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Congregational Chapel Mill Hill erected 1847 costing £6,000 seating 950 persons. Benefactor Joseph Eccles.
Congregational Chapel Montague Street.
Congregational Chapel Park Road
Congregational Church Institute Bottomgate (1930-47);
Congregational School Chapel Witton built in 1884 accommodating 450 persons.
Coniston Road (1912) previously Lettice Ann Street off Bay Street Little Harwood
Conservation Registration Association (Borough) 18 Fleming Square (1889); Mincing Lane (1929-46); Lord Street West (1948-56); 87 Preston New Road (1960s); agent Elijah Holt (1889)
Conservative Club - formed in 1864 and in June the 5 King William Street premises were opened. It comprised news-room, billiards room and others recreation rooms.
president: Daniel Thwaites (1878-81); chairman: Henry Duckworth (1870); secretary: Thomas Clarkson (1870) John Pilkington (1878) Nicholas Taylor (1881) T Preston (1897); steward: George Aspden (1878) John Haworth (1881);
Conservative Central Working Men's Club under the Exchange (1870) Thwaite's Arcade Church Street (1878-1939) secretary: Charles Hamer (1878) J C Haworth (1881) Thomas Preston (1897) Thomas Holden (1900) E Balme (1924-5) J Halliwell & R Scott (1939)
The list below are all Conservative clubs.
Thwaites' Arcade Church Street (1860-1951) Junior Church Street (1881-1951) sec C H Whewell (1897) P Isherwood (1900) St. John's and Trinity 15 Whalley (New) Road (1878-1951) 115 Dukes Brow (1889) sec John Sharples (1897-1900) Grimshaw Park 26 Grimshaw Park (1870-97) sec A Ratcliffe (1897) Robert Seed (1900) 80/82 Park Road (1878-1947) St. John's 119 Whalley Range (1870) 15 Whalley Road (1881) St. Thomas' 42 Higher Eanam (1870-1907) 19 Copy Nook (1881-1951) sec W H Dilworth (1897-1900) Four Lane Ends 115 (329) Shear Brow (1881-1947) sec J Houldsworth (1897) St. Mary's Witton (1881-1912) 37 King Street (1885-97) sec Ralph Taylor (1897-1900) 75/77 Moorgate Street Livesey (1881-1951) sec N Haslam (1897) Intack & Knuzden Accrington Road (1881-2012) sec J W Braithwaite (1897-1900) St. Stephen's Robinson Street Little Harwood Hall (1881-2017) sec Joseph Morton (1897-1900) School Lane & Haslingden Road Guide (1881-1951) sec J Leaver (1897-1900) Mill Hill Hollin Bank (1881-1909) sec J T Haslam (1897) John Holt (1900) 30 Rakes Bridge, Lower Darwen (1881-1912) sec H P Wilson (1897-1900) Bank Top 120 Bank Top (1870) St. Luke's 48 (50) Bank Top (1881-1947) St. Silas' Gibraltar Street Duke's Brow ( 1881-1951) sec R C Lupton (1897-1900) St. Matthew's 8 & 10 Audley Range (1881-1947) Galligreaves Hall (1897-1903) sec J Hacking (1897-1900) Bonsall Street (1903) Ewood & Hollin Bank Bolton Road (1895-1951) architects Sames & Green Northgate Spew Spout Road. (1903) Arthur Cliffe (1900) St. Luke's and St. Peter's (1912-51) St. Matthew's 8/10 Audley Range (1912-51) St. Mark's Redlam Witton (1881-1925) Preston Old Road (1915-2002) St. Paul's 6 Victoria Street (1870) Montague Street St. Peter's and St. Paul's 37 King street (1881) Montague Street (1926-51) Roe Lee (1889-1915) Outram Street (1915)
Conservative (Society) and Unionist Registration Association (Borough) 8 Clayton Street (1870)
18a Fleming Square (1878-1909) 39 Mincing Lane (1924-47) Lord St West (1951-8)
Formed 11 February 1835 chairman John Hargreaves, secretary Peter Ellingthorpe, president J F Hindle, vice-president William H Hornby.
secretary & agent: John Waring (1870) David Schofield (1878) E Holt (1897-1900) G G Dickinson (1909)
secretary: F Maxwell (1924-35) agents: George E Rush (1942) David Geddes (1946-7) Tom Demain (1951)
Conservatory Corporation Park was made by W Richardson & Sons of Darlington and was opened on 16th May 1900. Ainsworth & Sons of Northgate Blackburn made and erected the clock in 1900. The heating was installed in 1921. The whole of the ironwork was renovated in 1979-81 and the clock restored in 1994
Convent of the Legio Mariae St. Alban's Place (1939-47)
Convent and Orphanage (Franciscan) 24 East Park Road (1939)
Convent of the Sisters of Nazareth 3-4 St. Alban's Place (1915); Nazareth House Preston New Road (1930-51)
Convent of the Sisters of Notre Dame (ladies' boarding school) (1850-1969) Paradise Street (1850); Whalley (New) Road (1870-1909) Brookhouse; The house of Edward Kenworthy, called Brookhouse Lodge, was purchased in February 1859 and converted into a ladies' boarding school in 1878. The private chapel was served by the priests of St. Alban's R C Church. superioress: Sister St. John of the Cross (1889)
The Notre Dame convent and girls' Grammar School demolished in 1990
Convent of Notre Dame preparatory school Heathfield Meins Road (1951)
Convent (St. Annes') Franciscan (Orphanage) 7, 9 & 11 Princes Street (1903-51); Staveley 24 East Park Road (1930-51);
Conway Avenue (1966)
Coo Hill (1844-1938) house in Witton Park off to the right from the drive opposite from St. Mark's Church
Cook's Folly (1836-1929) Clayton Street (Shorrock Street 1878-1929) Grimshaw Park
Cook Street (1878-1980) 45 Higher Eanam Nos 3-21 and 2-16
Cook's Yard (1929-59) off Nab Lane
Cook Street Mill Higher Eanam (1881-1903) William Grimshaw cotton doublers & heald yarn manufacturer 1047 spindles sewing cottons etc.
