London Terrace.

Jimmy, this might be where your father was living in 1901. You would need his birth certificate to find out if he was born at this address. Sometimes the numbering of streets altered over time.

It is the one with the glass in the front door.

You can click on a photo to make it bigger, then click 'back' to return to the blog (on my computer it is a little back arrow on the bar above the main part of the screen).

The first photo shows the back of London Terrace.

The second shows the top end of London Terrace where it joins on to Olive Lane, where your great grandfather Richard lived. The numbers here were in the 200s the number given on the 1871 census was 13 so it was probably down the other end of this Lane but as I have said the numbers on houses were often changed and there is no way of knowing if this happened. (Historians know this happened because some houses were built with numbers over the door top and they know from the present numbering system that it has changed, sorry thats a bit vague.) Olive Lane looks like a mix of residential housing and small industrial premises.

Description of London Terrace.

It is uphill from the railway station. Walking along Richmond Terrace - larger stone terrace housing with nice views out across Darwen centre to the hills beyond and the tower (there was a date, I couldn't write it down as people were looking - perhaps I seemed suspicious looking this way and that with a camera in my hand but I think it was 1884, I will check). London Terrace leads off this quite steeply at first but then flattens out at the top where the photo is taken. There seemed quite a lot of corner shops roundabout, and a fish and chip shop on London Terrace itself. It is about a 10 min walk from the town centre - going downhill.