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Originally Posted by ossylass

My dad was the rating and valuation officer at Rishton urban district council back in the '50's, and I remember him telling me that Blackburn council had to pay rates to Rishton for the land on which the power station stood because it had been built on the Rishton side of the boundary by mistake.

That was right clanger, building a power station on the wrong site by mistake. Mind you it was good for the income of Rishton.