* George Smith ( footballer born 1879 ) ( 1879 – 1908 ), footballer who played for several clubs, including Preston North End and Blackburn Rovers

* The Football League – Sunderland 47 points, Everton 42, Aston Villa 39, Preston North End 35, Blackburn Rovers 32, Sheffield United 32

* The founder members are: Accrington FC ( 1888 – 1893 ), Aston Villa, Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderers, Burnley, Derby County, Everton, Notts County, Preston North End, Stoke FC, West Bromwich Albion and Wolverhampton Wanderers.

* The Football League – Preston North End 40 points, Aston Villa 29, Wolves 28, Blackburn Rovers 26, Bolton Wanderers 22, West Bromwich Albion 22

* The Football League – Preston North End 33 points, Everton 31, Blackburn Rovers 27, Wolves 25, West Bromwich Albion 25, Accrington FC 24

* The Football League – Everton 29 points, Preston North End 27, Notts County 26, Wolves 26, Bolton Wanderers 25, Blackburn Rovers 24

This stand, together with the old Blackburn End stand, was then redeveloped before the Nuttall Street stand was also demolished ready for redevelopment in January 1994.

With a capacity of 31, 367, the facility comprises four sections: the Darwen End, Riverside Stand ( named as such because it stands practically on the banks of the River Darwen ), Blackburn End, and Jack Walker Stand, which is named after Blackburn industrialist and club supporter, Jack Walker.

It is on West End Lane between Broadhurst Gardens and Blackburn Road and is in Travelcard Zone 2.

County cups include the Sheffield and Hallamshire Senior Cup, which is the third oldest surviving cup competition in the world, the Lancashire Senior Cup which is competed for by Premier League and Football League clubs from the historic county of Lancashire, including Manchester United, Blackburn Rovers, Wigan Athletic along with Blackpool, Burnley, Preston North End, Bury and Morecambe.

* Robin Blackburn " A Fabian at the End of His Tether " ( New Statesman 14 December 1979, reprinted in Stephen Howe ( ed ) Lines of Dissent: Writings from the New Statesman 1913-88 London: Verso, 1988, pp284 – 96

On 1888, he wrote to the committee of his own club, Aston Villa, as well as to those of Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderers, Preston North End and West Bromwich Albion, suggesting the creation of a league competition that would provide a number of guaranteed fixtures for its member clubs each season.

I am only writing to the following – Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderers, Preston North End, West Bromwich Albion, and Aston Villa, and would like to hear what other clubs you would suggest .</ br >

It comprises four sections: Darwen End, Riverside Stand ( named as such because it stands practically on the banks of the River Darwen ), Ronnie Clayton Blackburn End, and Jack Walker Stand, which is named after Blackburn industrialist and club supporter, Jack Walker.

Furthermore, the Blackburn End was terraced and the Riverside Stand re-roofed at a total cost of £ 1550.

Two years later a concrete roof was erected over the Blackburn End terrace.

By February 1994, the new two-tiered Blackburn and Darwen End stands were open.

The Nuttall Street stand changed very little until a fire in 1984 in the Blackburn End corner of the Stand.

The Blackburn End was terraced in 1928, but did not acquire its concrete cantilever roof until 1960, which was financed after an FA Cup run to the 1960 FA Cup Final.

By the turn of 1992 they were top of the Second Division, and then suffered a dip in form before recovering to qualify for the playoffs, during which Dalglish led Blackburn into the new Premier League by beating Leicester City 1 – 0 in the Second Division Play-off final at Wembley.

He then played for Blackburn Rovers, Queens Park Rangers F. C.

Eventually both Manchester United and Newcastle United agreed fees with Blackburn Rovers and Shearer was all set to move to Manchester United but then at the last second Kevin Keegan requested one last audience with Shearer and persuaded him that his future lay at St. James Park.

In 1837, under the order of the then collector John Blackburn, the fortifications around the temple were demolished to accommodate the growing population of the city.

