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St. James' Church Shear Brow is a gothic edifice designed by F J Robinson erected in 1874 at a cost of £4,200 exclusive of site. It contained 644 sittings of which 444 were free.
St. James' Church Lower Darwen is a gothic fabric with a hexagonal tower erected in 1829 at a cost of £5,491. It contained 654 sittings of which 410 were free. Demolished 1969. New church built 1969 near by.
St. James' (C of E) National & Sunday Schools (1877-1903) Shear Brow mixed and infants. It opened in 1877 and was enlarged in 1895. Pleckgate Mixed (1878-81)
St. James' (C of E) National School Blackamoor (1873-1925) mixed and infants; (1947-51) infants. Demolished in 1996/7 after being used by Messrs Trevor Dawson & Co. for business purposes
St. James' (C of E) National School (1870-1951) School Lane Guide mixed and infants
St. James' National School (1881-1903) Lower Darwen mixed and infants extension opened 1st October 1905
St. James' C of E School (1930) Roman Road mixed and infants
St. James' Place (1951) St. James' Road
St. James' Road (1885) 178 Shear Brow Nos 3-203 and 4/6 & 148-162
St. James' Scout Troop (1951)
St. James' Sports Ground Pleckgate Road (1938) now Blackburn Northern
St. James' Street (1903) 33 New Wellington Street Livesey Nos 1-13 and 4-12
St. James' Square off Chapel Street (1893-1929)
St. James' Square (1980)
St. James' Terrace (1881) Wellington Street Livesey
St. John Ambulance Association 15 Richmond Terrace (1897) St. Peter Street (1903) 51 East Park Road (1924-51) Corps HQ Princess Street (1942-58) Brigade HQ Kensington Chambers Sudell Cross (1924-5) Mill Lane (1929-41) hon secretaries N A Smith & J Haworth (1897)
secretary: John Smith (1924-51) divisional superintendent: G Ormerod (1924-5) T Fielding (1930)
St. John's Ambulance Brigade (first est 1880s) Canterbury Street (1909-12); Mill Lane (1930); Cardwell Place (1974); Princes Street (1960s); hon. surgeon and superintendent: B G Elliott (1909)
HQ opened in Lees Hall Teetotal Mission, Mincing Lane in 1976 having been purchased 2 years before at a cost of £10,000. This was to close in 1999.
St. John's Chambers (1878-1949) 35 Richmond Terrace
St. John's the Evangelist C of E Church Victoria Street erected in 1787-9 at a cost of £8,000 and consecrated 31st July 1789. Henry Sudell contributed half of the cost. Contained 1,390 sittings of which 224 were free. It was enlarged and beautified in 1848. The vestry by J Brindley was added in 1865 and in 1891 the interior galleries and chancel additions. Services ended in 1975 and was later acquired by Blackburn Borough Council. This was followed by some £24,000 being spent to restore the structure of the building and to allow public access to the ground floor only. Grade 2 listed in 1951.
St. John's Church Institute 42 Bold Street (1903-51)
secretary: J Sagar (1930); G Walkden (1935); H Fielding (1939-42); M A Simpson (1942-51); H Fielding (1951)
St. John's C of E Junior and Infant (National) Schools (1844-1951) Greenbank Street / Altom Street / Bicknell Street opened on 8th April 1844 boys, girls and infants. The foundation stone was laid by Joseph Feilden, who had given the land. Built by William Stones the cost was £2,250 it was opened on Easter Monday 1845. Pleckgate (1870). Converted to a mosque in 1978
St. John's Female Friendly Society (1850)
St. John's Labour Party 13 Victoria Street (1951)
St. John's Lodge (1878-1929) 41 Richmond Terrace
St. John's Parish (1847) from Seven Acre brook along Borough boundary to Cemetery gates, along Whalley New Road to Derikins Bridge, following the river to Brookhouse Lane bridge, Brookhouse Lane, Whalley Road, Penny Street, Old Chapel Street, river, Fisher Street, Cort Street, across Market Place, New Market Street, Northgate, Astleygate, Fish Lane, Barton Street, across Blakey Moor, Queen Street, Northgate, Limbrick, Shear Brow and Four Lane Ends, to Seven Acre brook. Population: 10,180.
St. John's Place (1824-1929) James' Street / 29 Victoria Street
St. John's School House (1851)
St. John's Terrace (1878-1929) Ainsworth Street
St. John Vianney RC church (1959)
St. John's View (1903-30) Ainsworth Street
St. John's Working Men's Conservative Club (1870) 119 Whalley Range
St. Joseph's R C Church Mary Street Audley designed by Goldie and Childe of London opened 30th August 1877 by Cardinal Manning. Cost a total of £12,000. The site was purchased by Mr R Shakeshaft from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and presented by him to the building committee. The foundation stone was laid on Whit-monday 1875. The schools were included under the church. It was closed in 1977 and demolished in 1981. Meetings had been previously held from 1869 in three cottages in William Hopwood Street.
St. Joseph's Catholic School (1878-81) William Jackson Street Audley boys, girls and infants; Mary Street (1903) boys, girls and infants; Cumberland Street (1912-47) boys, girls and infants
St. Joseph's Place (1903-12) Cumberland Street
St. Joseph Street (1878) 44 William Hopwood Street
St. Joseph's Terrace (1903-30) Cumberland Street
St. Jude's Church Accrington Road erected 1914 costing £7,000. Land donated by Fred Baynes Esq. Designed by A R Gradwell & Son. Formerly a Mission Church in Hozier Street from 28/2/1886. Consecrated in April 1914 by the Bishop of Manchester. First vicar Rev John Jennings. Church demolished in the 1990s to build a new church and community centre retaining the Tower. Now St Thomas and St Judes. Eight bells were consecrated and installed on 13th April 2015 replacing bells installed in 1932.
