BLACKBURN'S landmark £10million bridge is to be named by Lancashire Telegraph readers.
The bridge, in Freckleton Street, is due for completion this summer and has already had a dramatic impact on the skyline.
Bosses at Blackburn with Darwen Council have come up with a shortlist of seven famous names from Blackburn's past.
And they want Lancashire Telegraph readers to make the final decision.
Readers can also put forward alternative suggestions if they don't agree with the shortlist.
Council executives and senior councillors along with Blackburn MP Jack Straw put the list together.
The council said the list has names of people who were non-political and who have not already had anything named after them.
Work began on the 800-tonne steel structure last September.
The dual carriageway will form part of £12million scheme to transform the area, with a new road creating a link from Bolton Road to Barbara Castle Way.
A naming ceremony will be held later in the summer.
Council leader Colin Rigby said: "The bridge will be used for future generations to come.
"It is a fitting tribute for a well known personality who has contributed so much to Blackburn."
Coun Alan Cottam, executive member for regener-ation, added: "The bridge will be one of the most notable landmarks in Blackburn and is a sign of all the major regeneration going on in the borough."
Chief executive Graham Burgess said: "The names have been given a lot of thought but if readers decide they don't want to pick from the list we have selected, they can vote for their own choice.
THE CANDIDATES
William Fox was the chairman of Blackburn Rovers for 19 years and president of the Football League at the time of his death in December 1991 aged 63. He had been a supporter of Rovers since his childhood and was elected to the board of directors in June 1976.
Kathleen Ferrier came to prominence as a singer during and immediately after the Second World War and was especially remembered for her courageous performances during her illness. In 1953 she made her final performance. Already ill with breast cancer, which had spread to her bones, she got through the opening night of Orfeo in Covent Garden successfully, but at the second performance a bone in her leg broke while she was on stage.
Robert Edward Hart waps the treasurer of several local organisations - Blackburn Orphanage, Blackburn Guardian Society and the Church Mission to the Jews for the deanery. He was a great benefactor to the town and gave money for the purchase of Witton Park and set up scholarships and endowments. He possessed a collection of old coins, early printed books and illuminated manuscripts. His collection was left to the town on his death in 1946. Commemorated by the Hart Gallery, in Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery.
Thomas Boys Lewis is best known for giving the Lewis Textile Museum to the town in 1934, which showed the development of the cotton industry over 200 years. He was also active in the preservation of Samlesbury Hall. He was born in Blackburn in 1869 and educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge. He taught Latin and Greek at the Technical College in Blackburn as an unpaid teacher and he was a Governor of Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School for many years.
Alfred Wainwright was born in Audley Range, Blackburn in 1907. He is most famous for the large number of walking guides he wrote of the Lakeland fells, accompanied by his own hand-drawn maps. Always a private man, he disliked being photographed or interviewed. All the money he made from his writings was given to animal charities. He was educated at Blakey Moor School and went on to work in the borough treasurer's office.
Ethel Carnie was a working class poet who found fame through her writings on the factories that surrounded her home in Rishton. Born on January 1, 1886, in Oswaldtwistle and daughter of cotton weavers David and Louisa. By the age of 11 she was a "half-timer", employed as a teacher and also working at St Lawrence Mill as a winder. She identified herself with the working classes and became a member of the Blackburn Independent Labour Party in 1908.
Mary Hamilton has a varied career in public life serving as Blackburn's MP for two years from 1929 as well as a governor of the BBC from 1932-36. She was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, where she joined the National Union of Women Suffrage Societies. She later joined the Independent Labour Party. During the Second World War she was head of the American Division of the Ministry of Information.
HOW TO VOTE
Simply type your choice of name for the bridge in the box below.
You can vote for any of the names mentioned above, or add your own choice.
The decision of Lancashire Telegraph readers will be final.
Posted by: onlyonesimongarner on 3:14pm Mon 10 Mar 08
I can think of a man who did more for the town that all of the above. But who the council have never seen fit to bestow a "real" Honour on.
JACK WALKER
I can think of a man who did more for the town that all of the above. But who the council have never seen fit to bestow a "real" Honour on.
Posted by: ben k, newcastle on 3:27pm Mon 10 Mar 08
A true hero of the people who selflessly gave so much back to the town and football club he loved and gave us all something to be proud about...
Jack Walker
A true hero of the people who selflessly gave so much back to the town and football club he loved and gave us all something to be proud about...
Lewis had a textile mill, Jack Walker has a stand at Ewood, Wainwright left Blackburn early on in his life, so I go for Ethel Carnie, who I hadn't heard of before, but who sounds an inspiration.
