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Corporation Park Hotel
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Picture source: John Cox |
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The Corporation Park Hotel was
situated on Revidge Road and closed after a severe fire in 1997. |
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Source: Max Taylor |
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The Corporation pub was in-fact a three story building until the fire and
had to be made safe losing its third floor. |
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Alan Watson |
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This
was, I'm certain, called the Corporation rather than the Corporation Park.
Situated on Revidge Road at almost the highest point in Blackburn. Just
round the corner the viewing point known as "The Tank" offered views over
the whole of Lancashire - Pendle Hill, Blackpool Tower etc with directions
and distances marked. The pub was for many years a Thwaites pub, but in its
later years Thwaites exchanged it with another brewery - Mitchells comes to
mind. The pub formed part of the "Revidge Run", a gruelling pub crawl taking
in Pleckgate Road, Shear Brow, Revidge Road and Dukes Brow. |
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Philip Nightingale |
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One of the last landlords was a fellow called Shorrock, his
son was called Mark. Facing the pub is a plaque dedicated to the chaps that
dug out the cutting for the road, in the 1930s I think. The plaque suggests
the period was known as the Distress. |
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Art Wade |
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Ken Sharrocks took over tenancy of the Corporation Park Hotel in 1971 and
was landlord until he retired in 1991. The 'Corp' (or 'Corpy') was a
Thwaites pub during this period. The three-storey pub was the highest
landmark in Blackburn until 1980 when after being destroyed by fire, in
which Ken received severe burn injuries, the building was reduced to a
two-storey construction. Ken and his wife May had three children - Jane,
Mark and myself who at various times in the Sharrocks tenancy resided at the
pub. |
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Pete Sharrocks (March 2011) |
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The plaque in the wall opposite the Corporation Park Hotel
(mentioned by Art Wade above) was to commemorate the construction of
Revidge Road in1826 and 1827. The road was designed by John MacAdam, the
Scottish engineer to give jobs and alleviate the "distress" of the
handloom weavers and spinners who were being put out of work by the
introduction of the power loom mills. An Asian man told me that he had
bought the Corporation Park to change it into an Islamic Education centre,
but had not got planning permission due to lack of adequate parking space.
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Barbara Riding (August 2011) |
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This didn’t permanently shut in 97. It
was still up and running ‘til about 2004/5. Along with a dozen other pubs it
formed a geographically crucial part of the revidge run. Crucial because
without it the distance between the Sportmans and the Dog would be a long
one for the average pub crawl |
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Gareth Davis (August 2020) |
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