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St. Aidan’s Avenue	(1912) Late Caroline Street 23 New Chapel Street Mill Hill.
St. Aidan’s CEP School	(1924-99) Norfolk Street Mill Hill mixed and infants.
St. Aidan’s Church Mill Hill	Consecrated September 1932 accommodates 300 people. The foundation stone was laid by the Bishop of Blackburn. A previous church had been built in 1826.
St. Alban's	(1851).
St. Alban’s Men’s Club	14 St. Alban’s Place (1951).
St. Alban’s Boys’ Recreation Centre	19 St. Alban’s Place (1942-51).
St. Alban’s Catholic Higher Grade School	(1924-1951) St. Alban’s Place. See St. Alban’s RC Modern Secondary Boys’ school.
St. Alban’s Catholic School	(1870-1947) St. Alban’s Place boys and girls; (1951) boys, girls and infants.
St. Alban’s Hall	Next door to the church used as a church when the present building was being erected from 1898.
St. Alban’s Place	(1836-1958) 2 Whalley New Road Larkhill Nos 1-27.
St. Alban’s R C Church	St. Alban’s Place Brookhouse, first church recorded in 1773 in a pair of cottages in Chapel Street. A second building was used in 1781. A church was erected in 1824 accommodating 1,000 people. The opening took place on 22^nd June 1826. It was much embellished in 1850 and in 1877 a magnificent high altar of pure marble designed by Angelo Herbert was added costing £900. The present Decorated Gothic style church is the fourth building having been opened on 8^th December 1901 by the Bishop of Salford. Designed by Edward Goldie of London and built by John Boland of Blackburn at a cost of £20,000 excluding the spire and tower. It never did receive its spire but a tower instead. It seated 1,000 people. The previous chapel commenced in 1824 and was opened with solemn mass June 1826 adding a tower in 1883.
St. Alban’s RC Infants school
St. Alban’s RC Junior Boys’ School	St. Alban’s Place.
St. Alban’s RC Junior Girls’ School	Yates’ buildings.
St. Alban’s RCP School	(1992-99) Trinity Street.
St. Alban’s RC Modern Secondary Boys’ School	(1951).
St. Alban’s Square	(1872).
St. Alban’s View	(1836-1930) 83 Larkhill.
St. Andrew's C of E Church	Livesey, built in 1877 of Early English style from designs by Paley & Austin costing over £6,000 including site. Consecrated on 10^th February 1877. The organ by Bishop & Sons of London cost over £600. Was consecrated on 10^th February 1877 and seats 552 worshippers, all free. A new vicarage built in 1894 at a cost of £2,500. Closed 2007.
St. Andrew’s CEP School	(1992-2004) Scotland Bank Terrace merged with St. Bartholomew’s C of E P school 2004 at Fernhurst Farm estate Ewood 2006.
St. Andrew’s Elementary Schools	The foundation stone was laid on 12^th May 1912.
St. Andrew's Mission	Norfolk Street Mill Hill, was opened in February 1896 at a cost of £1,200. Was designed by Stones & Gradwell. 338 Livesey Branch Road. Recently occupied by Livesey Amateur Boxing Club.
St. Andrew’s (C of E) National School	(1849-1951) Livesey Branch Road Waterloo Livesey opened 2^nd December 1849 mixed and infants.
St. Andrew’s Parochial Hall	220 Livesey Branch Road (1912-15), secretary: J Aspin (1912).
St. Andrew’s Place	(1870) 17 Wellington Street St. John’s / Strawberry Bank Nos 4/6.
St. Andrew’s Street	(1870) 16 Wellington Street St John’s / 43 Limbrick Nos 1-15 and 4-8.
St. Andrew’s Terrace	(1903-29) 190 Livesey branch Road / Wellington Road Livesey.
St. Anne’s Branch of Rescue Society and Boys’ Orphanage	France Street, (1929).
St. Anne’s R C Church	France Street/Paradise Lane, opened 4^th May 1851 having started a mission in 1849. On Saturday 4^th July 1925 the foundation stone of a new church was laid and opened at a Christmas eve 1926 Midnight Mass. Costing over £36,000 it was officially opened by Dr. Henshaw Bishop of Salford on 6 February 1927. Fire severely damaged fabric prior to ‘Xmas 2000. Re-built and opened by the Rt Rev Bishop Brain leader of the East Lancashire Catholic Community Sunday 13^th June 2004.
St. Anne’s Catholic Club	3 Paradise Lane, secretary: Thomas O’Hara (1903) 15 Clayton Street (1912-15). Secretary: P Cunningham (1915).
St. Anne’s Catholic School	Paradise Lane (boys) (1870-81); Paradise Street (girls and infants) (1870-81); Witton (1878); Prince’s Street (1903-51) boys, girls and infants.
St. Anne’s Parochial Hall	Paradise Street, (1939-51).
St. Anne’s RCP School	(1992-99) Feilden Street.
St. Ann(e)’s Street	(1844) 16 Grimshaw Park.
St. Ann(e)’s Terrace	(1912-30) Wellington Road Livesey.
St. Anthony’s RCP School	(1992-99) Shadsworth Road.
St. Barnabas’ C of E Church	Addison Street/Johnston Street, was designed by W S Varley of Blackburn and erected in 1875-6 at a cost of £6,500. It accommodated 722 worshippers. The foundation stone of a church/school premises was laid on 16^th September 1876. Church re-established in co-op building on Johnston Street in 1988 with community centre, bookshop and cafe after demolition of the original building because of dry rot in 1981.
