New Bank Premises, Darwen Street, Blackburn.

NEW PREMISES, DARWEN STREET, BLACKBURN - This building is being carried out for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank, Limited, from the designs of Messrs. Stones and Stones, architects, Richmond terrace, Blackburn, and North John street, Liverpool, by Messrs E Lewis and Sons, builders, Grimshaw Park, Blackburn. The chief elevations, to Darwen Street and Market Street Lane, are faced with local stone, and all the dressings are also from the local quarry, known as Butler Delph. This stone is a bright yellow in colour, and stands the trying weather conditions peculiar to this part of the country very well indeed. The floors are all fire-resisting, and all the walls of good substantial thickness. The main roofs are to be covered with grey green slates from Kirkby Ireleth Quarries. The tower roof will be covered with copper.  

Reference           Building News 25 September 1903 page 409 and illustration