Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery 360
Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery is a stunning building, tucked away just off Blackburn high street. As one of the first purpose built free museums to open outside of London in 1874, Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery houses a rich and fascinating collection.
Matthew Somerville is a London based documentary filmmaker who has worked with 360 imagery to produce six interactive videos. These allow you to explore some of Blackburn's hidden spaces on a Smartphone.
Found in Blackburn is a project exploring the Town’s empty buildings and hidden spaces, alongside the memories of the people who used to inhabit them, through a diverse series of artworks.
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Blackburn Town Centre-20 Years On-Pt 3
Welcome to Part Three of Three. Twenty years ago in 1995 I took our camcorder into town with us and I just filmed as we walked through the precinct and markets. Little did I know back then that that video would as of this day in June 2015 have almost 19,000 views on YouTube!! This video is available here and shows just how Blackburn was back then. We hope you enjoy these three videos. Please comment, Like and Share. FJR Biker Paul.
Paul's Ride Through Blackburn & The Ribble Valley-6-7-13
On this ride originally videoed in the Summer of 2013, I combine a visit to the Vets to collect some tablets for our cat Jill, with a small tour of my hometown of Blackburn and a small tour of the Ribble Valley on my way home. Blackburn is currently in a transition phase with a major new orbital road being planned/constructed and in some cases sadly, there are a lot of old Victorian built buildings being demolished to make way for modern rubbish! We are very fortunate to live on the edge of the countryside where you can escape on a motorcycle and live free! I hope you enjoy my ride and please subscribe to my YouTube channel at FJR Biker Paul. Thanks for watching!
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Light, Passion and Darkness Exhibition Opening - Saturday 11 December 2010 at Gallery Oldham
Opening speech by Paul Hobson, Director of the Contemporary Art Society.
Light, Passion and Darkness presents paintings, craft, photography and digital media and features international artists such as Dhruva Mistry, Imran Qureshi and Abdus Shakoor alongside established UK-based artists including Sutapa Biswas, Shezad Dawood, Neeta Madahar, Shanti, Panchal and Saleem Arif Quadri. Work by a new generation of artists, notably Halima Cassell and Tanvi Kant also features.
Light, Passion and Darkness is being shown in response to a recent survey of work by South Asian artists and makers in regional collections and is a Shisha partnership project with Touchstones Rochdale, Gallery Oldham and Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery.
Light, Passion and Darkness is being exhibited at:
Gallery Oldham - 11 December 2010 to 5 March 2011
Touchstones Rochdale - 2 April to 26 June 2011
Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery - 9 July to 17 September 2011
For further information about Light, Passion and Darkness and Shisha please visit
Jane and Louise Wilson
This exhibition brings together two bodies of recent work by acclaimed British artists Jane and Louise Wilson: Atomgrad (Nature Abhors a Vacuum), 2010 and the UK premiere of Face Scripting -- What Did the Building See?, 2011.
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Take a 360 Tour of Night in the Museum
Take a look around Night in the Museum exhibition with this 360 degree video! Artist Ryan Gander has curated the Arts Council Collection for this exhibition. See it for yourself at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery until February 12th. Free exhibition - donations always welcome! Thanks to Rebel Uncut for the video. Music by GYVUS:
Blackburn City Travel Guide
Blackburn is a large town in Lancashire, England. Watch out the amazing video of Blackburn city travel guide and site scenes.
Helmshore Mill
History and background
Higher Mill, which is held in conjuncture with the Higher Mill Trust, was constructed in 1789 and Whitaker's Mill in the 1820s by the Turner family, textile manufacturers from the Blackburn area.
Although a considerable part of Whitaker's Mill was destroyed in a fire in 1857, it was rebuilt shortly afterwards and continued in operation until 1978, at which point it was under the ownership of L. Whitaker & Sons. Helmshore Mills Textile Museum covers a three acre (just over one hectare) site, most of it running alongside the charming River Ogden. In this peaceful and relaxing setting you can explore the lodge banks as far as the weir and railway viaduct and discover a wide variety of riverside plant, insect and animal life.
The chimney of Whitaker's Mill can be seen on a nearby hilltop. The chimney is connected by a flue that runs over the river, under the road and up the hillside. It is located there because it was far cheaper and more effective to build the chimney away from the mill on the hilltop, where the air currents could more easily carry the smoke away, rather than building a very tall chimney next to the mill in the bottom of the valley.
The mill yard has three tunnels running beneath it. One serves the present waterwheel while the other two are redundant tailraces for the original waterwheels that once powered Higher Mill. The two buildings offer a fascinating insight into the development of mill construction during the Industrial Revolution.
Explore the industrial archaeology of the late 18th century Higher Mill, with its wooden beamed ceilings, and mullioned windows, flagstone roof and random stone walls, in contrast with Whitaker's Mill, whose iron pillars, slate roof and dressed stone walls represent later Victorian building methods.
The historical importance of the mills and their surroundings is conveyed by the fact that the site holds Scheduled Ancient Monument status. A new visitor orientation and information building is now situated on the site of the original boiler house, between Whitaker's and Higher Mills.
The buildings have also become a popular filming location, regularly used in TV documentaries such as What the Victorians Did for Us and drama series such as the BBC's 2004 period dramatisation of Mrs Gaskell's North and South starring Richard Armitage.
