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Blackburn and Over Darwen Tramway: Postal Order, 15 - 19 Darwen Street, Blackburn : Blackburn and Over Darwen Tramway. This road junction was the northern terminus of the first street tramway in the kingdom to be worked entirely by steam, officially opened 14th April, 1881.
This is a list of surviving ancient Roman gold glass portraits of the finer painted sort. The majority of surviving Roman gold glass pieces are the cut-off bottoms of drinking glasses made with unpainted gold leaf. These sometimes bear the names of individuals and were probably commemorative gifts on a special occasion such as a wedding ...
Military units and formations in Blackburn (11 P) Pages in category "History of Blackburn with Darwen" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
The original gate to the building. The Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery is the local museum service for the borough of Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council. [1] It is a museum with collections of Christian icons, Egyptian hieroglyphs, and local history, as well as those of the former Lewis Textile Museum.
In 2009 the flagpole was replaced with one carved by Mark Bridges. It is topped with a bishop's mitre finial, painted and gilded in gold leaf with the Lancashire Rose emblem. The majority of the funding came from a bequest by Harold Thornber, who had worked at the cathedral as a warden and archivist [9]
Beaker made using the ‘Zwischengoldglas’ technique, mid 18th century V&A Museum no. 1271-1872. Zwischengoldglas, (German "gold between glass", plural Zwischengoldgläser) is a type of decorated glassware in which a design in gold leaf is created on a glass vessel, then sealed under another precisely-fitting glass vessel, which is then bonded to the first piece with cement.
The manufacturing process for gold glass was difficult and required great skill. For a Late Roman glass, first a small round flat disc, typically about three to five inches across, was cut away from a blown sphere with a flattened bottom, either made of coloured or plain glass. A piece of gold leaf was then glued to this with gum arabic. The ...
Belmont is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of North Turton, in the unitary authority area of Blackburn with Darwen, in the ceremonial county of Lancashire, England. It is close to Darwen and has around 500 inhabitants.