St. Lawrence Avenue (1966)
St. Luke's Church Duckworth Street (1870)
St. Luke's C of E Church Bank Top consecrated 20th December 1877, designed by Stevens and Robinson of Derby the cost of building was £6,700. The foundation stone was laid on 16th October 1875. Contained 702 sittings, of which 436 were free
St. Luke's (C of E) National School (1870-1951) Duckworth Street mixed and infants
St. Luke's Church Institute Dickinson Street (1912-25) secretary: J Gregson (1912); E Livesey (1915)
St. Luke and St. Philip's CEP School (1992-2011) Hancock Street
St. Margaret's Way (1980)
St. Marks' Church Burnt Field Buncer Lane Witton whose foundation stone was laid on 6/10/1836 and built by subscriptions being consecrated by the Bishop of Chester on 9th June 1838 was Grade 2 listed in 1974. It contained 600 sittings, half of which were free. Joseph Feilden gave £200 towards the £700 cost in addition to the site. The Diocesan Society gave £40. The architect was Edmund Sharpe of Lancaster, which was his first commission and as such built the octagonal tower at the east end rather than the west as in most churches. Built in the Romanesque style it is said to be a copy of a church on the Rhine. Comsecrated 10/6/1837 by the lord bishop of Chester. In August 1849 he gave £50 for the decoration of windows with stained glass. In 1850 an organ by Jacksons of Liverpool was built in the balcony. The addition of the south transept took place in 1870 and the north transept in 1886. The bell was cast by Meare and Son of Swainbank London in 1889 and the boxes and benches were replaced with pews in 1890. The organ, which had been in the balcony, was re-sited in the north transept in 1914-15.
St. Mark's Church Institute Higher Witton Road (1951) secretary: J R Ibbotson (1951)
St. Mark's Conservative Club Witton formed in 1925 and foundation stone laid by Major James Hawley Gilbert Feilden in October. Erected at a cost of £4,300 it was opened by Mr. A Norman Dugdale who deputized for Major J H G Feilden. See conservative clubs.
St. Mark's Dramatic Society formed in 1935 closed 1976
St. Mark's (C of E) National School (1878-81) Redlam Witton mixed; (1903-39) infants
Wensley Fold (1870-81) mixed
St. Mark's Parish (1872) Witton includes the township of Witton and part of the township of Blackburn, commencing near Griffin Inn and proceeding along Banktop and Throstle Street to the river, and thence along the boundary of St. Paul's parish to the toll bar. Population: 6,006
St. Mark's Place (1947) Rolleston Road / Wensley Street
St. Mark's Road (1958) 187 Wensley Road
St. Mark's School (1844) near church
St. Martin's Drive (1980)
St. Mary the Virgin see Parish church
St. Mary the Virgin with St. Paul
St. Mary's Catholic College (1925-2015) secondary school for boys started at Springfield, 40 Shear Bank Road (1925-30) by the Marist Fathers on the invitation of Bishop Casartelli; Marist fathers home: 51 East Park Road (1948); 24 & 36 Shear Bank Road (1951).
210/212 Shear Brow (1930-2011) purchased for £2,650 a new school was built at a cost of £8,000 to accommodate 150 students. Formally opened by Bishop Henshaw in November 1930.Classed as Secondary Grammar School in 1951 became co-educational 6th form College in 1979
headmaster: Rev. William Fox SM (1930); Rev A Cusack SM DD MA (1939-51)
St. Mary's Catholic School (1878-1955) Dean Street Islington boys, girls and infants
St. Mary's C of E Parish Church Darwen Street / Church Street see Parish Church (Cathedral)
St. Mary's Close (1980)
St. Mary's National School (1878-81) Darwen Street Boys, girls and infants became Higher Grade schools
St. Mary's Parish (1872) from Audley Higher Barn bridge (above the railway station), along canal to top of Lower Audley Street, thence to Park Road, thence to Railway bridge, thence along railway to bridge to Nova Scotia, along Freckleton Street to the river, to Daren Street Bridge, and along Darwen Street, Mill Lane, Back lane, Astleygate, Northgate, New Market Street, across Market place, Cort Street, Fisher Street, the river, Old Chapel Street, Penny Street, Syke Street, Eanam, Audley Higher Barn Lane to the Canal Bridge. Population: 5,200
St. Mary's R C Church Islington a neat gothic building whose foundation stone was laid on 16th May 1864 by the Bishop of Salford the Rt. Rev. William Turner and opened the following year on the 4th May 1865. It was designed by John Cundall of London and the cost of erection was £5,000. It accommodated 700 persons. It had been preceeded by an 'Iron Chapel' erected on the site of the Boys' School to come on 13th October 1860. Closed 4/11/1987 and demolished, only the presbytery remains now as day nursery for infants
St. Mary's R C Junior School Dean Street (1871-1945) boys, girls and infants
St. Mary's R C Primary School (1950-1992) Bennington Street opened on 20th April 1952. The architects were Messrs. Greenhalgh and Williams of Bolton.
St. Mary's R C Sixth Form College (1992) Shear Brow see St. Mary's Catholic College above
St. Mary and St. Joseph RCP School (1999-2011) Bennington Street
St. Mary's Ward Conservative & Unionist Association Women's Branch (1936)
President: Miss L Sumner (1936) Hon Sec Miss Heyes (1936)
St. Mary's Well on Gillies Map of Blackburn 1822 between River Blakewater and Cicely Hole covered by railway station see also All Hallows Well
St. Matthew's C of E Church Cambridge Street Higher Audley erected 1885-6 to designs by W C Habershon and Co., of London it cost £7,100. Demolished 1970.
