DO you recognise which East Lancashire town this is, photographed from the air in 1966?
The regimented lines of terraced houses and the distinctive rooflines of mill after mill complete with their chimneys hint at the town’s industrial heritage.
A railway line cuts across the picture separating houses from the town centre.
Described at the time by the Lancashire Telegraph’s sister paper the Burnley Star as ‘a great white concrete crater’, you can make out a new development taking shape.
In case you haven’t worked it out yet, the photograph shows Nelson town centre with the new one million pound shopping centre beginning to take shape.
If you have any old photographs of East Lancashire, you can email them to gill.johnson@nqnw.co.uk.
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