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Actually Parliament Street, Ron.

Didn't the highwayman George Lyons live in on of the houses on the right?

George Lyon was reputed to have lived in a house further down on Back Brow, Jimmy, which has long been demolished.
He was never a highwayman though, only a thief, and handler of stolen goods.

The houses on the right are numbers 47 to 53 Parliament St, with Rock House after them.
At the time the photo was taken, the first shop on the left behind the two men with bicycles, would have been Gaskell’s cloggers, and the shop after that, Baxter’s store.
The large building which can be seen in front of the church tower was the District Bank.

My first thought was Parliament Street too, Mick.

I'd say this is School Lane, looking up from near Abbey Lakes

the print on the postcard is wrong is that what you are saying?

Definitely Parliament st. My aunty used to live in that terrace, and we lived up near the monument.
They've put the wrong location on the picture

Parliament St. The gate in the wall is still there, it is at the top of some steps which go down to a patch of land a friend had as an allotment.
Where the lamp post is on the photo is where the dental technicians business is now.

This is definitely Parliament St, but the houses on the right are not 51 to 47 and Rock house, these were just after Rock House beyond the coach house. All these were pulled .down in the 50s leaving only Rock House And the afore mentioned 47-51 still standing from the 1660s. What a lovely picture of a by gone time.

baxters stores was further along