I POPPED into the pub in Blackburn after work with a few colleagues last week.

As the clock struck eight I couldn’t believe it – a Friday night in what used to be one of Blackburn’s busiest venues at that time was dead!

Where have all the party-goers , the drinkers and college students gone? Does nobody go out on a Friday to start off in the Postal Order anymore?

Sadly not I was told.

Although I was aware Blackburn had gone down-hill in recent years, the bar manager told me it was the norm for town on a Friday and a Saturday night.

For those of you who don’t know – it was a different story ten years ago.

Blackburn’s nightlife was thriving – The Postal Order was the one where everybody started, then off to The Pitchers Bar, The White Bull, Marley’s, Toffs round the corner to Cubes and sometimes more!

To finish the bar crawl was Utopia – and every Wednesday it was the place to be...who remembers the Carwash?

Looking at some previous comments underneath the story ‘New venues aim to put Blackburn back on clubbing map’ on the Lancashire Telegraph’s website, it made me think there is no hope for the town - ‘you can’t revive a corpse’ and ‘Blackburn nightlife is dead,’ were amongst some of the favourites.

People travel to Bolton, Preston and Manchester for all the fun these days – even Burnley.

What do you think - what can be done to get our nightlife back on the map?