Blackburn Encyclopedia
Ray Smith's Blackburn Encyclopedia, has been published by Cotton Town. What's so special about that? Well you can't buy Ray's book in any book-shop, in fact you can't buy it at all, because it's only available on this website.
You will find Ray Smith's Blackburn Encyclopedia an invaluable reference guide to anything and everything about Blackburn. Ray, a keen local historian, has spent many years compiling this Encyclopaedia. It is great for serious research work or simply just browsing.
If you have some factual information which you wish to add to this encyclopedia, please email your contribution to
library@blackburn.gov.uk
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N.B. Formatting work is taking place over the next few weeks
On all references where a date is shown with no accompanying text, this is the earliest known date relating to the item.
