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Society for P. C. to Children 18 Richmond Terrace (1897-1909)
hon sec: R C Needham (1897) James Fairfield (1909); inspector: G Turner (1897) J F Rushton (1909)
Sod Hall (Sod Hole) (1800-1929) 303-307 Revidge Road owned and rented by Thwaites' estate next to the Corporation Hotel were probably handloom weavers' cottages. Nos 3/4
Soho Foundry Foundry Hill Salford owned by John Dugdale & Sons (1870-1903) engineers, millwrights machinists & power-loom manufacturers
Somme Barracks Moss Street Daisyfield opened Blackburn TA HQ on 13th May 1990 by Major General Lord Michael Fitzalan Howard costing £1.5m. Home of D Company 4th Battalion The Queen's Lancashire Regiment covers 3.3 acres
Soroptimist International of Blackburn (2001)
Sough Lane (1966)
Sough Pits Farm (1996) Sough Lane Guide
Sour Milk Hall (1836-98) farmhouse
Sour Milk Hall Lane (1903-29) 10 Cob Wall continued over bridge Harwood Street Nos 2-20
Southfield (1870) 4 Shear Bank Road John Bolton (1870)
South View (1903-66) Wensley Street
Southview (1909) Blackamoor Road
Southview Terrace (1881-1929) Walter Street Audley Range
South West Street (1870-1958) 69 Duckworth Street
Southworth Street (1885-1980) Infirmary Road Nos 1 and 2-28
Sower's Court (1870-1949) (20) 22 High Street Miss Margaret Sower (1881)
Sparrow Terrace (1881-1930) 7 Quarry Street
Special School (1930-47) Regent Street boys and girls
Speculation Mill see Bridge Mill
Speedwell Street (1929-80) off Marsden Street
Speke Street (1966)
Spew Spout Farm (1930-66) School Lane Guide G & P Derbyshire (1966)
Spew Spout Farm (1870) Lower Darwen John Thompson (1870); William George Ingham (1870)
Spew Spout Lane (1886-1966) (now School Lane) Guide
Spew Spout Road (1903) Nos 18-40 and 107
Spinners' and Minders' Institute 9 St. Peter's Street (1878-81) secretary: Richard Greenwood (1878-81)
Spiritual Temple (Hall) St. Peter Street (1901-2013) foundation stone laid 29th June 1901 by J T Ward of Blackburn Alfred Smedley of Belper and Stephen Robinson of Blackburn architects Messrs Stones & Stones; (New) Spiritualist Centre Princes Street (2013) foundation stone laid David Bruton president Spiritualist National Union and Kathryn Grundy vice president North Lancs and Cumbria Council designed by Lea Hough Chartered Surveyors; Tontine Street (1930)
'Sports Telegraph' Railway Road
publisher: Thomas P Ritzema (1903); North West Newspaper Co. Ltd. (1930
Spolding Cottage (1836) Audley
Spout Brow Bridge (1893) Witton site of the murder of little girl Barnes by Cross Duckworth in 1893 cleared away by 1909
Spout Fold (1843) Billinge End Road
Spout House Farm (1870) Lower Darwen Thomas Noble (1870)
Spring Bank (1878-1929) 60 Redlam Brow Witton
Springbank (1903-30) Preston New Road 3 familys
Springbank Court (2002) replaced the three tower blocks which were demolished in (2001)
Spring Bank Farm (1902-35) Feniscowles
Spring Bank Mill Livesey owned by Teale & Bateson (1870) cotton spinners
Spring Bank Oil & Tallow Refinery Livesey (1890) owned by Richard Byrne
Spring Bank Terrace (1870) (95)117/123 Preston New Road Capt. H W H Graham (1870)
Spring Bank Terrace (1878-1980) Stakes Hall / Albert Street Livesey
Springbourne Villa (1870) Montague Street
Springburn House (1870) Montague Street James Cunningham JP (1870)
Spring Farm see Springs Farm
Springfield (1870-1929) 20/4 Duke's Brow
Springfield (1929) off Revidge Road
Springfield Avenue (1980)
Springfield House (1870) Four Lane Ends Frederick Yates (1870)
Springfield House (1868-70) 307 Preston New Road built by James Lewis see Maternity Hospital
Springfield (House) (1878-1929) 30 Shear Bank Road
Springfield mill Guide owned by Munroe & Booth (1870) cotton manufacturers then Matthias Munroe & Son Ltd (1887-1939) cotton manufacturers 555 looms home trade goods also Nab Lane Manufacturing Co Ltd 381 looms fine shirtings jacconettes etc.
Springfield (Spring Field) mills (Th' Buttertub) Stanley Street owned by Lewis Brothers Ltd (1851-1928) cotton spinners & manufacturers 65764 spindles 1220 looms best shirtings & jacconetts then Lancashire Cotton Corporation (1930-37) spinning mill added 1858 second weaving shed 1860 having 1,400 looms. Closed 1928 sold 1930. Closed again, stripped of machinery and demolished 1937-8 195ft chimney felled January 1940.