St. Matthew's Chapel/School Higher Audley designed by James Bertwistle of Blackburn The foundation stone was laid on 31st July 1880.
St. Matthew's CE Primary School (1912-92) Cambridge Street mixed and infants
St. Matthew's C of E School (1903) Withers Street mixed and infants; (1939-51) Oxford Road mixed and infants
St. Matthew's CEP School (1999-2011) Withers Street
St. Michael and All Angel's C of E Church Whalley New Road was consecrated in 1869. The foundation stone laid on 3rd January 1866. Designed by Stevens and Robinson costing £6,000 Contained 802 sittings of which 400 were free. Closed in 1977 and demolished. Superceded the one in Daisyfield below services now held in Palm Street.
St. Michael's Church Daisyfield built by the Wesleyans and later purchased by the vicar of Blackburn in 1828. A brick building it was opened on 29th September 1839 by license from the bishop of the diocese.
St. Michael's Church Institute 84 Whalley New Road (1924-51)
St. Michael's (C of E) National School (1870-81) Whalley New Road boys, girls and infants; (1903) mixed; (1912-15) mixed and junior; (1924-30) mixed and infants; (1939-51) junior; Union Buildings infants (1878-1903)
St. Michael's Close (1980)
St. Michael's Court (1980)
St. Michael's Parish (1872) includes the township of Little Harwood, part of the township of Rishton (not belonging to the parochial chapelry of Great Harwood) and lying west of the canal and part of the township of Blackburn, commencing on the canal at the junction of Rishton and Blackburn and proceeding along the canal to Eanam Bridge, thence along Eanam Road, Bancroft Street, Birley Street, Whalley Road, Brookhouse Lane, river to Derikins Bridge, Whalley New Road to boundary of Blackburn township, near Cemetery Gates, and along that boundary to the junction. Population: 7,543
St. Michael Street (1903) 334 Whalley Range Nos 5-33 and 2-28
St. Michael with St. John CEP (1992- 99) Swallow Drive
St. Monica's RC Secondary Modern School Green Lane (opened 1961) head teacher Sister Gabriel
St. Oswald's National School Cabin End opened on 6th August 1837 with 150 pupils
St. Oswald's CE Primary School (1859-2011) Mount St James Knuzden mixed and infants. John Reddish of Knuzden Hall laid the foundation stone on 2nd July 1859 and the school opened the following year.
St. Oswald's Church (1870) Knuzden Brook was built in 1878 at a cost of £3650. The architects were Messrs J & M Aspinall of Blackburn. The foundation stone was laid on the 8th May 1875 by the Mayor of Blackburn William Coddington Esq.,
St. Patrick's Catholic School (1878-81) 21 Quarry Street girls and infants; (1903) infants;
St. Paulinus' Catholic (Academy) School Astleygate (1878) believed to be fore runner of St. Alban's Higher Grade RC School
St. Paul's Avenue (1929-80) 30 Feilden Street
St. Paul's C of E Church St. Paul's Street was brick clad with round arched windows it was first built as a chapel of ease in 1791-2 but broke away from the established church and joined the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion until the vicar Rev. Samuel Dean left and it was consecrated into the C of E on 20th December 1829. In 1801 it had been put up for sale in the 'Blackburn Mail'. Vestry in south-west corner, chancel and entrance halls at the east end added 1866-7 at a cost of £1,000. Seated 879 of which 315 were free. The last service was held in May 1955 and it was demolished in 1956. The church organ built by Rushworth & Dreaper of Liverpool was erected in 1913 by J E Fielding in memory of his wife and was sold to the Marton Parish Church, Blackpool.
St. Paul's Foundry (Railton's Forge) Nab Lane / St. Paul's Avenue was owned by Robert & John Railton (1850) engineers & ironfounders. Then owned by Clayton Goodfellow & Co (1878) It was demolished in1928 having been purchased many years before for a future extension of the technical college.
St. Paul's Methodist Church Hr Audley Street
St. Paul's Mill Co. Ltd. Nab Lane and George Street West (1878-81) cotton manufacturers (manager: William Exley (1878); James Eddleston (1881) then Frederick Shorrock (1902);
St. Paul's (C of E) National (Primary) School (1858-1925) St. Paul's Street / New Park Street boys, girls and infants; (1930-51) junior mixed and infants. The daughter of Joseph Feilden, who had given the land, laid foundation stone in April 1858. Preston New Road (1870)
The boys' and girls' schools were amalgamated from 1st September 1960. It was demolished in 1967
St. Paul's Parish (1872) from Seven Acre brook along highroad to Shear Brow, Northgate, Queen Street across Blakey Moor, Barton Street, Feilden Street, Adelaide Street, George Street West by river to end of Throstle Street thence northward by a straight line past Foxhouse (but not including it) to the Preston New Road (a short distance above Addison Street) thence to toll bar, and along Borough Boundary to Seven Acre brook. Population: 13,219.
St. Paul's RC Church Feniscowles
St. Paul's RCP School (1992-2011) off Preston Old Road Feniscowles
St. Paul's Street (1832-1980) 86 Blakey Moor Nos 1-35 and 2-46
St. Paul's Street West (1845)
St. Paul's Working Mens' Club 6 Victoria Street (1870) Montague Street (1923-2011)
St. Peter's Catholic Club Witton (1912-15) secretary: Charles Brothers (1912); J Dixon (1915)
St. Peter's C of E Church St. Peter's Street was erected in 1819-20 at a cost of £13,000. Consecrated on 11th September 1821 and sat 1500 worshippers of which 950 were free. Closed and demolished in 1976.
