Blackburn Town Hall

Location: Blackburn town centre
Floors: 14

http://www.davidjewellphotography.com/resources/111826/Blackburn_Town_Hall.jpg

This is how it looked before it got its reclad around 3 years ago
http://www.cottontown.org/Nimoi/sites/CT/resources/jb00075.jpg

My favourite tall building in Lancashire :)

Some more piccys I've dug up.

http://www.lmars.co.uk/images/blackburn/localstuff989.jpg

http://www.lmars.co.uk/images/blackburn/localstuff4535.jpg

http://www.lmars.co.uk/images/blackburn/localstuff3798.jpg

massive improvement after the reclad 10

Looks pretty good with the reclad: 6.5 - rounded to 7.

Blackburn doesn't look too bad in your pics Accy. I last went there twelve years ago and it was in a bad way - even the cathedral seemed to be falling to bits. I hope the town has improved as those pics suggest it has.

7/10 looks better after the reclad.

Looks pretty good with the reclad: 6.5 - rounded to 7.

Blackburn doesn't look too bad in your pics Accy. I last went there twelve years ago and it was in a bad way - even the cathedral seemed to be falling to bits. I hope the town has improved as those pics suggest it has.
If there is one thing Blackburn has got going for it, its the council. They are absolutely fantastic. The town has had a lot of regeneration over the past few years with more to come. All the run down housing is being demolished and being replaced with big american suburban-style housing. They recently got a new orbital road too. There is a hell of a lot more to come as well.
The future is looking great for them.

^Interesting. If I'm in that neck of the woods again, I'll have a look and see what I think.

i always thought blackburn was a city it makes sense why they get such small crowds now.

It's one of those fairly rare anomalies - a town, rather than a city, with a cathedral. Guildford is another.

^Interesting. If I'm in that neck of the woods again, I'll have a look and see what I think.
The problem with Blackburn is that its well off the beaten track. The only way you pass through it is on the East Lancs motorway, and you only tend to use that if you live in East Lancs or going to shop at one of the huge but cheap mill stores. The railway isnt a mainline either... its just the Preston/Colne one. Having said that, the council are making the best of what they have got. They recently built an impressive new railway station opposite the Cathedral and a new service station on the motorway.

i always thought blackburn was a city it makes sense why they get such small crowds now.
Blackburn competed with both Preston and Blackpool for the city status but rightfully lost out. It simply isnt ready yet. In the future, maybe.

Blackburn competed with both Preston and Blackpool for the city status but rightfully lost out. It simply isnt ready yet. In the future, maybe.[/QUOTE]

warrington as well wasnt it.

25 cities competed I think. Reading was the hot favourite but didnt win :D

I think the 'before' and 'after' photos of this building show just what a difference a decent reclad can do. Before the reclad I would definitely say that it was one of the ugliest office buildings I had ever seen...and I live in the Bham area...but after, wow! 9/10

It looks better now it is reclad..but I think they have overdone it, the top in particular, the building is to short and dumpy to pull it off and it looks like a dogs dinner. It would not look out of place at sellafield or something, horrible. Infact when I saw it in the flesh I thought it was part of a factory or some sort of cooling tower.

quite strange, but nice :) 7/10

It's certainly better, but still ugly. Looks like something out of Dubai.

wow - 1000 times better then before

That first photo flatters it.It looks crap 'in the flesh'I didn't even realise it was an office block when I first saw it. The second photo from bottom is more realistic. Blackburn town centre depresses me. The shopping precinct is a concrete chav infested mess

Horrible before and after recladding.

Honestly, that cladding looks a right mess. It was no great building before, but with the cladding it's somehow worse.

Before cladding, 1, after cladding 7 :)

A big improvement but nothing special.5/10

5,5/10

1/10 looks scary wit out a re clad

Let me be in the minority to say, I prefered it beforehand! At least it was what it was, the re-clad, just don't get it really, whats it trying to be? This is Blackburn, not Boston.

Inside is pretty nice too

Inside is pretty nice too

Not seen the inside, but the outside looks like a copy of "foreign architecture". All in all, pretty grim - but I suppose it fits in with it's Northern surroundings.

before cladding 7, after cladding 3

6/10

I hope Skyscrappercity have Blackburn Forum,everything about town of Blackburn,a town with a beutiful Cathedral,new shopping mall,new retail parks,new cinema/bowling,Blackburn Rovers football club Stadia,M65 motorways and many more about Blackburn.

Blackburn Town Hall

Location: Blackburn town centre
Floors: 14

http://www.davidjewellphotography.com/resources/111826/Blackburn_Town_Hall.jpg

This is how it looked before it got its reclad around 3 years ago
http://www.cottontown.org/Nimoi/sites/CT/resources/jb00075.jpg

My favourite tall building in Lancashire :)

Some more piccys I've dug up.

http://www.lmars.co.uk/images/blackburn/localstuff989.jpg

http://www.lmars.co.uk/images/blackburn/localstuff4535.jpg

http://www.lmars.co.uk/images/blackburn/localstuff3798.jpg

Nice picture of a skyscraper in Blackburn,but i heard Blackburn has a Cathedral.I am a Blackburn Rovers fan living far away can you post more photos of Blackburn.

I hope Skyscrappercity have Blackburn Forum,everything about town of Blackburn,a town with a beutiful Cathedral,new shopping mall,new retail parks,new cinema/bowling,Blackburn Rovers football club Stadia,M65 motorways and many more about Blackburn.

Hi, can you post more photos of Blackburn.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/ThwaitesBrewery.jpg

Nice photo of Blackburn ,can you post more photos of Blackburn,perhaps Webbavition photos of Blackburn town centre ?

Blackburn deserves a thread because it's one the largest town in England,it's famous for it's Football club,the Cathedral,King George's Hall,Museum and Art Gallery,Witton Coutry Park,the Curry Mile and Darwen Street etc etc

Titherbarn project abandoned today because John Lewis has pulled out in Preston.