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Published Friday 17 December 2021 at 17:38
Almost 600 images were shared with us using the #BackingBlackburnPhotography, showing huge support across the borough for Blackburn’s City Bid!
As part of our recent application to the Queen for city status on behalf of Blackburn, we were asked to submit 50 photographs of the area.
We called out to our amazing residents for these images, asking them to get involved and share their vision of Blackburn with us to help form the application.
The response and talent demonstrated has completely blown us away. You truly showed the beauty of Blackburn.
Thank you so much to everyone who took the time to take and share their photos with us – we wish we could have used them all!
Have a look below at the photographs we selected for the submission…
![Andrea Robinson. Cathedral reflection. @fraggle139.](https://theshuttle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Andrea-Robinson.-Cathedral-reflection.-@fraggle139.-480x480.jpg)
Photo credit: Andrea Robinson
![Aneesa Sidat – Town Hall and Tower Block](https://theshuttle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Aneesa-Sidat-Town-Hall-and-Tower-Block-480x600.png)
Photo credit: Aneesa Sidat
![Aneesa Sidat – Barbara Castle and Blackburn College](https://theshuttle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Aneesa-Sidat-Barbara-Castle-and-Blackburn-College-480x600.jpg)
Photo credit: Aneesa Sidat
![Aneesa Sidat – Blackburn Cathedral](https://theshuttle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Aneesa-Sidat-Blackburn-Cathedral-480x320.jpg)
Photo credit: Aneesa Sidat
![Aneesa Sidat – Corporation Park (2)](https://theshuttle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Aneesa-Sidat-Corporation-Park-2-480x342.jpg)
Photo credit: Aneesa Sidat
![Aneesa Sidat – Corporation Park](https://theshuttle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Aneesa-Sidat-Corporation-Park-480x346.jpg)
Photo credit: Aneesa Sidat
![Gary Davies – Blackburn Library](https://theshuttle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Gary-Davies-Blackburn-Library-480x278.jpg)
Photo credit: Gary Davies
![Gary Davies – King George’s Hall](https://theshuttle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Gary-Davies-King-Georges-Hall-480x297.jpg)
Photo credit: Gary Davies
![Gary Davies – Wainwright Bridge](https://theshuttle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Gary-Davies-Wainwright-Bridge-480x361.jpg)
Photo credit: Gary Davies
![Imaan Mahmood – Grandmother and Child Statue](https://theshuttle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Imaan-Mahmood-Grandmother-and-Child-Statue-480x480.jpg)
Photo credit: Imaan Mahmood
![Jacqueline Farrand – St Johns Church](https://theshuttle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Jacqueline-Farrand-St-Johns-Church-480x320.jpg)
Photo credit: Jacqueline Farrand
![Jo Holmes – Town View](https://theshuttle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Jo-Holmes-Town-View-480x301.jpg)
Photo credit: Jo Holmes
![Peter McGuire – The Mall and Blackburn Bus Station](https://theshuttle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Peter-McGuire-The-Mall-and-Blackburn-Bus-Station-480x292.jpg)
Photo credit: Peter McGuire
![Peter McGuire4 – Cathedral Quarter Evening](https://theshuttle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Peter-McGuire4-Cathedral-Quarter-Evening-480x242.jpg)
Photo credit: Peter McGuire
![Peter McGuire – Ewood Park](https://theshuttle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Peter-McGuire-Ewood-Park-480x326.jpg)
Photo credit: Peter McGuire
![raja_pixelmedia31 – The Cotton Exchange](https://theshuttle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/raja_pixelmedia31-The-Cotton-Exchange-480x320.png)
Photo credit: Mohammed Hussain Raja
![Sian-Marie Garth – King William Street](https://theshuttle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Sian-Marie-Garth-King-William-Street-480x320.jpg)
Photo credit: Sian-Marie Garth
![Steph Wolski – Church Street](https://theshuttle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Steph-Wolski-Church-Street-480x333.jpg)
Photo credit: Steph Wolski
![Stuart Quinn – Blackburn College](https://theshuttle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Stuart-Quinn-Blackburn-College-480x360.jpg)
Photo credit: Stuart Quinn
![Stuart Quinn – The Mall](https://theshuttle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Stuart-Quinn-The-Mall-480x640.jpg)
Photo credit: Stuart Quinn
![2](https://theshuttle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2-13-480x300.png)
Photo credit: Mark Bolton
![3](https://theshuttle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/3-7-480x300.png)
Photo credit: Mark Bolton
![4](https://theshuttle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/4-6-480x300.png)
Photo credit: Michael Duckworth
![5](https://theshuttle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/5-3-480x300.png)
Photo credit: Stephen Whitehead
![1](https://theshuttle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/1-10-480x300.png)
Photo credit: Julie Anne Walton
![shuttle](https://theshuttle.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/shuttle-2-480x768.png)
Photo credit: Elouise Pemberton