Burnley’s High Street Heritage Action Zone Celebrates Success

Burnley MP Antony Higginbotham joined council representatives, local people and Historic England to celebrate the success of the town’s High Street Heritage Action Zone, centred on Lower St James’s Street.Set up in 2020 by Burnley Council, Historic England, Lancashire County Council and the Lancashire ...

The first business to benefit from an initiative to improve shopfronts in part of Burnley town centre has unveiled its new look.

Funding was made available to eligible businesses in Lower St James’s Street to improve their frontages as part of a wider scheme to regenerate the area. To mark the milestone, a ribbon cutting ceremony took place at 143 St James’s ...

Coming soon! Exclusive Empire Theatre Interview!

Coming soon! Empire Theatre Interview! The HAZ team have been busy interviewing Sophie Gibson from the Empire Theatre. Sophie told us about all the art exhibitions she has been involved in along with why and how she got involved with ...

Voices of the Counter Culture Book Launch

The Voices of Counter Culture was researched, compiled and edited by the wonderful Fiona Hornby. It is the culmination of dozens of interviews with people who remember Lower St James's Street, Burnley and in particular the Red Triangle Cafe at ...

Under One Sky Exhibition Launch

Please join our wonderful Cultural Consortia team for the opening exhibition of UNDER ONE SKY. A pop up art installation based around the outcomes from the 21/22 Burnley Light Night. Friday 15th July 3pm - 4pm 117 Lower St James ...

Drop in and see us

Come and see HAZ project officers and other members of the HAZ team on Tuesday the 22nd of March at 117 St James's Street. Pop in between 4pm and 8pm and find out all you need to know about the ...

Heritage Training week is a huge success

The Heritage Action Zone project has funded several heritage skills training sessions for the local Burnley Community. Over 45 people have been introduced to traditional sign writing, lime plastering, decorative plastering and lime pointing with some fantastic things to display ...

Public Realm – Word on the street

2021 saw the fantastic brand new public realm changes to St James's Street, here we capture the thoughts of just some of our local residents that we happy to be on camera. The additions have clearly made a huge impression ...

Peek into the past on Lower St James’s St.

By Roger Frost A couple of weeks ago I stated that I had some new ideas for Peek into the Past. This is the first of a series of articles in which we will take a look at Lower St ...