Coopers Fold Farm (1841-1915) Ramsgreave James Hargreaves (1851-70)
Cooper's Court (1872) St Mary's Ward
Cooper Street (1870-1959) 14 Greaves Street
Cop (1851)
Copie (1750)
Copperfield Street (1888-1980) Dombey Street Nos 1-23 and 8-42
Coppice (House) Farm (1750-1966) Broken Stone Road / Roman Road Livesey George Ireland (1870)
Copster Hill Farm (1902-66) Haslingden Road Guide E Smalley (1966)
Copy House Farm (1900-15) Roman Road Whinny Heights
Copy Nook (1832) 71 Higher Eanam Nos 3-53 and 2-84
Copy Square (1851-1941) Copy Street off Dock Street
Copy Street (1852) Mill Street / 4 Dock Street Copynook
Cornelian Street (1903) Pearl Street Nos 1-55
Cornelian Terrace (1912-47) Cornelian Street
Corn Holme (1750)
Corn Meadow (1750)
Corn Mill Cottages (1903-49) Appleby Street Daisyfield
Coronation Avenue (1980)
Coronation House (1903) 25 Furthergate
Coronation Street (1929-66) 38 Windham Street
Coronation Terrace (1903) Nos 1-19
Coronation Terrace (1903-41) Coronation Street / Windham Street
Coronation Terrace (1903-41) William Holt Street / Highbury Place 3 houses
Coronation Walk the path through the cathedral grounds from Darwen Street to the Boulevard
Coroner's Office (Blackburn)
9 Shorrock Fold Church Street (1870-8) 2 King Street (1881-1903) 3(15) Richmond Terrace (1912-29)
2 Corporation Street (1930-47) New Market Street (1948-58) Lord St West (1951) New Market Street (1960s)
coroner: Henry Unsworth Hargreaves (1870-8) Henry J Robinson (1881-1912) D N Hazelwood (1915-25) T R Thompson (1930-47) G Wightman (1951)
Coroner's Office (for the County of Lancaster Blackburn District), 2 Corporation Street (1930-47); 27-29 Victoria Street (1951-8) coroner: T R Thompson (1930-47); H Backhouse (1951)
Corporation Baths
a) Freckleton Street (1868-1958) opened on 11th July 1868 and extended in 1884 at a cost of £7,750. Cover
an area of 2,350 sq yds. consisting one first-class bath (60ft x 34 ft) with 31 dressing boxes; one second class bath (60 ft x 33 ft) with 46 dressing boxes; 26 slipper baths for men and 10 for women. One bath demolished when it developed a leak in 1950. The rest was closed in 1969.
lessee: Peter Johnson (1878); superintendents: George Crompton (1881) William Townley (1885-1903) Ralph Holden (1909-25) T Gerrard (1930-5) T Walmsley (1942) (all baths) F Walmsley (1946-7) Harold Wilkinson (1951)
Cross Street baths (1870) St. Peter's superintendent: William Hallas (1870)
b) Belper Street (1906-2001) built at a cost of £9,328 covering 2798 sq. yds. opened on 10th July 1906. The plunge was 75ft by 30ft being 6ft 6ins to 3ft deep. 47 dressing cabins, 1 children's dressing room, balcony seating, slipper baths for 17 males and 20 females, 3 foam bath suites and 1 Russian bath. Daisyfield Pools revamped in 1982 at a cost of £1.5m included the replacement of the old plunge.
superintendent: I Cotton (1909-30); G Cotton (1930); J Gerrard (1935-9); F Walmsley (1947-51);
c) (Ladies') Blakey Moor (opened 1911-58)
instructress: Miss Lois Hodgson (1911-48) superintendent: J Barnes (1930);
d) Shadsworth Community Centre bath opened in 1974. Consisted of 25m pool.
e) Waves Barton Street opned in 1984 at a cost of £3.5m
Corporation Car Park Ewood (1947) Duke Street (1956)
Corporation Cleansing Department Pembroke Street (1947)
Corporation Destructor Works Wensley Fold (1947)
Corporation Electricity Works Jubilee Street see Electricity
Corporation Highways Department Store Yard Pembroke Street (1947)
Corporation Library 83 Havelock Street (1951)
Corporation Park Preston New Road is delightfully situated on the side of Revidge Hill occupying about 50 acres the land (increased later to 65 acres) was purchased from Joseph Feilden in January 1855. As a condition the corporation were required to construct roads on the East and West sides of the park. The natural advantages of the site were skillfully enhanced by planting shrubberies and groves of young trees; and by the construction of ornamental walks, fountains and picturesque lakes. The work under the direction of Messrs Henderson and McGregor of Birkenhead proceeded rapidly the total costing being over £14,700, a third of which came from the sale of part of the Town Moor to the various railway companies. The park was opened on 22nd October 1857 during the mayoralty of William Pilkington who presented 4 ornamental fountains. The largest of which is near the principle entrance on Preston New Road. There are two lakes in the centre containing waterfowl of various types these were known as 'the Can' and the 'Big Can' and were part of the Pemberton Clough Waterworks, the town's original water supply. The water was conveyed in wooden pipes to stand-pipes on various street corners where daily it was sold by the bucketful until the water mains were laid in 1847. On the highest part is a stone battery, which once contained two Russian cannons captured in the Crimean War and presented to the town. The cost up to the day of opening was £14,701 19s 5d. It included a large conservatory teahouse and an ideal bandstand. Added later were new Band-stand (17/9/1909) 3 bowling greens on 30 May 1923 and 4 tennis courts on the broad walk and a further tennis courts nearer the top of the park.
superintendant: Thomas Foxcroft. (1878-81) A Stratford (1897-1909) E Winsor (1924-35)
W H Watson (1942-7) H Aspden (1951)
The conservatory built in 1856 and the Park Entrance arch and lodges built in 1855 by Messrs Roberts and Walmsley were Grade 2 listed in 1974.
