Roving Mick

Lucky Lucky Blackburn Mall Have you noticed how annoying it is trying to walk through Blackburn Shopping Mall? As you try to go past certain places, people want to shove cards in your hands.  These annoying harpies infr…

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Is this where we had to take our boots off and stand on the terraces in socks? Also had to hand over flasks and crash helmets. We took loads that day.

Rovers Titanic Charity Shield Blackburn Rovers current status under Indian owners, the Venky’s, has been compared to a sinking ship.  But over a hundred years ago Rovers actually did take part in raising money for people a…

Rovers Titanic Charity Shield

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Blackburn Man’s Haunted Electric Shaver Some people have suggested a Blackburn man’s deceased father is trying to contact him from the dead, through his old electric shaver. When his dad passed away, the man spent a lot of time clearing …

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Blackburn’s Drummer’s Arms  Could Install A Faraday Cage Are you sick of going into pubs and being disturbed by mobile phones ringing and pinging and people dragging everyone else into their conversations?  Well Blackburn’s Drummer’s Arms may have c…

Nothing phoney about Blackburn's Drummer's Arms.

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Blackburn’s Mothballed Monolith Due to financial cutbacks in local government and relocation of staff, Blackburn with Darwen Council now finds itself with a 14 storey office block surplus to requirements. It begs the question of …

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Blackburn’s Benchmarks There are certain mysteries in life which beguile us, but we tend not to pursue their meaning. One of these is what is that little pocket inside a pair of jeans, above the front right hand one for?…

Blackburn's Mysterious Benchmarks

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More Dodgy Clocks In Blackburn Blackburn still has a few public clocks in its town centre.  Not all of them tell the time correctly, or even at all. Due to most people these days wearing watches, or using their mobile phone…

More Dodgy Clocks in #Blackburn #Lancashire

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If he's as good a manager as he was a player for #Rovers, then they're sunk.

It wouldn't be Radio 4 current affairs without an American, or in her case, Canadian accent.

Blackburn’s Outer Circle Bus Returns May 2025 saw the return of an old friend.  After being scrapped nearly nine years ago, Blackburn’s Outer Circle bus service has been reinstated. Our local council has secured around £3.7M gove…

Blackburn Outer Circle Bus Returns

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Barbara Castle?

She never attended a single Rovers game.

Blackburn’s Outer Circle Real Ale Trail If you fancy a scenic tour of some of Blackburn’s pubs, jump aboard the Outer Circle bus and buy a £4.20 all day ticket. This will take you not only on multiple journeys around town, but also round…

Yippee... Blackburn's Outer Circle bus is back. I wrote this article 10 years. Four of the pubs on the bus route have shut down. But there's still a few left left to wet your whistle.

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Where are ze Venky's?

Looks like they are morphing into the Venky brothers.

The only FA Cup winner to be turned down for membership of the Football League. Only one club allowed per town/city. So #Rovers got the nod.

Especially the line below 😀

Hail Octavian.... Sorry, Augustus! Always get Rome's first Emperor's name mixed up.

Venky’s In Campaign Launched Blackburn Rovers’ return to English football’s third tier has seen a turnaround in their fortunes and a return to winning ways.  But a strange situation has occurred were some supporter…

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The Men In Clogs The tabloid press has once again been slagging off Rovers and the people of Blackburn.  This follows the decision of Dion Dublin, or his agent, to turn down a transfer here.  Some elements of the p…

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At least he knows what it's like being behind bars.

Popping Up To Escapades In Blackburn Escapades was the latest incarnation of Blackburn’s Ribblesdale pub on Blakey Moor. Described as a ‘Pop Up’ bar, it opened during the run up to Christmas 2024, selling food, drink and hosting enter…

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#Blackburn

He might top himself - with raspberry sauce, nuts and a Cadbury's Flake 😄

ISSUE 13 – AUGUST 1991. The legs were creaking at the age of 35, but Kevin Moran still had a massive part to play as #Rovers captain in 91/92 and beyond.

This was the issue where I made my debut - as a contributor - not a player.

ISSUE 1 – SEPTEMBER 1989. “A northern horde of uncouth garb and strange oaths” was how the Pall Mall Gazette famously described #Rovers fans in 1884. The first cover also celebrated the club’s dominance in the Lancashire Cup during the eighties.

The history of #Rovers in ‘4,000 Holes’ fanzine covers since 1989 🔵⚪🌹

The Good The Bad And The Wegerle There came a man from a strange land, where licorice allsorts were eaten in separate bags.  He was the fastest gun in the West, known as the man with no claim.  He was good, he was bad, he was Wege…

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Not a patch on 'Nelsen' 😄