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The hotel was very convenient, being at the foot of the slip road from the motorway and adjacent to a number of food and amenity shops in the service area. I was visiting and meeting up with family and friends in the Bolton area so I didn't see much of Blackburn.

The staff was very helpful, Gym was open as pandemic was over. Also had good take away service near by. The taxi service is cheap, used it all the time. I visited the Calypso Restaurant on the Wharf, which was great and and the music was very good.

The Driveway to this hotel was very dangerous with big and many potholes. The owner was not interested in showing me the room and flung the keys across the desk. The whole area of the hotel smelled of curry and the bedroom was dirty and not upto standard at all. The room smelt of curry. We did not stay at this hotel which MUST be inspected by your organisation. We look for refund from you ahead of legal action.

Mostly pretty grim. 4pm Sunday, people who I guess were drug dependent hanging about. Approached by a lady begging outside the station. Swathes of housing demolition with either no rebuild and left as derelict rubbish tips, or housing lacking ambition. Town centre dominated by one tower block. Even a brave attempt at civic pride street art on Northgate was marred by having too much clutter round it. Cathedral is worth a visit. Evensong was about to start. King George's Hall is a good venue with a smart looking bar and restaurant. Gladstone looks over King George's Hall and Queen Victoria guards the cathedral Overall the town seemed to have carried on with the mistakes made in the 1960's when the magnificent Victorian Italianate clock tower, and market hall, were bulldozed. Then in 2008 its replacement shopping mall was also bulldozed. The new one is better but seems to have made the decline of the surrounding shopping areas worse The railings around Corporation Park, removed during the war, have been well replaced. And in the historically correct green, not black The politicians spending £100 billion on HS2 and Crossrail, to the huge benefit of London, should be made to look round Blackburn on a Sunday afternoon and think again No idea why some of the photos loaded turned themselves on their sides!

The town is Ok but not as many places to eat as we would have liked. I suspect Darwen is better for eateries but there were no taxis to get us there. The only place we could find was the Wether spoons which was fine, a bit more choice would have been nice though.

Sadly, I didn't have time to view Blackburn properly as I was there for a conference. However, thoroughly enjoyed the Museum and Art Gallery [where the conference was based] and certainly Blackburn was well serviced with eating places, pubs etc. and all the local people I met were brilliant.