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Between the Bull and Firth's shop there was a considerable 

 opening, through which one could go, and walking round the 

 rear of the Bull, come out into Manchester road. There was a 

 great area — the Bull yard —immediately behind the Bull, and a 

 newsroom over the saddler's shop. Between St. James's Row 

 and Coal Street were several low-built shops, not the ones which 

 were removed a few years ago, that jutted out into the street, 

 but shops of a lower order. Coal Street, properly Coal Lane, 

 was so called because it was the way to the coal pit, which was 

 in the Bull Croft. Lower down still came a miscellaneous 

 assemblage. In one house with a prominent porch was a 

 butcher's shop, then came a barn, then another butcher's shop, 

 then the home of the Old Huntsman, whose name was John 

 Smith, then another butcher's shop, and the house of old Molly 

 Sutcliffe, who kept a mangle. This was followed by a shippon 

 and barn belonging to old Pate, who farmed the land where now 

 is Hargreaves Street and Victoria Street, then old Tommy 

 Healey's house ; old Tommy Healey was the father of Thomas 

 Healey, whose musical abilities Burnley commemorated some 

 years ago by a permanent memorial ; he was by trade a shoe- 

 maker, and his wife kept a knitting and sewing school. Here 

 was a gate which led to the fields where Holroyd's size-house 

 stands, and a little lower a coal pit, with its coal-heap where now 

 stands Messrs. CoUinge's furniture depot. This colliery was 

 worked by a company, of whom Mr. Hammerton (father of Mr. 

 P. G. Hammerton) seems to have been the chief. Mr. John 

 Spencer's factory, lately Messrs. Tuustill's property, came next, 

 and from there to the Cross Keys a succession of cottages and 

 shops, with one mill (still standing), used by Mr. Emmanuel 

 Sutcliffe as a calico printing works, but, as my informant says, 

 " he only printed one or two patterns, blue and white and such 

 like." The Cross Keys was kept by Mr. James Eawcliffe, father 

 of the well-known Old George Rawcliife. 



And now let us trace St. James' Street on the opposite side, 

 beginning at the top of Bridge Street. First came the house of 

 Mr. James Massey — the house is now Mr Crossley's fruit store — 

 then the house of Mr. John Moore, father of the first Mayor of 

 Burnley. Mr. Moore ran what is known as "The Old Mill," 

 near the Old Brewery, before building the great mill at Keighley 

 Green. " The Old Mill " still stands, and the corner in which 

 it is, with the Old Brewery and the arch, is one of the few spots 

 within a mile of the Gaumless which remain almost untouched, 

 unaltered — as they were in the beginning of the century. Then 

 came Robert Lupton's grocer's shop : Mr. Lupton's wife's sister 

 married old James Hartley, of Ightenhili Park, who still walks 

 the earth, a compendium of knowledge affecting Poor Rates and 

 Justices of the Peace. Then Mr. Robinson Greenwood's store 