The bandstand was removed for the war effort in 1941. The whole park was Grade 2 listed on the English Heritage's Register of Historic Parks and Gardens in 1996. The park was upgraded to Grade 2+ in 2013 by English Heritage.
Corporation Park Myope (partially sighted) school West Park Road (1948-51)
Corporation Park Open Air School (1924-5)
Corporation Park Supporters Group (2000)
Corporation Store Yard (1941) Islington
Corporation Street (1870) 6 Astley Gate 1-7 and 2-6
Corporation Transport office 15/17 Railway Road (1946-51)
Corporation Tramways Department Holme Street (1929) 65 Church Street (1930-5) Railway Road (1941) general manager: J H Cowell (1930-5)
Cort Street (1844-1966) New Market between 33 Ainsworth Street and Victoria Street Nos 1-13 and 2-12
Cort Street (Back) (1878) Union Street
Corwen Close (1980)
Cottage Homes for Children see Blackburn Cottage Homes
Cottage Row (1851-1949) Park Place / Pilkington Street (1929) Lower Audley
Cotton Court (1852-72) Whalley Road
Cotton Exchange and Newsroom King William Street the foundation stone was laid by the Mayor J B S Sturdy on 10th March 1863 on the celebration of the wedding of HRH Albert Edward, Prince of Wales and HRH the Princess Alexandra of Denmark and opened April 1865. Designed by William Hayward Brackspear of Manchester the High Victorian gothic south wing was never built. It was built by Patrick Farrell to provide a weekly meeting place for those engaged in the cotton business. The company formed to run the exchange was the Blackburn Exchange Co. Ltd. chairman: James Cunningham (1863); secretary: Thomas Crook Ainsworth (1863); L Edleston (1889); superintendent: William Roylance (1870); manager: William Kenyon (1903-12); Robert Pearson (1915). Used as a lecture hall, concert hall, 3 day fair venue and a temporary theatre it opened as a cinema in 1912 as Exchange Picture Hall and was revamped as the Majestic cinema in 1924 then New Majestic cinema in 1932. Re-named the Essoldo in (1954), then the Classic (1967) followed by Unit Four (1981) and finished as the Apollo 5 (1992-2005). In 1975 the white stucco was removed to reveal the original stonework. Grade 2 listed in 1985. 2012 saw a group of volunteers come together to save the Exchange. The charity "Re:Source Blackburn" was created by Re:Ignite Church to buy the building for the town.
Cotton (Operative) Spinners' (and Manufacturers') Association Exchange Street (1870) 20 Ainsworth Street (1878) 13 Richmond Terrace (1881) 7 & 9 Peter Street (1885-1925)
secretary: Joseph Watson (1878-81) J Johnson JP (1897-1925) solicitors: Ainsworth & Son (1870)
Cotton Street (1844-1980) 11 Whalley (New) Road Brookhouse
Cotton Supply and Manufacturers' Association Exchange Street (1870) solicitors Ainsworth & Sons (1870)
Cotton Town () project (2002-9) digitalised 1500 images at the Blackburn with Darwen Library and Information Services funded by New Opportunities Lottery Fund
Cotton Trade Insurance Association 12 Darwen Street (1912-5); 12 Railway Road (1930); secretary: John Taylor (1912-15); J H Townley (1930);
Council of Cathedral Builders Central Chambers Richmond Terrace (1939-58)
secretary: Rev.W Kay MA (1939-51)
Council Chamber Town Hall. Last Meeting of Town Council in old chamber held 2nd April 1914 the first having been held on 30th October 1856. A new chamber opened 2nd May 1921
Council for Voluntary Service (Blackburn, Hyndburn & Ribble Valley) (1992) St. John's Centre Victoria Street
Countess Road (1980)
County Borough of Blackburn Maternity and Child Welfare Centres (1924-51)
57 Copy Nook (1924-5); Nova Scotia School (1924-5); Kendal Street School (1924-5); Parochial Hall Griffin (1924-30): Victoria Street (1935-47); All Saints' School, Bolton Road (1935-47); Throstle Street (1935-47); Duke Street (1935-47); Bent Street (1935-47); Kendal Street (1935-47); Griffin (1935-47); Parochial Hall, Hozier Street (1935-47); Cornelian Street (1935-51):
County Borough of Blackburn School Clinic Victoria Street (1930)
County (Conservative) Club (an association of gentlemen) (1877-81) 1 New Market Street Blackburn formed prior to 1877. hon. sec: Hy J Robinson (1878-1903) steward Henry Walmsley (1878-81)
County Constabulary Office / Station 51 King Street opened 27th August 1873 at a cost of erection of £4,000 including furnishing at £400. Court-room 49ft by 40ft magistrate's room superintendent's house 2 constables' houses and 4 cells.
superintendents: Edwin Sheppard (1852-8); W Read (1870); Isaac Bryning (1878-81); John Myers (1889-1903); J S McKeand (1912-15); E J Swaites (1930-9); R C Floyd (1947);
County Court House and Offices Victoria Street built to the designs of Charles Reeves the foundation stone was laid by Robert Segar QC on 13th May 1861 and opened in March 1864 (7th May 1862). The building cost £8,000 and was built by Henry Aspden of Blackburn. It was built of Burnley stone and Mill Hill bricks. It covered an area of 650 sq yds the court room being 49ft by 29ft 9ins. Court day was Monday. Re-built and opened in 1912.
