Little Cornwall Back Lane, Burnley

iBase ID

316057

Reference identifier

EBU-U01-N1-1178-1

Title

Little Cornwall Back Lane, Burnley

Place

Burnley

General notes

Three streets off Rossendale Road (formally known as Back Lane) in Burnley - Hapton Street, Valley Street and Griffin Street - were together known as Little Cornwall. Little Cornwall are the houses on the right.

The three rows of terraces were built to house miners working at the nearby Barclay Hills pit in the 1870s.

Around the same time, Cornish miners had been brought in to break the strike at the Cliviger pit and although there’s no evidence of them ever living in any of the properties, the area got its Little Cornwall nickname.

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Medium

Postcard

Colour

Monochrome

Year of image

1905

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Subjects

Place Names > Burnley

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