I had an office at 53 Buxton Road, Furness Vale, and used to pass this building daily on my way to the Post Office.
As you say it was once owned by Eastwood Cash Registers and the registered address was not 2 Old Road but 67 Buxton Road. There was never anyone in there when I passed. However I traced the owner to a namesake of mine but no relation called John Beswick. I think he lived up Whaley Lane in WB. Well I managed to contact him and he told me he had used it as a store room and workshop. He was a builder just the same as I was.
We agreed a price and I obtained Planning Permission to convert it to a house. But I had trouble selling it as prospective buyers could not find it. The 67 Buxton Road address came from the access from Buxton Road via the platform leading to the doorway on the top floor of the building.
I again went back to the Planning Department and asked for a name change to the property. They could not help but put me in touch with the street naming department who did quite quickly agree that the property should be known as 2 Old Road.
Tony Beswick
Hello,
ReplyDeleteI had an office at 53 Buxton Road, Furness Vale, and used to pass this building daily on my way to the Post Office.
As you say it was once owned by Eastwood Cash Registers and the registered address was not 2 Old Road but 67 Buxton Road. There was never anyone in there when I passed. However I traced the owner to a namesake of mine but no relation called John Beswick. I think he lived up Whaley Lane in WB. Well I managed to contact him and he told me he had used it as a store room and workshop. He was a builder just the same as I was.
We agreed a price and I obtained Planning Permission to convert it to a house. But I had trouble selling it as prospective buyers could not find it. The 67 Buxton Road address came from the access from Buxton Road via the platform leading to the doorway on the top floor of the building.
I again went back to the Planning Department and asked for a name change to the property. They could not help but put me in touch with the street naming department who did quite quickly agree that the property should be known as 2 Old Road.
Tony Beswick
So what happened to the middle cottage on Old Road? I was born there and lived there as a child in the 1950/60s and that was 2 Old Road.
ReplyDeleteHello Balanus and thanks for your message. According to our records, it was converted into a house in about 2001. Much modernised, it was for sale recently: https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/50276499#/ . We don't know when Eastwoods left the building nor who else might have subsequently owned it. Was it still a business when you lived there? Anything that you can add helps to complete our archives. regards David Easton, archivist.
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