Judge William Adam Hulton (1870-85) registrar John Bolton (1870-97) chief clerk Henry T Platts (1878) high bailiff James Whiteside (1870-81) His Honour Judge Coventry (1897-1903) registrar J Nowell Withers (1900-15) His Honour Judge Hans Hamilton (1909-12) His Honour Judge H M Sturgess KC (1915) His Honour Judge F E Bradley (1924-30) His Honour Judge R Peel KC (1935-51) registrars Robert Bremner (1924-42) and W Woodcock (1935-9) W J Plant (1942-51) C R Davies (1946-51)
County Hotel Darwen Street demolished in 1979
County Magistrates' Clerk's offices 32 Clayton Street (1870-1909) 36 Northgate (1912-51)
clerk: Thomas Ainsworth sol. (1870-89) Thomas Howson (1897-1912) James Sharples (1915-30) N Higginson (1935-51)
County Motel see Moathouse Hotel
County Police Court (Station) held in smaller Court Room of the Town Hall until 1873 when the new court-house and offices for the County Constabulary were opened at 61 King Street. Designed by Mr.W S Varley costing £4,000. superintendents: John Myers (1885-1900) R Jump (1909) E J Swaites (1930-5) Cecil N F Lindsay (1942)
County Police Offices 1 Preston Old Road Cherry Tree (1947-51);
County Weights and Measures office Chapel Street (1947);
Court Fold (1836-1980) Paddock on left of Shear Brow above Park Avenue
Court Leet (1763) a form of local government prior to 1803 which became the Select Vestry
Court of Quarter Sessions (1886) Town Hall; Sessions House Northgate established in August 1886
recorder: Miles W Mattinson Esq KC (1897-1909) William Madden KC (1924-5) J Henry Thorpe OBE (1930-42) Wilfred Clothier KC (1946-7) S Scholefield-Allen KC MP (1951)
clerk of the peace: W E L Gaine (1897) Robert E Fox (1900) Sir Lewis Beard (1909-25) Briggs H Marsden (1930-5) Charles M Robinson (1942-7)
Courts (1941-66) Redlam 4 (2 Court) 9 (3 Court)
Court School of Dancing above Burton's on King William Street. Closed down in 1981.
Court Street (1851);
Cowell Street (1870-1966) Peel Terrace Little Peel Street Nos 1-23 and 2-64
Cowell Way (1980)
Cow Hill Fold (1786) beyond Whitebirk towards Rishton contains three homesteads of Tudor origin with one believed to be from the 14th cent.
Cowhill Lane (1966)
Cowper Street (1903-80) 284 Whalley Range Nos 3 and 2-16
Crabtree Street (1878-1980) (143)18 Harwood Street Nos 3 and 8 & 60
Craig Street (1885-1969) 88 Duckworth Street Nos 1-101 and 2-100 all now demolished
Cranborne Place (1903-29) Redlam Nos 154-164
Cranborne Terrace (1886) named after victorian statesman Darwen MP (1885-1941) Hope Terrace Nos 1-13
Cranbrook Street (1941-59) Grafton Street
Cran Moss (1750)
Crannber Meadow (1739) top of Duke's Brow
Cranshaw Drive (1980)
Craven's (1959)
Craven's Avenue (1941-59) 640 Bolton Road
Craven's Brow (1966)
Craven Croft (Creven Crofts) Farther and Nearer (1716-39) off Blakey Moor opposite where King George's Hall now stands.
Craven's Farm (1870-1996) Craven Avenue Bolton Road Lower Darwen
James Worsley (1870); John Worsley (1870) W Smalley (1966)
Craven Heifer (1832) Whalley Road
Crediton Close (1980)
Crematorium Pleasington (1956-2001) foundation stone laid by John Stirrup Mayor of Blackburn 9/9/1954 opened by the mayor Alderman W A Henshall MC on 3/9/1956 and dedicated by the Bishop W H Baddeley
Designed by E C R Page ARIBA Chief Architect Blackburn Corporation
(The) Crescent (1930) Lammack Road
Crescent View (1878-1941) Whalley (New) Road
'Cricketer's World' (Wednesday), 18 Darwen Street (1930); proprietor: E Walmsley (1930)
Cripples' Home opened at Livesey 13th June 1907
Crisedale Avenue (1980)
Croasdale Square (1980)
Croft (1822) top of Lord Street. James Gillies the architect erected property on the site and the caretaker's old house was demolished and the St Leger Inn built on its foundations.
The Croft (1772) Mr Thomas Livesey
The Croft (1912) East Park Road / Shear Brow
Croft Farm (1881-1930) Ewood Lower Darwen John Worsley jnr (1870)
Croft Head colliery (abandoned 1888) Little Harwood worked by Messrs E M Sharp of Little Harwood Collieries. Site absorbed by Phillips Road.
Croft Head House (Farm) (1843-1966) Sunny Bower Whalley Old Road Little Harwood 37 acres when sold by owner Percy Ashton sold (1911) along with Peacock Row
Joseph Walker (1870) James Topham (1911) H Cook (1966)
Croft Head Road (1980)
Croft Street (1903-80) 321 Bolton Road No 8
Cromer Place (1929) 21 Oozebooth Terrace 8 houses previously Spruce Street (1883)
Crompton Place (1929-80) 31 Bromley Street / Devonport Road named after George Crompton son of Samuel Crompton inventor of spinning 'mule'.