Lewis had a textile mill, Jack Walker has a stand at Ewood, Wainwright left Blackburn early on in his life, so I go for Ethel Carnie, who I hadn't heard of before, but who sounds an inspiration.
Of those, I would go for Alfred Wainwright, but did you know that the Hollywood actor Ian McShane was born in Freckleton Street, when his dad Harry played for the Rovers?
Of those, I would go for Alfred Wainwright, but did you know that the Hollywood actor Ian McShane was born in Freckleton Street, when his dad Harry played for the Rovers?
It has to be Jack Walker as he is realistically the man that put us on the map through Blackburn Rovers. Besides its close to Ewood Park and Im sure everyone will agree without Uncle Jacks generosity and money Blackburn would be unknown...a little like Burnley. Also Im sure Jacks family would be proud to have the 'gateway' of Blackburn named ater him!
It has to be Jack Walker as he is realistically the man that put us on the map through Blackburn Rovers. Besides its close to Ewood Park and Im sure everyone will agree without Uncle Jacks generosity and money Blackburn would be unknown...a little like Burnley. Also Im sure Jacks family would be proud to have the 'gateway' of Blackburn named ater him!
Posted by: margie, Blackburn on 4:28pm Mon 10 Mar 08
I vote for Alfred Wainwright, not everyone in the town wants another football related name.Though Wainwright might shudder at the sight of the 'green thing' open spaces were more his thing.
I vote for Alfred Wainwright, not everyone in the town wants another football related name.Though Wainwright might shudder at the sight of the 'green thing' open spaces were more his thing.
Will you lot who name it toilet or waste of money PLEASE SHUT UP, its an impressively striking looking bridge and is the best landmark we've had in blackburn in a very long time, if you want to live in a dump thats fine by me, the old bridge was hideous so get used to the new one.
Will you lot who name it toilet or waste of money PLEASE SHUT UP, its an impressively striking looking bridge and is the best landmark we've had in blackburn in a very long time, if you want to live in a dump thats fine by me, the old bridge was hideous so get used to the new one.
Posted by: Snecklifter, barrow-in-furness on 4:48pm Mon 10 Mar 08
The Jack Walker Bridge ?? No, never!! Don't insult or upset his family by doing this !!
Epitaph for Jack ?
Just look around you, and see the splendour of Ewood Park for Jack's legacy for us.
Unlike the bridge, Jack certainly didn't "go nowhere" in his lifetime ! He would have liked his memory to be celebrated by all townsfolk further down Bolton Road, not Freckleton Street
He came from Bastwell, anyway, didn't he ?
The Jack Walker Bridge ?? No, never!! Don't insult or upset his family by doing this !!
Epitaph for Jack ?
Just look around you, and see the splendour of Ewood Park for Jack's legacy for us.
Unlike the bridge, Jack certainly didn't "go nowhere" in his lifetime ! He would have liked his memory to be celebrated by all townsfolk further down Bolton Road, not Freckleton Street
Posted by: badboi, littleharwood way on 6:11pm Mon 10 Mar 08
Posted by: Snecklifter, barrow-in-furness on 4:48pm today
The Jack Walker Bridge ?? No, never!! Don't insult or upset his family by doing this !! Epitaph for Jack ? Just look around you, and see the splendour of Ewood Park for Jack's legacy for us. Unlike the bridge, Jack certainly didn't "go nowhere" in his lifetime ! He would have liked his memory to be celebrated by all townsfolk further down Bolton Road, not Freckleton Street He came from Bastwell, anyway, didn't he ?
The Jack Walker Bridge ?? No, never!! Don't insult or upset his family by doing this !!
Epitaph for Jack ?
Just look around you, and see the splendour of Ewood Park for Jack's legacy for us.
Unlike the bridge, Jack certainly didn't "go nowhere" in his lifetime ! He would have liked his memory to be celebrated by all townsfolk further down Bolton Road, not Freckleton Street
He came from Bastwell, anyway, didn't he ?[bold]bold[/bold] .......... not he come from littleharwood
Posted by: Snecklifter, barrow-in-furness on 4:48pm today
The Jack Walker Bridge ?? No, never!! Don't insult or upset his family by doing this !! Epitaph for Jack ? Just look around you, and see the splendour of Ewood Park for Jack's legacy for us. Unlike the bridge, Jack certainly didn't "go nowhere" in his lifetime ! He would have liked his memory to be celebrated by all townsfolk further down Bolton Road, not Freckleton Street He came from Bastwell, anyway, didn't he ?
The Jack Walker Bridge ?? No, never!! Don't insult or upset his family by doing this !!
Epitaph for Jack ?
Just look around you, and see the splendour of Ewood Park for Jack's legacy for us.