St. Barnabas’ Community Centre	(1996).
St. Barnabas (C of E) National School	(1878-1951) Johnston Street mixed and infants.
St. Barnabas and St. Paul’s C of E Primary School	(1972-99) Off Oakenhurst Road opened 1972.
St Barnabas Street	(1885) Belle Vue Street Nos 3-27 and 2-40.
St. Bartholomew’s C of E Church	Ewood, consecrated 12^th December 1910 and cost £7,000. Designed by Diocesan Architect Mr Seward of Preston. Foundation stones were laid by G Stewart Bowles MP and Miss Lund of Preston New Road in November 1909. Demolished 2008.
St. Bartholomew’s CEP School	(1903-2004) Bolton Road Ewood mixed and infants merged with St. Andrew’s C of E Primary school (2004) at Fernhurst Farm estate Ewood 2006. Demolished 2008.
St. Bartholomew’s Sunday School	Foundation stone laid by Sir W H Houldsworth MP on 9/5/1896.
St. Bede’s RC High School	(1992-99) Livesey Branch Road.
St. Cedd	Built 598 and mentioned in the Doomsday Book was later to become St. Mary’s then the Parish Church and Cathedral. This church had 2 bovates of land and 2 carucates at Whalley free of all custom or fees territorial or ecclesiastical.
St. Chad’s Mission Church	Pleckgate Road, (1912-51). Held teenage dances in 50s and 60s and ran a badminton team.
St. Clement's	(1851).
St. Clement’s Church	(1951) Bottomgate.
St. Clement’s School	(1852) Billinge.
St. Clement’s Street	(1870) 150 Bottomgate Nos 11 and 82-88.
St. Clement's Terrace	(1851).

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St. Francis’ Church Feniscliffe	Near Cherry Tree, a perpendicular church opened 25^th July 1892 and consecrated 29^th November 1893. Designed by Aldridge & C Deacon of Liverpool costing £7,000. Lieutenant General Randal Joseph Feilden gave the site and £1,000 towards the cost.
St. Francis’ C of E School	(1903-15) Norfolk Street Mill Hill mixed and infants.
St. Francis’ CEP School	(1939-99) Cherry Tree Lane.
St. Francis’ Cricket Club	(Founded 1951), William Gosgrove founding member.
St. Francis’ Iron School	Henry Whalley Street (Bower House Fold), built and opened on Whit Sunday in 1889 at a cost of £500 accommodates 400 persons.
St. Francis’ Mission Church	Norfolk Street, Mill Hill Foundation stone laid by J Rutherford MP on 31^st August 1895.Designed by Stones & Gradwell Blackburn consisting of large room 63ft x 24ft.
St. Francis’ Players	(Drama Group), (1994).
St. Francis’ Road	(1958) Off Preston Old Road.
St. Gabriel’s Amateur Dramatic Society	(1965-83).
St. Gabriel’s Avenue	(1958) Brownhill Drive.
St. Gabriel’s C of E Church	Pearl Street Whalley New Road,erected in 1900 and accommodated 370 people. It was originally a mission from St Michael’s and All Angels Church which started in the back kitchen of 532 Whalley New Road, Roe Lee. It was erected in 1900 at a cost of £1,000. The foundation stone for the new church on Brownhill Drive was laid on 5^th March 1932 by the Bishop of Blackburn Dr P M Herbert and consecrated by him in 1933 costing £20,000. This church was designed by F X Velarde of Liverpool and accommodated 500 people. Between 1969 and 1975 some £40,000 of work was necessary on the roof and tower because of water penetration. The large red neon illuminated cross was installed on the tower in October 1964.
St. Gabriel’s C of E School	(1903-79) Pearl Street mixed; (1912-30) mixed and infants; (1939-51) Cornelian Street mixed and infants.
St. Gabriel’s CEP School	(1979-99) Wilworth Crescent.
St. Gabriel’s Church Institute	79/81 Cornelian Street (1930-51), secretary: A Haresnape (1930).
St. Gabriel’s Mission Church	Pearl Street, (1915).
St. George’s Academy	Preston New Road, (1878).
St. George’s Avenue	(1958) Previously Archibald Street (1926-9) Angela Street.
St. George’s Free Church	(1907) St. George’s Avenue.
St. George's Presbyterian Church	Preston New Road, foundation stone of church and schools laid 4^th March 1865. Was opened in 1868 at a cost of £7,000 it had about 600 sittings. Was closed and demolished 1974 having been sold for £90,000 to developers. The church was united with Four Lanes End and is now called the United Reformed Church.
St. George’s Place	(1870) 46 Preston New Road Nos 42/46.
St. George’s Public Higher Grade School	Moved to Blakey Moor in 1911 joining teh Parish Higher Grade School to form the Blackburn Higher Elementary School under the headship of W H Boddy.
St. George’s Mission Hall	Started in 1894 rented then bought 58 Blakey Street opened 5^th December 1896 (1951).
St. Francis Road	(1929) off Preston Old Road.
St. Hilda’s C of E Secondary Modern Girls’ School	(1939-51) Dickinson Street opened in 1939 merged with St. Peter’s school to form St. Wilfred’s school in 1965.
St. Ives Road	(1912) late Cabin End Road 236 Accrington Road Intack.
St. Ives Shuttle Works	Built (1911) by British Stationery Manufacturing Co.
St. James’ CEP School	(1992-99) Off Stopes Brow Lower Darwen
St. James’ CEP School	(1912-99) Oozebooth Terrace mixed and infants.
