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Canterbury Street drill hall
The Canterbury Street drill hall is a former military installation in Blackburn, Lancashire. It is a Grade II listed building.
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BBC Radio Lancashire
BBC Radio Lancashire is the BBC's local radio station serving the county of Lancashire in England.
Originally launched as BBC Radio Blackburn, it expanded in 1981 to cover the whole county and was renamed BBC Radio Lancashire.
It broadcasts on FM, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios on Darwen Street in Blackburn.
According to RAJAR, the station had a weekly audience of 167,000 listeners in June 2025.
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St Anne's Church, Blackburn
St Anne's Church is a Roman Catholic Parish church in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. It was founded in 1848, built in 1926 and designed by the architectural firm of Hill, Sandy & Norris of Manchester, who were also behind the construction of St John the Baptist Church in Rochdale.
It is situated on the corner of Prince's Street and Paradise Street, next to St Anne's Catholic Primary School and close to King Street in the centre of the town. It was built in the Lombard Romanesque style. In December 2000 the church suffered an arson attack which gutted the building; it was rebuilt in 2004.
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Blackburn Cathedral
Blackburn Cathedral, officially known as the Cathedral Church of Saint Mary the Virgin with Saint Paul, is an Anglican (Church of England) cathedral situated in the heart of Blackburn town centre, in Lancashire, England. The cathedral site has been home to a church for over a thousand years and the first stone church was built there in Norman times.
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Blackburn Rural District
Blackburn was a rural district in Lancashire from 1894 to 1974.
It was named after, but did not include Blackburn, which was an independent county borough. It surrounded Blackburn on the north and western sides, and also included an exclave on the south-eastern side of Blackburn, consisting of the parishes of Yate and Pickup Bank and Eccleshill.
It was created in 1894 under the Local Government Act 1894. It lost the parish of Witton to Blackburn in the 1930s.
In 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, the district was abolished. Its territory was split between the new districts of Blackburn and Ribble Valley.