I was born and raised in Blackburn . And this brings back so many memories . I live in Canada now and I have only been back twice in the last 16 years . I hope to one day show my kids where I am from .
I'd like to say a very very big thank you to you all for the wonderful response to Sunday's Whitby walk! I had a lot of fun making the video, and I'm glad you enjoyed watching it too :) Here in Blackburn, here's a bit of bonus info on the big skyscraper you can see from around 14:07: That's Blackburn New Town Hall, which rises 198ft/60m into the air beside the original Town Hall. The two buildings are linked under the footbridge we walk under, but the New Town Hall is now the main home of Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council!
It certainly is! With all that grand architecture and a bustling vibe on the streets - Blackburn certainly has a wonderful atmosphere on a sunny day :) Thank you so much for watching - I really hope you enjoyed the video!
Thank you! I was born in Darwen, bred in Blackburn and Oswaldtwistle. Left to join the army in 1989. Served 22 years and emigrated to Australia. I’ve been in Oz for the past 13 years. It was great to see my old town once again.
Great video, I was brought up and lived in Blackburn for 29 years and learnt more about the town in this video than the whole time I lived there. Thank you
Brilliant vid I’ve moved to London now and this brought back so many good memories of me walking thru the town centre in my teens. One thing I miss is spiral and the jacket potato van outside the old market.
Wonderful to hear! I'm glad that this video brought back some old memories - it is amazing just how much Blackburn has changed over the years :) Thank you so much for watching - I'm really glad you enjoyed the video!
It's changed quite the bit over the decades! I do hope you thought this video did the town justice - its history really is spectacular, and some of its architecture today is equally so :) Thank you so much for watching - I really hope you enjoyed the video!
another of the dozens of splendid underrated british towns and cities, huddersfield, paisley, dundee, derby, doncaster, swansea, bradford to name but a few, still to be discovered by outsiders, stunning architecture throughout. loved it!
It really is! This video was my first ever visit to Blackburn, and I was thoroughly impressed by the town centre, and even more impressed as I began to delve deeper into the history of Blackburn - a fascinating town if there ever were one! Thank you so much for watching - I'm really glad to hear you enjoyed the video :)
My goodness england is beyond beautiful I am speechless .You are great thanks for showing us all england I enjoy it very much love it.Blessings stay safe out their.
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video - Blackburn is a very impressive town and a great example of Britain at its industrial height - making it thoroughly worth a visit :)
Ha ha thank you very much! There's a lot about Blackburn that really impressed me on my visit, and a sunny blue sky always makes the town centre look that extra bit special :) Thank you for watching - I'm really glad you enjoyed the video!
And proud of it I'm sure! Blackburn is a fascinating place and one of Lancashire's greatest towns of all - a fantastic town to visit and discover, especially when the sun is shining :) Thank you so much for watching - I really hope you enjoyed the video!
What a charming town, seems like the locals are especially friendly...especially those two charming chaps in orange at the start who chose to give you the bird as U walk by them....lovely, so warm and freindly!
Thank you so very much for this fantastic video. I was born in Blackburn in the 1960's and grew up there during the town's period of decline in the 70's and 80's. I've hardly been back in the last 35 years but this video inspired me to return as a tourist! I'm so heartened to see that my home town is looking so fantastic. I also learnt a great deal about the history of the town in this film which I was hitherto unaware of. Thanks again and Viva Blackburn!
I do hope this brought back some good memories of the town for you! Blackburn is a great place to be proud of :) Thank you so much for watching - I'm really glad you enjoyed the video!
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You're welcome! Blackburn really does have some spectacular architecture (my personal favourite is the Victoria Building at the College), and it really makes the town come alive on a lovely day like this :) Thank you so much for watching - I'm really glad you enjoyed the video!
