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Princes Street British School (1903) mixed and infants

Prince's Theatre Jubilee Street                                                   see Grand Theatre

Princess Gardens (1951) Feniscowles

Princess Street (1852) Amberley Street / Freckleton Street   

                                                                                            named after Princess Charlotte

Princess Street (1903-80) Waterfall Livesey Nos 1-35 and 6-14

Princess Terrace (1903-30) 462/474 Whalley New Road

Princess Terrace (1881-1930) Wellington Road / 161 Livesey Branch Road

Princess View (1870-1929) 35/37 Duke's Brow                                  

Thomas Parkinson, William Pickles (1870)

Prince of Wales' Club Lower Cockcroft (1900-39)   secretary: William Roberts (1900) A Lomax (1903) James Stuart (1909-15) C Mitton (1939)

Prince of Wales' Terrace (1878-1929) (13) 15 Duke's Brow

Pringle Street (1885) Bennington Street Nos 1-229 and 56-244

Printer Street (1899-1966) 15 Accrington Road

Prior Bank (1903-29) 102 Preston New Road

Prior's Close (1980)

Pritchard Street (1903-80) off Southworth Street / Infirmary Road Nos 3-7 and 6-54

Probation Office Court House Northgate (1951)                                              probation officer: G Shaw (1951)

Proctor Nook Farm (1870-1949) Lower Darwen                                              Thomas Baron (1870)

Procter Street (1878-1980) 11 Mosley Street Nos 1 and 2-26

Progress Avenue (1980)

Progress Street (1903-66) St Stephen's Road Little Harwood Nos 1-27

Progress Works Benson Street Little Harwood (1958) William Heading & Co 16 narrow fabric looms

Property Owners' Association 1a Tacketts Street (1941)

The Prospect House Albert Street (1890)

Prospect Mill Walter Street owned by Prospect Manufacturing Co Ltd (1930-58) cotton manufacturers

Prospect Mill Wharf Street was owned by George Mayhall (1902) later by Birtwistle & Oddie Ltd (1912-58) cotton manufacturers and had 350 looms

Prospect Place (1870)                                                                       John Baldwin, Miss Grace Thwaites (1870)

Prospect Villas (1870-1921) Infirmary Road Nova Scotia                               John Harrison (1870)

Proudlove('s) Row (1850-1929) Whalley Banks St Peter's Parish

Providence Street (1929-80) 221 Whalley Old Road

Providence Terrace, St James' Road (1903) 148-162

P S A Institute Freckleton Street

                                                secretary: W J Garland (1903); George Hamilton (1909-12)

Public Abattoir Sumner Street (1889-1941)                                          superintendent: Charles Knight (1889-97)

Public Art

            Statues:         W H Hornby

                                    W Gladstone

                                    Queen Victoria                                                         see seperate descriptions

Blackburn Cathedral   The Healing of the Nations 21ft dia disc artist: Mark Jalland                                              £100000        (2001)

Bolton Road All Saints' churchyard metal structures   demolished 2007

Boulevard                  grandmother & child with teddy    artist: Alan Wilson                                                    £25000           (1997)

Church Street                       5 sculptures depicting growth of a cotton bud                                                                £250000    (2001-3)

Darwen Street bridge  new design parapet

Eanam Wharf           Prospect House 6 mosaics artists and children from Higher Croft                                         (2004)

King George's Hall  giant gold coloured French horn       artists: Adrian Noakes & Noah Rose               £4000             (1997)

King Street bridge    new design parapet                                                                                                             (2003)

The Bradi, Sudell Cross Light Sabre 32ft high               designer Simon Watkinson                                               £75,900          (2007)

Livesey Branch Road / Moorgate Street mini stonehenge                                                                                           (2000)

Lord's square                        mother & child                                  sculptor Robert Thomas                                         £2000     (1974)        removed for re-development

Montague Street / Oakenhurst Road tiger sculpture                 artist: Martyn Bednarczuck                                     (2004)

Museum                    outsize artist's brush                                                                                                                       £4000     (1997)

Queen's Park                       tree trunk caterpillar                         srtist: John Adamson                                                          (2004)

Railway Station        24m mural of             famous people                     artist: Stephen Charnock                                       £40000     (2001)

Shadsworth              The Beehive

Town centre              2 metal signposts 9m & 7m high Markets                                                                                   £24000

                                    1 millenium marker                                                                                                              £25000

