2006-11-30 09:04:24 · 27 answers · asked by stephen177669 2 in Travel ➔ United Kingdom ➔ Other - United Kingdom
what about;barbera castle,jack walker,carl fogarty,graham and brown,industrial revolution,cotton,jack straw,ian mcshane,russell harty,whistle down the wind,time computers,wayne hemmingway,thwaites,duttons,mathew brown,blackburn raves,margot grimshaw,red or dead,sett end,cathedral,pals,cd's,perserverance?
2006-12-01 10:15:05 · update #1
Flat caps, chip butty's, whippets, black puddings and a totally incomprehensible accent oxox
2006-11-30 09:16:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Home..thanks everyone who belittled it!!!
A lot of what you're referring to wouldn't be known to people in different areas. A few of my old fiends used to got the Sett End/Red Parrot, but I preferred the Vulcan and Napier, all the rave scene ever did for me was keep me awake (Live the Dream, 1989ish). The Pals are more synonymous with Accrington, although a lot of them were recruited from Blackburn.
To all the other people who answered this, Blackburn has got a relevant and rich history, although most of it only happened in the last two hundred years, some of you Americans may not know that a letter form a delegation of cotton merchants was important enough to be read out in the upper house on the eve of your Civil War, a war which devastated the lives of thousands in Blackburn as a result of te cotton famine that ensued after the War started.
2006-11-30 09:19:52 · answer #2 · answered by Hendo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tony Blackburn
2006-11-30 09:06:05 · answer #3 · answered by mrs_empo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"4000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire"
from "Day in a Life", the penultimate track of "The Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band" LP of The Beatles.
2006-12-01 11:25:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Carl Fogarty - Burnley
Whistle Down the wind - Downham
Industrial revoloution - most of the UK
Nope sorry I just think about the accent the blackbuRRRRRRn accent.
2006-12-04 16:43:43 · answer #5 · answered by sashs.geo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fred Dibnah, Cotton Mills, Black Pudding, a pint o' bitter wi' an 'ead two inch thick on it, a footy team that was quite good in about 1890, great big chimneys that aren't there any more, about a million tons of industrial debris, canals, brass bands and the Hovis advert. Yes, I know that last one's more like Yorkshire but the reason you two counties fought the Wars of the Roses is that nobody in either county could spell chrysanthemum.
2006-11-30 09:19:04 · answer #6 · answered by prakdrive 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think of its reference in 'A Day in the Life' (being from Canada that was the first time I'd heard of Blackburn) and now I also think of Jack Straw.
2006-11-30 19:37:23 · answer #7 · answered by Dunrobin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rovers
2006-11-30 09:06:51 · answer #8 · answered by teary chocolate 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Football team
2006-11-30 09:06:27 · answer #9 · answered by madgreenbird 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tony Blackburn (woof woof Arnold!)
2006-11-30 09:06:12 · answer #10 · answered by Lupee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tony
2006-11-30 09:14:15 · answer #11 · answered by MANC & PROUD 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