Springfield Municipal Maternity Nursing Home (House) 307 Preston New Road (1878-1969) controlled by the Health Committee it was opened in November 1923 to accommodate 36 cases per month.
matron: Miss F Bambridge (1930); Miss M C Graham (1951)
Springfield Mill (Buttertubs) Stanley Street built by Lewis Bros. Ltd 1852 in 1891 had 69,084 spindles and 1220 looms best shirtings and jacconettes (1922)
Springfield Place (1903-58) 142 Redlam Nos 136-142
Springfield Street (1929) 17 Spring Gardens Witton Nos. 2-12 & 7-11 built mid 19th c. Grade 2 listed 1974
Nos 2 4 7 & 9 previously 2 weavers cottages
Springfield Terrace (1903-30) 402 Haslingden Road Guide
Springfield Terrace (1903-80) Cherry Tree Nos 1-15
Springfield Terrace (1891) Accrington Road
Springfield Villa (1929) 144 Redlam
Springfield Villas (1903-30) Revidge Road 3 families
Spring Fold Farm (1881-1902) before crossroads Haslingden Road Guide
Spring Gardens (1872) a row of seven 19th cent. terrace houses behind the Knuzden Brook Inn
Spring Gardens (1824-1958) Station Road / Railway Road No 15
Spring Gardens (1851-1929) 15 Witton Village
Spring Grove (1881) 129 Preston New Road
Springhill (1956-8) St John's
Spring Hill (1832-1951) Station Road / Railway Road Nos 1/3 and 2/4 William Hart (1832)
Spring Hill Cotton Mill (Factory Hill) (1707) second cotton mill erected 1797 ran by John Anderton & Co. (1818) then Richard Haworth (1824-8) cotton spinner & manufacturer (1848)
Spring Hill Rope Walk established (1797) by Thomas Hart of Leyland
Spring(s) Farm (1832-1980) past the crossroads on Haslingden Road Guide was demolished for M65 extension Henry Laytham (1832) James Wilkinson (1906) J Leigh (1966)
Spring Lane (1878-1980) 196 Witton Village - Stancliffe Street new road opened Wednesday 19th October 1938 by the mayor Alderman James Fryars JP
Spring Lane Terrace (1881) Albert Street
Spring Mill (1818) James Anderton & Co. cotton spinners
Spring Mount (1929) 151 Revidge Road
Spring Mount (1832) top of Montague Street / Preston New Road
James Barlow (1832) William Coddington JP (1870)
Spring Side House (1844) Montague Street / Sarah Ellen Street Mrs Ellen Sturdy (1870)
Spring Street (1851) Commercial Street
Spring Street (1870-1980) Sarah Ellen Street (Devonport Road / Ada Street)
Spring Street (1870) Weir Street
Spring Street & back (1870-1958) 128 Wensley Street
Spring View (1888-1958) Ada Street
Spring View (1870) Sarah Ellen Street (Devonport Road)
Spring View (1903) Nos 2-20
Spring Villas (1870) 10/12 Duke's Brow
Springwell House (1878) 2 Shear Bank Road James Eccles (1870)
Spruce Street (1883-1929) St James Road now Cromer Place
Stackhouse Yard (1824) John Briggs surgeon
Staffa Crescent (1958) Shadsworth
Stafford & Mc'Callum (1864) Waterfall Founfry Canterbury Street engineers and toolmakers
Stafford Street (1929-80) 122 Lower Audley Street
Stakes (1851)
Stakes (Stackes) Hall area (1638)
Stakes Hall Mill Hill Livesey was reputed to be the family home of the Astley family for over 300 years.
In 1881 The Stakes Hall Hotel at 12/14 & 16 Albert Street (opposite the site of Stakes Hall house) was occupied by John Hothersall who was a butcher, grocer, tailor and draper, eating house and straw dealer as well as owning a bath house. By 1915 Mrs Mary Hothersall was the licensee with James Hothersall as a butcher but no baths. In 1939 Joseph E Hothersall was the licensee.
Stakes Hall Farm (1870-1902)
Stakes Hall Place (1878-1980) 10 Albert Street Waterfall Livesey
Stakes Hall School (1881) Livesey
Stamp Office Clayton Street (1818); 30 Church Street (1870); 13 Fleming Square (1878-85); 25 Richmond Terrace (1885); see Post Office
agent: Mrs. Mary White (1818); distributor: Edward Wharton (1870); William Gregson (1878-85);
Stancliffe Mill Stancliffe Road owned by J B Martin (Silk Velvet) Ltd (1939); Roche Velours Ltd (1939) and Silk Velvet Manufacturing Co Ltd (1939-58)
Stancliffe Street (1870-1980) Havelock Street
Stancliffe Street Mill owned by Witton Mill Co Ltd (1958) had 244 looms also Silk Velvet Manufacturing Co Ltd. (1958)
Standard Works Audley Jones Brothers (1922)
Stanford Gardens Roman Road
Stanhill Road (1966) Knuzden
Stanley (1878-81) 10 Limefield / 305 Preston New Road
Stanley Place (1929) Longshaw Lane
Stanley Range (1903) Bonsall Street Mill Hill Nos 2-22
Stanley Street (1870-1980) Mill Street / Harwood Street / 127 Peter Street Nos 4-36 and 74 & 98
Stanley Street mill (1851) owned by William Birtwistle & Co (1863-1904) cotton spinners & manufacturers. Birtwistle & Thompson (1891) with Nova Scotia mill 44,100 spindles 1120 looms dhooties and Woodfold mill Over Darwen. Edward Briggs & Co cotton manufacturers (1894) Birtwistle & Thompson cotton spinners & manufacturers (1894) then Birtwistle & Oddie (1912) cotton spinners & manufacturers followed by Haworth Bros & Co (Blackburn) Ltd (1922-58) who had 560 looms
Stanley Street Terrace (1870) Harwood Street
Stanley Terrace (1878-1929) Cherry Tree Nos 2-30
Stanley Terrace (1872) St Michael's Parish
Stansf(i)eld Street (1878-1980) Bank Top Nos 1-135 and 4-146 to be bulldozed 2012
Star Brewery Eanam (1806-7) built by Edward Duckworth & William Clayton of Grimshaw Park
Star Cottages (1903-49) Feniscowles 2 houses
Star (Daily) Newspaper office 10/12 Railway Road manager: C Towler (1903)
Star Skate (1982) seat 600 people. Held British Championships & Junior European Championships (1983)
manager George Head & wife Dorothea
Starkie Street (1818-1980) 24 Penny Street No 8 (1903)
Starkie Street Corn Mill built abt (1878) by Joseph & Mary Noblett
Starlight Club see Star Picture Palace
(The) Star Picture Palace Plane Street Little Harwood (1902-82) opened as a cinema in 1910 seating 755 customers. Owned by Edward Taylor and two other partners (David Strong) it stayed in the Taylor family ownership for 51 years. Converted to sound in 1930 with Western Electric system showed “Sunny Side Up" New Starlight Club (1964-70). Unit Four cinema (1970 closed 1982. Converted into mosque-madressa.
