Places
36 places found.
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- Blackburn, Lancashire
- Darwen, Lancashire
- Blackburn, Lothian
- Brookhouse, Lancashire (near Blackburn)
- Cherry Tree, Lancashire
- Turton Bottoms, Lancashire
- Belmont, Lancashire
- Little Harwood, Lancashire
- Blackburn, Grampian (near Cranloch)
- Blackburn, Grampian (near Kintore)
- Blackburn, Yorkshire (near Rotherham)
- Pleasington, Lancashire
- Feniscowles, Lancashire (near Blackburn)
- Feniscowles, Lancashire (near Blackburn)
- Intack, Lancashire (near Blackburn)
- Mill Hill, Lancashire (near Blackburn)
- Four Lane Ends, Lancashire (near Blackburn)
- Waterloo, Lancashire
- Brownhill, Lancashire
- Whitehall, Lancashire
- Chapeltown, Lancashire
- Blacksnape, Lancashire
- Bank Hey, Lancashire
- Edge Fold, Lancashire
- Feniscliffe, Lancashire
- Whittlestone Head, Lancashire
- Higher Croft, Lancashire
- Chapels, Lancashire
- Rosehill, Lancashire
- Waterside, Lancashire
- Edgworth, Lancashire
- Hoddlesden, Lancashire
- Pickup Bank, Lancashire
- Pleckgate, Lancashire
- Lammack, Lancashire
- Lower Darwen, Lancashire
Photos
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Maps
232 maps found.
Books
1 books found. Showing results 1 to 1.
Memories
183 memories found. Showing results 1 to 10.
The Ansons
My father Robin Anson, was the second son of Violet and Lawrence Augustus Anson. Lawrence was brought up by his grandparents who lived in one of the cottages opposite the Triton pub. His mother Beatrice, was a maid in Bridlington but ...Read more
A memory of Brantingham in 1930 by
Padiham
I started married life in Padiham l952 we lived in Burns Street my 2 sons were born there at Bramley Meade nursing home in Whalley we were there till 1957 when we moved back to Blackburn because my husband trasferred from Padiham to be ...Read more
A memory of Padiham in 1952 by
One Of The Worst And Two Of Best Years Of My Childhood
wake house (hereward the wake)1966 till 1969 I too was an inmate at that time ,the bullying from the bigger older boys made the place hell for the first year .then one evening i flipped out on ...Read more
A memory of Tiffield in 1966 by
My Time At Netherside Hall School 1967 To 168
hi my name is anthony blackburn i ad some good time there i remember tony haywood and a boy called steven windows he was in a wheelchair i used to be in the football team as well mr mercer was my ...Read more
A memory of Grassington
Memories Of Padiham
I was born in 1947 to Betsy and Leonard Mcgough on Railway Terrace, which I believe is now called Russell Terrace. My mother worked in the cotton mills all her life and retired in a mill at Read. We moved to Moor Lane where we ...Read more
A memory of Whalley in 1957 by
Growing Up In Kelloholm 1959 1969
I was born to Janette (maiden name Fowler) and Charlie Ross in 1959 and lived at 13 Main Street and then 15 Guffock Road. My granny and grandad were Isabel and William Fowler(aka 'Slip Fowler' the bookie!). I too, ...Read more
A memory of Kelloholm by
Ye Olde High Lane
I moved to High Lane with my parents when I was 15 in 2000. It was a tiny old fashioned village, so tiny infact that there was only one house and everybody in the village lived there. There was one village shop (run by Tubbs and ...Read more
A memory of High Lane in 2000
Worthing Front Or Silverstone
In about 1935, when I was 5 years old, my Grandfather used to take us all on gentle rides into the South Downs from his home at 11 Gaisford Road in his circa 1930 Hillman Minx. The beloved Minx was not turbo-charged and ...Read more
A memory of Worthing in 1930 by
World War Two
At some point during the Second World War I was sent to what was called a convalescent home in Blackburn. I was a bed wetter and was sent there by the people that took me in as an evacuee. They never told my mother that I was being ...Read more
A memory of Blackburn in 1943 by
Working On Blackburn Market In The 1950s
I was born in 1935 and raised in Blackburn, attending the Grammar School until my widowed mother could not afford to keep me there. I left school in February 1952 and got a job as a Junior Clerk in the Markets ...Read more
A memory of Blackburn
Captions
68 captions found. Showing results 1 to 24.
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.
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