I FOUND the supplement Bygone Days in last week's Citizen (25/04) very interesting.

I am sorry to see that the splendid Northern Daily Telegraph building had such a short life - I hope they managed to get out the last Pinks, perhaps someone knew they were destined to move to the "temple of knowledge" eventually.

It was a nice photograph of King William Street which was always a good place to to collect "fag" cards and to see the market hall clock.

Incidentally that part of the road was paved with wooden setts and the first buses were probably the open top buses run by Kenyon Coleman and Robinson to Mill Mill.

Blackburn certainly has changed in the twentieth century. I remember rather a lot of early Blackburn as I was an errand boy for M and E Nicols confectioners in Darwen Street.

One of my earliest memories was the visit of the Princess Royal in 1912 to lay a foundation stone for an extension to Blackburn Infirmary.

M. H. Howarth

Rossall Terrace

Blackburn

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