Star Paper Mill Co. Ltd. (opened 1875- closed 2008) paper manufacturers Feniscowles
man: Henry Rayner (1878-81); secretary: John E Jepson (1878); Eli Jepson (1991)
Star Skate (1981-7) international roller skating rink Cecil Street operated by Star Skate Services Ltd
Station Road (1870) 62 Church Street now Railway Road
Statues see Public Art
Staveleigh (1929) 26 East Park Road
Ste(a)d (Stid) Fold (1832-99) off east of Shear Brow
Stephen Street (1903) 60 New Chapel Street Mill Hill Nos 1-35 and 2-60
Stewart Street (1903) 325 Bolton Road Nos 1-13
Stirling Drive (1980)
Stirling Street (1929-80) off Archibald Street
Stockclough (1595)
Stock Clough Farm (1851-1942) Feniscowles
Stockclough Lane (1966) (Jam Pot Lane) Feniscowles
Stocks
Church Street Market stocks
Lower Darwen stocks may well date to the 17th or 18th centuries still on show.
Witton stocks
Stock's Buildings (1872) St Peter's Parish
Stock's Farm (1955-66) Meins Road / Carr Lane J D Haymes (1966)
Stocks' Farm (1878-1959) Witton Richard Grimshaw (1878)
Stone Hill House (1843) between Bank Hey and Eddy Holes
Stoneleigh (1881) 26 East Park Road
Stones Court (1870-1949) 105 King Street
Stone Street (1870-1929) Addison Street
Stone's Yard (1903-30) Darwen Street
Stoney Butts (1716-1852) Lower and Higher situated between Grimshaw Park area and Railway Station. Name retained in new town centre shopping complex.
Stoney House Farm (1915) Wilpshire
Stonyhurst Close (1980)
Stonyhurst Road (1966)
Stoop Field (1836) Lammack
Stoops Fold (1844-1949) handloom weavers' cottages Lammack Road Christopher Martin (1878)
2 cottages and Cunningham House
Stopes Brow (1912) Rakes Bridge Lower Darwen No 3-69 and 4-36
Stopes Brow Farm (1902-35) Lower Darwen
Stopps Farm (1915) Ramsgreave
Store Street (1903) 28 Raikes Bridge Lower Darwen Nos 3-15
Stout Street (1844-1980) 71 Whalley Banks King Street Nos 2-20
Strangers' Friendly Society treasurer: Thomas Hart (1852)
Strawberry Bank (1844) 34/6 Preston New Road Nos 1-7 and 4-22
Strawberry Bank Villas (1878) 40 Preston New Road Strawberry Bank Nos 38-40a
Struan Mill Quarry Street Eanam owned by John Yates (Blackburn) Ltd (1897-1930) cotton manufacturers
The Blackburn Subscription Bowling Green Club existed as long ago as 1734 and most of the Blackburn gentry have been members. The original bowling green was at the foot of the slope at Cicely Hole and was removed in 1844 when the Feilden's the owners of the land sold it to the railway but provided another site near the old Grammar School on St. Peter Street. In 1869 it moved to its present site on Shear Bank Road. Originally there were 18 members in 1734 but by 1877 membership was limited to 100.