On the ground floor of Higher Mill is the fully operational, large waterwheel with five pairs of fulling stocks.
There is evidence in the internal architecture of two earlier waterwheels in the form of stone arches and blocked up openings. The first floor of Higher Mill is home to a new, interactive wool story display. Whitakers Mill houses a unique collection of industrial machinery in an authentic setting. The upper floor includes the impressive spinning floor and an exhibition gallery.
Blackburn Challenge 2015
Annual human powered vessel race around Cape Ann, Massachusetts
Blackburn Town Centre Development
Blackburn Town Centre Development
Lancashire Textiles: Last Mill Standing
Lancashire, UK used to supply 40% of the world's cotton fabric. Today, Joe McBride is trying to keep his textile mill alive despite a changed horizon.
Read the Etsy blog post.
Music by:
C.J. Boyd
All Etsy videos are created under the Creative Commons license ( Please feel free to share!
The Blinders - Something Wicked (Live at Night At The Museum, Blackburn)
The Blinders perform Something Wicked live and acoustic at the Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery on 8th of August 2019. They shared the museum stage with Millie McLeod of Northern Sports Club and Julia Bardo of Working Men's Club with an Egyptian Mummy (in a room next door)!
You can learn more about the event at:
The Blinders are Thomas Haywood (vox, guitar), Charlie McGough (bass) and Matty Neale (drums, vox). Originally from Doncaster, the band relocated to Manchester and has been steadily conquering the world ever since with their mix of alternative rock, punkadelic attitude and interest in current affairs and high art.
Their debut album “Columbia” came out on September 21st 2018 via Modern Sky Records.
This is hands down the most important rock act originating in the United Kingdom in the last thirty years.
You can follow The Blinders here:
Or their label Modern Sky:
We have been writing extensively about The Blinders on our blog Indieterria, so please have a look if you want to know more.
Introduction to the band:
Interview with The Blinders:
Columbia review:
Columbia album performance blog:
Columbia Tour blog:
Beyond Columbia and 2019 tour blog:
Cabbage, Thomas Haywood and Afghan Gang Sand fundraiser for Liam Smith photo review:
The Blinders at Glastonbury 2019 photo review:
Please note that this video has recorded with Samsung Galaxy S8 mobile and may have not the best sound.
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The great capricorn beetle has been extinct in Britain for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. But two made an unexpected reappearance in the 1970s.
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The Blinders - Everything (Live at Night At The Museum, Blackburn)
The Blinders perform Everything live and acoustic at the Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery on 8th of August 2019. They shared the museum stage with Millie McLeod of Northern Sports Club and Julia Bardo of Working Men's Club with an Egyptian Mummy (in a room next door)!
You can learn more about the event at:
The Blinders are Thomas Haywood (vox, guitar), Charlie McGough (bass) and Matty Neale (drums, vox). Originally from Doncaster, the band relocated to Manchester and has been steadily conquering the world ever since with their mix of alternative rock, punkadelic attitude and interest in current affairs and high art.
Their debut album “Columbia” came out on September 21st 2018 via Modern Sky Records.
This is hands down the most important rock act originating in the United Kingdom in the last thirty years.
You can follow The Blinders here:
Or their label Modern Sky:
We have been writing extensively about The Blinders on our blog Indieterria, so please have a look if you want to know more.
Introduction to the band:
Interview with The Blinders:
Columbia review:
Columbia album performance blog:
Columbia Tour blog:
Beyond Columbia and 2019 tour blog:
Cabbage, Thomas Haywood and Afghan Gang Sand fundraiser for Liam Smith photo review:
The Blinders at Glastonbury 2019 photo review:
Please note that this video has recorded with Samsung Galaxy S8 mobile and may have not the best sound.
The Blinders - Nuclear Love (Live at Night At The Museum, Blackburn)
The Blinders perform Nuclear Love live and acoustic at the Blackburn Museum & Art Gallery on 8th of August 2019. They shared the museum stage with Millie McLeod of Northern Sports Club and Julia Bardo of Working Men's Club with an Egyptian Mummy (in a room next door)!
You can learn more about the event at:
The Blinders are Thomas Haywood (vox, guitar), Charlie McGough (bass) and Matty Neale (drums, vox). Originally from Doncaster, the band relocated to Manchester and has been steadily conquering the world ever since with their mix of alternative rock, punkadelic attitude and interest in current affairs and high art.
Their debut album “Columbia” came out on September 21st 2018 via Modern Sky Records.
This is hands down the most important rock act originating in the United Kingdom in the last thirty years.
You can follow The Blinders here:
Or their label Modern Sky:
We have been writing extensively about The Blinders on our blog Indieterria, so please have a look if you want to know more.
Introduction to the band:
Interview with The Blinders:
Columbia review:
Columbia album performance blog:
Columbia Tour blog:
Beyond Columbia and 2019 tour blog:
Cabbage, Thomas Haywood and Afghan Gang Sand fundraiser for Liam Smith photo review:
The Blinders at Glastonbury 2019 photo review:
Please note that this video has recorded with Samsung Galaxy S8 mobile and may have not the best sound.