Saturday 4th July is UK Indie Day – an annual campaign to promote independent retailers in the UK. In Darwen, we are lucky to have a great variety of independent retailers, including a vibrant group of traders at Darwen Market, who help make the town a brilliant place to live and visit. Serving the…
Darwen Market’s popular delicatessen and café, Deli Carlo’s, has been bought by local couple Jackie Aspinall and Steven Wood. Jackie, who was on the lookout for a new opportunity that would fit better with her lifestyle, was delighted when she saw that Deli Carlo was up for sale. “It seemed like the perfect opportunity, especially…
Let’s Make is back for the summer holidays with a free ‘Summer Fun’ events programme! This popular programme of free family fun offers everything from face painting and crafts to theatre and story telling. Experience magic shows, theatre and unleash your creativity with crafts, drama and slime workshops, story jars, pottery making and talent shows!…
Darwen Rotary and Darwen Primary Schools have joined up to celebrate St George’s Day. A town wide school arts project which has seen students creatively designing their own dragon egg in recent weeks will culminate in a display of over a thousand dragon eggs at Darwen Market. The competition, run by Darwen Rotary, has been…
This Easter Saturday Darwen Market presents Music in the Market Hall, with vintage cream tea, dancing and live entertainment. On Saturday 20th April, Darwen Market will be welcoming celebrity singer Charlotte Jones who will be singing live from 11am – 3pm in the Annexe. Charlotte, who has appeared on BBC1’s Celebrity MasterChef, Saturday Kitchen and…
Darwen’s brand new Market Square is set to be officially opened at an event this May. Following months of hard work to transform the area, the £1.5m project has created an impressive public space that will be officially unveiled on Saturday 11 May. The area boasts the formal Market Square with enough space for people…
A week of free, family fun, activities at Darwen Market has been confirmed for the Easter holidays in April. The activities provided by the Markets Team at Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, in partnership with award winning Crafty Vintage, are designed to provide young people with opportunities to create, relax, learn, laugh, make friends and…
In the UK this year it is estimated that we will eat a total of 12.4 billion eggs. That’s a lot of eggs to scramble, fry, boil and poach! Clearly one of our favourite foods, we spoke with Darwen Market traders who according to our calculation sell in the region of 3600 eggs a week.…
A week of free, family fun, activities at Darwen Market during February half term has been hailed a success and is now set to return for the Easter holidays in April. Hundreds of local children and their families took part in free holiday activities over February half term. The activities provided by the Markets Team…
I popped into woods fruit and veg today to talk potatoes with David, the owner of the best fresh fruit and veg stall around. Did you know they have 9 different varieties of potatoes on sale plus sweet potatoes! That’s a lot of choice, but which should you go for? Well that depends on what…