I don’t recognise it at all. I left Blackburn in 1999. At least King George’s Hall is still there? Is the reference library still there? I do remember they had a massive Asian community
@@who-gives-a-toss_Bear Yes, from '63 to '71. We knew a family called Heap, they emigrated same time as you. Your comment 'heaps' made me think you were one of them :)
Nice vlog please could you do a walk through in greatharwood please would be lovley to see how its changed. Born and bred in Blackburn. But thats were i loved moved out of blackburn before the 80s. Love to see my childhood. Found memories. The old roads the allys the parks the swimming baths the library. Their was an old mills opposite the ďocter sugary if you could find out wat happend to that please. My dad used to work therè before we moved. Would be lovĺey to see all that, Thank you. ❤❤😊
I hope you enjoyed the walk around your hometown and that you learned some new things about it - Blackburn is full of history :) Thank you so much for watching!
Probably quicker walking than to drive via the ludicrous traffic routings. My home town and I went back for a walk round the town centre a few weeks ago and it was tipping it down, so kept pretty central. Nice to see that you got some good weather.
Ha ha I'd love to visit Trinidad one day - the history of the Caribbean really is a fascinating one, and the weather seems so wonderful from over here in the UK :)
You forget to mention the old former Northgate Police Station at 9:50 which was once home to what was then Blackburn Division Police Headquarters, long before the building of East Division Police Headquarters at Greenbank, on the outskirts of Blackburn. The arches visible at 9:50 were the driveway to the police station and entrance to the enquiry desk in the rear courtyard. It had a large old cell complex with direct passageways to the docks on courts 1 and 2 in the Magistrates Court. Rumours are of several hauntings in the old disused corridors. No doubts lots of ghosts! Your video is superb but doesn’t seem to reflect to true number of takeaways……
Thank you so much for pointing that out! There's a whole lot of history in Blackburn, and I didn't have too much time to go into that detail, but thank you for sharing it with us - the legends that haunt the town make it all the more fascinating :) Thank you so much for watching and for your informative comment!
@@LetsWalkUK happy to help and contribute to your superb series. I’m lived and worked in Blackburn and Accrington for many years so have a little bit of insider knowledge and a few of the towns’ secrets too. Well done again for a brilliant series.
Wonderful, a lovely place with lots of character, I am a little disappointed though, you didn't show the holes, there are supposed to be 4000 of them, or did they move them? I would do a walking video of my city but I can describe it just as easy. Apartment building, apartment building, McDonalds, gas station, Hair Cuttery, Dunkin Donuts, Popeye's Chicken, two blocks of houses, Walmart, Target, Starbucks, Taco Bell, gas station, Walgreens, Hong Kong Buffet, Burger King, Batteries Plus, Subway (sandwiches), Pizza Hut, McDonalds, KFC, gas station, Panda Express, CVS Pharmacy, Costco, Home Depot, Domino's Pizza, Office Depot, Best Buys, McDonald's, Starbucks, repeat over and over, and lots of parking lots (car parks to you). Oh, I forgot, we do have a historic building, You can do the exact same tour in every city of my country.
Blackburn born and bred, actually the name Blackburn, was named after a well here, which in the olden era, all use to come here, to get water from the well👍
A ha that's an excellent story - I haven't heard that origin, so thanks for pointing it out :) As a proud Blackburn local I'm sure you've got an excellent knowledge of the town's riveting history! Thank you very much for watching - I do hope you enjoyed the video!
I have 2 family connections to the old "tech high", in Blackburn. My mother attended that school, and her paternal grandfather was involved in its construction.
Interesting to hear! It's always amazing to hear how individual stories link to some of the grandest parts of a proud town like Blackburn :) Thank you so much for watching - I really hope you enjoyed the video!
Ha ha it would be nice to see Blackburn in full swing on a busy evening - though my camerawork skills aren't quite up to scratch for night filming as of yet - I'll do my best to improve though :) Thank you so much for watching!
Town centre been choked to death by surrounding areas, the town is dead now run down smells and the sounds of tannoys destroy any quiet 2 or 3 times a day... The fact there's no one there tells you all you need to know.
Its safe place to live . Easy to find jobs but is very mixed town with English,Asian,Indian and now few Polish community but overall people just get on with there days...makes cities like London, Birmingham look like hell to live in
Yep heard about that from my favourite ex girlfriend, still dream about her. 1969 was a great year in Blackburn. Yea old White Bull and the Cavendish Club just bloody brilliant you should have been there.