St. Peter's C of E Boys' Secondary Modern School (1941-65) Byrom Street built on the site of a timber yard and Bath Mill weaving shed. Merged with St. Hilda's C of E Secondary Modern Girls' School to form St. Wilfred's C of E High School in 1965 Demolished 2008
St. Peter's Church Institute 56a King Street (1889)
St. Peter's in Chains RC New School /Chapel Mill Hill the foundation stone was laid on 6th August 1887 by Bishop Vaughan and opened on 25th July 1889. It was designed by Edward Simpson of Bradford with the building costing £5,500 exclusive of site. The last mass held was on 24th June 1956 when the new church opened.
St. Peter's in Chains R C Church Mill Hill first foundation stone laid 1914 second foundation stone laid in 1954. Opened by Bishop Beck in 1956
St Peter's Foundry Canterbury Street (1858) built by William Ainsworth later leased by John & James Nuttall millwright & ironfounders. James & John Lang (1894) iron & brass founders
St. Peter's Place (1852) Chapel Street
St. Peter's RC (Sacred Heart) New Mission (Chapel of Ease) 70-74 Lansdowne Street Mill Hill opened 21st February1876
St. Peter's RC School (1903-51) Watson Street Mill Hill mixed and infants
St. Peter's (C of E) National School (1870-8) Bent Street boys
Byrom Street (1870-81) boys, girls and infants; (1903-51) mixed, junior and infants;
St. Peter's Parish (1872) from River (near Galligreaves Hall) along boundary of Borough to Preston Old Road, Banktop, Throstle Street, river, George Street West, Adelaide Street, Feilden Street, Fish Lane, Astleygate, Back Lane, Mill Lane, Darwen Street to bridge, along river, Freckleton Street, Canterbury Street, Alice Street, Coal Yard wall, Galligreaves Street, Taylor Street, footpath (near Galligreaves Hall) to the river. Population: 8,048.
St. Peter's RC Infant School (1992-2011) Hawkins Street
St. Peter's RC Junior School (1992-99) Watson Street
St. Peter Street (1870-1980) 32 Darwen Street Nos 7-19 and 8-34
St. Peter's Street British School (1878) boys, girls and infants
St. Peter Street Mill owned by Absalom Smith (1878) cotton manufacturer then St Peter Street Manufacturing Co Ltd (1912-22) cotton manufacturers
St. Peter's Street Wesleyan Schools (1862-81) mixed & infants and detached house for master designed by W Botterill of Hull built by Dent & Marshall of Blackburn at a cost of £1800
St. Philip's Newcastle Street (1930) secretary: A Marsden (1930)
St. Philip's Bowling and Tennis Club Sandon Street (1924-51) now Dugdale Memorial
secretary: William Fielden (1930); G Gillibrand (1935-51)
St. Philip's C of E Church Griffin Witton was erected in 1880. Early English designed by John Lowe of Manchester with a tower of 90 feet. The cost of £9,000 to build was raised by subscriptions, aided largely by the Dugdale family. Services previously held in Griffin school. Merged with St Luke's in 1973 and closed 1974 followed by being demolished on 16/8/1975 leaving the tower. The altar and stained glass windows went to other churches all over the country including Iowa USA. see 1930 Blotter
St. Philip's C of E School (1903-25) Avondale Street Griffin Witton boys, girls and infants; (1930-51) mixed and infants
St. Philip's Parochial Hall Griffin Street / Newcastle Street (1912-35) opened by Adam Dugdale.
secretary: A Marsden (1935); G Gillibrand (1939)
St. Philip Street (1888-1980) Greenfield Street Witton Nos 1-65 and 2-38
St. Silas' C of E Church Preston New Road is a handsome gothic edifice designed by Paley & Austin, Lancaster. Foundation stone laid 8th December 1894 by Mrs. Tattersall of Quarry Bank, Billinge End Road. Was opened for devine service on Ascension Day 9th May 1898 and consecrated 18th July 1900 the cost of erection being £10,000. The porch, baptistery and tower without spire were not added to until 1913. The house Fair Elms (next door) was later demolished to make way for a new vicarage. New organ presented by Miss Lund and opened by Dr E C Bairstow on 11th February 1904. After the new belfry (104 ft) was completed in 1913 costing £3,000 the bells were not added until 1982 from Holy Trinity Church. In the meantime the sound of bells was broadcast from the belfry by loud-speaker. Grade 2 listed in 1974.
St. Silas' National School Billinge mixed (1878); Preston New Road (1881) mixed
St. Silas' Parish Rooms Preston New Road (Billinge Sunday School) was first held prior to 1834 in an upper room of a cottage in Dinckley Square. In 1846 the Parish Rooms were licenced for worship as a Chapel of Ease for St. Paul's Church. 30 years later as the district was developing the idea of a new church was promoted and the site given and enclosed. see above
St. Silas' C of E School (1903) Clematis Street mixed new portion opened by Chairman of County Education Committee Sir Henry T Hibbert 30th January 1904 costing £3,000; (1912-51) mixed and infants;
Preston New Road (1903) infants
St. Silas' CE Infant School (1992-99) Clematis Street demolished 2010 temporary at St Stephen's P school
St. Silas' CE Junior School (1992-99) Clematis Street demolished 2010 temporary at St Stephen's P school
St. Silas' Road (1885) New Bank Road Nos 7-21 and 2-56
St. Stephen's Avenue (1929) 230 Whalley Old Road
St. Stephen's C of E Church Little Harwood built in 1908 opened 22/2/1908 and consecrated on the 23rd April. Of gothic style the cost of erection was £5,540. The foundation stone had been laid by W H Hornby Bart MP on 12/5/1906. The site was given by Norman Watney in September 1897.
