Whitebirk
Coordinates: 53°45′32″N 2°27′32″W / 53.759°N 2.459°W Whitebirk is a suburb in the east of Blackburn, in Lancashire, England. Most of the suburb is in Blackburn with Darwen, a unitary area, with the east of the suburb being in the borough of Hyndburn. Whitebirk is part of the Blackburn urban area.[1]
The area is largely industrial and is the eastern terminus of the town's northern ring road, the A6119, where it meets junction 6 of the M65. To the west of the ring road there is Burnley Road and the Greenbank Business Park, and to the east, across the boundary in Hyndburn, is the Peel Retail Centre. The retail park was built in the 1980s on the site of Whitebirk Power Station, which was opened in 1921 and closed in 1976.[2]
The suburb also includes a council estate, which is situated between the A679 Accrington Road, A678 Burnley Road and A6119 Whitebirk Road.[3]
The areas of Whitebirk are in different wards for local government: the residential area is in Shadsworth & Whitebirk, the industrial estate is in Little Harwood, and the retail park is in Rishton ward.
The retail park includes stores such as; Currys, PC World, ScS Sofas, CSL Sofas, Comet, Dreams Beds, Harveys Furniture & Bensons for Beds.
Closed stores in the retail park include; Go Switch On & The Carphone Warehouse, Carpetright, Allied Carpets, Storey Carpets/Walter Wall Carpets/Carpet World, Bed Works, Focus DIY and MFI and a few more.
The Range has a store in Whitebirk, located where B&Q used to be in Blackburn, before it moved in 2004 to the Nova Scotia Retail Park, in the Grimshaw Park area.
Companies based in the Whitebirk area include the bus manufacturer Darwen Group, formerly East Lancashire Coachbuilders, which moved to the industrial estate in the 1990s from its previous site in the Brookhouse area of Blackburn.
EDC Blackburn was the UK's largest CD manufacturer,[4] and was located between Whitebirk and Little Harwood; the company, formerly Deluxe Global Media Services, was acquired by Entertainment Distribution Company in 2006[5] and closed three years later when production was moved to Germany.[6]
[edit] References
- ^ "Regional Spatial Strategy - Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council statement". Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council. 2006. http://www.northwesteip.co.uk/downloads/documents/20061030094159.doc. Retrieved 2008-03-13.
- ^ Smith, Ray. "Blackburn Encyclopaedia W". Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council. http://www.cottontown.org/page.cfm?language=eng&pageID=2941. Retrieved 2008-03-13.
- ^ Welcome to the website for the Community Health Development Team
- ^ "EDC Blackburn". http://edc-blackburn.co.uk/. Retrieved 2008-04-07.
- ^ Briggs, Ben (2006-12-18). "Let’s lift Leona to Number One!". Lancashire Telegraph. Newsquest Media Group. http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/1080141.lets_lift_leona_to_number_one/. Retrieved 2010-05-27.
- ^ Watkinson, David (2009-06-05). "Battle to rescue Blackburn 260 CD factory jobs fails". Lancashire Telegraph. Newsquest Media Group. http://www.blackburncitizen.co.uk/news/blackburn/4421594.Battle_to_rescue_Blackburn_260_CD_factory_jobs_fails/. Retrieved 2010-05-27.
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