What do you think of when you hear the name of BLACKBURN in lancashire?thank you.?

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Dry Dreamer

Flat caps, chip butty's, whippets, black puddings and a totally incomprehensible accent oxox

Buttsmear

John Lennon...

sausagejockey

football team! i just love robbie savage!

Corvinus

4000 holes!

TINYTI

rovers

madgreenbird

Football team

prakdrive

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.

teary chocolate

Rovers

puffy

Chimneys and steak and kidney pies.

how weird is that? Ive never been!

shell

last drop village? i remember going there as a kid!

Hendo

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.

MANC & PROUD

Tony

thatmadlass

10,000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire,
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all

*Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall*

timsdad

I am reminded of my dear "mum-in-law" who lives near there, and has got to be a candidate for best "mother-in-law" award.

Jude

However many holes there were in that song by the Beatles.

sashs.geo

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.

Dunrobin

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.

Jenny

Rovers and Asians

manchester_babe_30

its a dump....

Christine P

football.Shell Last drop village is at Bolton not Blackburn

mrs_empo

Tony Blackburn

fiona

"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.

Lupee

Tony Blackburn (woof woof Arnold!)

srracvuee

good football club but rough pitch and you covered most notabilities especially Barbara Castle who made me get new tyres for my car all those years ago when money was tight

starlet108

Flat caps xxx

DillyDallyLama

Completely and absolutely nothing at all because it is such a nothing place.

northerners, foreigners,beer,Asians and horrible accents. THE SOUTH IS BEST.

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