Studley Terrace (1903-30) 134 New Bank Street / Road
Sudell Cross (1878) King William Street Nos 1-10
Sudell's Court (1836-52) Church Street
Sudell's Field (1818)
Sudell House King Street
Sudell Nook (1831-1980) Haslingden Road
Sudell Street (1724) now top of King Street
Sudell's Yard (1818) Dixon Robinson attorney (1818)
Suffolk Street (1903) 27 Parkinson Street Mill Hill Nos 1-23 and 2-16
Sulby Road (1958) Park
Sullivan Drive Roman Road
Summerford Terrace (1903-30) Whitebirk Road
Summerville Walk (1980)
Sumner Street (1870-1980) Dean Street / 46 Islington Nos 4-26 demolished 1971
Sumney Street (1870) Audley Lane
Sun Cottages (1930) Feniscowles
Sunny Bank (1870-1929) (10) 8 Shear Bank Road Nos 8-12 William Forrest (1870)
Sunny Bank (1903-29) 117 Whalley New Road
Sunny Bank Road (1929) Longshaw Lane
Sunny Bower (1903) Whalley Old Road Litttle Harwood 3 premises
Sunny Bower Close (1966)
Sunny Bower Road (1966)
Sunnyhurst (1929) St Silas
Sunnyhurst Road (1980)
Sunnyside (1878) 5 West Park Road
Sunny Side (1870) 291-293 Haslingden Road Guide
Sunneyside Avenue (1980)
Sunny View (1903-29) Sandy Lane Lower Darwen
Superintendent Registrar's office 8 King Street (1878) 4 King Street (1881-1951)
superintendent: Thomas Brennand (1878) Henry Whittaker (1881-97) John Birch (1903-30) Henry T Wade (1935-42) George Heatley (1951)
Surbiton Place (1870) (109)131 Preston New Road Mrs Mary Ann Smithson (1870)
Surrey Road (1966)
Surrogates (1897) Revs Henry Wescoe, J A Rushton and J O Pinck (1897)
Surveyor of Taxes office 12 New Market Street (1870); 14 Astley Gate (1878);
surveyor: W J R Vivian (1870); Richard Read (1878-81); collector: Robert Duckworth (1870);
2 Richmond Terrace (1881); Thomas Blackwell (1903)
19 Richmond Terrace (1912-15) No. 1 district William McLeod (1912-15): No. 2 district C E Horncastle (1912); G H Cross (1915)
Sussex Drive (1980)
Sussex Walk (1980)
Sutton Street (1929) Feniscowles
Swallow Drive (1980)
Swallow Street (1851-1966) (23)17 Hilton Street Brookhouse Nos 2-10
Swallow Street Mills (The Lather Box / Lather Pot) Brookhouse Street owned by Henry Ward & Sons (1870-8) cotton spinners & manufacturers. A great fire costing £30,000 swept through the mill 21/22 September 1901 where E & G Hindle Ltd (1901-59) cotton spinners & manufacturers had a handkerchief department along with Beardsworth Street Beech Street Gate Street and Duxbury Street. Demolished for housing
Swan Brewery (1894-5) Larkhill owned by Blackburn Brewery Co Ltd sold to Dutton's in 1928 with over 100 public houses
Swan Farm (1930-42) Lower Darwen
Swan Farm Close (1980)
Swan Street (1870-1980) Paterson Street / Denham Street / Mosley Street Nos 19-29 and 20/24
Swansea Terrace (1903-30) 522 Whalley New Road Nos 8-12
Swarbrick Street (1852-1958) 53 Birley Street Nos 3/25/45 and 10-30
Swedenborgian church (1867)
Swift Close (1980)
Swimming Baths see Corporation Baths
The Sycamores (1878-1929) Park Crescent off East park Road
Sycamore Road (1929) Teak Street / Rosewood Avenue
Sycamore Street (1966-90)
Syke Mill Belthorn owned by John Oddie & Son Ltd (1870-1930) cotton manufacturers
Syke Street (1818-1980) 68 Penny Street named after small rivulet flowing through the middle of the Glebe lands Nos 3/17/29 and 2-16
Synagogue (1969) Clayton Street
Tacketts Fields (1716-39) Great, Middle and Little situated north of the Town hall. Later Tacketts Street named after them.
Tackett's Street (1870) off Exchange Street Nos 1-9 demolished to make way for carpark ramp
The Tank toposcope unveiled August 2010 costing £3,000 see Revidge Tank
Tanners House Farm (1868-1915) Ramsgreave
Tapesizers' Association 2 Victoria Street (1941)
Tapestry Street (1929) 367a Bolton Road Ewood
Tarbert Crescent (1958) Shadsworth
Tariff Reform League (branch) Central Buildings, Lord Street West secretary: J Calderbank (1912-15)
Tattersall Street (1870-1980) 12 Weir Street Nos 2-14
Taunton Road (1929) Raven Road
Tax office Hare and Hounds (1818) Darwen Street
Taylor Avenue (1990s)
Taylor Close (1980)
Taylor Street (1870-1980) 41 Dickinson Street Nos 21-65 and 2/24-106
Taylor Street Sidings (1903) 12 coal merchants
Teak Street (1903-29) Whalley New Road No 1
Teal Close (1980)
Tean Barn (1832) Mile End Duke's Brow near 110 Revidge Road James Sefton (1870)
Tean Barn Farm (1870-81) John Eddleston (1870)
Tean Barn Lane Ends which is now the junction at the top of Duke's Brow and Revidge
Tean Barn Road (now Lynwood Road)
Technical High School (Mixed) Blakey Moor