Unlike the bridge, Jack certainly didn't "go nowhere" in his lifetime ! He would have liked his memory to be celebrated by all townsfolk further down Bolton Road, not Freckleton Street
He came from Bastwell, anyway, didn't he ? .......... not he come from littleharwood
Posted by: Ian Haworth, Blackburn on 6:52pm Mon 10 Mar 08
Wainwright Way would be my choice - Mr Wainwright loved the views in the Lake District - this bridge will hopefully have a similar impact as a gateway to Blackburn.
Wainwright Way would be my choice - Mr Wainwright loved the views in the Lake District - this bridge will hopefully have a similar impact as a gateway to Blackburn.
Posted by: Gene Hunt, Mars on 8:14pm Mon 10 Mar 08
Call it Carl Fogarty Bridge. 4 times world superbike champion put the towns name on the world map and the bridge runs over what used to be known as Fogartys Yard on the railway sidings.
Call it Carl Fogarty Bridge. 4 times world superbike champion put the towns name on the world map and the bridge runs over what used to be known as Fogartys Yard on the railway sidings.
There are plenty of names that come in mind, but we must decide these the name amongst three sets of criteria, 1) history, 2) famous people 3) or something for the future.
As for history, I would go for people, who actually made blackburn the place to come and live and whose name, who haven't been mention, such as John Hornby, who bought the industrial revolution to blackburn, and along with Hargreaves and crompton who invented the first spinning machine in blackburn, called jenny.
2) as for famous people there are plenty to choose from along with the above people, you have lord taylor, russell harty,carl fogarty, jack walker, jim bowen, etc
and lastly future,
which shows the strength of past, present and how Blackburn have come forward. why not even call it the "culture bridge", which all community have come forward to achieve a success. other suggestion united bridge, or even better nova scotia bridge.
There are plenty of names that come in mind, but we must decide these the name amongst three sets of criteria, 1) history, 2) famous people 3) or something for the future.
As for history, I would go for people, who actually made blackburn the place to come and live and whose name, who haven't been mention, such as John Hornby, who bought the industrial revolution to blackburn, and along with Hargreaves and crompton who invented the first spinning machine in blackburn, called jenny.
2) as for famous people there are plenty to choose from along with the above people, you have lord taylor, russell harty,carl fogarty, jack walker, jim bowen, etc
and lastly future,
which shows the strength of past, present and how Blackburn have come forward. why not even call it the "culture bridge", which all community have come forward to achieve a success. other suggestion united bridge, or even better nova scotia bridge.
Posted by: Dave H, Shadsworth on 10:48pm Mon 10 Mar 08
He deserves to have a much greater memorial than the "blue plaque" he has now....
[bold]ALFRED WAINWRIGHT[/bold]
(How about getting the sculptor who made Eric Morecambe's statue to make a pair of Wainwright busts, to be mounted on each end of the bridge....with flatcap and pipe, of course?)
He deserves to have a much greater memorial than the "blue plaque" he has now....
ALFRED WAINWRIGHT
(How about getting the sculptor who made Eric Morecambe's statue to make a pair of Wainwright busts, to be mounted on each end of the bridge....with flatcap and pipe, of course?)
What about Barbara Castle. It looks like a Castle standing proud and puts Blackburn on the map. Or would the present Coalition object, as they did with her statue.
What about Barbara Castle. It looks like a Castle standing proud and puts Blackburn on the map. Or would the present Coalition object, as they did with her statue.
All those names are rubbish its only a bridge! an everyone will call it freckleton st bridge anyway. If you spent more time building it rather than picking a name for it maybe it would be done by now.
All those names are rubbish its only a bridge! an everyone will call it freckleton st bridge anyway. If you spent more time building it rather than picking a name for it maybe it would be done by now.
Why use first names, I think either the Walker Bridge or the Wainwright Bridge sound better. Going away from legendary names you could call it Twin Peaks Bridge. Does anyone know whether that's the final colour? If it is it looks bloody awful but a darker blue and a bit of white will improve it immensely.
Why use first names, I think either the Walker Bridge or the Wainwright Bridge sound better. Going away from legendary names you could call it Twin Peaks Bridge. Does anyone know whether that's the final colour? If it is it looks bloody awful but a darker blue and a bit of white will improve it immensely.
Posted by: Somebody who knows more than BwD council, Blackburn on 12:19am Tue 11 Mar 08
I don't bleeding believe that the BwD council can leave out one of it's most famous sons from that list. And he was one of thee, if not thee, most renowned engineer of the modern world.
I suggest it be named with reference to.... [bold]David Keith Duckworth OBE[/bold] who was the co-founder (with Mike Costin) of [bold]Cosworth[/bold] Engineering.
He designed and built the most successful engine in Formula 1 history.
