Mitchell and Kenyon Blackburn’s pioneering filmmakers.Mitchell and Kenyon Blackburn’s pioneering filmmakers.
Blackburn was home to one of the country’s first cinemas and the base for pioneering filmmakers Mitchell and Kenyon. The[...]
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Explore Blackburn’s lost Railways, the lines to Great Harwood and ChorleyExplore Blackburn’s lost Railways, the lines to Great Harwood and Chorley
Blackburn lost two lines during the Beeching era, the Great Harwood loop line and the line to Chorley. Much fun[...]
Accrington women work on the trams, 1918Accrington women work on the trams, 1918
WWI accelerated Accrington women’s suffrage and more women were employed on the transport network. Accrington Corporation Tramways employed women conductress’s.[...]
Workers starve in Blackburn, the 1826 trade slumpWorkers starve in Blackburn, the 1826 trade slump
Lead image from a drawing by Dorothy Tennant (1855-1926). Two hundred years ago handloom weavers were in extreme distress in[...]