St. Stephen's CE Infant School (1992-99) St Stephens Avenue
St. Stephen's CE Junior School (1992-2011) Phillips Road New school opened 2009
St. Stephen's Conservative Club and coach house Little Harwood Hall Robinson Street (1791) Grade 2 listed in 1951
St. Stephen's C of E Schools (1886-1951) Brooklands Terrace Little Harwood mixed and infants. The foundation stone was laid by W H Hornby Esq on 1/8/1885 for a Sunday school, which opened 18/7/1886. It became a day school on 2/8/1886 and as a Mission Church on 30/9/1886
St. Stephen's Road (1899) 218 Whalley Old Road Little Harwood Nos 1-23
St. Stephen's Street (1899) 17-37
St. Teresa Little Flower Catholic church (1951-66) Bentley Street
St. Teresa of the Child Jesus RC church Intack (1937)
St. Thomas' C of E Church Lambeth Street foundation stone laid 22nd September 1860 and was opened in 1865 at a cost of £5,600. The architect was E G Paley of Lancaster. Sat 1,054 persons (600 free) Closed and demolished. Moved to Newton Street (1972)
St. Thomas' C of E Primary School (1972-2011) Newton Street
St. Thomas' Church Institute Newton Street (1924-51);
St. Thomas' (C of E) National School (1870-1925) Lambeth Street boys, girls and infants; senr mixed and infants, junr); (1939-51) mixed, infants and juniors
St. Thomas' Parish (1872) from Lower Audley canal bridge along the canal to that part of the township of Rishton which is not included in the ancient parochial chapelry of Great Harwood thence along the boundary of such part of Rishton to its junction with the township of Blackburn, thence along that township boundary to the boundary of Christ Church parish and along that boundary to the canal bridge. Population: 12,492
St. Thomas' Place (1881-1929) 40 Billinge Street
St. Thomas' Street & Terrace (1872-1966) Lambeth Street / 40 Billinge Street / Skiddaw Street Nos 3-77
St. Thomas' Wescoe Memorial Hall (1897)
St. Thomas' Working Men's Conservative Club (1870) Higher Eanam
St. Wilfred's C of E High School (1966-2011) Shakespeare Street formed in 1966 when St Peter's C of E Boys' Secondary Modern School and St Hilda's C of E Girls' Secondary Modern School were merged. Re-built in 2003-4 using Duckworth Street site opened by Princess Ann
St. Wilfred's Neighbourhood Centre (2004)
Sabden Walk (1980)
Sackrey Farm (1870) Ramsgreave James Kenyon (1870)
Sacred Heart R C Church Preston New Road had its foundation stone laid on 9th October 1937. Opened Sunday 25th September 1938 costing about £12,000 Church Hall built and opened in 2000.
Sacred Heart RCP School (1903-99) St. Silas' Road / Lynwood Road mixed
Sacred Heart (Catholic) Mission Room Witton (1889) served from St. Anne's see St. Peter's RC Mission
Sacred Heart School Lansdowne Street Witton (1881)
Salford (1832) the area where the crossing of the River Blakewater took place Nos 1-97 and 2-46
Salford New Brewery (1834) owned by Henry Shaw
Salford Bridge the improvement consisted of bridging over the river Blakewater, pulling down old property and forming wide streets in the central part of the town commenced in 1881 costing £45,000. The ivy-covered house on the corner was replaced by Hepworth's store, which later became the Corporation Tramway offices and still later Woolworth's was built. Drinking fountain forming part of the central lamp at Salford was removed to Pleasington playing fields in 1927.
Salford Chambers (1912-30) 67 Church Street
Salford House (1878) 93 Salford
Salford New Brewery owned by Henry Shaw & Co. (1870) brewers & maltsters then Thomas Dutton & Co (1878) brewers, closed in 1923. Whitbread vacate premises for new brewery at Samlesbury 1973. Demolished in 1986
Salford Street (1840-51)
Salisbury Dye Works Ewood (1958) Robinson Brothers (Blackburn) Ltd.
Salisbury Mill Ewood owned by Bank Top Mill Co (1912-30) cotton manufacturers
Salisbury Street (1903-80) Cecil Street Daisyfield Nos 3 and 2-12
Salisbury Street Primitive Methodist Chapel (bef 1895)
Salvation Army Water Street (1889) seating 400 Captain Doiege (1889)
3 London Road (1963);
Salvation Army Band formed in March 1882 under Captain David Gilbard bandmaster Jim Abram
Salvation Army Citadel Vicar Street Salford opened in 1925 Merchant Street;
Salvation Army Hall Angela Street Mill Hill (1951)
Salvation Army Hostel 29/31 King Street (1930-63) Regent Street (1960s) Heaton Street;
capt. W T Fowler (1930); manager: George Seabrook (1921) A Dowling (1935); J Littlejohn (1939); captain E W Pailthorpe (1951);
Samaritan (1836) Grimshaw Park
Sand Holes (1872) St Thomas' Parish
Sandon Street (1903-80) Agnes Street Nos 2-64
Sandpiper Close (1980)
Sandwich Close (1980)
Sandy Lane now Bank Lane (1848)
Sandy Lane (1903-80) Branch Road Lower Darwen Nos 1-11 and 2-108
Sandy Lane (1980) Pleasington
Sanitary Inspector's office 51 Ainsworth Street (1903); Northgate (1915)
Medical officer of Health: A Greenwood M D; sanitary inspector (1903) chief (1915) James Graham.