[italic]Keith Duckworth, who died on Sunday aged 72, was the outstanding racing engine designer of his generation.
Cosworth Engineering, the company he founded with his fellow engineer Mike Costin in 1958, produced a staggeringly successful series of Ford-based and Ford-sponsored engines. From 1960 to 1983 it not only won a record 155 World Championship-qualify
ing Grand Prix races but dominated international Formula 2, Formula 3 and Formula Junior. It won the Le Mans 24-hour sports car race, and added multiple victories in American Indianapolis-style speedway racing.
Duckworth was proudest of all in having manufactured precision-built engines in substantial quantity, thereby opening Formula 1's doors to a flood of new car manufacturers buying competitive Cosworth power "off the shelf".
[bold]David Keith Duckworth[/bold] was born on August 10 1933 at [bold]Blackburn, Lancashire,[/bold] the second son of Frank Duckworth, a textile engineer. His maternal grandfather had been a blacksmith, and his mother the first female demonstrator of cookers in the Blackburn electricity showrooms.
He was educated as a boarder at Giggleswick, while at home his father fostered his engineering interest by providing a lathe, vertical drill and grinder; with these young Keith made his own model steam and aero engines while earning a reputation for sorting out his neighbours' electrical or mechanical problems. He recalled: "I once won a bet with my uncle by switching on an electric blanket at two miles range by radio control."
On joining the RAF, Duckworth began to train as a pilot at 18, progressing from Tiger Moths through Chipmunks to twin-engined Oxfords until disaster struck; he fell asleep at the controls while circling an aerodrome, due to an allergic reaction to treatment for a sprained ankle; this was described as incompetent and dangerous night flying.
Sent for re-training as a navigator, Duckworth made waves by contradicting his astro-navigation tutor. "I don't compromise easily," he later admitted. "I simply won't accept theories that are wrong. I can spot bullshit at 100 yards, and I have to say so." He was released early, entering Imperial College, London in 1952, "where engineering was actually taught as an intended subject".
Duckworth was introduced to motor racing by fellow undergraduates, and bought a Lotus 6 kit car from Colin Chapman's company, racing it three times then crashing through the Goodwood chicane. He "scraped through" his BSc at Imperial after his dissertation emerged as a lengthy critique of the course, its content and methodology.
In the holidays he worked in Lotus's gearbox department at Hornsey, headed by the budding racing driver Graham Hill. There he met Mike Costin, and when Hill left in 1957 Chapman employed Duckworth as gearbox development engineer. It was not long before Duckworth identified the Lotus's limitations, telling Chapman: "I'm not prepared to waste my life developing something that will never work."
Duckworth and Costin consequently founded Cosworth Engineering in 1958, renting garage space at Shaftsbury Mews, London. Larger (though rat-infested) premises followed at Friern Barnet. In 1959 a new Formula Junior racing class emerged, for which Duckworth recognised development potential in the new Ford Anglia 105E production engine. He reworked the unit to dominate Formula Junior for the next four years.
Cosworth grew rapidly, moving to Edmonton in 1961, then Northampton in 1964. A new 3-litre Formula 1 class was due for 1966, and Colin Chapman asked his former employee if he felt ready to tackle a Grand Prix engine design. Chapman talked Ford into footing the bill, and their sponsorship famously became "the best £100,000 Ford ever spent".
Duckworth produced first a Ford-based four-cylinder 1600cc Formula 2 engine, from which he developed the three-litre V8 Cosworth-Ford DFV unit. Used by Jim Clark's new Lotus 49, it won the 1967 Dutch Grand Prix upon its debut. Looking at the new car, one rival engine designer admitted: "We knew then the game was up." Overnight, Duckworth's design had set entirely new standards in Formula 1 power and ingenuity.
He was an inspirational figure and a dynamic teacher. "Duckworthisms" became renowned throughout the racing and engineering worlds. These included: "It is better to be un-informed than ill-informed"; "a genius can make for a penny what a good engineer can only make for 10p"; and "very few straight answers are ever possible: the decisive man is a simple-minded man". He based job interviews on the principle that "young fools go on to become old fools".
His directness and incessant questioning left him seldom at ease in dealings with big business, but Cosworth grew rapidly as its profits were reinvested internally. Then Duckworth suffered a heart attack in 1973, forcing him to stop flying his helicopter. Seven years later, with his 85 per cent stake in Cosworth threatening huge death duties, he sold out to United Engineering Industries - "too cheaply", he observed.
Duckworth continued with Cosworth's engine design and development of a new turbo-charged Formula 1 engine; but this coincided with divorce from his first wife, Ursula, and early in 1987 he needed major heart bypass surgery. He remarried and effectively retired to his hilltop house outside Northampton, gradually losing interest in the company whose engineering work he could no longer control in every area.
