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[[Blackburn]] has several plaques placed in locations of historic significance.
 
A [[Blue plaque | blue plaque]] scheme, consisting of twenty-four plaques in the style of the English Heritage Plaques, was managed by Blackburn Civic Society until it folded.<ref>{{cite news |title=Local historians bid to protect commemorative blue plaques in Blackburn |url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/10996665.local-historians-bid-protect-commemorative-blue-plaques-blackburn/ |access-date=5 November 2023 |work=Lancashire Telegraph |date=7 February 2014 |language=en}}</ref> Later, Blackburn Local History Society agreed to take on responsibility of managing the local scheme and worked with [[Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council]] to add additional plaques as part of a local heritage festival in 2014.<ref>{{cite news |title=Council wants to remember leading lights with plaques in Blackburn |url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/11133587.council-wants-remember-leading-lights-plaques-blackburn/ |access-date=5 November 2023 |work=Lancashire Telegraph |date=8 April 2014 |language=en}}</ref> A number of the blue plaques have since gone missing, though some have been replaced by granite plaques to make them less appealing to metal thieves.<ref>{{cite news |title=Blue plaques to honour Blackburn's stars |url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/11045712.blue-plaques-honour-blackburns-stars/ |access-date=5 November 2023 |work=Lancashire Telegraph |date=28 February 2014 |language=en}}</ref>
 
The British Film Institute placed two plaques in Blackburn as part of the Centenary of Cinema celebration in 1996.<ref>{{cite web |author1=British Film Institute |title=Thanks for the Memories |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/faq/regions/centenaryplaques.pdf |access-date=5 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110911084808/http://www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/faq/regions/centenaryplaques.pdf |archive-date=11 Sep 2011}}</ref>
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| [[File:Plug Plot Riots Location Plaque Blackburn.jpg|thumb]]
| BBC Radio Lancashire, Darwen Street, Blackburn {{Coord|53.74698|-2.48280}}
| Here in Darwen St on 15th August 1842, textile workers protesting against wage cuts in the famous "[[Plug Plot Riots|Plug Plot]]" were fired upon by troops of the 72nd Regiment. Up to three of the demonstrators are thought to have been killed.
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| [[Jack Walker]]
| [[File:Blue plaque, Jack Walker - geograph.org.uk - 3275738.jpg|thumb]][[File:Jack walker plaque.jpg|thumb]]
| Randal Street, Blackburn {{Coord|53.75235|-2.48281}}<br>Note - The original blue plaque was placed in May 2001, but stolen in February 2014.<ref>{{cite news |title=Plaque for Jack unveiled |url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/6029979.plaque-jack-unveiled/ |access-date=10 April 2024 |work=Lancashire Telegraph |publisher=Lancashire Telegraph |date=14 May 2001 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Jacobs |first1=Bill |title=Council wants to remember leading lights with plaques in Blackburn |url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/11133587.council-wants-remember-leading-lights-plaques-blackburn/ |access-date=10 April 2024 |work=Lancashire Telegraph |publisher=Lancashire Telegraph |date=8 April 2014 |language=en}}</ref> It was later replaced with a black granite plaque. <ref>{{cite news |title=Blue plaques to honour Blackburn's stars |url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/11045712.blue-plaques-honour-blackburns-stars/ |access-date=10 April 2024 |work=Lancashire Telegraph |publisher=Lancashire Telegraph |date=28 February 2014 |language=en}}</ref>
| Jack Walker 1929 - 2000. Entrepreneur, philanthropist, benefactor, and patron of [[Blackburn Rovers F.C.|Blackburn Rovers]] was born here.
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| Birthplace of John Noel Nichols, 1883 - 1966. Educated at [[Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn|Queen Elizabeth's Grammar]] and the inventor of [[Vimto]].
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| [[ Chad Varah|Rev. Dr. Chad Varah, CH, CBE, MA]]
| [[File:Chad varah plaque.png|thumb]]
| 105 New Park Street, Blackburn {{Coord|53.75165|-2.48954}}
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| [[File:John garstang plaque.png|thumb]]
| Strawberry Bank, Blackburn {{Coord|53.75149|-2.48764}}
| Professor John Garstang (1876 - 1956) Egyptologist. Was born here 5th May, 1876.
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| [[Blackburn Rovers F.C.|Blackburn Rovers]]
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| [[File:Dorothy whipple plaque.jpg|thumb]]
| Edgeware Road, Blackburn {{Coord|53.75600|-2.50095}}
| The novelist Dorothy Whipple nee Strirrup (1893 - 1966) was born in this house on 26th February 1893.
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| [[Blackburn and Over Darwen Tramways Company|Blackburn and Over Darwen Tramway]]
| [[File:Blackburn Darwen Tramway Northern Terminus Location Plaque Blackburn.jpg|thumb]]
| Postal Order, 15 - 19 Darwen Street, Blackburn {{Coord|53.74668|-2.48251}}
| Blackburn and Over Darwen Tramway. This road junction was the northern terminus of the first street tramway in the kingdom to be worked entirely by steam, officially opened 14th April, 1881.
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| [[William Wolstenholme]]
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| [[File:AN Monkey Hornby Birthplace Plaque Blackburn.jpg|thumb]]
| 41 King Street, Blackburn {{Coord|53.74635|-2.48712}}
| A. N. 'Monkey' Hornby (1847 - 1925) Captain of England at cricket and rugby and footballer for Blackburn Rovers, was born here 10th February 1847.