St. James’ Church Shear Brow	Is a gothic edifice designed by F J Robinson erected in 1874 at a cost of £4,200 exclusive of site. It contained 644 sittings of which 444 were free.
St. James’ Church Lower Darwen	Is a gothic fabric with a hexagonal tower erected in 1829 at a cost of £5,491. It contained 654 sittings of which 410 were free.
St. James’ (C of E) National & Sunday Schools	(1877-1903) Shear Brow mixed and infants. It opened in 1877 and was enlarged in 1895. Pleckgate Mixed (1878-81).
St. James’ (C of E) National School	Blackamoor, (1873-1925) Mixed and infants; (1947-51) infants. Demolished in 1996/7 after being used by Messrs Trevor Dawson & Co. for business purposes.
St. James’ (C of E) National School	(1870-1951) School Lane Guide mixed and infants.
St. James’ National School	(1881-1903) Lower Darwen mixed and infants extension opened 1^st October 1905.
St. James’ C of E School	(1930) Roman Road mixed and infants.
St. James’ Place	(1951) St. James’ Road.
St. James’ Road	(1885) 178 Shear Brow Nos 3-203 and 4/6 & 148-162.
St. James’ Sports Ground	Pleckgate Road, (1938) now Blackburn Northern.
St. James’ Street	(1903) 33 New Wellington Street Livesey Nos 1-13 and 4-12.
St. James’ Square	Off Chapel Street (1893-1929).
St. James’ Terrace	(1881) Wellington Street Livesey.
St. John Ambulance Association	St. Peter Street, (1903); 51 East Park Road (1924-51); Princes Street (1942-58); Brigade HQ Kensington Chambers Sudell Cross (1924-5); Mill Lane (1929-35); Secretary: John Smith (1924-51); Divisional Superintendent: G Ormerod (1924-5); T Fielding (1930).
St. John’s Ambulance Brigade	Canterbury Street, (1912); Mill Lane (1930); Cardwell Place (1974); Princes Street (1960s); Hon. surgeon and Superintendent: B G Elliott. HQ opened in Lees Hall Teetotal Mission, Mincing Lane in 1976 having been purchased 2 years before at a cost of £10,000. This was to close in 1999.

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St. John’s Chambers	(1878-1949) 35 Richmond Terrace.
St. John’s the Evangelist C of E Church	Victoria Street, Erected in 1788-9 at a cost of £8,000 and consecrated 31^st July 1788. Henry Sudell contributed half of the cost. Contained 1,390 sittings of which 224 were free. It was enlarged and beautified in 1848. The vestry by J Brindley was added in 1865 and in 1891 the interior galleries and chancel additions. Services ended in 1975 and was later acquired by Blackburn Borough Council. This was followed by some £24,000 being spent to restore teh structure of the building and to allow public access to the ground floor only. Grade 2 listed in 1951.
St. John’s Church Institute	42 Bold Street, (1903-51), Secretary: J Sagar (1930); G Walkden (1935); H Fielding (1939-42); M A Simpson (1942-51); H Fielding (1951).
St. John’s C of E Junior and Infant (National) Schools	(1844-1951) Greenbank Street / Altom Street / Bicknell Street opened on 8^th April 1844 boys, girls and infants. The foundation stone was laid by Joseph Feilden, who had given the land. Built by William Stones the cost was £2,250 it was opened on Easter Monday 1845. Pleckgate (1870). Converted to a mosque in 1978.
St. John’s Labour Party	13 Victoria Street, (1951).
St. John’s Lodge	(1878-1929) 41 Richmond Terrace.
St. John’s Parish	(1847) From Seven Acre brook along Borough boundary to Cemetery gates, along Whalley New Road to Derikins Bridge, following the river to Brookhouse Lane bridge, Brookhouse Lane, Whalley Road, Penny Street, Old Chapel Street, river, Fisher Street, Cort Street, across Market Place, New Market Street, Northgate, Astleygate, Fish Lane, Barton Street, across Blakey Moor, Queen Street, Northgate, Limbrick, Shear Brow and Four Lane Ends, to Seven Acre brook. Population: 10,180.
St. John’s Place	(1824-1929) James’ Street / 29 Victoria Street.
St. John's School House	(1851).
St. John’s Terrace	(1878-1929) Ainsworth Street.
St. John’s View	(1903-30) Ainsworth Street.
St. John’s Working Men’s Conservative Club	(1870) 119 Whalley Range.
St. Joseph’s R C Church Audley	Designed by Goldie and Childe of London opened 30^th August 1877 by Cardinal Manning. Cost a total of £12,000. The site was purchased by Mr R Sahkeshaft from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and presented by him to the building committee. The foundation stone was laid on Whit-monday 1875. The schools were included under the church. It was demolished in July 1976. Meetings had been previously held from 1869 in three cottages in William hopwood Street.
St. Joseph’s Catholic School	(1878-81) William Jackson Street Audley boys, girls and infants; Mary Street (1903) boys, girls and infants; Cumberland Street (1912-47) boys, girls and infants.
St. Joseph’s Place	(1903-12) Cumberland Street.
St. Joseph Street	(1878) 44 William Hopwood Street.
St. Joseph’s Terrace	(1903-30) Cumberland Street.
St. Jude’s Church	Accrington Road, erected 1914 costing £7,000. Land donated by Fred Baynes Esq. Designed by A R Gradwell & Son. Formerly a Mission Church in Hozier Street from 28/2/1886.
