Happy New Year for 2013

A Happy New Year to all the visitors to this blog / site.

Thank You for your contributions over the last 12 months.

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Ewood Park - New Stand - 1906

Top is an old promotional / advertising postcard from 1906, depicting the new grand stand (Nuttall Street Stand) at Ewood Park. Steelwork by John Booth & Sons of Bolton.

Below that, two players that would have been playing around the same time. The photo on the left was a postcard posted in Blackburn in 1907, but sadly I haven't been able to identify the player. The player on the right, I'm pretty sure is Eddie Latheron, who played for the Rovers between 1906 - 1917. If you know different, please let me know and I'll be happy to amend.

The cigarette 'silk' dates to the same period, perhaps a bit later, but pretty confident it would be pre- WW1.

The photo below is the same stand pictured 79 years later in 1985. I have forgotten where I sourced this photo, so if it's yours, my apologies in advance, just send me the details and I will be happy to credit you (or remove it).

 (Unknown)

The picture / card below added 30/06/2013 in response to BTS's query with regards Eddie Latherton (please see the comments below).

The other images courtesy of the CP collection 

St Bartholemews Church - Bolton Road - Ewood

As promised, another view of St Bartholemews church on Bolton Road.

Lovely church wasn't it?  Sadly, one I never personally went into. I wonder what they did with those statues when they demolished it. Not that I want one or anything, I'm just a nosey sod.

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Bolton Rd - Ewood

Another nice old postcard depicting yet another section of Bolton Road. Today, the houses and shops on the left hand side are more or less as they were when this photo was taken, though St Bartholemews School and Church on the right, plus some of the houses on that side, have now gone.

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Novas, Bolton Road

I can't decide whether this is looking up or down Bolton Rd, though I think it might be looking down, in the direction of town. Is that church steeple in the distance All Saints or whatever it was called, on the corner of Frecklton Street or maybe St Mary's on Islington (did that have a steeple?).

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