Old Photo - newspaper shop parker Lane

[mikeS]

Came across this on the web. I think its the lower end of Parker Lane opposite the Police Station but could be wrong.
Some interesting placards.

[Bin Ont Turf]

Looks like Learie Constantine has just left Nelson CC............


Street Riots
At Nelson
Police Charge
The Crowds
Three Arrested

[Midmoorclaret]

I'm sure I've seen it before Mike, that's Big Dave waiting for the Sunday papers.

[ClaretTony]

Superb picture

[FCBurnley]

History of Blackburn Rovers wtf ?

[Royboyclaret]

It is a superb picture. Are we dating it early 1930s?

If so, and the location is as suggested by MikeS, then pretty much directly opposite the newsagents would be the Pedestrian Inn with landlord at the time a certain Tommy Boyle, a name very familar to the OP.

[saltaireclaret]

I'm sure it's opposite the cop shop I bought fags there when I started work in 1968.
I think it's the 20's because of hoarding for Labour Leader which was the newspaper
of the Independent Labour Party.

[Redbeard]

I immediately thought WWI. Definitely older than 1930s.

And having checked, 'Cassell's Saturday Journal' was published only until 1921.

Which makes me about right.

For a change.

[Autobahn]

It could be 1921 because Harvard suffered one of the biggest upsets ever that year, the first really big upset in the college sport. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1921_Ce ... tball_game" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Only problem is this took place in October, the boat race took place in march....

I dunno, I've just spent the last half hour trying to decipher blurred headlines and trying to work out what's underneath 'Mr Wyndham' (lord Londonderry perhaps?) and I've found this unexpected photo sluething rather exciting. Think I've found a new hobby.

[Clarets4me]

There is a billing for " The Kinsman " on one of the posters..google tells me that this was a Silent movie made in 1919, which seems about right...

[Bfc]

Looking at the man seated, he has the looks of someone of Asian origin. I know that's very unlikely, just coincidence.

[Clarets4me]

It could be 1921 because Harvard suffered one of the biggest upsets ever that year, the first really big upset in the college sport. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1921_Ce ... tball_game" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Only problem is this took place in October, the boat race took place in march....

I dunno, I've just spent the last half hour trying to decipher blurred headlines and trying to work out what's underneath 'Mr Wyndham' (lord Londonderry perhaps?) and I've found this unexpected photo sluething rather exciting. Think I've found a new hobby.

Lord Londonderry resigned from the British Government in June 1921, and went to be Education Secretary and leader of the Senate in the first government of Northern Ireland... add in your Harvard theory, and the film could well have been a re-run or maybe not reached Burnley by then.. I'm calling 1921 !!

[Autobahn]

Good find Clarets4me! Just found out that a Mrs Alfred Sedgwick wrote Kinsman, which made me laugh...

Another clue, The Labour Leader was renamed New Leader in either 1921 or 1922
Also, https://www.marxists.org/archive/lozovs ... ngress.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; shows a 1921 trade Congress happening in July although it could also be https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profintern" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Royboyclaret]

1921 ?!?!........So where's the poster outside the shop that proclaims........

........."Clarets 30 match unbeaten record comes to an end" .......

With an article by Chris Boden predicting that the record will stand for 80 years !

[Autobahn]

Off the topic of the date, is the name of the shop a play on the good kings of Judea, of which there were 8 of them? Eight Good Things?

[Clarets4me]

I understand that week's letters page in the " Burnley Express " included correspondance from a Mr S.Axoman, of Blackburn, who bemoaned the fact that the Rovers had failed yet to reclaim the League title won in 1913-14, accusing the Board of being foreigners ( One born in Oswaldtwistle ) & generally asset stripping. Another letter was from a reader using the pen-name " Exploding Tortoise ", who raved about the wonderful new Government in Russia, under that nice Mr Lenin, whilst another came from an Anglo-Scottish gentleman, Ian McL, recently demobbed from his War-service in France, who wished to see the " Express " publish more pictures of alluring French dancing ladies, the likes of which he'd met in Paris on leave...

Plus ca change.... ( As we say in Ightenhill )