Technical School (College) (now Blackburn College) Blackburn School of Art, Science and Technical School Blakey Moor instituted as a Jubilee Memorial in 1887. A subscription fund of £15,000 was raised and the foundation stone was laid on 9th May 1888 by His Majesty the King, Edward VII, then Prince of Wales. The main building was costed at £17,500 with a further £5,000 rewired for outbuildings and fittings. It included a completely equipped chemical, physical and technological department, which was constantly added to. Grade 2 listed in 1984. Headmaster A G Grubb (1889), secretary W Ditchfield (1889); secretary: A W King (1903); principal: J F Harlow BSc (1924-5); William Wilkinson OBE FTI (1925-44); principle E Tyler DSc FInstP AMIEE AFRAeS (1944-58);
Teetotal Mission Lees Hall St. Peter's Street (1964) Mrs. Lewis
Telegraph Offices Post Office Lord Street (1885) and Railway Station
Telephone Exchange (new) Jubilee Street
Temperance Benevolent Society (18/4/1831-1931) formed at Music Hall Market Street Lane
Temperance Town Missionary William Gregson (1852)
Temple Buildings (1878-1949) 39/41 Larkhill
Temple Close (1980)
Temple Court (1870) 46 Church Street
Temple Drive (180)
Temple End (1843) tenement at end of Billinge End Road before Alum Scar
Temple Street (1929-66) off Newton Street
Tenby Close (1966)
Tennyson Place (1881-1929) (187) 189 Preston New Road
Tenpin bowling alley opened March 2017 in Bowlplex premises Peel Leisure Park Lower Audley
Tetbury Close (1980)
Tewkesbury Street (1903) off Shorrock Lane Mill Hill Nos 1-21
The Textile Institute (Blackburn Branch)
Chairman: W G Doidge ATI (1958); secretary: H Pomfret ATI 13 Highfield Road Rishton
Textile Museum see Lewis Textile Museum
Textile Society Technical College (1941)
Textile Warehousemen's Society 20 Mincing Lane (1941)(Society Club) Lord Street West (1924-47)
secretary: D E Brierley (1924)
Thackett Bent Meadow (1750)
Theatre Royal (and Opera House) 33 Ainsworth Street (1870-97)
lessee & manager: C H Duval (1870-81) Mrs A Duval (1885) W C Beattie (1889) prop: Harry Yorke (1892-1911) lessee and manager: Harry Lyons (1912) manager William Kenyon (1915) Norman R Booth MD, P Leonard booking manager, Ernest Taylor resident manager (1930);
The first existed prior to 1803. The next was built in 1816 the manager was Mr Ryan. Macbeth was performed on Monday 19th May 1816 by a London company. Charles Chaplin appeared here in 1903. In 1909 re-opened after refurbishment as Royal Hippodrome. Re-decorated and re-opened as Theatre Royal under Harry Yorke's management in 1892. In 1931 theatre was abandoned and it became the Cinema Royal with 1600 seats but was demolished in 1937 to make way for new cinema. New Cinema Royal and café opened in 1938 but was demolished in 1967 for new town centre after being bought by the Essoldo group in 1957 and sold to the corporation for demolition for £130,000.
Theosophical Society Temple Chambers Church Street (1939-51)
Therlmere Close (1980)
Thistle Field (1835) Whitebirk estate
Thomas Street (1870) 26 Harrison Street
Thomas Street (1818-52) (Whooley) Whalley Banks
Thomas Street (1818-52) The Wranglings Nos 4 and 45
Thomasina Place (1929) 41 Saunders Road
Thompson Street (1878-1980) 27 Pleasington Street Wensley Fold Nos 13-17/34 and 2
Thompson Street Congregational church Witton (founded 1884) demolished
Thompson Street Industrial Estate (1979) Bank Top
Thornber Street (1889-1980) 98 Taylor Street 2 businesses
Thorncliffe (1929) 169 Preston New Road
Thorneycroft (1929) Preston New Road
Thornley Avenue (1980)
Thornton Close (1980)
Thornton Drive (1980) previously Bridlington Crescent built 1951
Thornwood Close (1980)
Th'owd Tradin' 'Oyle corner of Railway Road and High Street consisted of a few cottages some 10 feet below street level access being by a sloping path with railings. The cottages having been condemned were being used as pet stores.
Three Lawnds (1856) Audley estate 16 acres 2 roods 9 perches
Throstle Nest (1898) tenement on banks of Blakewater
Throstle Nest Mill (1844) Bank Top owned by Railton & Stones (1870) cotton spinners & manufacturers then by James Beads (1878) cotton manufacturer and J F Calvert & Co (1878) cotton manufacturers followed by Henry Heywood Throstle Nest Mill Co cotton spinners and manufacturers
Throstle Street (1851-1980) 82 Bank Top Nos 6/13/15/69
Thunder Alley (1795-1845) important thoroughfare across Northgate to Queen Street and onto Blakey Moor now Town Hall Street
Thunder Alley Charity School
Girls' Charity School was demolished in 1928. Founded by Mr.William Leyland who left £200 in trust, opened in 1764 it was to provide education for ninety girls in knitting, sewing, reading and arithmetic. In 1836 there were 70 scholars in average attendance. On 18th January 1870 having closed down the whole of the property was sold to the Blackburn Exchange Company, which were then occupied as auction rooms
Thwaites' Arcade Church Street ran through to Lord Street.
