BACK in the day in the early 20th century, this is how the Brownhill area of Blackburn looked like.
The image, dug out from the Lancashire Telegraph archives, shows The Brownhill Arms public house and the row of cottages to the right are still a feature of this spot.
This picture was taken in the mid-1920s when work had commenced on the building of Brownhill Drive in the foreground, part of the 4.25-mile arterial road scheme from Whitebirk to Yew Tree.
It was the arrival in the 1920s of the arterial road - creating a by-pass route to the north of Blackburn for traffic to and from Preston - that transformed Brownhill into a major junction.
Brownhill Cottages were originally much plainer, but each acquired bay windows in a 1914 renovation scheme.
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