Crompton Street (1903) 7 houses
(Old) Cromwell Castle see Lower Shadsworth Farm
Cromwell Lodge (1893-1964) Shadsworth Road was a cottage nursing home at the end of its life and was demolished in 1964
Cromwell Street (1885-1980) Chester Street Audley Range side Nos 1-35
Cromwell Terrace (1881-1941) Cromwell Street Audley Range
Cromwell Terrace (built 1887-1941) 43 Shear Brow Nos 43-61
Crook Street (1878-1966) 7 Hutchinson Street Grimshaw Park
Crook's Yard (1930-49) 113 Lower Audley Street
Crop Field Street (1851)
Crop Street (1851)
Crosby Road (1941) 30 Manxman Road
Cross Daisy Street (1870) Daisy Street
The Crosse (1740s) bought by Robert Peel in the name of William later known as Peel Fold
Crossfield House (1870-1959) Branch Road Thomas Dugdale Jnr
Crossfield mill Nova Scotia (1844) owned by Robert Hopwood & Son cotton manufacturers later owned by owned by W D Coddington & Sons (1870-1930 exors) cotton spinners & manufacturers also Ordnance Wellington & New Mills 96,470 spindles 1817 looms and Codling & Hodgkinson (1902-15) cotton spinners & manufacturers
Cross Field (Crossfield) Street (1844-80) 37 Grimshaw Park No 6
Crossfield (1941) Branch Road Livesey
Cross Fold Farm (1832-1959) Brandy House Brow John Duckworth (1832)
Cross Hill House (1890)
Crosshill Road (1903) 303 Preston New Road 2 houses (1903) Holm Bush and Wywill Place
Crosshill Special school (1969) Crosshill Road (1992-99) Shadsworth Road
Crosshill Tennis Club (1955). Please see also: Crosshill Tennis Club History
Cross Hills (1878-1959) 303 Preston New Road
Cross Hill View (1903-41) Selborne Street Witton
Cross Hill Villas (1929) 301 Preston New Road
Cross Keys (1750)
Cross Street (1929-41) 23 Branch Road Livesey
Cross Street (1818-70) Brookhouse Lane
Cross Street (1838-70) Chapel Street
Cross Street (1870-1941) Furthergate / Accrington Road
Cross Street (1870) Haslingden Road
Cross Street (1832-72) Park Road Grimshaw Park
Cross Street (1903-80) Lower Darwen Nos 2-12
Croston Close (1980)
Croston Street (1899) 60 Accrington Road
Crown Brewery Canterbury Street owned by Bourn & Mercer (1878) ale & porter brewers
Crown Street (1851-1966) (12)117 Harwood Street
Crow Trees Farm (1870-1959) Benson Street, Little Harwood Whalley Old Road Henry Holden (1870)
Croydon Street (1903) Cheltenham Street Nos 1-17
Crumphead Buildings (1851)
Crystal Place (1929-41) Whalley New Road
Crystal Springs Bleach Works Pearl Street started by John Higson & James Byrne before 1896. Kershaw & Co. Ltd. took over in 1905 went into receivership 1933 and machinery sold off 1935. Corporation bought and cleared site in 1964
Crystal Terrace (built 1903) Whalley New Road
Cuckoo Hall (1786-1959) Cucken Hall (1831) off Lammack Road Nos 1/2/4
Cuckoo (Hall) Brow (1929-1980) Lammack Road
Culshaw Street (1878-1980) 34 Higher Eanam Nos 1 & 2
Culvert Street (1903-80) 152 Lower Audley Street Nos 1-35
Cumberland Street (1870-1980) 35 Audley Lane Nos 1-33 and 2-76
Cumpstead Buildings (1872) Christ Church Ward
Cumpstey Street (1844-1980) 23 Hutchinson Street Grimshaw Park
Cumpstey Street Mill owned by Edward Briggs & Co cotton manufacturers (1894) then Banister Bros. and Moore Ltd (1902) later owned by Hopwood Manufacturing Co Ltd (1912-22) cotton manufacturers
Cunliffe (Cundlyffe, Cunlyffe) (1622)
Cunliffe Close (1980)
Cunliffe Moss Fold also Bullion Moss (1818-91) off Mire Ash Mellor
Cunliffe Road (1980)
Cunningham (House) Fold (1836-1949) Seven Acre Brook
Cunningham Place (1870-1980) 102 Montague Street Nos 2-22
Cunningham Street (1852) Bank Top
Curzon Place (1980)
Curzon Street (1903-66) 31 Belgrave Street Witton Nos 1-3 and 2-14
Customs & Excise (and Old Age Pensions) office 137 Preston New Road (1912-48)
Supervisor 1st District: P O'Shea; supervisor 2nd District: Thomas Waddington (1912)
Surveyor 1st District: J Walsh; surveyor 2nd District: Thomas Waddington (1915)
Regent House Regent Street (1951-8); Broseley House (1960s);
Cut Lane (1966)
Cutler Close (1980)
Cutler Street (1878-1966) 6 Cowell Street
C W L Forces Social Canteen 22 Northgate (1942) manageress: Mrs M Tomlinson (1942)
Cycling - Hill Climbs in Blackburn
The North Lancs Road club staged hill climbs in Blackburn. 2 in the 1950s up Shear Brow and 3 in the 1960s up Oozehead Lane (1963,64 & 65) Oozehead Lane was 302 yrds with average gradient of 1 in 6.1. 1963 winner Carl Barton of Coventry Road club in 46.79 secs never to be bettered
Cypress Ridge (1980)
'Daily Star' Railway Road (14/10/1902-3) Crown Newspaper Co. Ltd. Daisy Field (1852)
Dairy Street (1899) Nos 106-122
Daisyfield (1844)
Daisyfield CP School Clinton Street (opened June 1971) replacing Moss Street School on same site. 2 classrooms and entrance extension opened by Lord Patel May 2001
Daisyfield flats three multi-storey flats completed in 1965.