Built in 1883 at a cost of £10,000 and opened in 1884. Above the arcade was housed the Central Conservative Club. Was demolished in July 1971 Occupants when closed included Cash & Co.; William's tobacconist; S Eastham's florists; Evans; Lotus Shoes; F Lewis's; Hadfield's women's clothes; Smith's Arcade Tobacco Store; Porritt's, The Wig Boutique, Timothy White's and Worswick's opticians. Nos 1-26 (1903)
Thwaites' Court (1878-1949) Market Place
Thwaites' Theatre see Empire Theatre
T I Girls High School (1992) 31 Bicknell Street
Tintern Crescent (1951) 380 Whalley Old Road
Tippett Close Roman Road
Tippings Farm (1915) Wilpshire
Tithe Barn (1851) Blackburn
Tithebarn Farm (1851-78) Livesey Thomas Sharples (1878)
Tiverton Drive (1980)
Toc-H Club Royal Buildings, Preston New Road (1930); 4 Strawberry Bank (1935); 15 Preston New Road (1939-42); Temple Chambers, Church Street (1951); Lees Hall (1958)
Toad Hole (Toadehoale, Toddehole, Todehole) (1623) Yew Tree Preston New Road home of the Claytons now occupied by Margaret Grimshaw opposite site of County Hotel
Toad Hole Farm (1836)
Toc H Club Temple Chambers Church Street (1947); Richmond Terrace (1956); Institute for the Deaf Kendal Street (1966);
Tockholes (1227) (Tockolis, Tocholis, Thocol, Tokhol, Tokholes) Tocca's valley.
Tockholes Fold Farm (1851-1942) Livesey James Pickup (1870)
Toddy Fold / Tod Hey (1832) Lane Ends tenement left hand side below Rhodes Peckgate Road
Henry Knowles & John Richmond (1832)
Tolls had been set up as a result of the George 111 (1793) & 1818 Turnpike Acts but were scrapped when the acts were repealed 31st October 1881.
Shackerley Toll Preston New Road (1827-91); Redlam Toll (1870) Redlam Brow (3d); Brookhouse Old Toll Bar Whalley Brow junction Whalley New Road and Whalley Old Road (demolished 1928) collector Thomas Hoyle (1824); White Cottage Livesey Branch Road; Abbott Clough Accrington Road nr Old Mother Redcap (demolished 1935); Ewood near Albion Hotel (1866-bef 1887); Brownhill (1868) collector Robert McMillan;
Toll Gate (1851) Livesey
Tom Crook's Delph (1865) off St James' Road next to Royshaw Brick works. Name taken from farmer who farmed Lower Royshaw Farm.
Tongue Hill Old Norse meaning 'spit of land'
Tongue Hill Farm (re-built 1730-2001) Pleasington William Blackmore (1870)
Tongue Well (1851) Pleasington
Tontine (Street) (1795-1980) Morton Street an area near Kirkham Lane Limbrick crossed by Barbara Castle Way. Later New Street parallel with Kirkham Lane was called Tontine Street (1843-1929) 10 Limbrick Nos 21/41-55 and 10-50
Tony Hurst Road (1980)
Top of Brow (1872) St Thomas' Parish
Top of Revidge (1844) houses facing Park near top of Brantfell Road
Top of Shire Brow (1832)
Top o' th' Coal Pits (1786-1960) Mount Pleasant Grimshaw Park. As many as coal pits existed shown on the OS Map of 1844. When a new quarry was opened around 1900 by Messrs Whittaker clay was mined some 50ft beneath the coal seam. In the late 1960s rubble from the old Blackburn Market was used to fill in the quarry. Park Lee Hospital was built on the land of this farm.
Top o' th' Coal Pits Farm (1720-1902)
Top o' the Croft Bolton Road Ewood
Top Oth Heights Farm (1871-81) Ramsgreave John Sharples (1870)
Top o' th' Moor Farm (1826-1966) J G Reay (1966)
Top Farm (1870) Henry Cave (1870)
Topaz Street (1929) 552 Whalley New Road
Toppings' Court (1893-1949) 61 Moor Street Larkhill
Toronto Road (1958) Silas
Tottenham Road (1929-80) Sandy lane Lower Darwen
Tottering Temple (1898) farmhouse in Tockholes
Tower Road (1958) Preston Old Road
Tower Street (1870-1966) (4)125 Harwood Street
Town Clerk's office Town Hall (1870-1951)
and Clerk of the Peace: C G H Beck (1870) W E L Gaine (1878-89) Robert E Fox (1897) Sir Lewis Beard (1924-30) Briggs H Marsden (1935) Charles S Robinson OBE (1939-51)
Town Crier and Bellman William Markham 9 Kirkham Lane (1870-85)
Town's Green (1836-56) Audley estate 3 acres 2 roods 28 perches
Town Hall, Session's House and Police Offices Market Place King William Street corner stone laid on 28th October 1852 by Joseph Feilden Lord of the Manor and opened 30th October 1856 by the Mayor William Hoole at a cost of £29,428 Architect James Paterson, builder Richard Hacking and William Stones.
Town Clerk: W E L Gaine; R E Fox (1903); Sir Lewis Beard (1912-30);
Hall keeper: William & Elizabeth Jones (1856); Joseph Dewhurst (1870); W Wilkinson (1878-81); F N Fowler (1930-42); Perkins
The copper plate had the following inscription engraved upon it:- 'This, the foundation stone of the Town Hall, Session's House and Police Offices, intended to be erected by the B J Commissioners, by virtue of the powers vested in them, by act of parliament, in the 10th year of Queen Victoria, upon a plot of ground containing 3832 superficial square yards (of which 2460 superficial square yards were given by Joseph and John Feilden, and the remainder purchased by the commissioners), was laid on the 28th October 1852, 16th year of Queen Victoria, by Joseph Feilden, one of the lords of the manor of Blackburn, assisted by W H Hornby, the mayor, and William Hoole, chairman to the Commissioners Committee of Superintendence – William Hoole, James Pickup, and Richard Backhouse; Thomas Hart, Robert Hopwood, junior, W H Hornby, Christopher Parkinson, clerk to the commissioners, John Hargreaves; architect, James Patterson; contractors, Richard Hacking and William Stones'. Of Italian Renaissance style it covers, within the boundary walls, and area of 2,612 sq. yds. The entrance front is 120ft. long and 62 ft. high. All the Police Departments vacated the building in July 1912. New Council Chamber opened 2 May 1921. War memorial Roll of Honour unveiled in the vestibule in 1929. Grade 2 listed in 1974.