After relinquishing his chairmanship on August 30 1988, he remained a consultant, particularly on race engines, and was made honorary life president in 1989.
In recent years he acted as consultant to the revived Triumph motor-cycle company with Mike Costin who, on learning of his friend's death, described himself as having "studied for 40 years at the University of Duckworth".
Keith Duckworth is survived by his second wife, Gill, and by a son and a daughter.[/italic]
For crying out bloody loud.
Google "Keith Duckworth".
I don't bleeding believe that the BwD council can leave out one of it's most famous sons from that list. And he was one of thee, if not thee, most renowned engineer of the modern world.
I suggest it be named with reference to.... David Keith Duckworth OBE who was the co-founder (with Mike Costin) of Cosworth Engineering.
He designed and built the most successful engine in Formula 1 history.
Keith Duckworth, who died on Sunday aged 72, was the outstanding racing engine designer of his generation.
Cosworth Engineering, the company he founded with his fellow engineer Mike Costin in 1958, produced a staggeringly successful series of Ford-based and Ford-sponsored engines. From 1960 to 1983 it not only won a record 155 World Championship-qualify
ing Grand Prix races but dominated international Formula 2, Formula 3 and Formula Junior. It won the Le Mans 24-hour sports car race, and added multiple victories in American Indianapolis-style speedway racing.
Duckworth was proudest of all in having manufactured precision-built engines in substantial quantity, thereby opening Formula 1's doors to a flood of new car manufacturers buying competitive Cosworth power "off the shelf".
David Keith Duckworth was born on August 10 1933 at Blackburn, Lancashire, the second son of Frank Duckworth, a textile engineer. His maternal grandfather had been a blacksmith, and his mother the first female demonstrator of cookers in the Blackburn electricity showrooms.
He was educated as a boarder at Giggleswick, while at home his father fostered his engineering interest by providing a lathe, vertical drill and grinder; with these young Keith made his own model steam and aero engines while earning a reputation for sorting out his neighbours' electrical or mechanical problems. He recalled: "I once won a bet with my uncle by switching on an electric blanket at two miles range by radio control."
On joining the RAF, Duckworth began to train as a pilot at 18, progressing from Tiger Moths through Chipmunks to twin-engined Oxfords until disaster struck; he fell asleep at the controls while circling an aerodrome, due to an allergic reaction to treatment for a sprained ankle; this was described as incompetent and dangerous night flying.
Sent for re-training as a navigator, Duckworth made waves by contradicting his astro-navigation tutor. "I don't compromise easily," he later admitted. "I simply won't accept theories that are wrong. I can spot bullshit at 100 yards, and I have to say so." He was released early, entering Imperial College, London in 1952, "where engineering was actually taught as an intended subject".
Duckworth was introduced to motor racing by fellow undergraduates, and bought a Lotus 6 kit car from Colin Chapman's company, racing it three times then crashing through the Goodwood chicane. He "scraped through" his BSc at Imperial after his dissertation emerged as a lengthy critique of the course, its content and methodology.
In the holidays he worked in Lotus's gearbox department at Hornsey, headed by the budding racing driver Graham Hill. There he met Mike Costin, and when Hill left in 1957 Chapman employed Duckworth as gearbox development engineer. It was not long before Duckworth identified the Lotus's limitations, telling Chapman: "I'm not prepared to waste my life developing something that will never work."
Duckworth and Costin consequently founded Cosworth Engineering in 1958, renting garage space at Shaftsbury Mews, London. Larger (though rat-infested) premises followed at Friern Barnet. In 1959 a new Formula Junior racing class emerged, for which Duckworth recognised development potential in the new Ford Anglia 105E production engine. He reworked the unit to dominate Formula Junior for the next four years.
Cosworth grew rapidly, moving to Edmonton in 1961, then Northampton in 1964. A new 3-litre Formula 1 class was due for 1966, and Colin Chapman asked his former employee if he felt ready to tackle a Grand Prix engine design. Chapman talked Ford into footing the bill, and their sponsorship famously became "the best £100,000 Ford ever spent".
Duckworth produced first a Ford-based four-cylinder 1600cc Formula 2 engine, from which he developed the three-litre V8 Cosworth-Ford DFV unit. Used by Jim Clark's new Lotus 49, it won the 1967 Dutch Grand Prix upon its debut. Looking at the new car, one rival engine designer admitted: "We knew then the game was up." Overnight, Duckworth's design had set entirely new standards in Formula 1 power and ingenuity.
