{"id":673857,"date":"2026-07-04T19:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T19:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/673857\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T19:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T19:00:09","slug":"dilapidated-300-year-old-blackburn-pub-being-knocked-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/673857\/","title":{"rendered":"Dilapidated 300-year-old Blackburn pub being knocked down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A 300-year-old pub is set to demolished.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Blackamoor in Blackburn was closed as a pub in 2019 and then bought from brewery Thwaites by Blackburn with Darwen Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It briefly served as accommodation for contractors building a nearby road, but the authority had planned to demolish it and redevelop the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"> Stopes Brow will be closed from its junction with Aster Chase from 21 July to 7 August while the demolition takes place. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Simon Jones, growth programme director at Blackburn with Darwen Council, said: &#8220;The demolition of any building, including a former pub, is always a last resort and is not done lightly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Once the demolition is complete, the site will be landscaped and the pedestrian footpath improved, with a view to upgrading the junction in the future, when funding is available.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 300-year-old pub is set to demolished. The Blackamoor in Blackburn was closed as a pub in 2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-673857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}