
Blackburn in 1910 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. In this title: two versions of this map have been published, covering the area from Wimberley Street & Brockkhouse southward to Lower Audley Steet & Pringle Street, & from Bradshaw Street & New Park Street eastward to Hole House. They cover the town centre & the many features include the railway station, Daisyfield station, Leeds & Liverpool Canal, Town Hall, Market Place, Cathedral, Audley Mill, Walpole Street Mill, Cicely Bridge Mill, Higher Mill, Parkside Mill, Newton Street Mill, Springfield Mills, Prospect Mill, Furthergate Mill, many other mills, tramways, Higher Audley, St Peter's Ward, St Mary's Ward, St John's Ward, St Matthew's Ward, Trinity Ward, Green Bank, Canal Engineering Works. By the time of the 1929 map some of the mills were disused, an ominous sign that Blackburn's great age of prosperity as a great mill town was over. On the reverse of both maps are extracts from street directories; the 1929 map has extracts from a 1918 directory for Bottom Gate, Church Street, Copy Nook, Darwen Street, Eanam, Higher Audley Street, Higher Eanam, Larkhill, Larkhill Street, Mincing Lane, Railway Road, Salford, Scotland Road. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25