Discover Pendle centre opens
12:48pm Thursday 15th May 2008
HUNDREDS of people turned up to the opening of the new Discover Pendle Gateway to Lancashire Centre in Colne.
The mayor, Coun Allan Buck, was joined by a crowd of more than 400 people at the visitor centre, located at the new Boundary Mill site in Vivary Way.
The Red Rose Band, Pendle Hippodrome Youth Theatre and Pendle Rose provided entertainment.
Support for the centre, which opens seven days a week, was provided by the Northwest Regional Develop-ment Agency (NWDA), via the Lancashire and Blackpool Tourist Board.
Coun Buck said: "It was my great privilege to open the new Discover Pendle Centre at Boundary Mill.
"Those of us who live and work in Pendle already know what an extra special part of the country this is."
The centre, which has some of the longest opening hours of any visitor office in the UK, will have facilities for on-line accommodation booking.
James Berresford, director of tourism at the NWDA, said: "The NWDA is pleased to support the development of this new Pennine Lancashire Gateway Centre. This high-tech visitor information facility will help us to deliver the information that visitors want, when and how they want it and is the perfect gateway to Lancashire."