He was an inspirational figure and a dynamic teacher. "Duckworthisms" became renowned throughout the racing and engineering worlds. These included: "It is better to be un-informed than ill-informed"; "a genius can make for a penny what a good engineer can only make for 10p"; and "very few straight answers are ever possible: the decisive man is a simple-minded man". He based job interviews on the principle that "young fools go on to become old fools".
His directness and incessant questioning left him seldom at ease in dealings with big business, but Cosworth grew rapidly as its profits were reinvested internally. Then Duckworth suffered a heart attack in 1973, forcing him to stop flying his helicopter. Seven years later, with his 85 per cent stake in Cosworth threatening huge death duties, he sold out to United Engineering Industries - "too cheaply", he observed.
Duckworth continued with Cosworth's engine design and development of a new turbo-charged Formula 1 engine; but this coincided with divorce from his first wife, Ursula, and early in 1987 he needed major heart bypass surgery. He remarried and effectively retired to his hilltop house outside Northampton, gradually losing interest in the company whose engineering work he could no longer control in every area.
After relinquishing his chairmanship on August 30 1988, he remained a consultant, particularly on race engines, and was made honorary life president in 1989.
In recent years he acted as consultant to the revived Triumph motor-cycle company with Mike Costin who, on learning of his friend's death, described himself as having "studied for 40 years at the University of Duckworth".
Keith Duckworth is survived by his second wife, Gill, and by a son and a daughter.
Posted by: Kath S, Mill Hill, Blackburn on 1:05am Tue 11 Mar 08
I think [bold]KATHLEEN FERRIER[/bold] would be very appropriate. She was a very well-loved and famous Blackburnian and deserves recognition in the town. I remember being with my mum when her devastated sister Winifred told us that Kathleen had died. Winnie lived in Islington, the street next to Freckleton Street, which is another reason for her name to be appropriate for the bridge. I was only 11 at the time but I still remember the shock and the sadness pervading everywhere we went in Blackburn; absolutely everyone seemed to be in mourning at her passing.
[bold]ALFRED WAINWRIGHT[/bold] also deserves recognition and he is my second choice. My son and I have used his books many times for walks on the Lakeland fells and I was brought up very close to his birthplace.
Jack Walker and Barbara Castle are already well recongised in Blackburn - why should they have something else named after them? Also, John Hornby already has a statue in Blackburn.
Never heard of any of the others suggested except for Lewis and he is already recognised by the Textile Museum which I believe is now housed in the main museum.
Ian McShane is also another famous Blackburnian!
However, like someone else said, it will probably just get called Freckleton Street Bridge anyway!
I don't like the colour of the bridge either. Hope this only temporary.
I think KATHLEEN FERRIER would be very appropriate. She was a very well-loved and famous Blackburnian and deserves recognition in the town. I remember being with my mum when her devastated sister Winifred told us that Kathleen had died. Winnie lived in Islington, the street next to Freckleton Street, which is another reason for her name to be appropriate for the bridge. I was only 11 at the time but I still remember the shock and the sadness pervading everywhere we went in Blackburn; absolutely everyone seemed to be in mourning at her passing. ALFRED WAINWRIGHT also deserves recognition and he is my second choice. My son and I have used his books many times for walks on the Lakeland fells and I was brought up very close to his birthplace.
Jack Walker and Barbara Castle are already well recongised in Blackburn - why should they have something else named after them? Also, John Hornby already has a statue in Blackburn.
Never heard of any of the others suggested except for Lewis and he is already recognised by the Textile Museum which I believe is now housed in the main museum.
Ian McShane is also another famous Blackburnian!
However, like someone else said, it will probably just get called Freckleton Street Bridge anyway!
I don't like the colour of the bridge either. Hope this only temporary.
It has to be Wainwright way, with him lived so close, and it would be nice to think of him as you walk over it, he is famous for walks in the Lake District, but lets have something from his home town.
It has to be Wainwright way, with him lived so close, and it would be nice to think of him as you walk over it, he is famous for walks in the Lake District, but lets have something from his home town.
Posted by: Big E, blackburn on 10:31am Tue 11 Mar 08
lets stay away from people's names. How many other famous bridges around the country are named after people. Tyne, Tower,severn, Darwen Street, etc. Granted, ours doesn't cross a river but lets be pragmatic about this. It's a bridge! Who's going to give directions and say "turn left then cross the alfred wainwright bridge"? Just name it something useful like the railway expressway, Bolton Road (whatever type of bridge it is. suspension etc)bridge.
lets stay away from people's names. How many other famous bridges around the country are named after people. Tyne, Tower,severn, Darwen Street, etc. Granted, ours doesn't cross a river but lets be pragmatic about this. It's a bridge! Who's going to give directions and say "turn left then cross the alfred wainwright bridge"? Just name it something useful like the railway expressway, Bolton Road (whatever type of bridge it is. suspension etc)bridge.
