
Blackburn North in 1929 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: the map covers the northern part of Blackburn, stretching from Cornelian Street & Emerald Street southward to Ash Street & Whalley Range. The Whalley New Road runs through the map, alongside the railway, & features include Wellfield Mill (at foot of map), Bastfield Mill, Little Harwood, Broad Fold, Green Head Farm, tramways, Lower Oozeboth, Hollinshead Mill, India Mill, Royshaw Mill, Royal Mill, Boundary Mill, Lion Brewery, Florence Mill, Roe Lee New Mill, Roe Lee Mill, Upper Royshaw, Royshaw Hill, Pleckgate, Higher Wilworth, Four Lane Ends (left side of map), St James church, cemetery, Bank Hey, Peacock Row, St Joseph's football ground, Higher Cunliffe (top right corner), Great Harwood Junction (bottom right corner). On the reverse are street directories for Shear Brow, Whalley New Road, & Whalley Range in 1918. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25