at 16:28

Actually Parliament Street, Ron.

Comment by: Jimmy on 17th April 2016 at 18:56

Didn't the highwayman George Lyons live in on of the houses on the right?

Comment by: Mick on 17th April 2016 at 20:57

George Lyon was reputed to have lived in a house further down on Back Brow, Jimmy, which has long been demolished.
He was never a highwayman though, only a thief, and handler of stolen goods.

Comment by: Mick on 17th April 2016 at 22:29

The houses on the right are numbers 47 to 53 Parliament St, with Rock House after them.
At the time the photo was taken, the first shop on the left behind the two men with bicycles, would have been Gaskell’s cloggers, and the shop after that, Baxter’s store.
The large building which can be seen in front of the church tower was the District Bank.

Comment by: Ellen on 18th April 2016 at 00:31

My first thought was Parliament Street too, Mick.

Comment by: Paul Knowles on 19th April 2016 at 13:07

I'd say this is School Lane, looking up from near Abbey Lakes

Comment by: atlas on 19th April 2016 at 13:47

the print on the postcard is wrong is that what you are saying?

Comment by: Chris on 19th April 2016 at 16:28

Definitely Parliament st. My aunty used to live in that terrace, and we lived up near the monument.
They've put the wrong location on the picture

Comment by: Maggie on 20th April 2016 at 10:19

Parliament St. The gate in the wall is still there, it is at the top of some steps which go down to a patch of land a friend had as an allotment.
Where the lamp post is on the photo is where the dental technicians business is now.

Comment by: D. Higham on 3rd April 2020 at 21:55

This is definitely Parliament St, but the houses on the right are not 51 to 47 and Rock house, these were just after Rock House beyond the coach house. All these were pulled .down in the 50s leaving only Rock House And the afore mentioned 47-51 still standing from the 1660s. What a lovely picture of a by gone time.

Comment by: jon hamilton on 9th December 2023 at 20:44

baxters stores was further along

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