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| [[Niccolò Paganini|Nicolò Paganini]]
| [[File:Nicolo Paganini Performance Location Plaque Blackburn.jpg|thumb]]
| Paganini Inn, Lord Street, Blackburn {{Coord|53.74918|-2.48559}}
| Nicolò Paganini celebrated violinist stayed at an inn here when he gave a recital in Blackburn 5th September 1833.
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| [[River Blakewater, Lancashire|River Blakewater]]
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| [[File:Harry Hornby Birthplace Plaque Leyland House Blackburn.jpg|thumb]]
| King Street, Blackburn {{Coord|53.74734|-2.48479}}
| The Leyland House, built 1741. Grade II listed. The birthplace of Sir Harry Hornby M.P. 29th August, 1841.
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| [[Blackburn Hundred]]
| [[File:Blue plaque at the top of Billinge Hill - geograph.org.uk - 2861255.jpg|thumb]]
| Billinge Wood, Blackburn {{Coord|53.74991|-2.51815}}
| On 15th May, 1429, the Three Weekly Court of the Blackburn Hundred was held on this hill. Here John Nowell paid homage for land that he held in Great Harwood from Thomas Hesketh of Rufford, the Lord of the Manor of Great Harwood
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| [[Sir Gilbert Hoghton, 2nd Baronet | Gilbert Hoghton]]
| [[File:Gilbert Hoghton Blue Plaque Blackburn.jpg|thumb]]
| 6 Adelaide Terrace, Blackburn {{Coord|53.75206| -2.49572}}
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Note - These were in the Station foyer, but have now been removed.
| - Blackburn Railway Station. Railtrack acknowledges the contribution to the cost of restoration of the station frontage building in 1996 from the Railway Heritage Trust, Lancashire County Council, and the Borough of Blackburn.
- Blackburn Railway Station. This station was completed by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway in 1888, replacing the town's first station opened by the Blackburn & Preston Railway at this site in Stonybutts on 1st June 1846. The station frontage building is listed Grade II and stands in a Conservation Area.<ref>{{cite web |title=cottontowncat - Blue Plaques |url=https://www.cottontowncat.com/blue-plaques |website=www.cottontowncat.com |access-date=5 November 2023}}</ref>
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| Lyceum Theatre<ref>{{cite web |last1=Roe |first1=Ken |title=Lyceum Theatre in Blackburn, GB - Cinema Treasures |url=https://cinematreasures.org/theaters/48232 |website=cinematreasures.org |access-date=12 April 2024}}</ref>
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Note - This plaque was lost when the building was demolished.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Farnworth |first1=Amy |title=Missing film studio plaque mystery solved following Northgate shop renovations |url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/23419467.missing-film-studio-plaque-blackburns-northgate-reinstated/ |access-date=10 April 2024 |work=Lancashire Telegraph |publisher=Lancashire Telegraph |date=30 March 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
| Lyceum Theatre. This building, then a theatre, was the venue for the first moving picture show in Blackburn. 28th September 1896.
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| [[Daniel Burley Woolfall]]
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| 19 Gorse Road, Blackburn {{Coord|53.74837|-2.50869}}
Note - Plaque has been temporarily removed
| Lieut. Commander Percy Dean MP who was awarded the VC for his part in the raid on Zeebrugge in Belgium on 23rd April 1918 lived here
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| Blackburn Fire Station <ref>{{cite web |title=Celebration of 200 years 1994 The Plaque presentation |url=https://www.blackburnfirehistory.org.uk/content/catalogue_item/1970s-articles/2020s/photographs/1990s-photos/personnel-5/celebration-200-years-1994-plaque-presentation |website=Blackburn Fire History |access-date=21 June 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
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| Blackburn Fire Station Bicentennial 1794 - 1994 Near this spot stood the earliest recorded site of a Fire Station in Blackburn
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| [[Harry Healless]] <ref>{{cite news |title=Former Rovers hero honoured |url=https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/6154727.former-rovers-hero-honoured/ |access-date=21 June 2024 |work=Lancashire Telegraph |date=30 April 1998 |language=en}}</ref>
| Image available externally - [https://www.cottontown.org/ImageGalleries/library/IMG/Forms/DispForm.aspx?ID=12880 Cotton Town]
| 6 Top O' Th' Croft, Blackburn {{Coord|53.72636|-2.48889}}
Note - Plaque has been removed
| Harry Healless, Captain of Blackburn Rovers' 1928 F.A. Cup winning team, was born her, 9th February, 1893<ref>{{cite news |title=True blue honour for old Rovers captain |publisher=Lancashire Telgraph |date=22 April 1998}}</ref>
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| [[File:Police Memorial James O'Donnell Blackburn.jpg|thumb]]
| University Close, Blackburn {{Coord|53.74903|-2.49040}}
| Here fell Detective Inspector James O'Donnell QPM MM & BAR 13th December 1958 Blackburn Borough Police, Police Memorial Trust.
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| Market Hall, Penny Street, Blackburn {{Coord|53.74939|-2.47995}}
Note - Plaque was removed when the building was demolished
| Close to this spot the first Methodist Meeting House in Blackburn was opened by John Wesley, then 76 years of age, on 27th May 1780.
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