THIS photograph from the Telegraph archives shows Accrington town centre from an unusual viewpoint.
The photographer is looking down on to the town hall and market hall. To the left of the picture you can see Broadway with the distinctive white frontage of the Odeon cinema.
You can only admire the fine architecture in many of the buildings in the town centre including those on St James Street which lead off opposite the town hall. You can see the side of one of the distinctive, stone built blocks of shops complete with raised plinths on the roof. The second block on the extreme right of this picture would have been the Woolworth building.
We don’t have an exact date for this photograph but judging by the mill chimneys close to the town centre and the amount of smoke which has really darkened the image, it could have been from the early 1950s.
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