Daisyfield Co-operative Society (1870) grocers etc 62 Whalley Old Road (1870); 56 Harwood Street (1870); 36 Birley Street (1870); Audley Lane (1870);
Daisyfield Industrial Bees Co-operative Society Ltd. (1861-1915) grocers, drapers, butchers, cloggers, shoemakers, coal merchants 22, 24, 26, 27 & 29 Peter Street built in 1871 re-built in 1901, opening on 22nd March 1902 and demolished in 1968.
Branches: 56 Harwood Street (1878); 54 Trinity Street (1878); 15 & 96 Audley Lane (1878); 52 Scotland Road (1878); 50 & 52 Whalley Range (1878); 10 Plane Street (1878); 10 Audley Range (1878-81);
manager: James Hargreaves (1878-81); secretary: Thomas Wolstenholme (1878); William Wolstenholme (1881);
Offices: Belper Street; Central Stores: Peter Street;
Branches: 71 Harwood Street; 54 Trinity Street; Audley Lane; 52 Scotland Road; 50 Whalley Range; 10 Plane Street; 89 & 262 Audley Range; 29 Furthergate; 74 Withers Street, Church Hill; 455 Whalley New Road; 4 Ordnance Street; Navigation Bridge; Knuzden (1908);
manager: James Grunshaw; treasurer Harry Corlett; secretary James T Ainsworth. (1903)
manager: T Ainsworth (1912-15); secretary: Rixon Hindle (1912-15)
Daisyfield Junction where the Hellifield line left the main line to Rishton
Daisyfield Methodist Free Church (1889)
Daisyfield mill (1844) owned by John Sharples & Co cotton spinners and manufacturers later owned by William Forrest (1870) cotton spinner & manufacturer then John Dugdale & Sons (1893-1958) cotton spinners & manufacturers see Cherry Tree mill.
Daisyfield Mill built early1870s as a corn mill. Owned by Joseph Appleby & Sons (1878-1903) corn millers purchased by Graham & Brown wallpaper manufacturers (1967) as a warehouse and distribution centre but closed in 1987 after 134 years. Now used by Granada TV Studios and others as offices etc.
Daisyfield Play & Community Centre (1996)
Daisyfield Sawmills (1903) T A Aspden & Sons (1903)
Daisyfield Shed (1891) William Carr operated 442 looms jacconettes shirtings mulls twills satteens stripes spots dice checks plain and coloured handkerchiefs and cloths 22 to 56 inches wide.
Daisyfield Siding (1912-30) Florence Street
Dsisyfield Signal box (1873) type 6 Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway by Saxby & Farmer. Modernised 2007 withnew windows stairs and toilet extension. Grade 2 listed 2013.
Daisyfield Station (1881-1958) Moss Street closed 1958
Daisyfield Street Moss Bridge (1966)
Daisy Hill (1824)
Daisy Lane (1929-41) 46 Whalley Old Road
Dais(e)y Street (1851-1980)117 Birley Street / Peter Street Daisy Field Nos 5-159 and 38-122
Daisy Street Mill Daisy Street owned by Daisyfield Cotton Spinning & Manufacturing Co Ltd (1870-8) then Hollinshead Mill Co Ltd (1902) later by Daisyfield Ring Co Ltd (1912-15) cotton spinners followed by John Dugdale & Sons Ltd (1939) cotton spinners & manufacturers
Dalby Crescent (1980)
Dalby Lea (1980)
Dalby Road (1941-59) Park 115 Pilmuir Street
Dale Crescent (1980)
Dale Street (1818-1980) 41 Whalley Banks King Street
Dalton Street (1878-1966) 74 Skiddaw Street / St Thomas' Street Nos 2-18
Dame Evelyn Fox Special School (1992-99) Roman Road
Dam Heys (1750)
Dam Hey's Bridge (Smalding) owned by Whittakers (1889) a wooden turn-bridge over the canal on the site of the present Audley bridge
Dam Meadow (1716) Lower Audley
Dandy Row (1851) cottages Revidge No 2 (1903) see Mile End Row
Dandy Square (1872) off Revidge see Dinkley Square
Dandy Square / Eccles Street (1870) Jubilee Street
Dandy Walk (1795) (Occupation Road 1830) is a small alley from the side of the old Post Office (now The Postal Order) at 17 Darwen Street through to the Boulevard that came out along side the old Palace Theatre. Originally it was flagstones built into the church wall along the Blakewater from Salford to Darwen Street (see Gossip About Old Blackburn – Luke S Walmsley Blackburn Weekly Telegraph 16/8/1919). At the Blakewater the crossing was made by “hipping stones" as early as 1849 later a footbridge was built. It contained Dandy Walk factory (see Jubilee Mill) from which it got its name, which was the subject of riots and a blacksmith's forge, later a bill posting company. No mention is made of Dandy Walk on Gillies' map of 1824. In later years the home of Blackburn & District Billposting Co.
Darwen Street (1795) previously Church Street Neville's still there in 1954 Nos 1-121 and 9-136
Darwen Street Bridge built 1621 demolished in 1872 when roadway was widened and present iron bridge erected.
Darwen Street Railway Bridge re-constructed for the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Co. by Foster Yates and Thom starting in January 1884 and finishing in August 1885. Re-furbished 2000.
