The Great Marsden
Jimmy Nelson's Sports Club
Pendle council’s relentless drive to destroy every last vestige of any Architectural Britishness in Nelson continues unabated with yet another one of the town's best-loved buildings about to be demolished.
The Great Marsden Hotel - once the home of cotton king Amos Nelson and later a home for the blind - will be bulldozed to make way for a new 70-bed nursing care home.
Despite previous attempts by local residents to have these buildings listed, the Lib/Lab councillors threw out these proposals in favour of demolition. Over the past few years, Nelson has lost a series of impressive buildings, like Salem Chapel, the Grand Cinema and Jimmy Nelson's Sports Club.
The once proud British Legion Building on Railway St has now been converted to a garish coloured Mosque. Permission has also recently been granted by Pendle council to convert the impressive Silverman Hall right in the centre of Nelson into yet another Mosque.Any day now, work will begin on knocking down the old grammar school, while the old Nelson Leader print works in Every Street and Edge End High School in Hibson Road will go soon and the former Regent Cinema is becoming more derelict.Sir Amos Nelson, whose family ran the Valley Mills cotton empire in Southfield Street, Nelson, whose initials remain on mosaic flooring in the main entrance, built the Great Marsden.The Nelsons then gave it as a home for the blind, which it remained for many years.In 1969, it was taken over by a very different textile family - the Warrens. As King Cotton died in Lancashire, the Warrens were involved in exporting textile equipment across the world.
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