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Post Codes: BB1 4NP and the former flats were BB1 4NJ.
Streets Off (Looking towards Blackburn)
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Butler Street (left and Right)
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Derby Street (left and Right)
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Wharf Street (left and Right)
Upper Half
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Lower Half
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Right Hand Side
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Left Hand Side
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Right Hand Side
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Left Hand Side
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| 1 block of 5 terrace houses, no name |
1 block of terrace houses, no name |
1 Block of Terrace houses, no name |
1 Block of Terrace houses, no name. |
| empty waste land |
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| View up Chapel Street, showing the flats in May
2001. |
The street consists of two blocks of terrace houses on the lower half.
On the upper half there is one long block of terrace houses on the right
hand side (facing West) and on the left hand side, a small block of terrace
houses and open waste land (the flats were here).
The terraced houses are built from local sandstone with grey slate roofs,
and chimneys of local sandstone to match.
The flats were made from concrete, dressed in red brick.
In April 1938, the Congregational church put forward a suggestion for
spare land on Chapel Street which wasn't being used. I think this was the
land that was sandwiched behind the church, up to the small block of terrace
houses. This at one time was grassed with flower beds and a pathway.
The Chapel House flats on Chapel Street are built on the site of the
former
Congregational Church.
The flats in the photograph here were
demolished in October 2001, and the land is currently empty while the
council decide what is to happen to the plot. To find out what finally
happened to the spare land on Chapel Street,
follow this link.
Chapel Street is split in the middle by Derby Street, which runs across it
from North to South.
At the top of Chapel Street lies
Wharf
Street, and at the bottom is
Butler Street.
The name of the street is taken from the Congregational Church which once
stood here, and also inspired the
football team, who were
known as Rishton Congregational FC.
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| Here’s a picture of Chapel Street taken from
Butler Street in May 2001. |
References
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