THIS photograph may have confused us but it certainly did not have many of our readers puzzled.

We had many of you getting in touch to correct us.

We had wrongly described this junction as being the junction of Blackburn Road and Belmont Road - which is what it said on the back of the photograph in our archive.

However it was, in fact, the junction of Blackburn Road and Old Road which is a little nearer to town.

Thanks to everyone who got in touch with us to point out the mistake, including Philip Platt who helpfully sent some information about this area.

“In your piece about the photo of an Astley Bridge road junction you say that it is the Blackburn Road and Belmont Road junction.

“It is in fact a couple of hundred metres further south than that. It is the junction between Blackburn Road and Old Road.

“The pub is still there. The mill was, I think, Hesketh’s Mill, now demolished, and on the site now is the ASDA store.

“I believe that Old Road was originally the road to Blackburn. The route went up Old Road, Broad o’th’ Lane and Bar Lane (where there was a toll bar) rejoining the route now taken by the present Blackburn Road approximately opposite Hill Cot Road,” he says.

This area of Blackburn Road does look very different today but is still, clearly, recognisable to our readers who are familiar with Astley Bridge.