The Blackburn Aeroplane and Motor Company had entered the aero engine field in 1934 when the Cirrus-Hermes Engineering Company became part of the Blackburn and this became the Engine Division of Blackburn Aircraft and subsequently Blackburn Engines Limited.

The small minibus operator M & M Coaches and its main competitor Transdev Lancashire United provide service in Accrington, with routes to places such as Blackburn, Oswaldtwistle, Rishton, Burnley and Clitheroe.

The local hospital is Accrington Victoria Hospital however, as it only deals with minor issues, A & E is provided by the Royal Blackburn Hospital.

An American company, Blackburn Aircraft Corp., was incorporated in Detroit on 20 May 1929 to acquire design and patent rights of the aircraft of Blackburn Airplane & Motor Co., Ltd. in the USA.

It was owned 90 % by Detroit Aircraft Corp. and 10 % by Blackburn Airplane & Motor Co., Ltd.

* Blackburn B-26 Botha ( 1938 )-two-engine, four-seat high-wing monoplane reconnaissance / torpedo bomber & crew trainer

Built by Blackburn and by Hewlett & Blondeau

Jowett switched to manufacturing aircraft parts for the Blackburn & General Aircraft Company in a former woollen mill at Howden Clough, Birstall, near Batley.

* Blackburn, Mark & Grierson, Philip, Medieval European Coinage.

The show was produced by Steve Vizard, who was an Executive Producer, writer and performer, and starred Magda Szubanski, Marg Downey, Michael Veitch, Peter Moon, Jane Turner and Gina Riley who went on to star in Kath & Kim, Alan Pentland, Steve Blackburn, Geoff Brookes, Ernie Dingo, the Rubbery Figures satirical puppets and numerous guests and supporting stars, such as Gerry Connolly and Brian Dawe.

Bonnie Blackburn & Leofranc Holford-Strevens.

** Adam Blackburn, Eric Schilling, Marcelo Añez, Sebastián Krys ( engineers ), Tim Mitchell ( producer ) & Shakira ( producer & artist ) for Shakira-MTV Unplugged

* Kevin Lloyd as Harry Blackburn ( Series 2 ) A Plumber and Country & Western enthusiast.

Commenting on his appointment to ED & F Man on a salary of £ 30, 000 per annum, Straw said, " There are 168 hours in the week, and I will work in Blackburn for a least 60 and maybe sleep for 50.

Knights of the Dinner Table ( KoDT ) is a comic book / strip created by Jolly R. Blackburn and published by Kenzer & Company.

Initially produced by Blackburn himself, the series was later picked up by game publishers Kenzer & Company, who began publication with a second printing of issue four after an error made by Blackburn rendered the first printing nearly unreadable.

Originally published in 2001, it began as a fictional game, a parody of the most ludicrous aspects of D & D played by the characters of the Knights of the Dinner Table comic strip by Jolly R. Blackburn.

However, he pulled out of the deal, preferring to accept an offer of a trial at Blackburn Rovers from former Liverpool colleague Paul Ince who'd just retired after a spell at Macclesfield Town & eventually went on to manage MK Dons & Notts County.

* Fortin MJ, Keitt TH, Maurer BA, Taper ML, Kaufman DM & Blackburn TM.

Brighton & Hove Albion were entertained in the late 1960s as were Blackburn Rovers & Millwall ( first round ) in successive seasons 1981 & 1982.

Born Marsha Wedgeworth in Laurel, Mississippi, Blackburn attended Northeast Jones High School and graduated from Mississippi State University where she joined Chi Omega, and where she also spent a few summers working with the Southwestern Company.

Palmer-Tomkinson's presenting credits include Animals Do the Funniest things with Tony Blackburn, Junior Eurovision, The British Comedy Awards ... Party On, What Kids Really Think, Popworld, Top of the Pops, SM: TV Live, Company Magazine Bachelor of the Year, Dumb Britain, Extreme, a role as a team captain on Bognor or Bust which was hosted by Angus Deayton and work for GMTV, Five, LBC radio, the music channel The Hits and the Living TV programme Dirty Cows.