Sapphire Street (1903) 348 Whalley New Road Nos 2-10
Sarah Ellen Street (1870-1903) 131 Montague Street renamed Devonport Road Nos 1-79 and 2-60
'Saturday Football' 18 Darwen Street (1930) proprietor: E Walmsley (1930)
Saunders Road (1899) off 213 Preston New Road 16 families
Saville Villa (1878) 72 Preston New Road
The Saviour Church Longshaw the foundation stone was laid on 23rd March 1901.
Savings Bank Lord St. West see Blackburn Savings Bank
Savoy (Cinema) Picture House Bolton Road Nova Scotia (opened 1922-57) first to show talkies 1929 “Broadway Melody" lasted for two weeks. Originally owned by Yorke family then ABC Night Club (1931). Closed in 1957. Re-opened for bingo and as a social club. Now carpet warehouse. general manager: Alan Farman (1923)
Sawer's Yard (1851)
Sawrey Street (1929) 369 Preston Old Road Feniscliffe
Saw Mill Lane (1844) (Highfield Road) Bolton Road
Saxon (Hotel) Inn see Moat House
Scar Farm (1930-51) Preston New Road
Scar Lane
Scar(r) Street (1878-1980) 75 Portland Street Witton Nos 7-33 and 4/8
Scarborough Road (1958) 170 Manxman Road
School Board Four Lane Ends mixed (1878)
School Board Offices Library Street see Education Offices
School Clinic Health Office 119 Bolton Road (1924-5); Victoria Street (1930); 35 Richmond Terrace (1935-51)
School Lane (1958) 325 Haslingden Road Guide was Spew Spout Lane
School of Dancing (stage) (1947) 3 New Water Street Miss Dora Wilson (1947)
School of Domestic Science Whalley Range (1935-51) & Troy Street (1935-51); Regent Street (1946-69)
School of Dramatic Art (1939-51) 135 Preston New Road principal: Miss Ida Shaw LYCL (1939-51)
School of Mental Children 39-41 Alma Street (1951)
School Street (1844-1980) High Street / 47 Bolton Road Nova Scotia Nos 7 and 44
School Street (1878) Livesey
School Street Independent School (1870) Nova Scotia
Science and Art School (1878) Paradise Lane
Science and Art School (1878) Quarry Street. Evenings
The Scientific Institute established 4th January 1831 at Music Hall with library and museum had 123 members
chairman: Dr Whittaker
Scotchman's Wood (1893) Witton Park
Scotland Bank Farm (1848-1966) Moorgate Fold Heys Lane H Marshall (1966)
Scotland Bank Mill Livesey owned by Henry Eastwood & Co Ltd (1911-58) had 612 looms
Scotland Bank Terrace (1930) Scotland Road Higher Audley
Scotland Bank Terrace (1947-80) 96 Heyes Lane
Scotland Road (1878-1958) 173 Higher Audley Street Nos 1-123 and 2-130
Scotland Terrace (1870-1929) Audley Range / 58 Scotland Road Nos 54-60
S D P Club 55 Montague Street (1912) secretary: H Hartley (1912)
The Sea Cadets started by Stan Haworth of Padiham 1964 Accrington Road school; Holy Trinity Primary School playground; Troy Street; Courtauld's Imperial mill canteen PhilipsRoad
Now TS Mohawk purpose built £135,000 building in the Somme Barracks Moss Street (2013)
Seascale Close (1980)
Seaton Court (1980)
Selbo(u)rne Street (1888) West View Witton Nos 3-149 and 2-36
Select Vestry (1795) the only means of local government prior to 1803 but continued until the newly formed Town Council in 1854. It was a loose body of townspeople who were appointed when the warden's of the parish church were appointed annually. Handed over responsibility for paving, lighting, watching and cleansing to the Police Commissioners from 1803
Selous Road (1966)
Selous Street (1906-66) Spring Lane / Preston Old Road Witton named after famous explorer Frederick Courtney Selous african big game hunter. Nos 2-16. Now 2-40 now Selous Road
Sessions House Northgate opened on 25th July 1912 to house Borough courts and police station by Sir Harry Hornby MP. Joint architects Briggs Wolstenholme & Thornley and Stones Stones & Atkinson built by W J Woof Cronshaw & Sons at a cost of £46,788
Sett End (1929) Shadsworth
Sett End Road (1980)
Seven Acre Brook (1808) handloom weavers' cottages Lammack Road Nos 1-11
Seven Acre Brook Farm (1836-81) Moses Nightingale (1878)
Seventh-day Adventist Church
Seven Trees Whalley New Road The area became known as this when seven cedar trees were planted between St James' Road and Bastwell at the beginning of the 1900s. Unfortunately one wsa cut down in January 1989.
Seven Trees Avenue (1929-80) off Willow Street
Seven Trees Nursery School (1999) Whalley Street
Seven Trees Terrace (1870-1930) 186 Whalley (New) Road
Sewage Works established at Samlesbury on land owned by Sir Henry de Hoghton from 1875.