How can this be an eyesore? its not even finished yet, and i swear if anyone prefers to call it that or toilet, wast of money and any other silly names i will punch them in the face. You lot must be getting tired of moaning and complaining by now.
"Hemingway Bridge"
a great artist from blackburn, was in the recent design talks at king georges and he was funny.
How can this be an eyesore? its not even finished yet, and i swear if anyone prefers to call it that or toilet, wast of money and any other silly names i will punch them in the face. You lot must be getting tired of moaning and complaining by now.
"Hemingway Bridge"
a great artist from blackburn, was in the recent design talks at king georges and he was funny.
Posted by: Carol, Blackburn on 11:03am Tue 11 Mar 08
Jessica Lofthouse Author born 8th November 1906 died in 1988 attended Blakey Moor Central School lived at 126 Montague St.
She had over 20 books published.
Jessica Lofthouse Author born 8th November 1906 died in 1988 attended Blakey Moor Central School lived at 126 Montague St.
She had over 20 books published.
Posted by: jerry, blackburn on 11:53am Tue 11 Mar 08
How About....we are going to knacker Blackburn town centre even more bypass...... they have knackered trade in the town centre with these moronic councilers who cant tell their elbow from their backsides.
we need isues to bring trade to the centre not get drivers to avoid it.... the most shambolick council in the history of england.infact i am so shocked that it isnt a TOLL!!!!!!
How About....we are going to knacker Blackburn town centre even more bypass...... they have knackered trade in the town centre with these moronic councilers who cant tell their elbow from their backsides.
we need isues to bring trade to the centre not get drivers to avoid it.... the most shambolick council in the history of england.infact i am so shocked that it isnt a TOLL!!!!!!
Posted by: Fixuplooksharp, Manchester on 12:56pm Tue 11 Mar 08
I think that Blackburn Council should continue to spend time, money and resources sorting out a name for this Bridge. Buy some fancy signs, hold meetings about it, advertise it, pay someone £30000 a year to deal with it all and then let everyone refer to it as "Freckleton Street Bridge"!
I'm sure everyone who is loosing pay at Blackburn Council thinks that it's a great idea.
I think that Blackburn Council should continue to spend time, money and resources sorting out a name for this Bridge. Buy some fancy signs, hold meetings about it, advertise it, pay someone £30000 a year to deal with it all and then let everyone refer to it as "Freckleton Street Bridge"!
I'm sure everyone who is loosing pay at Blackburn Council thinks that it's a great idea.
Posted by: Alyson, Ayrshire on 12:59pm Tue 11 Mar 08
I was born and brought up in Blackburn but presently live in Scotland, on a visit back to my old town I saw the bridge and have to say I was quite impressed. It should be the Freckleton Street Bridge, after all that's were it is. Just the name makes me think of things in my past such as Freckleton Street Baths. Something so futuristic should keep the area name alive. Let's not do away with the name of Freckleton Street, everyone past and present associates this with Blackburn.
I was born and brought up in Blackburn but presently live in Scotland, on a visit back to my old town I saw the bridge and have to say I was quite impressed. It should be the Freckleton Street Bridge, after all that's were it is. Just the name makes me think of things in my past such as Freckleton Street Baths. Something so futuristic should keep the area name alive. Let's not do away with the name of Freckleton Street, everyone past and present associates this with Blackburn.
Mary Hamilton? Who dreamed up that one. A Scots-born politician. And Kathleen Ferrier was born near Preston. William Fox? Give me strength. Ethel Carnie? Good for her but she was born in Hyndburn. And why no Darwen people. We're supposed to be the Borough of Blackburn with Darwen. Aye. When it suits. Paint in rainbow colours and name it after local lad Alfred Wainwrigh: How about Wainwright Way? Hart and Lewis joint runners-up.
Mary Hamilton? Who dreamed up that one. A Scots-born politician. And Kathleen Ferrier was born near Preston. William Fox? Give me strength. Ethel Carnie? Good for her but she was born in Hyndburn. And why no Darwen people. We're supposed to be the Borough of Blackburn with Darwen. Aye. When it suits. Paint in rainbow colours and name it after local lad Alfred Wainwrigh: How about Wainwright Way? Hart and Lewis joint runners-up.
Posted by: Fife Rover, Fife, Scotland on 1:29pm Tue 11 Mar 08
I agree with Alyson and for all the same reasons. It was always well known in the town as Freckleton St Bridge, which descibes it precisely so why change it?