In 1959, Folland Aircraft was acquired, followed by de Havilland Aircraft Company and Blackburn Aircraft in 1960.

* April 23 – The North Sea Aerial Navigation Company starts a passenger service between Leeds and Hounslow Heath Aerodrome in ex-military Blackburn Kangaroos

Officer, and R. Leon Blackburn, our former Vice President, Controller left the Company and our Board appointed

In the early 1960s the Blackburn Aircraft Company, now part of British Aerospace used the runway for test flights of the Blackburn Buccaneer.

In 1961 the company was expanded by the purchase of the de Havilland Engine Company and the engine division of Blackburn Aircraft.

The company was further strengthened in November 1961 when it acquired the full share capital of the de Havilland Engine Company Limited and Blackburn Engines Limited, both of which were formerly operating within the Hawker Siddeley Group.

The 4th Battalion has its RHQ and HQ Company at Preston, A Company is at Liverpool, B ( Somme ) Company is at Blackburn and Blackpool, C Company is at Workington, Barrow-in-Furness, Carlisle and Lancaster.

It has been argued that, while Hume did not think causation is reducible to pure regularity, he was not a fully fledged realist either: Simon Blackburn calls this a quasi-realist reading.

So long as Ambrose continued at Preston he was favoured with the warm friendship of the Hoghton family, their ancestral woods and the tower near Blackburn affording him sequestered places for those devout meditations and " experiences " that give such a charm to his diary, portions of which are quoted in his Prima Media and Ultima ( 1650, 1659 ).

The record was pushed steadily upwards before reaching its peak on 31 March 2007, when 76, 098 spectators saw Manchester United beat Blackburn Rovers 4 – 1, with just 114 seats ( 0. 15 percent of the total capacity of 76, 212 ) unoccupied.

* The first statue erected in Gladstone's honour after his death was in Blackburn in 1900.

Blackburn Aircraft Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer that concentrated mainly on naval and maritime aircraft during the first part of the 20th century.

Blackburn Aircraft was founded by Robert Blackburn who built his first aircraft in 1908.

The company's name was changed to Blackburn Aircraft Limited in 1939, and the company amalgamated with General Aircraft Limited in 1949 as Blackburn and General Aircraft Limited, reverting to Blackburn Aircraft Limited by 1958.

Aircraft production operations were absorbed into Hawker Siddeley and its engine operations into Bristol Siddeley, as part of the rationalisation of British aircraft manufacturers, and the Blackburn name was dropped completely in 1963.

Medieval Bacup was an obscure and lightly populated chapelry linked with the parishes of Whalley and Rochdale, and divided between the townships of Newchurch and Spotland in the hundred of Blackburn.

Lying within the historic county boundaries of Lancashire since the High Middle Ages, Bacup was a chapelry linked with the parishes of Whalley and Rochdale, and divided between the townships of Newchurch and Spotland in the hundred of Blackburn.

Eventually, Shearer was sold to Blackburn Rovers for a fee of £ 3. 6 million, with David Speedie reluctantly moving to The Dell as part of the deal.

Despite making just one goalless appearance as England failed to progress past the Euro 1992 group stages that summer, Shearer was soon subject to a British transfer record-breaking £ 3. 3million bid from Blackburn Rovers.

Although there was also interest from Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson, Blackburn benefactor Jack Walker's millions were enough to prise the striker from the Saints, and Shearer moved north to Ewood Park in the summer of 1992.

His first season with Blackburn was mixed – he missed half of it through injury after snapping his right anterior cruciate ligament in a match against Leeds United in December 1992, but scored 16 goals in the 21 games in which he did feature.

Shearer's only goal in six full Champions League games was a penalty in a 4 – 1 victory against Rosenborg in the final fixture and Blackburn finished third in their group, failing to progress to the next stage.