Shackerley (1843) small hamlet north of Shackerley Toll Bar
Shackerley Toll Bar Yew Tree Preston New Road charged travellers on the turnpike road from Blackburn to Preston for nearly half a century from 1842. Closed 31/10/1890 and demolished. Stood on Preston side of Yew Tree traffic lights across from County Hotel
Shackleton Street (1878-1980) 31 Higher Eanam
Shadsworth (1750) the area designated by Shadsworth Road today
Shadsworth Close (1980)
Shadsworth Community Centre Shadsworth Road opened in 1974. It comprises a sports hall (35m x 19m x 8m) 2 squash courts, a swimming pool (25m x 10.5m), meeting room, general activities area, snack bar, bar, and a substantial all weather flood-lit playing area.
Shadsworth Baptist church (1969) Oban Drive
Shadsworth Coppy (1929) Shadsworth Road
Shadsworth C Infant School (opened 29/8/1955) Rothesay Road
Shadsworth C Junior School (1954) Arran Avenue architect F V Powell AMICE Blackburn Corporation
Shadsworth Farm (1878-1949) Fecitt Road
Shadsworth Hall (1929-58) Shadsworth Road built by William Carr
Shadsworth Housing Estate post-war construction comprising 9 shops and 1,324 houses and flats accommodating some 3,500 people when built
Shadsworth Industrial Estate
Shadsworth Neighbourhood Association (1996)
Shadsworth Road (Intack Crescent) (1903) Haslingden Road Nos 16-30 (1859) Nos 16-44 and 187-207
Shadsworth Secondary Modern School Shadsworth Road opened 3rd September 1957 with 510 pupils later to become Queen's Park High School when merged with Eveton High School. Continually expanded until in 1973 it could take 1050 pupils became Blakewater College
Shakeshaft Street (1888-1980) 21 Audley Lane Nos 3-39 and 4-36
Shakespeare mill Dickinson Street Bank Top owned by William Dickinson & Sons (1855-1904) cotton
spinner & manufacturer. James Dickinson with Phoenix mill (1891-4) 44,000 spindles 856 looms good shirtings. Followed by Shakespeare Mill Co Ltd (1912-30) cotton manufacturers Disused by 1937 the site was purchased by Blackburn Diocesan Board of Finance for conversion to a school. Birth of St. Hilda's C of E Girls' Secondary Modern School now St Wilfred's C of E Comprehensive School
Shakespe(a)re Street (1870-1980) 14 Duckworth Street Nos 2/4
Shakespeare Way (1980)
Sharples Farm (1870-1915) Ramsgreave Mary Haydock (1870)
Sharples Land (1750)
Sharples Row Novas
Sharples Street (1851-72) Duxbury Street
Sharples Street (1844-1980) 98 Bolton Road Nova Scotia 2 businesses 19-30 and 28
Sharples' Yard (1870) Daisy Street
Sharrocks (pre 1910) Billinge End
Shaw Close (1980)
Shaw Street (1870-1980) 12 Johnston Street Nos 1-81 and 2-82
Shearbank(e) (Shearebancke, Shearebanke, Sheearbanke, Sherebancke, Sherebanke, Shirebancke) (1618) Shire Brow
Shear Bank Close (1980)
Shear Bank Estate (1750)
Shear Bank Gardens (1947)
Shear Bank House (1878) 24 East Park Road
Shear Bank Road (1878) off Preston New Road Nos 4-26 Blackburn Subscription Bowling Green club was established there in 1869.
Shear Bank Terrace (1900-30) 46 Palmer Street
Shear Bank Villa (1929) 16 Shear Bank Road
Shear Brow (1844) (51) 88 Limbrick see Shire Brow
Shear Mount (1872-1929) 8 East Park Road
Shearwater Drive (1980)
Sheriff's Officer Edwin Hamer 54 Church Street (1889-25) 50 Ainsworth Street (1930)
Sherwood Road (1980)
Shetland Close (1980)
Shire Bank Fold (1832) a Jacobean farmstead now crossed by Shear Bank Road was the home of James Pemberton (1832) who gave his name to Pemberton Clough the area covered by Corporation Park. Eventually purchased from Joseph Feilden the owner in 1885
Shire Brow (now Shear Brow) (1836-70) starts at 51 Limbrick Nos 1-335 and 2-254
Shopping Precinct started in the 1965 by Blackburn Borough Council, Laing's Properties, the developers, and the Co-operative Insurance Society, the third and final phase was completed in 1980 and opened by Lord Thomson of Fleet in June by which time it was out of date. Project Architect was Mary Smallbone of Building Design Partnership wining a Civic Trust Ward in 1969. Phase1 was completed in 1968 comprising of 60 shops, 3 large stores, Peppermint Place, the multi-storey car park and town hall extension linking King William Street, Victoria Street and Lord Street. Phase 2 was built between 1969 and 71 comprising Tesco, the Co-op and Boots with extra car parking, bringing in Ainsworth Street, Springhill, Market Way, and half of Victoria Court and Cobden Court. and the third and final phase started in 1976 was finished in 1979. In 1986 Laings sold out to London Edinburgh Trust who promised a £15m refurbishment. In 1990 London and Edinburgh Trust had been transferred to Oppidan Estates. Late in 1993 the Co-operative Insurance handed over their interest to Edinburgh and London, which took over control with Blackburn Borough retaining a minority interest as land-owner. In 1994 Standard Life took over form Edinburgh and London Trust and immediately promised a much-needed facelift. A £11m development then took place on the first phase and was completed by Christmas 1995.
(The) Shore (1903-58) 918 Whalley New Road / Bull's Head 2 businesses & Woodbine House
Shore Farm known as New Hall in 1841 (1841-1958) Ramsgreave Robert Alker (1881)
Shorrock Delph opened in 1618 under a decree from King James that two acres of land at Whinney Edge should be reserved for the getting of stones for the farmers and tennants.
