Farington Lodge

[shuffy]

By the way Frank your old shop does still get flooded occasionally
on Towngate.

[noel]

It's also a hotel, my sister stayed there a couple of years ago in an enormous room which I think was £80 a night. Royalty and dignataries stay there as well. Recently Prince Andrew's helicopter landed on the old BTR Cricket field for an overnight stay, Princess Anne also is a regular.

[Sandieh]

http://www.iknow-northwest.co.uk/accommo...eyland.htm

[Not a Train Spotter]

If it is the group of buildings on the corner at the trafic lights (Churchill Way), I can't see a problem. They are all boarded up and derilict/falling down. If people were that bothered about them surely they would have asked for somthing constructive to be done about them in the past.
(Standing by to get shot!!)

[David]

I absolutely agree with that statement. We here in Pomona have an old movie house right in the middle of the city centre. It's been boarded up for years. Some organization comes along and want to purchase the land for construction, offices and the like. Out of nowhere the Pomona Historical Society are up in arms about it.
Well they would be wouldn't they. What's the betting that not one of them lives anywhere near this long standing eyesore. It's the old adage... "Not in my backyard"

[noel]

Corner of Centurion Way, not Churchill Way. It is sad to see how the barn and the house on the corner of Centurion Way have been allowed to decay.
I learnt to play the Piano in that house back in 1952, well started to learn. Mr Hewitt I think, owned the house. My main interest was in his daughter, not the piano.

[Not a Train Spotter]

Sorry, you are quite right Noel, it is Centurion Way (I knew it was the name of a tank). I also agree that it is sad at the state of these buildings as many of Leyland's older buildings have slowly disappeared over the last few years,(not always for the better). But I do feel, unfortunately, that these particular buildings have past there sell by date.

[noel]

Yes I think you're right Iain, much as I hate to see old buildings knocked down, these have been derelict for years. The barn I think is called Holme Farm, I used to deliver papers there back in 1958. With the current shortage of suitable building land it makes sense.

[boo]

It would be a shame that these buildings would be demolished. I remember no so long back that these buildings were in a good state of repair and used to be lived in. SRBC seem to have adopted the once Preston Corporation Policy, if its old then knock it down, regardless of the history and replace with new soleless buildings. Leyland has lost a lot of old buildings in the past due to the new developments, I think with all the new building going on at this time, SRBC should rethink its policy and re-generate and put to good use the buildings. They seem to have done this with the area around the Cross, why not here.