I was born and raised in Blackburn . And this brings back so many memories . I live in Canada now and I have only been back twice in the last 16 years . I hope to one day show my kids where I am from .
Why did you leave?
I'm so glad I get to see this everyday on my way to college
Wonderful! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video - thank you so much for watching!
I'd like to say a very very big thank you to you all for the wonderful response to Sunday's Whitby walk! I had a lot of fun making the video, and I'm glad you enjoyed watching it too :)
Here in Blackburn, here's a bit of bonus info on the big skyscraper you can see from around 14:07: That's Blackburn New Town Hall, which rises 198ft/60m into the air beside the original Town Hall. The two buildings are linked under the footbridge we walk under, but the New Town Hall is now the main home of Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council!
Town centre is a lovely place when it’s sunny
It certainly is! With all that grand architecture and a bustling vibe on the streets - Blackburn certainly has a wonderful atmosphere on a sunny day :)
Thank you so much for watching - I really hope you enjoyed the video!
Thank you! I was born in Darwen, bred in Blackburn and Oswaldtwistle. Left to join the army in 1989. Served 22 years and emigrated to Australia. I’ve been in Oz for the past 13 years. It was great to see my old town once again.
Sorry but it turned into Blackburnistan.
Great video, I was brought up and lived in Blackburn for 29 years and learnt more about the town in this video than the whole time I lived there. Thank you
Brilliant vid I’ve moved to London now and this brought back so many good memories of me walking thru the town centre in my teens. One thing I miss is spiral and the jacket potato van outside the old market.
Wonderful to hear! I'm glad that this video brought back some old memories - it is amazing just how much Blackburn has changed over the years :)
Thank you so much for watching - I'm really glad you enjoyed the video!
same i miss them jacket potatos too
I have lived in Blackburn for over 30 years
It's changed quite the bit over the decades! I do hope you thought this video did the town justice - its history really is spectacular, and some of its architecture today is equally so :)
Thank you so much for watching - I really hope you enjoyed the video!
@Barney Rubble It has it's negatives and positives
Another great video - love your content its so relaxing
Thank you so much - it really means a lot to hear you enjoy watching these walks, I certainly enjoy making them :)
Thank you very much for watching!
another of the dozens of splendid underrated british towns and cities, huddersfield, paisley, dundee, derby, doncaster, swansea, bradford to name but a few, still to be discovered by outsiders, stunning architecture throughout. loved it!
I like it, thanks !!! I posted a video of a city walk in northern Russia. Happy viewing.
@@russiannorth2440 Just subscribed to your channel. Hoping to do some videos for my channel in Russia, once the restrictions are over.
@@travellingeverard4326 come to the Russian north
Couldn't agree more!
It really is! This video was my first ever visit to Blackburn, and I was thoroughly impressed by the town centre, and even more impressed as I began to delve deeper into the history of Blackburn - a fascinating town if there ever were one!
Thank you so much for watching - I'm really glad to hear you enjoyed the video :)
My goodness england is beyond beautiful I am speechless .You are great thanks for showing us all england I enjoy it very much love it.Blessings stay safe out their.
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video - Blackburn is a very impressive town and a great example of Britain at its industrial height - making it thoroughly worth a visit :)
This video made Blackburn look prettier than it is. Good job.
Ha ha thank you very much! There's a lot about Blackburn that really impressed me on my visit, and a sunny blue sky always makes the town centre look that extra bit special :)
Thank you for watching - I'm really glad you enjoyed the video!
@@LetsWalkUK I'll admit Blackburn has improved in some areas over the years and hopefully will some more. 🙂
I live in Blackburn... Born and bred 🙂
And proud of it I'm sure! Blackburn is a fascinating place and one of Lancashire's greatest towns of all - a fantastic town to visit and discover, especially when the sun is shining :)
Thank you so much for watching - I really hope you enjoyed the video!
Sorry to hear that
@@kevink01639why?
What a charming town, seems like the locals are especially friendly...especially those two charming chaps in orange at the start who chose to give you the bird as U walk by them....lovely, so warm and freindly!
