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Walking through the train station there seems to a load of new signage plastered around the station with arte et labore inscribed on walls and floors along with the words saying by hard work and skill.

So in regards to the renovation of the Royal Infirmary there definitely doesnt seem to be any hard work and skill going into preserving this magnificent Blackburn building just yet.

What are the council and Bob the builder homes waiting for ?

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Walking through the train station there seems to a load of new signage plastered around the station with arte et labore inscribed on walls and floors along with the words saying by hard work and skill.

Think it was put up for Her Maj's visit a few weeks back, she rolled into town on her train didn't she?

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Walking through the train station there seems to a load of new signage plastered around the station with arte et labore inscribed on walls and floors along with the words saying by hard work and skill.

So in regards to the renovation of the Royal Infirmary there definitely doesnt seem to be any hard work and skill going into preserving this magnificent Blackburn building just yet.

What are the council and Bob the builder homes waiting for ?

This won't impress you John

http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/showthread.php?t=19644#.U3Z9qSg_Zfu

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I think most decent people that live in the area will be glad to see the back of the place once an for all, as the a&e there used to just attract drunks, junkies, loonies and general trash and trouble, as most a&e's do(have you never watched casualty ;) )all this sentimentality over an ugly (not so)old building with little history of substance is a bit wet.

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ok, well, just ignore everything but the last sentence then, that point still stands. ^_^

The building(even before it became neglected) was good for very little and extremely energy inefficient and a waste of good land, in a good central location, theres a demand for new homes and id rather see them built on already used land than pushing there way onto the greenbelt.

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The building(even before it became neglected) was good for very little and extremely energy inefficient and a waste of good land, in a good central location, theres a demand for new homes and id rather see them built on already used land than pushing there way onto the greenbelt.

True. When one considers new building methods, techniques and materials lots of old buildings really need flattening these days for that reason. Architecturally valuable but otherwise impractical.

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True. When one considers new building methods, techniques and materials lots of old buildings really need flattening these days for that reason. Architecturally valuable but otherwise impractical.

Yes but it would be very easy to make it energy efficient, just needs the will to do it,

then again we are now a throw away society

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Yes but it would be very easy to make it energy efficient, just needs the will to do it,

then again we are now a throw away society

Certainly but it's easier and cheaper to flatten it and build new. Somebody designed the old infirmary surely somebody else could design something as aesthetically pleasing with new materials and techniques?

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Certainly but it's easier and cheaper to flatten it and build new. Somebody designed the old infirmary surely somebody else could design something as aesthetically pleasing with new materials and techniques?

I disagree with that Gordon, it is very easy with new techniques to make old buildings energy efficient, the Germans and French do it all the time.

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Sad for such an outstanding building suppose we can look at it and say that in its current state it reflects the scruffy people who currently run and ruin this town of Blackburn.

showing your true colours..........

id like to see how you dress!(im thinking a washed up hobo version of Don Draper)

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showing your true colours..........

id like to see how you dress!(im thinking a washed up hobo version of Don Draper)

You could not be further from the reality if you tried

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  • 9 months later...

Alas, the infirmary is now no more, It has all gone now,

I have to say that the area around where it was is much brighter now with more sky on view, nice little residential area that now(for the time being anyway) I'm surprised by how quickly those new house have been snapped up(when there's good houses struggling to sell around longshaw for half the asking price of the new builds)

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