St. Luke’s Church	Duckworth Street, (1870).
St. Luke’s C of E Church	Bank Top, consecrated 20^th December 1877, designed by Stevens and Robinson of Derby the cost of building was £6,700. The foundation stone was laid on 16^th October 1875. Contained 702 sittings, of which 436 were free.
St. Luke’s (C of E) National School	(1870-1951) Duckworth Street mixed and infants.
St. Luke’s Church Institute	Dickinson Street, (1912-25), Secretary: J Gregson (1912); E Livesey (1915).
St. Luke and St. Philip’s CEP School	(1992-99) Hancock Street.
St. Marks’ Church Burnt Field	Buncer Lane Witton, whose foundation stone was laid in 1836 and built by subscriptions being consecrated by the Bishop of Chester on 9^th June 1838 was Grade 2 listed in 1974. It contained 600 sittings, half of which were free. Joseph Feilden gave £200 towards the £700 cost in addition to the site. The architect was Edmund Sharpe of Lancaster, which was his first commission and as such built the octagonal tower at the east end rather than the west as in most churches. Built in the Romanesque style it is said to be a copy of a church on the Rhine. In August 1849 he gave £50 for the decoration of windows with stained glass. In 1850 an organ was built in the balcony. The addition of the south transept took place in 1870 and the north transept in 1886. The bell was cast by Meare and Son of Swainbank London in 1889 and the boxes and benches were replaced with pews in 1890. The organ, which had been in the balcony, was re-sited in the north transept in 1914-15.

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St. Mark’s Church Institute	Higher Witton Road, (1951). Secretary: J R Ibbotson (1951).
St. Mark’s Conservative Club	Witton, formed in 1925 and foundation stone laid by Major James Hawley Gilbert Feilden in October. Erected at a cost of £4,300 it was opened by Mr. A Norman Dugdale who deputized for Major J H G Feilden. See conservative clubs.
St. Mark’s Dramatic Society	Formed in 1935 closed 1976.
St. Mark’s (C of E) National School	(1878-81) Redlam Witton mixed; (1903-39) infants. Wensley Fold (1870-81) mixed.
St. Mark’s Parish	(1872) Witton includes the township of Witton and part of the township of Blackburn, commencing near Griffin Inn and proceeding along Banktop and Throstle Street to the river, and thence along the boundary of St. Paul’s parish to the toll bar. Population: 6,006.
St. Mark’s Place	(1947) Rolleston Road / Wensley Street.
St. Mark’s Road	(1958) 187 Wensley Road.
St. Mark’s School	(1844) Near church.
St. Mary the Virgin	See Parish church.
St. Mary the Virgin with St. Paul
St. Mary’s Catholic College	(1925-51) Secondary school for boys started at Springfield, 40 Shear Bank Road (1925-30) by the Marist Fathers on the invitation of Bishop Casartelli; Marist fathers home: 51 East Park Road (1948); 24 & 36 Shear Bank Road (1951). 210/212 Shear Brow (1930-2002) purchased for £2,650 a new school was built at a cost of £8,000 to accommodate 150 students. Formally opened by Bishop Henshaw in November 1930. Classed as Secondary Grammar School in 1951. Became co-educational 6^th form College in 1979, headmaster: Rev. William Fox SM (1930); Rev A Cusack SM DD MA (1939-51).
St. Mary’s Catholic School	(1878-1955) Dean Street Islington boys, girls and infants.
St. Mary’s C of E Parish Church	Darwen Street / Church Street. See Parish Church (Cathedral).
St. Mary’s National School	(1878-81) Darwen Street Boys, girls and infants became Higher Grade schools
St. Mary’s Parish	(1872) from Audley Higher Barn bridge (above the railway station), along canal to top of Lower Audley Street, thence to Park Road, thence to Railway bridge, thence along railway to bridge to Nova Scotia, along Freckleton Street to the river, to Daren Street Bridge, and along Darwen Street, Mill Lane, Back lane, Astleygate, Northgate, New Market Street, across Market place, Cort Street, Fisher Street, the river, Old Chapel Street, Penny Street, Syke Street, Eanam, Audley Higher Barn Lane to the Canal Bridge. Population: 5,200.
St. Mary’s R C Church Islington	A neat gothic building whose foundation stone was laid on 16^th May 1864 by the Bishop of Salford the Rt. Rev. William Turner and opened the following year on the 4^th May 1865. It was designed by John Cundall of London and the cost of erection was £5,000. It accommodated 700 persons. It had been preceeded by an ‘Iron Chapel’ erected on the site of the Boys’ School to come on 13^th October 1860.
St. Mary’s R C Junior School	Dean Street, (1871-1945) boys, girls and infants.
St. Mary’s R C Primary School	(1950-1992) Bennington Street opened on 20^th April 1952. The architects were Messrs. Greenhalgh and Williams of Bolton.
St. Mary’s R C Sixth Form College	(1992) Shear Brow. See St. Mary’s Catholic College.
St. Mary and St. Joseph RCP School	(1999) Bennington Street.
St. Mary’s Well	On Gillies Map of Blackburn 1822 between River Blakewater and Cicely Hole covered by railway station. See also All Hallows Well.
St. Matthew’s C of E Church	Cambridge Street Higher Audley, erected 1885-6 to designs by W C Habershon and Co., of London it cost £7,100.
St. Matthew’s Chapel/School	Higher Audley, designed by James Bertwistle of Blackburn. The foundation stone was laid on 31^st July 1880.