(New) Town Hall 'The Tower Block' rising 14 storeys and costing £650,000 opened on Friday 4th July 1969 by Lord Rhodes Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire. Stands 198ft high with the top of the building 545ft 9ins above sea level It is joined to the old town hall by a glass walled bridge at first floor level. Given facelift in 1990;
Town Hall Buildings (1858) became William Hoole Street now Exchange Street (1860s)
Town Hall Street (1870) (37)57 King William Street previously Thunder Alley Nos 1-17 and 6-20
Town's Moor (1832) open area on Grimshaw Park side of Darwen Street Railway Bridge, between Grimshaw Park and Bolton Road Used by local artillery for exercises etc now a retail shopping complex
Town's Moor Baptist Chapel (1889)
Town Stocks were situated on the western side of the old market place at the top of Church Street.
Town Twinning at the conclusion of the first World War the Borough adopted the devastated town of Peronne providing funds to re-build the bridge over the river Somme. The first visit was on the 24th January 1921. In 1971 a twinning agreement was made with Altena a West German town.
Tram Street (1929) 311 Accrington Road
Tramways
Blackburn Corporation Tramways Co. Ltd. 9 Station Road (Railway Road) Salford (1889-1925);
manager: C M Dowie (1889); general manager: Alfred S Giles;
chief clerk: J W Baker (1900-3) S Hargreaves (1912-5);
office: 65 Church street (1930-5) general manager: J H Cowell (1905-37) A Potts (1937-51)
department: Accrington Road (1951)
Blackburn Corporation operated 5 tram sections:
Church of 4miles opened 9th July 1901 the last tram ran from the Boulevard to Intack depot on 3rd September 1949 the last tram from Intack to Church was 16th January 1949
Wilpshire opened in November 1887 of 2 ½ miles extended 14th May 1902 buses took over on Monday 22nd December 1947
Preston New Road opened 28th March 1899 of 1½ miles trams last ran on 6th January 1946
Witton opened 31st March 1899 of 1¾ miles extended later to Cherry Tree 2 ¼ miles 7th October 1903 closed 1st April 1939
Darwen in co-ownership with Darwen Borough purchased 1898 started to Borough Boundary 1st December 1900 closed 2nd July 1949
Cemetery opened 4th July 1901
Queen's Park opened 4th December 1903 closed February 1935
First electric tram ran to Accrington 3rd August 1907
The last Blackburn tram was driven from the Town to Intack by the Chairman of the Transport Committee Mr Councillor Robert Weir JP on Saturday 3rd September 1949
Tramway Men's Institute 3 Fleming Square (1914); 1 Ainsworth Street (1930-51);
secretary: J Mather (1930-5); W Lindsay (1942); O Jenner (1947-51)
Transitions (2002-3) the five sculptures in Church Street costing £250,000 “reflect the social, economical, industrial and physical growth of Blackburn through the cotton process". Made by Yorkshire artist Ian Randall they are called Boll, Gin, Mercer, Neo & Lumen.
Transport
Blackburn Corporation Tramways Co. Ltd. (1897) 9 Railway Road secretary: J W Baker (1897)
Blackburn Corporation Transport department (1939-51) 15/17 Railway Road
Transport & General Workers' Union (Blackburn No. 1) Royal Chambers 13 Victoria Street (1929-51)
secretary: R Sugden JP (1939); John Robinson (1951)
Trevanion's Amphitheatre see The Grand Theatre
Trevor Close (1966)
Trinity Cottages (1929-49) 93 Cleaver Street
Trinity Court (1980)
Trinity-Paradise United Methodist Church Feilden Street (1964)
Trinity Parish (1872) from Eanam Bridge along the canal to Audley Higher bridge, Audley Higher Barn Lane, Eanam, Syke Street, Penny Street, Larkhill, Whalley Road, Birley Street, Bancroft Street, Eanam Road to Eanam Bridge. Population: 4,394
Trinity Place (1852-3) Trinity Church
Trinity Street (1851-1980) Moor Street / 2 Mount Pleasant Nos 15-51 and 2-54
Trinity United Reform Church Brownhill having merged with Audley range Congregational church on 21/2/1988 having been Brownhill Congregational church since before 1929
Trinity Wesleyan Methodist (Free) Chapel (1877- 1965) Preston New Road / Montague Street a handsome gothic edifice designed by Mr. W S Varley of Blackburn. Erected in 1877/8 at a cost of £13,000 seated over 1100 persons with a.spire of 155ft the upper church part was closed and demolished in 1965
Troon Avenue (1966)
Troop Street (1929-66) School Street
Trout Brook House (1851) Pleasington
Troy (1836-1958) Preston New Road the home of John and Ada Thwaites (1952) the site is now occupied by Beardwood (formerly Billinge) School. John Thwaites JP (1870)
Troy Street (1885-1980) 215 Whalley Range Nos 4-44a demolished
Tunnel Blackburn Railway tunnel from Blackburn station to Birley Street
Turkey Row (1851)
Turkish Baths (1891-1920) opened on Richmond Terrace in 1891 operated by the newly incorporated Blackburn Turkish Baths Company. Architects Stones and Gradwell. Operating until 1920. Demolished when Education offices were demolished 1984. Proprietor: Alfred Arbury (1896-7)
William Greenwood (Turkish Baths) 11 & 13 Feilden Street (1897)
George Hopwood 13 & 15 Fleming Square (1897)
James Murray (hydro.) 65 & 67 Higher Eanam (1897)
Audley Range
Officer's Turkish Baths Freckleton Street
Turner Square (1836) Bank Top
Turner Street (1851-1980) 74 Bank Top No 13
Turner Street mill (Rhooburb) Bank Top owned by Edward Healey (1870) cotton manufacturer then Marsden & Emmett (1878) cotton manufacturers Marsden Bros (1887) with Woodfield mills 835 looms shirtings & dhooties then T Marsden & Sons followed by J Ainsworth & Sons cotton manufacturers (1894) 547 looms shirtings and dhooties. Frank Ainsworth & Co (1902); James Read (Blackburn) Ltd (1915) cotton manufacturers followed by James Read (Blackburn) Ltd (1922) & Alden Manufacturing Co Ltd (1930) cotton manufacturers
Turners' Almshouses 58-68 Bank Top were erected and endowed by William MP and Jane Turner of Mill Hill in 1833 for indigent aged widowed women. Comprising of 6 single storey dwellings an allowance of 3s per week was allowed for maintenance. They were Grade 2 listed in 1974. Blackburn Borough Council stone cleaned and renovated them in 1976.