The Boulton Paul Defiant and the naval Blackburn Roc were two late-1930s British fighter aircraft that carried their armament in turrets giving them a wide range of fire including upwards ; the fire of several fighters could then be brought to bear on a target together.

KoDT first started in the second issue of Shadis magazine in March 1990 when then editor Jolly R. Blackburn decided to draw a simple strip of his own to put on the last page which he called Knights of the Dinner Table.

On April 24, 2009, during a congressional hearing, Tennessee Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn asked Gore if he was a member of KPCB, and then inquired: " The legislation that we are discussing here today, is that something that you are going to personally benefit from ?” She cited constituent concerns about Gore's role with KPCB as the reason for her inquiry.

He then came on as a substitute in the Premier League and UEFA Champions League against Blackburn and Beşiktaş respectively.

Blackburn was selected above other locations for the ' new wave ' of Archbishop Temple's cathedrals because of its then excellent public transport infrastructure – the cathedral stands next to the bus and railway station, both now comparatively reduced.

Another programme that also came with the relaunch was Sky By Day, Sky TV's variation on ITV's more popular This Morning, hosted by ex-Radio One DJ Tony Blackburn ( who had moved to commercial radio by then ) and ex-Magpie presenter Jenny Hanley.

This was then laminated and given out to friends and people at clubs in Blackburn and Manchester.

It was through the efforts of his son William Bradley and Robert Blackburn, ( Reeve in 1864, then MP ) that a post office was secured and it was then that the area became known as " Blackburn ".

Blackburn Rovers were the first First Division side to the visit Vetch Field for a competitive game in the 1914 – 1915 FA Cup – Blackburn Rovers were then the Champions of England, but Swansea Town from the Second Division of the Southern League beat them 1 – 0 at Vetch Field, Swansea's goal coming from Ben Beynon, while Blackburn Rovers ' penalty taker Bradshaw missed a penalty.

Son of Thomas Osbaldeston, and nephew of Edward Osbaldeston, of Osbaldeston Hall, near Blackburn, Lancashire, he went to the English College of Douai, then at Reims, where he was ordained deacon in December, 1583, and priest 21 September 1585.

Read then quit the NF along with many of his followers to establish the National Party ( NP ), which won two seats on Blackburn Council, one of them held by Read, but their other councillor was disqualified for election irregularities.

* March 5 – A Blackburn Beverley C Mark I heavy transport aircraft of No. 53 Squadron, Royal Air Force, crashes in the village of Sutton Wick, then in Berkshire, England, killing 18 of the 22 people on board and two people on the ground.

It began as BBC Radio Blackburn on 26 January 1971 on 96. 4FM, then adding 854 kHz AM in 1972 and changing to its current name on 4 July 1981.

Travellers wanting to travel from the vicinity of Laburnum Station to the city needed to catch a bus from Laburnum to Blackburn, and then change to the Box Hill bus and vice versa.

Blackburn station, then known as Blackburn Creek station, was opened on 25 December of that year.

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.

In 1884 the club changed to a " quartered " kit similar in style to that of Blackburn Rovers.

He had been struggling to score the amount of goals he had in the past seasons however this soon changed as he scored two goals in the 5 – 0 defeat of Blackburn Rovers on 24 October 2009.

They then changed their name to Glossop ( to avoid any confusion with Preston North End ) before spending their one and only season in the top flight, 1899 – 00 when they finished in last place and were relegated back to the Second Division, having won only 4 matches, all at home, against Burnley, Nottingham Forest, Blackburn and Aston Villa.

The couple's lives would be forever changed when Beth began working at a local museum for a Professor Blackburn, who had gotten his hands on the cornerstone of the Von Halkein estate in Andorra.

It turns out that Meredith and Garvin's assistant, Philip Blackburn ( Dylan Baker ), changed the quality control specifications at the Malaysian plant manufacturing DigiCom's new advanced CD-ROM drive.