THREE weeks ago Bygones looked at the early history of the Cherry Tree and Feniscliffe areas of Blackburn.

Unsafe parts of the 1901 Imperial Mill in Blackburn will be taken down as part of regeneration plans.

From the Manchester Examiner. The great interest which attaches at the present time to the state of employment in the cotton manufactures of these districts, has induced us to make, through or ...

MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS OF ENGLAND.; Unemployed Operatives The Factories The Popular Sentiment on the American Troubles Distress at Blackburn The Stock of Cotton.

Work has started to bring one of Blackburn's most iconic mills back to its former glory. Imperial Mill was built in 1901 and stands alongside the Leeds-Liverpool Canal near to Whitebirk. The ...

Many cotton spinners simply cut their losses and stopped spinning. Thomas Corlass of Hope Mill, Keighley, gave up in 1808, as did David McCrobin at Sutton Mill and Wigglesworth & Parker at Dale End ...

It is the "Cotton Mill" derby between Burnley and Blackburn Rovers, two founder members of the Football League separated by just 14 miles.

JAMES NALTON explores the history of clashes between the two clubs ahead of this weekend’s Cotton Mills Derby showdown at Turf Moor Blackburn Rovers' Michel Salgado (left) and Burnley's David Nugent ...

THREE weeks ago Bygones looked at the early history of the Cherry Tree and Feniscliffe areas of Blackburn.