St. Matthew’s CE Primary School	(1912-92) Cambridge Street mixed and infants.
St. Matthew’s C of E School	(1903) Withers Street mixed and infants; (1939-51) Oxford Road mixed and infants.
St. Matthew’s CEP School	(1999) Withers Street.
St. Michael and All Angel’s C of E Church	Whalley New Road, was consecrated in 1869. The foundation stone laid on 3^rd January 1866. Designed by Stevens and Robinson costing £6,000. Contained 802 sittings of which 400 were free. Superseded the one in Daisyfield below.
St. Michael’s Church	Daisyfield, built by the Wesleyans and later purchased by the vicar of Blackburn in 1828. A brick building it was opened on 29^th September 1839 by license from the bishop of the diocese.
St. Michael’s Church Institute	84 Whalley New Road (1924-51).
St. Michael’s (C of E) National School	(1870-81) Whalley New Road. Boys, girls and infants; (1903) mixed; (1912-15) mixed and junior; (1924-30) mixed and infants; (1939-51) junior; Union Buildings infants (1878-1903).
St. Michael’s Parish	(1872) Includes the township of Little Harwood, part of the township of Rishton (not belonging to the parochial chapelry of Great Harwood) and lying west of the canal and part of the township of Blackburn, commencing on the canal at the junction of Rishton and Blackburn and proceeding along the canal to Eanam Bridge, thence along Eanam Road, Bancroft Street, Birley Street, Whalley Road, Brookhouse Lane, river to Derikins Bridge, Whalley New Road to boundary of Blackburn township, near Cemetery Gates, and along that boundary to the junction. Population: 7,543.
St. Michael Street	(1903) 334 Whalley Range Nos 5-33 and 2-28.
St. Michael with St. John CEP	(1992- 99) Swallow Drive.
St. Monica’s RC Secondary Modern School	(Opened 1961).
St. Oswald’s National School	Cabin End, opened on 6^th August 1837 with 150 pupil.
St. Oswald’s CE Primary School	(1859), Mount St James Knuzden, mixed and infants. John Reddish of Knuzden Hall laid the foundation stone on 2^nd July 1859 and the school opened the following year.
St. Oswald’s Church	(1870) Knuzden Brook, was built in 1878 at a cost of £3650. The architects were Messrs J & M Aspinall of Blackburn. The foundation stone was laid on the 8^th May 1875 by the Mayor of Blackburn William Coddington Esq.

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St. Patrick’s Catholic School	(1878-81) 21 Quarry Street girls and infants; (1903) infants.
St. Paulinus’ Catholic (Academy) School	Astleygate, (1878) Believed to be fore runner of St. Alban’s Higher Grade RC School.
St. Paul’s Avenue	(1929) 30 Feilden Street.
St. Paul's C of E Church	St. Paul’s Street, was brick clad with round arched windows it was first built as a chapel of ease in 1791-2 but broke away from the established church and joined the Countess of Huntingdon’s Connexion until the vicar Rev. Samuel Dean left and it was consecrated into the C of E on 20^th December 1829. In 1801 it had been put up for sale in the ‘Blackburn Mail’. Vestry in south-west corner, chancel and entrance halls at the east end added 1866-7 at a cost of £1,000. Seated 879 of which 315 were free. The last service was held in May 1955 and it was demolished in 1956. The church organ built by Rushworth & Dreaper of Liverpool was erected in 1913 by J E Fielding in memory of his wife was sold to Marton Parish Church, Blackpool.
St. Paul's Foundry	(Railton's Forge), Nab Lane/St. Paul's Avenue, was owned by Robert & John Railton (1870) engineers & ironfounders. Then owned by Clayton Goodfellow & Co (1878). It was demolished in1928 having been purchased many years before for a future extension of the technical college.
St. Paul’s Methodist Church
St. Paul’s Mill Co. Ltd.	Nab Lane and George Street West, (1878-81) cotton manufacturers (manager: William Exley (1878); James Eddleston (1881) then Frederick Shorrock (1902).
St. Paul’s (C of E) National (Primary) School	(1858-1925) St. Paul’s Street / New Park Street boys, girls and infants; (1930-51) junior mixed and infants. The daughter of Joseph Feilden, who had given the land, laid foundation stone in April 1858. Preston New Road (1870). The boys’ and girls’ schools were amalgamated from 1^st September 1960. It was demolished in 1967.
St. Paul’s Parish	(1872) From Seven Acre brook along .highroad to Shear Brow, Northgate, Queen Street across Blakey Moor, Barton Street, Feilden Street, Adelaide Street, George Street West by river to end of Throstle Street thence northward by a straight line past Foxhouse (but not including it) to the Preston New Road (a short distance above Addison Street) thence to toll bar, and along Borough Boundary to Seven Acre brook. Population: 13,219.
St. Paul’s RC Church	Feniscowles.
St. Paul’s RCP School	(1992-99) Off Preston Old Road Feniscowles.
St. Paul’s Street	(1836) 86 Blakey Moor Nos 1-35 and 2-46.
St. Paul’s Street West	(1845).
St. Paul’s Working Mens’ Club	6 Victoria Street, (1870) Montague Street (1923).
St. Peter’s Catholic Club Witton	(1912-15), secretary: Charles Brothers (1912); J Dixon (1915).
St. Peter’s C of E Church	St. Peter’s Street, was erected in 1819-20 at a cost of £13,000. Consecrated on 11^th September 1821 and sat 1500 worshippers of which 950 were free.
