Greater Blackburn?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Corporation Park used to be nice, very nice, but I am going back a while. In summer people used to come from miles around to spend the day there, it was a proper family day out. Seriously.

Crikey sinkov that brings back a memory or two. Me and my dad had a luxury yacht, it had a full sail rigging and was about a yard long. We used to take it sailing on Corporation Park on a sunny weekend and my mum used to make up the sort of picnics Enid Blyton described when the Famous Five went camping! Ginger cake, ginger beer and hard boiled eggs with ham butties. Halcyon days indeed.

[sinkov]

Crikey sinkov that brings back a memory or two. Me and my dad had a luxury yacht, it had a full sail rigging and was about a yard long. We used to take it sailing on Corporation Park on a sunny weekend and my mum used to make up the sort of picnics Enid Blyton described when the Famous Five went camping! Ginger cake, ginger beer and hard boiled eggs with ham butties. Halcyon days indeed.

I can remember an aviary and a boating lake and I'm fairly sure there must have been a cafe. me and my sister used to plead to be taken there, we loved it. I can date one of the times we were there fairly accurately, Cathys Clown was playing on my transistor radio, don't know why it stuck in my mind, but even when I hear it now I'm back in Corporation Park, must make it around 1960 then.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I can remember an aviary and a boating lake and I'm fairly sure there must have been a cafe. me and my sister used to plead to be taken there, we loved it. I can date one of the times we were there fairly accurately, Cathys Clown was playing on my transistor radio, don't know why it stuck in my mind, but even when I hear it now I'm back in Corporation Park, must make it around 1960 then.

About right that sinkov, we had just moved to Baxenden from Clayton-le-Moors in 1960 and I was eight. There was definitely a café because my nan used to have a cuppa and a scone in there while we we were boating.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

BAD NEWS UPDATE: Blackburn with Darwen continues to have the highest Covid-19 infection rate in England, with a rolling seven-day average of 76.5 new cases per 100,000 residents as of Tuesday, according to the latest NHS Digital data.

[sinkov]

So 99,923 per 100,000 residents of Blackburn and Darwen don't have the virus. Sounds a fairly safe place to me.