Daub Hall (1836) Ouzehead
Davy Field (Davye Feeld) (1609)
Davy Field Brow (1966)
Dawlish Close (1980)
Dawson Fold (1843) beyond Alum Scar
Dawson, William (1864) Jubilee Street shuttle works
Day Industrial School (1903) Mayson Street superintendent: Miss Sarah Quayle
Day Nursery Holden House 85 Preston New Road (1947) matron: Miss Oliver Hamer (1947)
Deaf and Dumb Institute 65 Northgate (1897-1900) Victoria Street (1909-35) Kendal Street (1941-58) hon sec: W H F Sames (1897-1900) W Armistead (1909) chaplain: Rev T H Sutcliffe MA (1946-51)
Deal Street (1900-80) Baywood Street Nos 2-8
Dean Street (1870-1941) 13 Canterbury Street / Cobden Street Islington Nos 1-9 and 2-28 demolished 1971
Deganwy Ave (1959)
Delamere Street (1941-59) off Marsden Street
Delf (Delph) Lane (1899) Audley Range
Delf (Delph) Street (1851-1980) 30 Haslingden Road
Delius Close (1998)
Delph Approach (1980)
Delph Close (1980)
Delph Top (Farm) (1872) St Thomas' Parish
Dent Street (1844) Leyland St / Montague St
Denville Road (1980)
Denville Street (1929-66) St Paul's Street / Barley Lane previously Snig Brook
(Nancy) Derbyshire Alms Houses St. Silas' Road built in 1895. Designed by Stones and Gradwell of Blackburn they were opened by James Hargreaves, chairman of the trustees on 20th June 1895. They were built of stone and comprised a porch, a living room, 2 bedrooms, a scullery and an outside toilet.
Derby Place (1878) 52 Shear Brow
Derby Street (1870-1980) 102 Whalley Old Road Nos 3-65 and 16-86
Derby Street United Methodist Free church (bef 1895)
Derbyshire House (1929-41) 18 Alexandra Road
Der(e)ham Street (1878-1980) 6 Mosley Street Nos 4-14
Derikins Street (1851-1959) Brookhouse 39/45 Whalley New Road
Derikins Street (1870) Duckworth Street
Derrikens (Derikins) (1788) Whalley Road now known as Brookhouse
Derrikens Bleach Crofts started by Hugh Stuart & Co. in 1796. Leased by James Bealey of Radcliffe 1788. Closed 1809. A size house operated by John Hornby & partners and in 1828 Hornby & Birley built Brookhouse Mills on the site.
Derrikens Bridge Whalley New Road see Bridges
Derwent Place (1912-41) 331 Bolton Road
Derwent Place (1878-1941) 98/100 Preston New Road
Derwent Street (1941-59) 51 Montague Street
Derwent Terrace (1870) Preston New Road
Derwent Villas (1870) Edward Healey (1870)
Destructor Bennington Street. Marked by the tallest chimney (312 ft) in the country when built. Erected in Accrington brick by the corporation at a cost of £2,550 in 1888 it was eventually demolished in 1959.
Corporation Destructor works: Wensley Fold (1930-51);
Deviling (1900) Blackamoor Road Guide
Devonport Road (1929-41) previously Sarah Ellen Street 131 Montague Street
Devon Road (1941-66) 249 Accrington Road
Devonshire Court (1980)
Devonshire Road (1966)
Dewhurst Farm (1915) Wilpshire
Dewhurst Street (1870-1980) 31 Higher Audley Street Nos 1-103 and 22-94
Dewhurst Street mill Audley owned by Barker, Marsh & Co Ltd had 312 looms (1930-1958) previously owned by Richard Thompson (1878-1903) cotton manufacturer 460 looms shirtings and Howarth Nuttall Ltd (1903-22) cotton manufacturers and then George Taylor (1922)
Dick Dadd's (1938) Ramsgreave
'Dick Snowdrop's Comic Journal '109 King Street (1878) printer & publisher George Brooks (1878)
Dickens Fellowship Blackburn Branch No 107 (1935-6);
Dickens Street (1885-1980) Dombey Street Nos 51-103
Dickinson Close (1980)
Dickinson Street (1878-1941) named after ironfounder William Dickinson 46 Duckworth Street Nos 3-41 and 2-16
Dickinson Street Mill (1915) owned by Shakespeare Mill Co Ltd cotton manufacturers
Didsbury Street (1929-41) 59 Accrington Road
Didsbury Street Mill owned by Britannia Mill Manufacturing Co (Gt. Harwood) Ltd (1912-39) and Thomas Kay Ltd (1912-15) cotton manufacturers
Dickinson, William & Sons (1827-64) Phoenix Iron works looms carding & grinding machines
Dimmock Street (1929-80) 26 Peel Street
Dinckley Square (1851-1941) off Revidge Road
Dingfield (1929-41) 73 Preston New Road
Diocese of Blackburn founded 5 November 1926 having been taken out of the Diocese of Manchester it in turn taken out of the Diocese of Chester in 1847. Consists of the two Archdeaconries of Blackburn and Lancaster, which are divided into ten Deaneries:- Accrington, Blackburn, Burnley, Leyland and Whalley in the Blackburn Archdeaconry and The Fylde, Garstang, Lancaster, Preston and Tunstall in the Lancaster Archdeaconry.
