The BDP architecture group designed the Market Halls of Blackburn and the Preston Bus Station and Car Park in the sixties. The Preston Bus Station has a lot of press and admires but the Blackburn Markets has been left out in the cold..which I find frankly offensive and bewildering. The same constructs and company but the whiff of snobbishness is suffocating. It is basically scariligious.
It was a beautiful cavernous building, very modern in a sixties way and a huge conch shell styled roofing that had to be bespoke built. I will miss this building and I think many still miss the Thwaites Arcade that was demolished to be intergrated into the now defunct and 'modernised' shopping precient.
The last bit standing as of 12 August 2013 at 8pm.
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