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Gayle In its defence - the cannon batteries were in an appalling state of repair and a dog had committed suicide by jumping off one of them - they would have been knocked down for health and safety reasons. The Panopticon repaired them and has allowed them to be kept for a while longer.
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Those cannon batteries had some history behind them Gayle, they were used at the seige of Sevastopol in the Crimean War, many of the streets in Blackburn were named after the battles in the Crimean War. I doubt if streets will be named after the Panopticon.