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This photograph was taken from outside the Market Hall looking down Blackburn Road towards its junction with Abbey Street.

Farrer's second son, Major Henry William Francis Blackburne Farrer if the Royal Field Artillery, would be killed at the age of 24 by a German shell in France, only days before the end of the Great War

Pleasington Priory, a Roman Catholic church dedicated to St Mary and John the Baptist and built in 1819, is set on a hill on Pleasington Lane, close to the River Dunsop and Witton Park, Blackburn.

The Black Bull, where the people are standing, was built in 1855; it was a Blackburn Brewery Company pub, and so was the Brown Cow. Can you see the two motor bikes and sidecars in our photograph?

This wonderful nostalgic photograph shows steam engine 'black 5', the work-horse of the LMS region, heading south with non-corridor stock on a local, probably to Bamber Bridge and on to Blackburn.

These were the last buildings on the western edge of the town, on the Exeter road, where Foundry House is now flats and the metal-working premises of J I Blackburn Limited and an entire new housing

Those who did their business here would know where to find the Blackburn cotton manufacturers, or the Oldham cotton spinners, as well as cotton brokers, agents for the Indian and Chinese markets, and machinery

Blackburn possessed six parks, but Corporation Park was the one laid out on clear Victorian lines. Sixty acres were transformed with terraced walks, as we see here.

Here we have a grand view of the railway arches heading out of Whalley.The railway arrived in the village in 1850, and the 600yd- long viaduct carries the Blackburn to Clitheroe line at a height of

Blackburn possessed six parks, but Corporation Park was the one laid out on clear Victorian lines. Sixty acres were transformed with terraced walks, as we see here.

Stanhill is a small community on one of the B-roads between Oswaldtwistle and Blackburn. It was in this building in 1764 that James Hargreaves lived when he invented the Spinning Jenny.

The newer part of Langho, about a mile distant, has developed since the road to Clitheroe from Blackburn was made.

There are records of millers in Neston dating back to 1672, and the Mostyn Estate map of 1814 indicates two windmills in the area, but one was demolished in 1822 following severe storm damage.

Clement Houghton lost the use of his other leg at an early age, and travelling from Blackburn with a friend, he skated at Brungerley in the winter of 1895.

Listed by Edward Baines in his Gazetteer with the many villages of Blackburn Hundred, Downham is 3 miles north-east of Clitheroe.

Notice the stage-coach arch next to the bay windows: the stage coaches to Preston and Blackburn left from here.

It was built as a Chapel of Ease to Blackburn.

William Brooks and Roger Cunliffe had been running a bank in Blackburn for some years before they took up this establishment.

Salford was an area of Blackburn; the name derives from 'salix (willow tree) ford'. This is where the old pack horse trail to Accrington and the east crossed the River Blakewater in a shallow ford.

Today, the house has changed little, although the black barn has been demolished. Also, with the conversion of the railway from steam to electricity, the overhead wiring is strung along the skyline.