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Awesome #ultrawidewalk!! Great quality 🤜
Thank you so much - I'm really glad you enjoyed the video :) Thank you for watching!
Great walk in the Blackburn town. Very beautiful and historical. Can't wait to see more tomorrow 😀😀
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video - Blackburn is a striking town indeed with a whole lot of history :)
You got me singing! Hahaha i found this video today. It was terrible singing i know. Id only just begun doing singing then!
I had many a happy night in BLACKBURN Happy memories
Ha ha wonderful! Thank you very much for watching - I'm glad this video brought back some great memories of Blackburn for you :)
I was born in Blackburn left for Australia when I was 10, now live in Melbourne.
Thank you so very much for this fantastic video. I was born in Blackburn in the 1960's and grew up there during the town's period of decline in the 70's and 80's. I've hardly been back in the last 35 years but this video inspired me to return as a tourist! I'm so heartened to see that my home town is looking so fantastic. I also learnt a great deal about the history of the town in this film which I was hitherto unaware of. Thanks again and Viva Blackburn!
I love Blackburn, I miss this place a lot
I do hope this brought back some good memories of the town for you! Blackburn is a great place to be proud of :)
Thank you so much for watching - I'm really glad you enjoyed the video!
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Thanks for uploading. I really love the Victorian architecture of Blackburn.
You're welcome! Blackburn really does have some spectacular architecture (my personal favourite is the Victoria Building at the College), and it really makes the town come alive on a lovely day like this :)
Thank you so much for watching - I'm really glad you enjoyed the video!
Thank you for this great video of my home town Blackburn.
You're welcome! Thank you very much for watching - Blackburn is a fascinating town full of heritage :) I'm so glad you enjoyed the video!
In the old covered market, Walshes had a stall where we could purchase sasperilla.
Im lead to believe that the newer building doesnt house this stall.
I don’t recognise it at all. I left Blackburn in 1999. At least King George’s Hall is still there? Is the reference library still there? I do remember they had a massive Asian community
Took me back about 52 years.
Thanks heaps
Oh and at the 22:17 The infamous Adelphi Hotel.
Where all us lads had to keep our hand above the table tops.
Did you live in Little Harwood?
@@Tootsie63 I lived near Corporation Park till 1970, Now Australia.
Did you live in Little Harwood?
@@who-gives-a-toss_Bear Yes, from '63 to '71. We knew a family called Heap, they emigrated same time as you. Your comment 'heaps' made me think you were one of them :)
@@Tootsie63 Have to watch that term.
Ment to mean a large number.
So where has the bus stop gone for west park and east park roads bus?
This place looks amazing. Thanks for sharing.
It certainly is - especially on a day as wonderfully sunny as this!
Thank you so much for watching - I'm really glad you enjoyed the video :)
Nice vlog please could you do a walk through in greatharwood please would be lovley to see how its changed. Born and bred in Blackburn. But thats were i loved moved out of blackburn before the 80s. Love to see my childhood. Found memories. The old roads the allys the parks the swimming baths the library. Their was an old mills opposite the ďocter sugary if you could find out wat happend to that please. My dad used to work therè before we moved.
Would be lovĺey to see all that,
Thank you. ❤❤😊
Blackburn has very steep terraced streets.
about 20 miles north of Liverpool as well
My hometown Blackburn
I hope you enjoyed the walk around your hometown and that you learned some new things about it - Blackburn is full of history :)
Thank you so much for watching!
Probably quicker walking than to drive via the ludicrous traffic routings. My home town and I went back for a walk round the town centre a few weeks ago and it was tipping it down, so kept pretty central. Nice to see that you got some good weather.
Ghost town 😱👻 Beautfull buildings but not living humans this is the future of every town in England
Miserable place ngl
I read the news today, oh boy
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
So much of history I am from trinidad .Trinidad alone could be a village in england that is how small it is.