Town Hall Street & Northgate   metal gates                                designers: Salma Younus St. Silas' Primary School

                                                            artists: Michael Johnson & Hilary Cartmell   (1997)

                                    The Bicycle Stand  designer David Barraclough                                                                      (1993)

Greenbank Business Park 3 metal trees 7.5m high                                                                                                      £64000

Red Lion Roundabout                                            designers Eaton Waygood Associates                                        (2008)

Philips Business Park roundabout 1 metal tree

Guide                         beehive on roundabout                  artist: Malcolm Robertson                                       (1999)

Lower Eccleshill link road  Arte et Labore                                   artist: Tom Dugdale                                                             £27000    (1999)

Our Lady & St. John's High school shell sculpture                   artist: Stephen Charnock

Higher Croft Road   totem pole

Bank Top King Street metal disc (Lidl store)                                                                                                                                           (2003)

Lower Audley                       industrial machinery (Clayton & Goodfellow)

Montague Street      stone lion (Netto store)                                                                                                        (2004)

Preston New Road / Adelaide Terrace rock sculpture

Queen's Park High school recycled scrap woman                    sculptor: Sahaja                                                       (1999)

Queen's Park Hospital

River Darwen Parkway elm sculpture                  artists: Keith Barrett & Peter Clark

Spring Lane / Preston Old Road   rock art

Threads, Mall Church Street 160ft long                           artists; Maria Beddoes & Archangel                     (2010)

Whalley Range        tray & bottle on tall stilts

Whitebirk                   Gateway sculpture

Witton CountryPark steel structure with bridge              sculptor: William Pym                                              (2000)

                                    woodcutter axeman                                                                                                             (1998)

                                    giant steel crow on tree                   artist: John Fortnum

Public Assistance (County No. 5 Blackburn Area), Mill Lane (1939); Town Hall (1930-5);          officer: G B Pye (1930-5)

Public Band Club and Institute Roney Street (1924-47)secretary: F Bleasdale (1924-5); N Hunt (1930-5);

Public Baths Cross Street St Peter's (1870) Freckleton Street

                                                                                                see Freckleton Street Baths

Public Health Department 66 Victoria Street (1930-60s); clinics included maternity & child welfare, ante-natal, post-natal, diptheria immunizing, dental, opthalmic, inspection and ultra violet light.                                 medical officer: V T Thierens MB Ch B (1930-42)

Public (Assembly) Halls Northgate the foundation stone of which was laid by King George V and Queen Mary in 1913 Subsequently known as King George's Hall and opened by Lord Derby on 19th October 1921. Memorial organ unveiled in 1922 at a cost of £12,000 this was destroyed by fire in 1981 and was replaced at a cost of £350,000. An opening concert took place on Tuesday 25^th October 1921 by the St Cecilia and Vocal Union.

Public Free Library and Museum opened 17 February 1862 in large rooms on the second floor of the south wing of the Town Hall. Opened in Town Hall Street in 1864. The library in Library Street (Museum Street) was designed by Messrs. Woodzell and Collcutt of London and the foundation stone laid on 18 July 1872 by Thomas Bury the Mayor. It was opened on 11 June 1874 by John Pickop the Mayor. The cost was approx. £10,000.

chief librarian and curator: R Ashton (1930) J Hindle FLA. (1939) J W Thomas ALA (1951)

Public Higher Grade School opened on Montague Street

Pulford Farm (1902-1996) Guide St. Thomas' Ward

                                                                        Walter N & Mamie Holgate (1940s-70s)

Pump Street (1824-52) High Street Bolton Road Nova Scotia

Pump Street (1852-1980) 76 Whalley Banks King Street Nos 1 and 17

Pump Street Mill (Thunner and Leetning) owned by John Coupe (1878) cotton weavers then Banister Bros. & Moore Ltd (1902) later by John Bateson (Blackburn Ltd (1912) cotton manufacturers followed by Cotton Bros Co Ltd (1915-30) cotton manufacturers then H Robinson (Damask) Ltd (1939-51)

Pupil Teachers' Centre (1903) St. Peter Street            head master: John D Baxter BA

Putforth(d) Farm (1870-1958) Lower Darwen               John Worsley (1870)

Pyethorne (1609)

Pyethorn Farm (1843-81) Wilpshire        John Holgate (1870) George Greaves (1881)

Henry Holdsworth (1881)​