tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949215181122709833.post3709859911565562280..comments2024-03-17T05:54:30.910-07:00Comments on BLACKBURN PAST: The Old Bull Hotel on Church StreetBlackburnladhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07326456506067671772noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949215181122709833.post-35008711304546258722013-03-07T04:36:58.214-08:002013-03-07T04:36:58.214-08:00The top photograph and the information are off Cot...The top photograph and the information are off Cottontown John, they've been known to be wrong before.<br /><br />I'll bow to your superior knowledge (I have no idea when Belisha Beacons started being used) and looking at the photo again, the way the women are dressed does look much later, so I'll alter it to read circa 1940, then we have a little leeway.<br /><br />Kind regards.<br /Blackburnladhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07326456506067671772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949215181122709833.post-62431722783541695592013-03-07T04:13:27.872-08:002013-03-07T04:13:27.872-08:00The photograph shows Belisha Beacons at the road c...The photograph shows Belisha Beacons at the road crossing. Surely this is post-1935 if not post-war rather than 1920s. It also shows a view that would be difficult if not impossible to obtain before the building at the corner of Church Street King William Street was altered - and that was there when the Old Bull was a WVS Civil Defence Headquarters.<br />Puzzle? Answers?John Cartmellhttp://aponline.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949215181122709833.post-16172888884457666382009-12-19T08:32:24.360-08:002009-12-19T08:32:24.360-08:00When I was about 13, I worked briefly in the White...When I was about 13, I worked briefly in the White Bull Hotel, washing up pots and pans,they had kitchens on the top floor too.Blackburnladhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07326456506067671772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949215181122709833.post-29883694486130101982009-12-17T04:30:01.379-08:002009-12-17T04:30:01.379-08:00Indeed a grand hotel, I can't imagine why no o...Indeed a grand hotel, I can't imagine why no one would have bought it? Rather unusual to have kitchens on the top floor...<br />DMCAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com