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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.
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Bet Ken Moss deosn't know that
, now he will be on a new campaign to get a bigger share of the business taxes paid to the Hyndburn Borough general fund from the shopping area to be spent in his "village"
sorry maybe it's me , but to keep calling Rishton a village is plain wrong , it's nowt like a village, a typical village is supposed to have a bit of charm