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The 'burn' part of the name comes from the stream which runs through the village.

Here we see the grand facade of the Blackburn Exchange & Reading Room, which opened in April 1865.

Said to be a devotee of the black arts, he was abducted by his God-fearing tenants, rolled in a sheet of lead and taken to Ninestane Rig, a stone circle beyond Whitterhope Burn.

Here we see the grand facade of the Blackburn Exchange & Reading Room, which opened in April 1865.

Blackburn's Public Hall opened in 1923.The Sessions House is just beyond it on the right.

Blackburn's Public Hall opened in 1923.

'Slaid' means 'flat marshy ground', 'burn' is the Old English word for brook, so the name means 'flat marshy ground by the brook', which describes the area well.

Blackburn became a County Borough in 1888.

This photograph captures the great changes that were going on in Blackburn during the post-war period.

This bridge is a railway bridge, and is now part of the west coast main line.Another railway bridge (to Blackburn) can be seen in the distance.

Another railway bridge (to Blackburn) can be seen in the distance.

This photograph captures the changes that were going on in Blackburn at the time.

Stationers and Bookshop.The large window proudly proclaims that they have a Bible and Prayer Book Department.The horse-drawn tram heads off towards the Town Hall.The Sudell family can be traced back

Blackburn had two markets, the indoor market and an open air one, held every Wednesday and Saturday, when this photograph was taken.

Blackburn became a County Borough in 1888.

When this photograph was taken, Blackburn had two markets, the indoor market and an open air one, held every Wednesday and Saturday.

Blackburn means 'on the black stream'.The town guards the entrances to the river valleys we have been looking at in earlier pages - the Ribble, the Hyndeburn and the Hodder - and was the starting

Blackburn Road is at the very heart of the town.

Slaid means 'flat marshy ground', burn is the Old English word for brook, so the name means 'flat marshy ground by the brook', which describes the area well.

A bleak featureless view of Blackburn New Town.

The River Almond flows from Blackburn to the three towns of East, Mid and West Calder.

Stone setts pave the street and unobtrusive traffic lights control its junction with Manchester and Blackburn Roads.

is now the East Lancashire Preserved Railway.As well as having three railway lines, the town also had three turnpike roads.They were the Whalley to Manchester Road (1790), now Abbey Street; the Blackburn

Places such as Blackburn and Burnley were all but empty as millworkers and their families escaped en masse to Blackpool, Southport, Morecambe, Scarborough and North Wales.