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Date of photo: 1984	Picture source: Burnley Civic Trust Image Archive
The Mitre Hotel was situated at 118 Westgate.
In the 1920s the headquarters of the Physical Culture Club were at this pub. At its opening night my great uncle, Thomas Walsh, who was 18 at the time, was killed in an accident when he fell from the roof.
Yvonne Parsons (February 2012)
In 1995 skeletal remains of a child were found wrapped in newspaper by workmen carrying out repairs to a chimney. The unknown child was believed to have died 75 years previously, approx 1920. Mother and cause of death unknown. Mother possibly in relationship with a soldier based at the barracks across the road.
Roger Mellie (February 2022)
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