Grandmother Ita Priestley, a nurse for more than 40 years at hospitals in Lancashire suddenly died from pneumonia at Royal Blackburn Hospital, to her family's woe
Rough and ready Len Fairclough boozed and brawled his way through the early years of Coronation Street to become a firm favourite with fans of the soap.
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Here are eight of the most memorable buildings that have been demolished.
1. Thwaites Brewery in Blackburn One of most significant demolitions for East Lancashire was the ripping down of the Thwaites Brewery and tower in Blackburn. The tower was pulled down in October of 2019 in a controlled manner with cranes bringing down the nine-storey aluminium-clad structure which dominated the town’s skyline since the 1960s. The decision to end brewing at the Penny Street site was brought forward after travellers took over the site on the May Bank Holiday in 2018, causing more than £300,000 worth of damage. Work on the demolition was supposed to start in 2018 but was delayed after a pair of peregrine falcons – which have full legal protection in the UK - nested and hatched two chicks close to the tower.
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