Shorrock Farm (1851) Feniscowles
Shorrock Fold (1832-1980) the much used passage from 29 Church Street to Lord Street and the Market Square. One side was demolished when Thwaites' Arcade was built. Part of the other side was the back entrance to the Grosvenor Vaults.
Shorrock Hey (Shorrocke Hay, Shororck Hey, Shorrocke Hey) Pleasington (1614) Peter Ellingthorpe (1870)
Shorrock Hey Farm (1843-70) north of Billinge End Road Pleasington
Catherine Dewhurst (1870) Thomas Eddlestone (1870)
Shorrock Hey Fold (1789-1843) Woodfold Park before Alum Scar
Shorrock Lane (1851-1980) 362 Livesey Branch Road Mill Hill previously Bower House Fold Lane (1848) Nos 1-93
Shorrock Lane Bridge constructed in 1926 at a cost of £3,000 previously Bower House Fold Bridge
Shorrock Lane Farm (1851-81) John Booth (1870) Richard Phillipson (1878) William Hindle (1870)
Shorrock Street (1878-1980) 33 Joiners Row / Grimshaw Park Nos 1 & 9
Shorrock Yard (1872) St Thomas' Parish
Short Street (1870-1958) 11 Bond Street Nos 1-21
Shorthand Writers' Association (1891) 21 Lord Street (1891)
Shrewsbury Place (1980)
Shuttle Mark (1898) tenement at Bencock north of Billinge
Shuttle Street (1870) Bancroft Street
Shuttleworth Street (1878-1958) Bancroft Street
Side Barn (1851) Livesey
Side Beets (1872) St Thomas' Parish
Sidney Street (1929-66) Down Street
Sidney Street works (1958) Richard D Shorrock & Sons healds and reeds
Sike (1750)
Silloth Close (1980)
Silverdale Close (1980)
Simmons Street (1870) Northgate off Sudell Cross Nos 1-17 and 2-32
Simmons Street Rope Walk (1822) owned by Roger Pomfret see Ropewalks
Single Row (1903) Revidge Road
Single Street (1929) Revidge Road
Sink Street (1843) Grimshaw Park
Sisters of Nazareth, Nazareth House, Preston New Road (1939-51)
Sisters of Notre Dame (Convent), Whalley New Road (1930-51)
Sixty Steps - local name for Brantfell Road because of its number of steps leading up to Revidge
Skating Rink and Recreation Rooms Canterbury Street (1878-85)
secretary: J Ibbotson (1878); manager: James Ramskill (1885-9)
Skelshaw Close (1980)
Skew Bridge Railway bridge crossing Whalley New Road at Clarendon Road
Skew Bridge Mill (1951) John Fish Ltd along with Waterfall Peel Street Florence and Ewood mills.
Skew Bridge Shuttle Works Clarendon Road built (1912) by John Hodgkinson & Sons
Skiddaw Street (1870-1980) Lambeth Street / 23 Audley Street Nos 1-91 and 6-90
Skye Crescent (1958) Shadsworth
Slack Gate (1900-80) Blackamoor Road
Slater's Court (1824) off Thunder Alley (Town Hall Street)
Slater Lane (1980)
Slater Street (1899-1980) Moorgate Street
Slopes Lane (1911) now Brownhill Road
Smalding Bridge see Dam Heys Bridge
Smalding Cottage (1829-72) Dam Heyes Bridge on canal Audley owned by Tommy Whittaker
Smalding's Farm (1856) Audley estate 24 acres 2 roods 35 perches
Small Den Farm (1870) Richard Eccles (1870)
Smalley Street (1870-1966) 15 Kemp Street
Smalley Street (1929) 80 Livesey Branch Road
Smalley Way (1980)
Smallpox Hospital Finnington Lane (1888-1941) opened during a smallpox epidemic in 1888. In 1895 the building was considerably improved and extended to accommodate 60 patients.
Smithers Street (1852) Penny Street
Smithies Street (1851) Primrose Bank
Smith Street (1870) Pickup Bank
Smith Street (1903) No 18
Smith Street (1878-1966) 16 Fort Street
Smithies Street (1870-1958) Primrose Bank / 20 Larkhill Nos 1-17 and 10a-28 & 74
Smithy End Farm (1881) Ramsgreave
Smithy House Farm (1870) Livesey Ralph Richardson (1870)
Snaefell Road (1958) Manxman Road
Snape Fields (1856) Audley estate wirg Higher Walks 7 acres 1 rood 19 perches
Snape Street (1870-1966) 86 Withers Street / Audley Range Nos 7-55 and 12-84
Snig Brook (1818-1912) St. Paul's Street off Winter Street Nos 17-105 and 14-124 now Denville Street
Snig Brook Brewery (1820) built by Alderman Cunliffe leased by James Cunningham (1838) and T & W Thwaites from 1874 closed in 1921 Malt Street
Snowden Cottage (1851)
Snowdon Avenue (1966)
Snow Hill (1852)
Snow Street (1903-80) 1 Calder Street Nos 3-29 and 4-22
Snowdon Avenue (1980)
Social Club 639 Whalley New Road (1942-51) secretary: William Swift (1942-51)
Social Democratic Federation (Party) (1897) 54 Victoria Street (1897) New Water Street
secretary: Harry Buck (1903) J Holden (1909) H Hartley (1912)
Socialist Club Montague street opened by Mr Harry Quelch on 18th January 1908
Society of Friends Paradise Terrace (1951) see Quakers Meeting House