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Blackburn’s Panopticon, Colourfields, is a dramatic transformation of the former cannon battery in Blackburn’s Corporation Park, originally installed for the Park’s opening in 1857 to house two Russian cannons captured during the Crimean War.
The battery had since fallen into disrepair, and the design and construction of Colourfields enabled part of this important structure and its associations with Blackburn’s history to be preserved rather than dismantled, as would otherwise have been necessary owing to deterioration.