Diocese of Blackburn Moral Welfare Council 40b Preston New Road (1930-47)
secretary: F M Girdler (1930); A J Hogarth (1935);
Diocesan Board of Finance Cathedral Close Church Street (1947-51) secretary: E L S Walker (1947-51)
Dippers Chapel (1836) Grimshaw Park
Disinfecting and Cleansing Station Throstle Street (1924-60s)
Dispensary for Sick Animals of the Poor Brewery Street (1935);
Disraeli Street (1878-1980) 77 Infirmary Street / 28 Hall Street Nos 1-35 and 2-22 named after Benjamin Disraeli Prime Minister (1868/ 1874-80)
District Bank building King William Street erected July 1852 W Stones architect
District Club 2 Library Street (1878-1925) Higher Church Street (1935-9) 11 Church Street (1930-9) 1 West Park Road (1942-2002) merged with the Reform club
hon. secs. James Porter and Edward Brooks (1878-81); steward: William H Farrer (1878) J H Place (1881) R Greenwood and T Houlker (1885) secretary: George E Stones (1889) Ralph Bell (1897) H N Dixon 1900) E Livesey Dixon (1903) J Hargreaves (1909) Guy Waterworth (1912-15) H Backhouse Jnr (1924-5) C T Stirrup (1930) A R Sames (1935) G Haworth (1939) N Isherwood (1942-51)
District Nurses Home Byerden House Freckelton Street (1900) St. Peter Street (1909-46) see Blackburn Nurses' Home
Provident Office 3 Mill Lane (1946-7) matron: Miss E Chadwick (1900)
Dixon Court (1878-1941) Brook Street Spring Bank Terrace Livesey
Dixon Street (1870-1980) 112 Bank Top Nos 25 and 34-36
Dixon Street Mill owned by Bank Top Mill Co Ltd (1901-58) had 574 looms in 1958
Dock Street (1844-1941) 9 Higher Eanam Nos 17/21 and 34-46 Windmill Works (1903)
Dombey Street (1929-80) 24 Audley Range
Dominium Road (1958) Silas
Dorchester Close (1966)
Dorothy Street (1941-58) Mill Hill
Dorritt Street (1929-41) Copperfield Street
Dorset Road (1966)
Dorset Street (1870-1959) 21 Forrest Street
Double Street (1872-1966) (now West View Place) No 2 (1903)
Douglas Place (1929) Whalley New Road
Dover Close (1980)
Dover Street (1903-80) Mill Brook Street Lower Darwen Nos 1-27 and 14
Down Street (1929-59) 254 Bolton Road
Downham Street (1899-1980) after 124 Johnston Street Nos 151-191 and 126-196
Draw Well situated opposite to the Fleming Square bank corner as early as 1647 had a circular stonewall around it
Drinking Fountains
a) Mrs. Lewis' Mission Peter Street
b) Memorial to Alderman Dixon Darwen Street Bridge. Removed 2001 re-sited in Fleming Square
c) Big Lamp Salford
d) Cemetery Gates presented by Councillor Culshaw in 1900
e) Memorial to Randle Francis Feilden Preston Old Road entrance to Witton Park. In disuse by 1910 and removed 1932
f) Corner of Bridge Street and Jubilee Street (1894) in station wall
g) Memorial to George Dewhurst on front of Market House
Troughs
h) Left hand side of Pleckgate Road near Aspinall Fold (1894)
i) Fountain Inn Accrington Road (1894)
j) Sudell Cross (1894)
k) Junction of Salford and High Street (1894)
l) Griffin Inn Redlam
Dryden Street (1878-1966) Harwood Street opposite 11 Hutton Street Nos 7-21 and 2-18
Dry Dock (1929-58) Eden Street
Duchess Street (1903-41) 24 Fore Street Lower Darwen Nos 5-9 and 2-24
Duck Loom House (1851) Feniscowles
Duckworth Field mill George Street West owned by Baguley & Driver (1870) cotton manufacturers also Rowland Baguley (1878) shuttle & bobbin manufacturers and Thomas Driver & Co (1878) cotton spinners & manufacturers then St Paul's Mill Co. Ltd. (1887-94) 955 looms shirtings mulls and jacconettes followed by E Graham & Co Ltd (1902-30) cotton manufacturers
Duckworth Hall pit (1830-84) George Yates leased it to Simpson & Young in early 1850s. The shafts were deepened to the Lower Mountain Mine and eventually the workings connected to those of Aspen Colliery closing in (1884) and then possibly used as a pumping pit for the Aspen Colliery (1896).
Duckworth Pitt Fields (1716) Audley
Duckworth's Buildings (1872) St Thomas' Parish
Duckworth Street (1851) King Street 83 Whalley Banks Nos 3-87 and 14-88
Duckworth Street (1878) 83 Whalley Road
Dugdale, John & Sons Soho Foundry (1864) iron founders & machine makers, machine manufacturers
Dugdale Street (1878-1959) Leyland Street / 7 Cooper Street Nos 13-23
Dugdale's Terrace (1903-41) Lansdowne Street Witton Nos 78-92
Duke of Lancaster's Yeomanry (Blackburn Troop) St. Peter's Street Captain Huntingdon D S O. (1903)
Duke of Sussex Street (1878-1980) Livesey
Duke Street (1795) 71 Northgate named after Duke of Kent No 25
Duke Street Mill owned by William Greenwood cotton manufacturers (1894) then Arthur Shutt & Co Ltd (1902-22) cotton manufacturers
Duke's Brow (1844) 56 Preston New Road Nos 1-177 and 2-172 previously Bank Brow No 4 a weavers cottage
Duke's Brow Liberal Club secretary: E Brook (1889)
Duke's Brow Wesleyan School Chapel congregation left in 1879 to attend Trinity Chapel Preston New Road
Duke's Cliffe (1870) 18 Duke's Brow Thomas Copeland (1870)
Duke's Villas (1878) 14/16 Duke's Brow
Duke Terrace (1903-41) 9 New Bank Road
Dundee Drive (1980)
Dun Horse Yard (1851);
Dunoon Drive (1958) Shadsworth
Dunsop Street (1903) off 15 Calder Street Nos 2-30
Durbar Mill Fareham Street off Didsbury Street owned by Thomas Kenyon Ltd (1922-58) had 600 looms
Durham Close (1980)
Dutch Loom (1879-1949) Albion Road / 68 Livesey Branch Road
Dutton's Brewery opened their new bottling plant on Eanam (1957) Whitbread acquired the company in 1964 (711 public houses & 100 off licences) it ceased production in 1978 and was demolished in 1986
Dutton Sports Club Larkhill Street (1935) secretary: J McLeod (1935)
Duxbury Street (1851-1966) 8 Wrigley Street / 13 Brookhouse Lane No 33
Dye and Calender Works Little Peel (1848)
Dyke-nook (1929-49) Shadsworth
Dyson Street (1885-1980) 21 Infirmary Road Nos 1-23 and 2-18