St. Peter’s C of E Boys’ Secondary Modern School	(1939-51) Byrom Street built on the site of a timber yard and Bath Mill weaving shed. Merged with St. Hilda’s C of E Secondary Modern Girls’ School to form St. Wilfred’s C of E High School in 1965.
St. Peter’s Church Institute	56a King Street, (1889).
St. Peter’s in Chains RC New School/Chapel	Mill Hill, the foundation stone was laid on 6^th August 1887 by Bishop Vaughan and opened on 25^th July 1889. It was designed by Edward Simpson of Bradford with the building costing £5,500 exclusive of site. The last mass held was on 24^th June 1956 when the new church opened.
St. Peter’s in Chains R C Church	Mill Hill, foundation stone laid in 1954. Opened by Bishop Beck in 1956.
St Peter’s Foundry	Canterbury Street, (1858) Built by William Ainsworth later leased by John & James Nuttall millwright & ironfounders.
St. Peter’s Place	(1852) Chapel Street.
St. Peter’s RC (Sacred Heart) New Mission (Chapel of Ease)	70-74 Lansdowne Street Mill Hill opened 21^st February1876.
St. Peter’s RC School	(1903-51) Watson Street Mill Hill mixed and infants.
St. Peter’s (C of E) National School	(1870-8) Bent Street boys, Byrom Street (1870-81) boys, girls and infants; (1903-51) mixed, junior and infants.
St. Peter’s Parish	(1872) From River (near Galligreaves Hall) along boundary of Borough to Preston Old Road, Banktop, Throstle Street, river, George Street West, Adelaide Street, Feilden Street, Fish Lane, Astleygate, Back Lane, Mill Lane, Darwen Street to bridge, along river, Freckleton Street, Canterbury Street, Alice Street, Coal Yard wall, Galligreaves Street, Taylor Street, footpath (near Galligreaves Hall) to the river. Population: 8,048.
St. Peter’s RC Infant School	(1992-99) Hawkins Street.
St. Peter’s RC Junior School	(1992-99) Watson Street.
St. Peter Street	(1870) 32 Darwen Street Nos 7-19 and 8-34.
St. Peter’s Street British School	(1878) Boys, girls and infants.
St. Peter Street Mill	Owned by Absalom Smith (1878) cotton manufacturer then St Peter Street Manufacturing Co Ltd (1912-15) cotton manufacturers.
St. Peter’s Street Wesleyan School	(1870-81) Mixed.
St. Philip’s Newcastle Street	(1930). Secretary: A Marsden (1930).
St. Philip’s Bowling & Tennis Club	Sandon Street, (1924-30). Secretary: W Fielden (1930).
St. Philip’s C of E Church Griffin	Witton, was erected in 1880. Early English designed by John Lowe of Manchester with a tower of 90 feet. The cost of £9,000 to build was raised by subscriptions, aided largely by the Dugdale family. Services previously held in Griffin school. It was closed 1974 and demolished in 1976 leaving the tower. See 1930 Blotter.
St. Philip’s C of E School	(1903-25) Avondale Street Griffin Witton boys, girls and infants; (1930-51) mixed and infants.
St. Philip’s Bowling and Tennis Club	Sandon Street, (1930-51). Now Dugdale Memorial, secretary: William Fielden (1930); G Gillibrand (1935-51).
St. Philip’s Parochial Hall	Griffin Street / Newcastle Street, (1912-35) opened by Adam Dugdale. Secretary: A Marsden (1935); G Gillibrand (1939).
St. Philip Street	(1888) Greenfield Street Witton Nos 1-65 and 2-38.
St. Silas’ C of E Church	Preston New Road, is a handsome gothic edifice designed by Paley & Austin, Lancaster. Foundation stone laid 8^th December 1894 by Mrs. Tattersall of Quarry Bank, Billinge End Road. Was opened for devine service on Ascension Day 9^th May 1898 and consecrated 18^th July 1900 the cost of erection being £10,000. The porch, baptistery and tower without spire were not added to until 1913. The house Fair Elms (nest door) was later demolished to make way for a new vicarage. New organ presented by Miss Lund and opened by Dr E C Bairstow on 11^th February 1904. After the new belfry (104 ft) was completed in 1913 costing £3,000 the bells were not added until 1982 from Holy Trinity Church. In the meantime the sound of bells was broadcast from the belfry by loud-speaker. Grade 2 listed in 1974.
St. Silas’ National School Billinge	Mixed (1878); Preston New Road (1881) mixed.
St. Silas’ Parish Rooms	Preston New Road (Billinge Sunday School), was first held prior to 1834 in an upper room of a cottage in Dinckley Square. In 1846 the Parish Rooms were licenced for worship as a Chapel of Ease for St. Paul’s Church. 30 years later as the district was developing the idea of a new church was promoted and the site given and enclosed. See above.
St. Silas’ C of E School	(1903) Clematis Street mixed new portion opened by Chairman of County Education Committee Sir Henry T Hibbert 30^th January 1904 costing £3,000; (1912-51) mixed and infants; Preston New Road (1903) infants.
St. Silas’ CE Infant School	(1992-99) Clematis Street.
St. Silas’ CE Junior School	(1992-99) Clematis Street.
St. Silas’ Road	(1885) New Bank Road Nos 7-21 and 2-56.

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St. Stephen’s Avenue	(1929) 230 Whalley Old Road.
