Preston New Rd / Limefield - c1910

Not the best quality image, but a pleasant view, from a more tranquil time, of the top stretch of Preston New Road, looking towards Billinge End in the far distance. I think the photographer would have been stood at the top of Saunders Road. 

As with a lot of these old postcard images, the lack of traffic is a noticeable feature, with just a couple of horse drawn vehicles in the distance. You can just imagine the clip clop of the horses passing your house and the rumbling, trundling of the occasional tram.

This was quite a well heeled part of town back then (see Matthew Cole's book 'Blackburn's West End') and many of those large properties would have been inhabited by some of  our leading citizens, as would the roads and streets on either side, Crosshill Rd, Granville Rd and St Silas's Rd etc.
Below is another view of part of the same section, but looking in the opposite direction, towards town.

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Revidge Rd looking towards Billinge - c1908

Looking down Revidge Road towards Billinge End. Not the best photo in the world, but it is over 100 years old. Dates to around 1907-9.

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Billinge End looking towards Revidge Rd - c1910

Another view of the crossroads at Billinge End. This time looking from Billinge End Road into Revidge Road. Circa 1910. I think the bloke with the pole was after conkers.

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Single Deck Tram at Billinge End - c1905

Yet another postcard of a tram at Billinge End. This time it's a single deck one. I'll bet it was nice on a summer morning, slowly trundling down Preston New Rd into town on one of these.

I'm unsure of the exact date, so I've guessed at the first decade of the 20th century. The chap on the corner of Revidge Rd looks more Edwardian than anything else, so I'll stick with the date. (Unless you know different?)

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Tram stopped at Billinge End - c1910

A few folks getting off the tram at Billinge End. Unsure of the year, but it looks to be around the first decade of the 20th Century.  Pre WW1, I would think anyway.

The advertisement on the tram  appears to be for a laundry, probably Rosehill Laundry, as I've seen other photos of Blackburn trams with that on the side of them.

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Billinge End Road viewed from Revidge Road

In this 1930's view, the photographer would have been standing at the foot of Revidge Road, looking into Billinge End Road (as the text on the postcard tells us). No traffic lights back then, just a policeman to guide the passing traffic. In fact, there is still the small police building (approximately where the lamp post is, in this view) standing today, though no longer used. I think the large property on the right, is also still there.

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