Blackburn Christmas Opening Times for Shops, the Market & Leisure

As we head towards the festive season again, Blackburn Life and What’s On Blackburn bring you the definitive guide to opening times for Christmas 2019 and the New Year.

A surge in new stalls opening in Blackburn Market and an increase in new trader enquiries is giving the town’s market extra choice and value for local shoppers.

It looks like The Grapes pub is set to make a return to Blackburn Town Centre as new signage goes up on the building recently vacated by Liz’n’Lils cafe.

Local companies in Blackburn, Darwen and Lancashire are being encouraged to support the BBC Radio Lancashire Community Heroes Awards.

It’s a big welcome to The Cheese Stall in Blackburn Market this week.

Town Hall Street is home to some of Blackburn’s newest and longest established businesses and also Blackburn’s restored majestic central library building.

Darwen Town Centre has missed out on a share of the government’s £675m Future High Street Fund after the government released a list of the locations that are moving to the second stage of the process.

Award-winning Peter Jackson the Jeweller has hosted another one of its hugely popular Design Days in its recently launched store in The Mall Blackburn.

Founded in 1903 by William Hobkirk, the Hobkirk family refer to their store as an ‘Aladdin’s cave of sewing inspiration’.