St. Stephen’s C of E Church	Little Harwood, built in 1908 opened 22/2/1908 and consecrated on the 23rd April. Of gothic style the cost of erection was £5,540. The foundation stone had been laid by W H Hornby Bart MP on 12/5/1906. The site was given by Norman Watney in September 1897.
St. Stephen’s CE Infant School	(1992-99) St Stephens Avenue.
St. Stephen’s CE Junior School	(1992-99) Phillips Road.
St. Stephen’s Conservative Club and Coach House	Little Harwood, (1791) Grade 2 listed in 1951.
St. Stephen’s C of E Schools	(1886-1951) Brooklands Terrace Little Harwood mixed and infants. The foundation stone was laid by W H Hornby Esq on 1/8/1885 for a Sunday school, which opened 18/7/1886. It became a day school on 2/8/1886 and as a Mission Church on 30/9/1886.
St. Stephen’s Road	(1903) 218 Whalley Old Road Little Harwood Nos 1-23.
St. Teresa Little Flower Catholic Church	(1951) Bentley Street.
St. Thomas’ C of E Church	Lambeth Street, foundation stone laid 22^nd September 1860 and was opened in 1865 at a cost of £5,600. The architect was E G Paley of Lancaster. Sat 1,054 persons (600 free).
St. Thomas’ CEP School	(1992-99) Newton Street.
St. Thomas’ Church Institute Newton Street	(1924-51).
St. Thomas’ (C of E) National School	(1870-1925) Lambeth Street boys, girls and infants; senr mixed and infants, junr); (1939-51) mixed, infants and juniors.
St. Thomas’ Parish	(1872) From Lower Audley canal bridge along the canal to that part of the township of Rishton which is not included in the ancient parochial chapelry of Great Harwood thence along the boundary of such part of Rishton to its junction with the township of Blackburn, thence along that township boundary to the boundary of Christ Church parish and along that boundary to the canal bridge. Population: 12,492.
St. Thomas’ Place	(1881-1929) 40 Billinge Street.
St. Thomas’ Street & Terrace	(1872-1958) Lambeth Street / 40 Bilinge Street / Skiddaw Street Nos 3-77.
St. Thomas’ Wescoe Memorial Hall	(1897).
St. Thomas’ Working Men’s Conservative Club	(1870) Higher Eanam.
St. Wilfred’s C of E High School	(1966-99) Shakespeare Street formed in 1966 when St Peter’s C of E Boys’ Secondary Modern School and St Hilda’s C of E Girls’ Secondary Modern School were merged. Re-built in 2003-4 using Duckworth Street site opened by Princess Ann.
St. Wilfred’s Neighbourhood Centre	(2004).
Sackrey Farm	(1870) Ramsgreave, James Kenyon (1870).
Sacred Heart R C Church	Preston New Road, had its foundation stone laid on 9^th October 1937. Opened Sunday 25^th September 1938 costing about £12,000. Church Hall built and opened in 2000.
Sacred Heart RCP School	(1903-99) St. Silas’ Road/Lynwood Road mixed.
Sacred Heart (Catholic) Mission Room	Witton, (1889) Served from St. Anne’s. See St. Peter’s RC Mission.
Sacred Heart School	Lansdowne Street Witton, (1881).
Salford	(1834) The area where the crossing of the River Blakewater took place Nos 1-97 and 2-46.
Salford New Brewery	(1834) Owned by Henry Shaw.
Salford Bridge	The improvement consisted of bridging over the river Blakewater, pulling down old property and forming wide streets in the central part of the town commenced in 1881 costing £45,000. The ivy-covered house on the corner was replaced by Hepworth’s store, which later became the Corporation Tramway offices and still later Woolworth’s was built. Drinking fountain forming part of the central lamp at Salford was removed to Pleasington playing fields in 1927.
Salford Chambers	(1912-30) 67 Church Street
Salford House	(1878) 93 Salford.
Salford New Brewery	Owned by Henry Shaw & Co. (1870) brewers & maltsters then Thomas Dutton & Co (1878) brewers, closed in 1923. Whitbread vacate premises for new brewery at Samlesbury 1973. Demolished in 1986.
Salford Street	(1840-51).
Salisbury Mill Ewood	Owned by Bank Top Mill Co (1912-30) cotton manufacturers.
Salisbury Street	(1903-58) Cecil Street Nos 3 and 2-12.
Salvation Army	Water Street, (1889) seating 400. Captain Doiege (1889).
Salvation Army Band	Formed in March 1882 under captain David Gilbard. Bandmaster Jim Abram.
Salvation Army Citadel	Vicar Street Salford, opened in 1925; Merchant Street.
Salvation Army Hall	Angela Street Mill Hill, (1951)
Salvation Army Hostel	29/31 King Street (1930-58); Regent Street (1960s); capt. W T Fowler (1930); manager: George Seabrook (1921) A Dowling (1935); J Littlejohn (1939); captain E W Pailthorpe (1951).
Samaritan	(1836) Grimshaw Park.

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Sand Holes	(1872) St Thomas’ Parish.
Sandon Street	(1903) Agnes Street Nos 2-64.
Sandy Lane	Now Bank Lane, (1848).
Sandy Lane	(1903-58) Branch Road Lower Darwen Nos 1-11 and 2-108.
Sanitary Inspector’s	Office 51 Ainsworth Street (1903); Northgate (1915). Medical officer of Health: A Greenwood M D; sanitary inspector (1903) chief (1915) James Graham.
Sapphire Street	(1903) 348 Whalley New Road Nos 2-10.
