If you want them to restore something, then look no further than the beautiful Thwaites estates buildings.
It is right next to the brewery: you probably drive past it and don’t know it’s there.
It is built in the shape of a circle with a cobbled centre courtyard.
The stonework on the buildings is lovely and when you walk in through the arched horse carriage entrance – it’s like going back in time about 200 years.
It could be Blackburn’s answer to the Last Drop Village.
It needs saving as, because of its location right next to the brewery on the other side of the road, it will come under pressure to be flattened like the brewery.
It needs to be saved, it’s Blackburn’s cotton town heritage and would make a fantastic museum with very little investment.
Get your skates on, or it will get knocked down.
Keep Darwen Green, Darwen.
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