Blackburn, Lancashire - Garden of Remembrance, Corporation Park, 1950 pmk

• Postcard

   

• Picture / Image:  Garden of Remembrance, Corporation Park, Blackburn
• Publisher: Valentines Sepiatype (211207)
• Postally used: yes
• Stamp:  George V 2d orange
• Postmark(s): Blackburn 1950 'British Industries Fair' slogan postmark
• Sent to:  Mr & Mrs Parris, 90 Regent Street, Gloucester 
• Notes / condition: 

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Blackburn /ˈblækbərn/ (en) is a town in Lancashire, England. It lies to the north of the West Pennine Moors on the southern edge of the Ribble Valley, 9 miles (14 km) east of Preston, 20.9 miles (34 km) NNW of Manchester^{[n 1][4]} and 9 miles (14 km) north of the Greater Manchester border. Blackburn is bounded to the south by Darwen, with which it forms the unitary authority of Blackburn with Darwen; Blackburn is its administrative centre. At the time of the UK Government's 2001 census, Blackburn had a population of 105,085,^[2] whilst the wider borough of Blackburn with Darwen had a population of 140,700.^[5] Blackburn had a population of 117,963 in 2011, a massive increase since 2001.

A former mill town, textiles have been produced in Blackburn since the middle of the 13th century, when wool was woven in people's houses in the domestic system. Flemish weavers who settled in the area during the 14th century helped to develop the woollen cottage industry.^[6] James Hargreaves, inventor of the spinning jenny, was a weaver in Oswaldtwistle near Blackburn^[7] and the most rapid period of growth and development in Blackburn's history coincided with the industrialisation and expansion of textile manufacturing. Blackburn was a boomtown of the Industrial Revolutionand amongst the first industrialised towns in the world.^{[citation needed]}

Blackburn's textile sector fell into terminal decline from the mid-20th century and subsequently faced similar challenges to other post-industrial northern towns, including deindustrialisation, economic deprivation and housing issues. In recent decades, the town has experienced significant levels of migration, with people of ethnic backgrounds other than white British making up 30.8% of the population,^[8] above the regional and national average. Blackburn has had significant investment and redevelopment since 1958 through government funding and the European Regional Development Fund.^[9]