Sarah Ellen Street	(1870-1903) 131 Montague Street renamed Devonport Road Nos 1-79 and 2-60.
*‘Saturday Football’*	18 Darwen Street (1930), proprietor: E Walmsley (1930).
Saunders Road	(1903) Off 213 Preston New Road 16 families.
Saville Villa	(1878) 72 Preston New Road.
The Saviour Church	Longshaw, the foundation stone was laid on 23^rd March 1901.
Savings Bank Lord St. West	See Blackburn Savings Bank.
Savoy (Cinema) Picture House	Bolton Road Nova Scotia, (Opened 1922-57), first to show talkies 1929 “Broadway Melody” lasted for two weeks. Originally owned by Yorke family then ABC Night Club. Closed in 1957. General manager: Alan Farman (1923).
Sawer's Yard	(1851).
Sawrey Street	(1929) 369 Preston Old Road Feniscliffe.
Saw Mill Lane	(1844) (Highfield Road) Bolton Road.
Saxon (Hotel) Inn	See Moat House.
Scar Farm	(1930-51) Preston New Road.
Scarr Lane
Scar(r) Street	(1878-1969) 75 Portland Street Witton Nos 7-33 and 4/8.
Scarborough Road	(1958) 170 Manxman Road.
School Board	Four Lane Ends, mixed (1878).
School Board Offices	Library Street. See Education Offices.
School Clinic Health Office	119 Bolton Road (1924-5); Victoria Street (1930); 35 Richmond Terrace (1935-51).
School Lane	(1958) 325 Haslingden Road Guide was Spew Spout Lane.
School of Dancing (Stage)	(1947) 3 New Water Street, Miss Dora Wilson (1947).
School of Domestic Science	Whalley Range, (1935-51) & Troy Street (1935-51); Regent Street (1946-69).
School of Dramatic Art	(1939-51) 135 Preston New Road, principal: Miss Ida Shaw LYCL (1939-51).
School of Mental Children	39-41 Alma Street (1951).
School Street	(1844-1958) High Street / 47 Bolton Road Nova Scotia Nos 7 and 44.
School Street	(1878) Livesey.
School Street Independent School	(1870) Nova Scotia.
Science and Art School	(1878) Paradise Lane.
Science and Art School	(1878) Quarry Street. Evenings.
The Scientific Institute	Established 4^th January 1831 at Music Hall with library and museum. 123 members. Chairman: Dr Whittaker.
Scotchman’s Wood	(1893) Witton Park.
Scotland Bank Farm	(1848-1951) Moorgate Fold Heys Lane.
Scotland Bank Mill	Livesey, owned by Henry Eastwood & Co Ltd (1911-58) had 612 looms.
Scotland Bank Terrace	(1930) Scotland Road Higher Audley.
Scotland Bank Terrace	(1947) 96 Heyes Lane.
Scotland Road	(1878-1958) 173 Higher Audley Street Nos 1-123 and 2-130.
Scotland Terrace	(1870-1929) Audley Range / 58 Scotland Road Nos 54-60.
S D P Club	55 Montague Street (1912), secretary: H Hartley (1912).
The Sea Cadets	Philip’s Road, (1985-13/5/2005) started in Holy Trinity Primary School playground 1964.
Selborne Street	(1888) West View Witton Nos 3-149 and 2-36.
Select Vestry	(1795) The only means of local government prior to 1803 but continued until the newly formed Town Council in 1854. It was a loose body of townspeople who were appointed when the warden’s of the parish church were appointed annually. Handed over responsibility for paving, lighting, watching and cleansing to the Police Commissioners from 1803.
Selous Street	(1906) Spring Lane / Preston Old Road Witton named after famous explorer Frederick Courtney Selous african big game hunter. Nos 2-16. Now 2-40 now Selous Road.
Sessions House	Northgate, opened on 25^th July 1912 to house Borough courts and police station. Joint architects Briggs Wolstenholme & Thornley and Stones Stones & Atkinson. Built by W J Woof Cronshaw & Sons at a cost of £46,788.
Sett End	(1929) Shadsworth.
Seven Acre Brook	(1808) Handloom weavers’ cottages Lammack Road Nos 1-11.
Seven Acre Brook Farm	(1836-81), Moses Nightingale (1878).
Seventh-day Adventist Church
Seven Trees	Whalley New Road. The area became known as this when seven cedar trees were planted between St James’ Road and Bastwell at the beginning of the 1900s. Unfortunately one was cut down in January 1989.
Seven Trees Avenue	(1929) Off Willow Street.
Seven Trees Nursery School	(1999) Whalley Street.
Seven Trees Terrace	(1870-1930) 186 Whalley (New) Road.
Sewage Works	Established at Samlesbury on land owned by Sir Henry de Hoghton from 1875.
Shackerley	(1843) Small hamlet north of Shackerley Toll Bar.
Shackerley Toll Bar Yew Tree	Preston New Road, charged travellers on the turnpike road from Blackburn to Preston for nearly half a century from 1842. Closed 31/10/1890 and demolished. Stood on Preston side of Yew Tree traffic lights across from County Hotel.
Shackleton Street	(1878-1958) 31 Higher Eanam.
Shadsworth	(1831) The area designated by Shadsworth Road today.
Shadsworth Community Centre	Shadsworth Road, opened in 1974. It comprises a sports hall (35m x 19m x 8m) 2 squash courts, a swimming pool (25m x 10.5m), meeting room, general activities area, snack bar, bar, and a substantial all weather flood-lit playing area.

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