Ha ha I'd love to visit Trinidad one day - the history of the Caribbean really is a fascinating one, and the weather seems so wonderful from over here in the UK :)
You forget to mention the old former Northgate Police Station at 9:50 which was once home to what was then Blackburn Division Police Headquarters, long before the building of East Division Police Headquarters at Greenbank, on the outskirts of Blackburn. The arches visible at 9:50 were the driveway to the police station and entrance to the enquiry desk in the rear courtyard. It had a large old cell complex with direct passageways to the docks on courts 1 and 2 in the Magistrates Court. Rumours are of several hauntings in the old disused corridors. No doubts lots of ghosts! Your video is superb but doesn’t seem to reflect to true number of takeaways……
Thank you so much for pointing that out! There's a whole lot of history in Blackburn, and I didn't have too much time to go into that detail, but thank you for sharing it with us - the legends that haunt the town make it all the more fascinating :)
Thank you so much for watching and for your informative comment!
@@LetsWalkUK happy to help and contribute to your superb series. I’m lived and worked in Blackburn and Accrington for many years so have a little bit of insider knowledge and a few of the towns’ secrets too. Well done again for a brilliant series.
I was born here and I’ll die here too.
Wonderful, a lovely place with lots of character, I am a little disappointed though, you didn't show the holes, there are supposed to be 4000 of them, or did they move them?
I would do a walking video of my city but I can describe it just as easy. Apartment building, apartment building, McDonalds, gas station, Hair Cuttery, Dunkin Donuts, Popeye's Chicken, two blocks of houses, Walmart, Target, Starbucks, Taco Bell, gas station, Walgreens, Hong Kong Buffet, Burger King, Batteries Plus, Subway (sandwiches), Pizza Hut, McDonalds, KFC, gas station, Panda Express, CVS Pharmacy, Costco, Home Depot, Domino's Pizza, Office Depot, Best Buys, McDonald's, Starbucks, repeat over and over, and lots of parking lots (car parks to you). Oh, I forgot, we do have a historic building, You can do the exact same tour in every city of my country.
A lot of amazing nights out in Blackburn in the 2000s..them streets have seen a lot of highs and lows.
A day in the life
There still 4000 holes??
They took them all to the Albert Hall.
A lot more now.
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
Blackburn born and bred, actually the name Blackburn, was named after a well here, which in the olden era, all use to come here, to get water from the well👍
A ha that's an excellent story - I haven't heard that origin, so thanks for pointing it out :) As a proud Blackburn local I'm sure you've got an excellent knowledge of the town's riveting history!
Thank you very much for watching - I do hope you enjoyed the video!
Not 4000 holes!
Maybe more now.
Have the roads improved since 1970?
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I have 2 family connections to the old "tech high", in Blackburn.
My mother attended that school, and her paternal grandfather was involved in its construction.
Interesting to hear! It's always amazing to hear how individual stories link to some of the grandest parts of a proud town like Blackburn :)
Thank you so much for watching - I really hope you enjoyed the video!
Do a night time one 🤣
Ha ha it would be nice to see Blackburn in full swing on a busy evening - though my camerawork skills aren't quite up to scratch for night filming as of yet - I'll do my best to improve though :)
Thank you so much for watching!
There is a disturbing lack of holes in this video
Town centre been choked to death by surrounding areas, the town is dead now run down smells and the sounds of tannoys destroy any quiet 2 or 3 times a day... The fact there's no one there tells you all you need to know.
I want to.move to this town am from Ireland .how is the level of crime
it depends where you live really near me it it very low but near the center it is higher but overall its not the worst
Very high
I'm also looking to move to Blackburn as I want to buy a cheap property.
Its safe place to live . Easy to find jobs but is very mixed town with English,Asian,Indian and now few Polish community but overall people just get on with there days...makes cities like London, Birmingham look like hell to live in
Did you have to use a fish-eye lens? I mean, that's reserved for NASA, to prove "Earth curvature."
4000 holes
the little pakistan of england
very obvious segregation, this puts the community in hard situation
Im liftin n shiftin myself. Jubilees dont pay for ebikes 😤😤😤
Please do not rush to visit Blackburn now. It might be better for your health if you wait around 4-6 weeks. Thanks.
Yep heard about that from my favourite ex girlfriend, still dream about her.
1969 was a great year in Blackburn.
Yea old White Bull and the Cavendish Club just bloody brilliant you should have been there.
Siht hole