Turner's Court (1824) Darwen Street
Turner's Farm (1870-1966) Heys Lane Bank Hey Livesey Thomas Whittaker (1870) D Jackson (1966)
Turner's Yard (1795-1958) 19 Back Lane / 6 St. Peter's Street / Mincing Lane opposite Mecca Bingo Hall
Turnpike roads see individual Blackburn-
Tweed Street (1929) 437 Bolton Road no addresses
Twenty Steps above Cicely Hole on way to Higher Barn
Twisters' and Drawers' Association 52 Park Road Grimshaw Park (1924-51)
secretary: N Cronshaw (1924-5); Herbert Dawson (1951)
Two Gates path from Whalley New Road Roe Lee to Wilworth Crescent
Tynwald Road (1958) Park Lee Road
Tythe Barn (1929) off Revidge Road
Tythe Barn Terrace (1918) Revidge Road
Typographical Association Blackburn Branch (1896) secretary: F Atkin (1896)
Ullswater Close (1980)
Ulverston Close (1980)
Undenominational Mission Room Whitebirk (1889)
Under Billinge Farm (1951-66) J Bruce (1996)
Under Billinge Lane (1966)
Under Bunkers Hill (1851) Livesey
Under th' Height Farm (1870) Lower Darwen Moses Nightingale (1870)
Unemployment Assistance Board area office 6 Shear Bank Road (1939-51)
Unemployment Junior Instruction Centre Walter Street (1939)
The Union Bank of Manchester Ltd. Church Street, Blackburn (1912-15)
Union Buildings (1832-1912) 46 Whalley Old Road Daisyfield Nos 1/39-49/119-129 and 24/32/112-120
Union Club 9/11 Church Street (1849-1909) 45 Preston New Road (1924-51) First established in 1849 had a good billiards and news-room The building had been erected by Henry Sudell for a town residence. Its members comprised the principal gentlemen of the town and neighbourhood.
chairman: Leonard Wilkinson (1870)
hon. sec. Joseph Ward (1870) James Yates (1878) steward: R Roylance (1878)
hon. sec. William Greenwood (1881) steward R Roylance (1881) hon. sec.: John Rutherford (1885) A R Greenwood (1889) W Thompson (1897-1915) secretary: H A Smith (1924-5) H A Smitton (1930-42) G Wakeworth (1947) Percy Waterworth (1947-51) Guy Waterworth (1951)
Union Cottage Homes Cherry Street and Hickory Street
Foster mothers: Misses Ada Willetts and Jane Coleman (1903); superintendent: J R Winward (1912); E Sullivan (1915)
Union House opened in 1864 it was a fine stone building in Cardwell Place. It cost £30,000. The Union was the predecessor of the Blackburn Rural Council. see Union Offices below
United Irish Club (1900) 58 Victoria Street secretary: John Grace jnr (1900)
Union Mill (The Soup Kitchen) Cleaver Street
(The) Union Offices 8 King Street (1878) 4 King Street (1881) Cardwell Place (1897-1951) clerk to the Guardians: Thomas Brennand (1878) R C Radcliffe (1881-97)
Cardwell Place (Fish Lane) foundation stone laid by James Hoyle JP chairman of the building committee on 22/12/1886. Designed by Stone & Gradwell MSA of Blackburn
clerk: Charles E Bygrave (1903-15); G B Pye (1924-5)
Union Street & back (1795) leading from (40)50 Ainsworth Street to Old Chapel Street Nos 1-27 and 2-20 (1903)
Union Street (1843) 47 Mosley Street Nova Scotia
Union Street & back (1870-1980) Pump Street / 8 Lister Street
Union Street Bridge was a stone bridge over the Blakewater above Salford linking Union Street and Old Chapel Street. Built before 1882 and still standing in 1951. A single span with a parapet of stone slabs clamped together with iron straps