Another reason for NOT choosing to name it after any person (living or dead) is that whoever you chosse will ALWAYS cause controversy of some kind and Blackburn certainly does not need any more of that. It was once a peaceful and happy working class town full of honest hard working people and THEY all knew it as Freckleton St. Bridge or just "the iron bridge". I would say that is reason enough to not want to change things and tempt controversy and vandalism.
I agree with Alyson and for all the same reasons. It was always well known in the town as Freckleton St Bridge, which descibes it precisely so why change it?
Another reason for NOT choosing to name it after any person (living or dead) is that whoever you chosse will ALWAYS cause controversy of some kind and Blackburn certainly does not need any more of that. It was once a peaceful and happy working class town full of honest hard working people and THEY all knew it as Freckleton St. Bridge or just "the iron bridge". I would say that is reason enough to not want to change things and tempt controversy and vandalism.
Posted by: Big MAJ, Blackburn on 1:32pm Tue 11 Mar 08
[quote][bold]Rocky![/bold] wrote:
I've changed my mind, Super Clarets Bridge :D[/quote] Yes - Great Idea!
Pile of sh!t and going nowhere, name suits it perfectly! ;)
Rocky! wrote:
I've changed my mind, Super Clarets Bridge :D
Yes - Great Idea!
Pile of sh!t and going nowhere, name suits it perfectly! ;)
Posted by: John Duckworth, Great Harwood on 2:41pm Tue 11 Mar 08
[quote]Ethel Carnie? Good for her but she was born in Hyndburn. [/quote]
Well spotted - Great Harwood may be able to lay more claim than Blegburn....
BUT I've got to go with Keith Duckworth. Obviously.
Tell me that that isn't the final colour??? It dosen't blend at all well with the garish orange of B and Q opposite.
[quote]I don't bleeding believe that the BwD council can leave out one of it's most famous sons from that list. And he was one of the, if not the, most renowned engineer of the modern world.
I suggest it be named with reference to.... David Keith Duckworth OBE who was the co-founder (with Mike Costin) of Cosworth Engineering.
He designed and built the most successful engine in Formula 1 history.[quote]
Ethel Carnie? Good for her but she was born in Hyndburn.
Well spotted - Great Harwood may be able to lay more claim than Blegburn....
BUT I've got to go with Keith Duckworth. Obviously.
Tell me that that isn't the final colour??? It dosen't blend at all well with the garish orange of B and Q opposite.
I don't bleeding believe that the BwD council can leave out one of it's most famous sons from that list. And he was one of the, if not the, most renowned engineer of the modern world.
I suggest it be named with reference to.... David Keith Duckworth OBE who was the co-founder (with Mike Costin) of Cosworth Engineering.
He designed and built the most successful engine in Formula 1 history.
Posted by: Great Gran, Darwen on 2:45pm Tue 11 Mar 08
LIBERATOR in honour of the suffragettes including Ethel Carnie and Mary Hamilton who worked hard to promote the rights of women. Very appropriate in view of the present controversy regarding Islamic attitudes.
LIBERATOR in honour of the suffragettes including Ethel Carnie and Mary Hamilton who worked hard to promote the rights of women. Very appropriate in view of the present controversy regarding Islamic attitudes.
Posted by: Big Al, Blackburn on 2:57pm Tue 11 Mar 08
[bold]bold[/bold] Definately Alfred Wainwright ! Let us give it a name that inspires thoughts of beautiful countryside rolling hills and dales .... A far cry from the rolling piles of litter and crap that Blackburn inspires!
Definately Alfred Wainwright ! Let us give it a name that inspires thoughts of beautiful countryside rolling hills and dales .... A far cry from the rolling piles of litter and crap that Blackburn inspires!
Posted by: Dan Clough, Lincoln Uni on 3:39pm Tue 11 Mar 08
Bill Fox. The football club is what has put Blackburn on the map for the last two decades and without Fox the club would have gone under long before the big money days of Uncle Jack...
Bill Fox. The football club is what has put Blackburn on the map for the last two decades and without Fox the club would have gone under long before the big money days of Uncle Jack...
Posted by: havn't got one, can't remember on 5:29pm Tue 11 Mar 08
"Freckleton st bridge"
the old bridge was known as this so why change it?
or
"suicide drop"
jump off there, if the fall dont kill you, the Preston to Colne will
"Freckleton st bridge"
the old bridge was known as this so why change it?
or
"suicide drop"
jump off there, if the fall dont kill you, the Preston to Colne will
Posted by: Tony, Blackburn on 5:41pm Tue 11 Mar 08
i think it should be named the Andrew Easton and Ben Millest Memorial Bridge. They have been great contributors to the town centre with little to no recognition.
i think it should be named the Andrew Easton and Ben Millest Memorial Bridge. They have been great contributors to the town centre with little to no recognition.
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